Patricia Neal Stage
Patricia Neal Stage

Sweetened Water

August 21 - September 12, 2015
A Vineyard house is the setting for this play about Cynthia, a recent widow dealing with her sorrow and an uncertain future; and Richard, a priest who has just lost his mother. At the suggestion of their mutual friend, Sara, Richard moves into Cynthia's house for a quiet retreat. Themes of grief, faith, intimacy and secrets abound.

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Patricia Neal Stage

77%

July 24 - August 15, 2015
Eric's wife is out of town closing a big business deal, he just blew his last job, the kids are acting up and his mother-in-law just moved in. What are the odds? A play about modern marriage.

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Patricia Neal Stage

A Walk in the Woods

June 26 - July 18, 2015
Lee Blessing's Pulitzer-nominated drama is based on real life Cold War negotiations in 1982. This compelling play centers on a Soviet and an American negotiator who have left the table for an informal walk in the woods on the outskirts of Geneva; ultimately forming a bond of mutual respect and understanding.

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Patricia Neal Stage

Not Constantinople

May 29 - June 20, 2015
An elderly couple settles into the Witness Protection Program in a gated community in Boca Raton. The husband unwittingly befriends a hit man with a contract on him. But when the husband develops Alzheimer's, the hit man develops a conscience: why kill a guy who won't even know his own name soon?
Time to send another hit man - a woman with an MBA.
Yes, this is a dark comedy.

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Patricia Neal Stage

King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running: Songs & Stories of the Carolina Coast

September 12 - 13, 2014
King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running: Songs & Stories of the Carolina Coast has been performed by the Coastal Cohorts (Don Dixon, Bland Simpson, and Jim Wann) all across North Carolina and the South, as well as at the Kennedy Center in Washington and in New York City, where its Off-Off-Broadway run was hailed by the New York Post, saying “Carolina fish tale is quite a catch -- a pure, salt-watered delight!”

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Patricia Neal Stage

Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Swing

August 14 - September 6, 2014
It's 1947. Jackie Robinson has just integrated American baseball. In his shadow, Satchel Paige and his All Stars gear up to play Bob Feller's All Stars from the majors in a thrilling off-season match-up. Jazz fills the night, baseball the day. And America is about to experience something it's never faced before.

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Patricia Neal Stage

Search: Paul Clayton

July 17 - August 9, 2014
This new musical play celebrates the true story in words and song of one of Bob Dylan's first musical mentors. Paul Clayton of New Bedford was the most recorded young folk singer in America when Bobby Zimmerman arrived in 1961 Greenwich Village to begin his career as Bob Dylan. It was Paul who helped open the doors of the folk world to him. From 1961 to 1965 Paul taught Bob the tricks of the trade, while falling helplessly in love with him.

Search: Paul Clayton is for mature audiences only. It is sexually explicit, contains adult language and drug use.

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Patricia Neal Stage

The Whaleship Essex

June 19 - July 12, 2014
The Essex and its crew met with tragedy on November 20, 1820 when it was sunk by an enraged sperm whale in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Based on first-hand accounts, “The Whaleship Essex” is an epic, ensemble tale of survival. Infused with authentic sea shanties, “The Whaleship Essex” revels in the common language shared by both the theatrical and the nautical worlds.

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Coming up for Air: An Auto JAZZography

August 15 - 17, 2011
Stan Strickland, one of Boston’s most versatile and well-known jazz musicians and a Vineyard favorite, will be bringing his one-man theatrical show Coming Up for Air – an AutoJAZZography to The Vineyard Playhouse, August 15-17, 2011. Playing sax, flute, keyboards and an assortment of percussion, Strickland riffs about his life and art -- taking the audience on a dramatic musical odyssey of soulful discovery.

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Tennessee Williams: Original Acts

July 14 - August 6, 2011
The Vineyard Playhouse celebrates the one hundredth birthday of a beloved American playwright, with a premiere professional production of four of his one- act plays, TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: ORIGINAL ACTS, directed by Joann Green Breuer.

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The Vineyard Playhouse

coming2terms

June 23 - July 9, 2011
Two life-long friends, from different cities and orientations, meet monthly to start a new life. Before anything biological can happen, they discover that there are deep personal and emotional challenges within a world that they begin to realize will always be filled with challenging variations of love and dependable chaos.

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The Vineyard Playhouse

The Rise & Fall of Annie Hall

July 22 - August 7, 2010
This super contemporary comedy is about a struggling playwright's life gone haywire as he schemes to get the rights to turn his favorite Woody Allen comedy into a Broadway Musical.

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