Special Events-PN Stage
MV Performing Arts Center

Celebrity Autobiography

Saturday, July 6, 2024
A BENEFIT PERFORMANCE FOR MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE SATURDAY, JULY 6 at 7 PM At the MARTHA'S VINEYARD PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Starring Brooke Adams, Tony Shalhoub, Amy Brenneman, Brad Silberling, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel and others to be announced.

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Patricia Neal Stage

Courage: A Play Based on the Life of “Peter Pan” Author J. M. Barrie

June 14 & 15, 2024
“To be born is to be wrecked on an island.”
So said J.M. Barrie, the most successful English-language playwright of his time. In Courage, John Pielmeier tells the story of Barrie’s remarkable life in Barrie’s own words - from his relationship with his too-possessive mother through his friendship with the five boys who inspired his most famous play. Alternately humorous and heart-breaking, the author of Peter Pan reveals his own secret self by telling the stories of all the heroes he knew in his own life—the men and women he loved, the men and women he tragically lost.

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Patricia Neal Stage

The Lesson

June 7 & 8, 2024
While responding to a student’s question about their body, a school teacher at an elite New York City school accidentally propels the school into controversy and into the press. This original solo play details a community’s charged response to a well-intentioned lesson.

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Patricia Neal Stage

John Washbrook & Flicka

June 24 and 25 at 6 pm
John will be sharing episodes of Flicka and telling stories about his experiences as a child star. Please join us for a fun and fascinating evening!

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Patricia Neal Stage

MV Climate Action Week – Movie

May 9, 2022 at 6 pm
In a race against the end of farmable soil, three individuals fight for change in the industry of agricultural food production, calling for a revolution. "The Need to GROW" delivers alarming evidence on the importance of healthy soil — revealing not only the potential of localized food production working with nature, but our opportunity as individuals to help regenerate our planet’s dying soils and participate in the restoration of the Earth.

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Boston Theater Marathon

May 1, 2022
MV Playhouse is sponsoring NOT EXACTLY DOPE, one of many 10-minute plays scheduled at this year's marathon on May 1, 2022 at Boston Playwrights' Theatre in Boston. NOT EXACTLY DOPE will be performed in the 4 pm - 6 pm slot, in-person and live-streamed.

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Virtual Readings of all 12 plays are ended.

12 x ’20 Play Project (December 2021)

READINGS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING! PLEASE COMPLETE A SURVEY IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE SO ALREADY.
Martha's Vineyard Playhouse (Artistic Director MJ Bruder Munafo and Literary Manager Jenny Allen) commissioned 12 new plays from 12 diverse playwrights to chronicle the year 2020. Each playwright was assigned a month in 2020 and their 20 minute play was set in that month. The working title of our ambitious and exciting project is the 12 x '20 PLAY PROJECT. All of the plays have been recorded as Zoom readings and were streamed from December 15 -19, 2021 and from January 10 - 16, 2022.

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Tisbury Tales by Jeff Scheuer

October 30 at 7 pm
VINEYARD VIEWS: LIVE FROM THE PATRICIA NEAL STAGE is a new series featuring stories from a diverse lineup of islanders throughout the year. Admission is free, advance registration is preferred, and donations are gratefully accepted.

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The Niceties – Back by Popular Demand

Who gets to tell the story of race, history and power in America? In this riveting, provocative play, a black student and her white professor – both brilliant – debate whether the legacy of slavery defines our past, and our present.

Live Online Monday, March 22 at 7 pm; streamed March 23 - April 4

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The Niceties

Who gets to tell the story of race, history and power in America? In this riveting, provocative play, a black student and her white professor – both brilliant – debate whether the legacy of slavery defines our past, and our present.

Live Online Reading - October 28, 2020 at 7 pm EST; Streaming - October 29-31, 2020

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Crumbs from the Table of Joy

August, 2020
Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse and Rosalind Productions Inc. present a live online benefit play reading of CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, to raise money for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.


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Patricia Neal Stage

Children of Bal Ashram

January 18, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Special documentary screening in conjunction with the "Our Children" photography exhibit, to be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

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Patricia Neal Stage

Pang!

November 8 & 9, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Pang! is an evening of short plays based on the oral histories of families hungering for change, performed as a live radio theater broadcast.

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Patricia Neal Stage

Mothers and Sons

April 27, 2019 at 7:30 pm
The Playhouse presents a staged reading of MOTHERS AND SONS.  This powerful play is about a mother who pays an unexpected visit to the apartment of her late son's partner.

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Patricia Neal Stage

Every Act of Life

April 27, 2019 at 4 pm
Documentary chronicling he groundbreaking life and work of 4-time Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally - a personal journey through five decades of the American theatre, the struggle for LGBT rights, triumph over addiction, and finding love and inspiration at every age.

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Patricia Neal Stage

The Happy Prince

April 26, 2019 at 5:00 pm
THE HAPPY PRINCE is a portrait of the dark side of a genius who lived and died for love in the last days of the nineteenth century.

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Patricia Neal Stage

Stag’s Leap

October 26 & 27, 2018
COME MEET PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING POET SHARON OLDS, who will be signing copies of Stag's Leap after both performances! An evening blending theatrical imagery and spirited language, based upon Stag's Leap. This show is presented with, and features members of, the Salt Lake Acting Company.

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Patricia Neal Stage

I Got Sick Then I Got Better

May 18 & 19, 2018
Jenny Allen delivers a comic monologue on one woman’s adventures after falling down the medical rabbit hole. Diagnosed with and treated for cancer in 2005, Allen tells her story of the harrowing tailspin she took following her diagnosis, combining humor with emotion in a witty and bittersweet monologue.

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Patricia Neal Stage

Mother (and me)

May 11 & 12, 2018

A larger than life Hungarian “Mama Rose” is waltzing into dementia as her Broadway baby shimmies into middle age.
Two shows only. 7:30 pm Friday & Saturday

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Patricia Neal Stage

In My Own Little Corner

Tuesday, May 8, 2018
An evening of pop and musical theater songs, In My Own Little Corner tells of Srisirikul's journey rolling through life as a disabled man.

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Patricia Neal Stage

Been There, Still There

Saturday, May 6, 2017
Second City Main Stage alums Bruce Jarchow (Parks and Recreation / Boss / Seinfeld / Ghost) and Nancy McCabe-Kelly (web series Teachers as seen on the Onion Channel / Welcome! To Prison / TBS Comedy Festival, Just for Laughs) are bringing their highly praised show BEEN THERE, STILL THERE to the Playhouse for ONE NIGHT ONLY.

The show follows a baby boomer couple on a road trip to Wisconsin for a destination wedding. Along the way they ponder empty nest angst, becoming victims of both urban gentrification and illogical technology, and anything else that comes to mind, with the local radio and nostalgia of Wisconsin as their backdrop. Though this is a scripted show, each performance is slightly different as they expound, riff and allow themselves to go off script as the spirit (and audience) moves them.

Tickets $20 Adults, $15 Juniors (under 30)

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Martha's Vineyard Performing Arts Center

If All The Sky Were Paper

July 6, 2016 at 7:30 pm
IF ALL THE SKY WERE PAPER, written by the New York Times bestselling author Andrew Carroll, is a play based on Carroll’s incredible journey to more than 30 countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan, to seek out the most extraordinary war letters ever written.

Starring MARY STEENBURGEN in a cast of 12 professional actors. This performance is a Special Benefit for Martha's Vineyard Playhouse and the Dukes County Veterans Services "Veterans Grant Fund".

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