Audience Leaves Yard Opera Bewitched
Holly Nadler

There’s a sleep-away camp feel to the Yard off Middle Road in Chilmark: office over here, summer-blooming party tent over there, and modest, grey-shingled, single-story cottages for visiting dancers, choreographers, singers and other artistes scattered throughout the woods.

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Cat in the Hat Is Back

Cat in the Hat Is Back

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Pizza and Improv

Pizza and Improv

All Island teens aged 12 to 16 are welcome for pizza and improv theatre games with Nora Laudani, from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 20, at the Chilmark Public Library.

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Improv Benefit Performance Rescheduled for April 11

The WIMP/IMPers Get the IMPers to the Chicago Improv Festival Benefit has moved its performance to April 11 at the Grange Hall Theatre in West Tisbury. The show will still feature WIMP originals Jamie Alley, Christopher Brophy and Laura Silber alongside the IMPers, Martha’s Vineyard’s teen professional improv troupe.

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Playing With Fiery Love on Stage
Holly Nadler

A man and a woman meet and sparks fly, but not necessarily sparks beneficial to the pair’s mental health; you might almost say the incendiary materials explode in a region of dry brush during a California August. We’ve all experienced volatile relationships, or have known people who’ve weathered them. When it’s someone else, we almost need to place our hands over our eyes.

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Drama Club Wins Prestigious Invitation to Scotland

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival — it’s the biggest arts festival in the world, and the drama department at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, under the direction of Kate Murray, has been chosen as one of the U.S. representatives for its 2010 lineup.

The students will be part of the American High School Theatre Festival troupes at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, for 2010.

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Stiltshop Gets Young Islanders Dancing in Annual Free Festival
Megan Dooley

Chaos rules at Stiltshop, where day camp-style rehearsals prepare youngsters to participate next to older and more experienced dancers in Built on Stilts, the Island’s annual homegrown community dance festival. Call it Built on Stilts with a shorter attention span.

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Shakespeare for Masses Moves to Main Street

Think you’ve got problems? Get a little perspective with Shakespeare’s most famous problem play, Measure for Measure. Among other timeless topics, the play addresses hypocrisy in public figures, government’s meddling into people’s private lives, and that old favorite: lust, and what to do about it.

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Monday Night Specials Return to Playhouse

The Vineyard Playhouse’s popular summer series of new work, the Monday Night Special, begins its season with You Want Me To Do What? My Life As A Nurse, a new solo performance piece written and performed by Mary Lou Shriber.

You Want Me To Do What? will be presented on Monday, June 22,at 7 p.m. at the playhouse on Church street in Vineyard Haven.

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Love and Laughter at the Playhouse

Two Gentlemen of Verona was young Will Shakespeare’s first-ever romantic comedy. This weekend only, you’ll have a chance to see the Bard’s beginnings, in a script-in-hand performance of a story you simply have to see to believe.

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