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Holiday Melodies

December 19, 2023 at 7 pm
A casual cabaret performance by Paul Munafo, Shelagh Hackett and accompanist Jeremy Berlin.

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Springtime Melodies

Friday, May 20 at 7:30 pm
Shelagh Hackett & Paul Munafo sing spring standards accompanied by Jeremy Berlin

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Courtyard Concerts – Jephcote Band

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 at 6 pm
MV Playhouse is presenting occasional concerts in our Courtyard, located outside the theater building. These concerts are free, donations are welcome, and space for seating is limited. Please register in advance. Each concert is approximately an hour.

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Courtyard Concerts – Anna Yukevich and Her Guitar

Wednesday, August 18 at 6 pm
MV Playhouse is presenting occasional concerts in our Courtyard, located outside the theater building. These concerts are free, donations are welcome, and space for seating is limited. Please register in advance. Each concert is approximately an hour.

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Courtyard Concerts – Summertime Melodies

Wednesday, August 11 at 6 pm
MV Playhouse is presenting occasional concerts in our Courtyard, located outside the theater building. These concerts are free, donations are welcome, and space for seating is limited. Please register in advance. Each concert is approximately an hour.

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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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Offshore Ale Company

Dine to Donate at Offshore Ale

March 12, 2020
Come to Offshore Ale in Oak Bluffs for the third annual Dine to Donate event benefiting Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse! One day only, Thursday, March 12.

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Holiday Tea

December 7. 2019 from 3 to 5 pm
A free event for our supporters and community. Tea and scones and lots of goodies!

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Martha's Vineyard Playhouse

Demo and Dine! Sold Out!

Saturday, February 10, 2018 6:00 - 8:00 pm
A great way to lift yourself out of the February doldrums by learning how to make some delicious foods. At each of four demo stations you'll see how to prepare hearty soups, manicotti. stuffed breads, and dessert, and then sit down with your fellow foodies to enjoy the end results with a glass of wine!

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Jenny’s Drama Salon

December 13, 2017 at 7 pm
Playwright, actress and humor writer, Jenny Allen, hosts a monthly drama salon, featuring casual dramatic readings, interesting guests, stimulating conversation and great brownies – all in the Marilyn Meyerhoff Lobby.

Lively talk, homemade brownies, coffee and tea. $10, cash only at the door.

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Jenny’s Drama Salon

November 15, 2017 at 7 pm
Jenny's Drama Salon: Playwright, actress and humor writer, Jenny Allen, hosts a monthly drama salon, featuring casual dramatic readings, interesting guests, stimulating conversation and great brownies – all in the Marilyn Meyerhoff Lobby.

Just in time for the holidays!
"Please Pass the Salt--and Don't Forget to Rub It In: Disastrous Dinners in American Theater"
We'll be reading short scenes, both hilarious and hair-raising, and asking the question, Why can't families in American plays get through a meal without a meltdown? Lively talk, homemade brownies, coffee and tea. $10, cash only at the door.

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SOLD OUT! Taste Some of the Best Wines from Tuscany!

Saturday, November 4, 2017, 5 to 7pm
Tuscany, along with Piedmont, is one of Italy’s most important wine regions. Gorgeous scenery and cultural attractions are what first draw visitors to Tuscany. But when those visitors experience Tuscan wines, many return to explore the region’s magnificent vinous offerings. For this tasting we will focus on wines made from sangiovese in in Montalcino, Montepulciano, and Chianti Classico. While they all share the same grape variety, each region’s soils and climate ensure its wines express a unique personality.

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Jenny’s Drama Salon

October 25, 2017 at 7 pm
New! Jenny's Drama Salon: Playwright, actress and humor writer, Jenny Allen, hosts a monthly drama salon, featuring casual dramatic readings, interesting guests, stimulating conversation and great brownies – all in the Marilyn Meyerhoff Lobby.

For her October salon, please join Jenny for spooky storytelling with special guest Holly Nadler, author of "Haunted Island", along with readings from three under-10-minute plays based on Edgar Allen Poe stories. Come if you dare! $10 at the door includes coffee or tea and Halloween treats!

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Sold Out – Chardonnay from around the World

Friday, June 9, 2017
Led by Jack Korpi, Certified Specialist of Wine

We'll be tasting five Chardonnays from California, France, Australia and Argentina. If you already love Chardonnay, this tasting will enable you to possibly find your new favorite. And if it's been awhile since you gave Chardonnay a try, here's a great opportunity to renew your acquaintance.

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Patricia Neal Stage

MV Playhouse hosts the Peter H. Luce Play Readers

March 11, 2017 at 7:00 pm
For 15 years the Peter H. Luce Play Readers have been meeting every Wednesday at the Vineyard Haven Senior Center from 9 a.m. to noon to read plays of every era and of every genre, from Shakespeare to Shaw, Neil Simon to Ibsen and Albee. And then on rare occasions the group goes public and invites a crowd to come hear them read.

No advance reservations. General Seating. Donations Gratefully Accepted.



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A Taste of JFK, Malcolm and Adam

Thursday, August 29, 2013 at 8 PM

A reading of Wallace Bullock's new play
A TASTE OF JFK, MALCOLM AND ADAM


Script written, adapted and performed by Wallace Bullock

 
Well known as a lifeguard from the Oak Bluffs town beach in the 1980's, lifelong summer resident Wallace Bullock is writer, actor and educator.
In addition to performing with The Vineyard Playhouse company at the amphitheater more the two decades ago, Wallace has performed numerous original works at The House Tribes Theater in New York City and both the Bregamos Theater and Yale University's Peabody Museum in New Haven,CT.
JFK, MALCOLM AND ADAM was originally performed at The Sorbonne in Paris, France at the African-Americans in Europe Writers Conference.
As an educator Wallace taught English in Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and New York City, until he was forced to retire due to a heart condition.
The recipient of a heart transplant in October of 2011, Wallace is now a tireless advocate for organ donation and community education.


Tickets are $10 at the door.
A portion of the proceeds from this reading will go to the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center Cardiac Transplantation Program.


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Coffee and…

Thursday, August 29 at 8:30 AM

Brooke Adams

TV/Film Actress and Artist

Coffee, home-baked goods, and theater conversation with notable guests.

$10 donation at the door


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Coffee and…

Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 8:30 AM

Robert Brustein


Coffee, home-baked goods, and theater conversation with notable guests.

Robert Sanford Brustein is an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright and educator. He founded the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, Connecticut, and the American Repertory Theater and Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has been the theatre critic for The New Republic since 1959, and occasionally writes on politics for The Huffington Post.

$10 donation at the door


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Coffee and…

August 15, 2013 8:30AM

F. Andrew Leslie

Former president of Dramatists Play Service in New York

F. Andrew Leslie was associated with the Dramatists Play Service for thirty years until retiring, as its president, in 1990. Before joining the Play Service Mr. Leslie was an artists representative with a major New York concert management company, an agent at the William Morris Agency, and a manager for actor/producer Maurice Evans.

Mr. Leslie and his wife now reside on the island of Martha's Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts.


Coffee, home-baked goods, and theater conversation with notable guests.

$10 donation at the door


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Coffee and…

August 8, 2013 at 8:30AM

Paula Lyons & Arnie Reisman



Coffee, home-baked goods, and theater conversation with notable guests.


Paula Lyons and Arnie Reisman, companions in words and companions for life, have been regular panelists on NPR's weekly comedy quiz show, SAYS YOU!, since the program debuted in 1996. They travel the country performing for dedicated fans. She spent 25 years as a television consumer reporter, five of those years on Good Morning America, and then became an executive coach. He spent an equal amount of time as a documentary producer, satirist, newspaper editor and columnist. He has just completed writing a full-length dark comedy for the stage.


$10 donation at the door


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Heartbeat

August 14, 2013 at 7:30PM
A reading of the new play HEARTBEAT by Georgia Morris

Heartbeat is a play about the thin lines between delusion and reality for three characters locked in a love triangle. Set in a rooming house on the Atlantic City fringe and a hideaway in the Pine Barrens, Ruby, her husband Will and a stranger named Caesar must make their fragile peace with a universe of their own creation.

Suggested donation $10 at the door

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Coffee and…

Thursday, August 1, 2012 at 8:30am

Carol Rocamora
"Top Ten Trends in Theater Today"


Coffee, home-baked goods, and theater conversation with notable guests.

Dr. Carol Rocamora is an educator, playwright, biographer, translator, and critic. She serves on the faculty of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and also teaches in the MFA Theatre Program at Columbia. Her complete collected translations of Anton Chekhov's plays have been published by Smith & Kraus, and her new biography Anton Chekhov: A Life In Four Acts, came out this year.  She is a member of the Outer Critics Circle.

$10 at the door.

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The Importance of Being Wagner – In 2013

July 30, 2013 - 8PM

with Tony Schemmer 

(a propos the Richard Wagner Bicentennial)

Rather than a chronological recitation of Wagner's "life and work," Tony Schemmer focuses on Wagner's innovations and technical advances which are alive and kicking today. All enhanced with fascinating illustrations and generous dollops of irreverence.

"...the audience was just delighted, as was I and the Boston Wagner Society's board member who came with me. Thank you very kindly for inviting us to this most enjoyable event. The humor in it was also much appreciated."
Dalia Geffen, President / Founder
The Boston Wagner Society

$15 Adults / $10 Juniors (25 and under)
Tickets available at the door

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Coffee and…

Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 8:30 AM
Larry Mollin

Coffee, pastries and theater conversation with notable guests.

Larry has been a Producer and Writer for Television and Film for the last thirty years. He's best known for his work on BEVERLY HILLS, 90210 for which he wrote, produced and executive produced one-hundred twenty-eight hours from 1993-1998, the zenith of the show's popularity. From New York originally, he immigrated to Canada with family in 1969 and quickly became a dynamic contributor to the Canadian theatre world as an actor, playwright and artistic director of the Homemade Theatre Company of Toronto, a seminal performance group of the 1970's. Besides writing for stage, screen and television, Larry is a published poet and lyricist.

$10 donation at the door

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The Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs

Daniel Beaty

Friday July 27th, 2012
"Through the Night" embodies the stories of six men who experience an unexpected epiphany on the same evening that changes their lives forever. Daniel Beaty seamlessly weaves humour, poetry and music into a thrilling evening of theatre!

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Featherstone Center for the Arts

Opening Reception for The Art of Costume Design

May 27, 2012
Opening Reception for The Art of Costume Design - Celebrating 30 Years at The Vineyard Playhouse with Guest Curators: MJ Bruder Munafo and Kate Hancock 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Virginia Weston Besse Gallery, Featherstone, Oak Bluffs. Continues through June 6. Open Daily 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. In celebration of the Vineyard Playhouse's 30th Anniversary with over 250 productions and for being the only year round professional theater on Martha's Vineyard, Featherstone Center for the Arts will host The Art of Costume Design– Celebrating 30 Years at the Vineyard Playhouse with Guest Curators: MJ Bruder Munafo and Kate Hancock. A wide array of costumes will be displayed in the gallery, featuring original designs by Abigail Bailey, Chrysal Parrot, Chelsea McCarthy, Cynthia Bermudes, and others. Shows represented include THE SNOW QUEEN, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, FLY and several more. Also included are watercolors by Reggie Ray, who is currently on Broadway as Costume Designer for “Stickfly". Among the costumes will be props designed by Sally Cohn and Kate Hancock. Photographs, playbills, and posters will hang throughout the gallery as well as other memorabilia from the productions.

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The Martha's Vineyard Museum

ShowTime: 100 Years of Theater on Martha’s Vineyard

Theater has been a vibrant part of Martha's Vineyard's cultural landscape for more than a hundred years. Playhouses, open fields, schools, and churches across the Island provided the stage for seasoned and novice actors, directors, and playwrights. Summer theater, in particular, has entertained generations of island visitors; the Island has also been a place of refuge and recharging for stars of stage and screen. Showtime: 100 Years of Theater on Martha's Vineyard a collaborative exhibition, explores the deep connections between the Island and the performing arts and artists it has hosted over the years.

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