Press Reviews and Articles
Broadway’s Kathryn Grody Brings New Work to Playhouse

Island audiences have the opportunity this weekend to spend an evening with Obie Award-winning actor and playwright Kathryn Grody, who is bringing her latest one-woman show to the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse for performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. In The Unexpected 3rd: A Radical, Rollicking

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M.V. Playhouse (presents) ‘THE UNExPECTED 3rd’

“A Radical, Rollicking Rumination on the Optimism of Staying Alive.” There is one unifying thing that everyone shares from the moment we are born … we are all getting older. Obie-winning actress and playwright Kathryn Grody shares her perspective on this thing we call aging

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Lipsky’s landscape

Stepping inside Kanta Lipsky’s new exhibition, “Local Influence,” is like walking outdoors. Her richly colored oil Vineyard landscapes are handsomely hung in the Playhouse Art Space through Oct. 25. “This painting exhibit has been inspired by the simple beauty of our island home,” says Lipsky.

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Billy Baloo (Review)

What? You’ve never heard of Solderville, Colorado? That tiny mining village “on the highest mountain of the highest mountain range in North America?” (according to the program). If you had joined the motley crew of prospectors searching for gold there in 1879, you might never

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‘Billy Baloo’ redux

The popular musical production is back, and better than ever. Michael Mason may have died in February 2023, but he’s living on through his labor of love, “Billy Baloo,” now onstage at the M.V. Playhouse. The tale was his life’s work, and his family —

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Billy Baloo Strikes Gold at Playhouse

Island audiences are welcoming Billy Baloo back to the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, where the Island-grown musical made its debut to sold-out houses last October. Written by two generations of Vineyard singer-songwriters — Jemima James, the late Michael Mason and their son Willy Mason, who stars in the

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