Built on Stilts, the Vineyard’s homegrown dance festival, opens on Thursday, August 12, at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs and continues through Sunday and again the following weekend, August 21 to 23.
Each night’s program begins with drumming at 7:30 p.m. (all acoustic musicians are invited to join in) and dance performances at 8. The program is different each night.
As ever, the shows are free to the public, and audiences many come and go as they please. Donations at the door are strongly encouraged. No reservations necessary.
Taffy McCarthy is solitary on stage in the literal whole-nine-yards of white satin bridal paraphernalia; the gown is too long for her customary hopping and bopping.
In this Island Theatre Workshop (ITW) rehearsal of the first of five short original plays — banded together under the title Pick of the Crop — Ms. McCarthy portrays a hill country bride-to-be called Sis. The monologue, One Last Look, was written by the actor herself.
The authorship of all of William Shakespeare’s plays has been attributed elsewhere, to Christopher Marlowe, to the Earl of Oxford, to Queen Elizabeth’s favorite lady-in-waiting (well, that one’s a bit of a stretch). Yet even the Bard himself might have preferred his name stricken from Pericles, Prince of Tyre. In fact, modern editors maintain he wrote only the second half — or less — of the drama, the first portion almost certainly penned by second-rate dramatist and tavern buddy George Wilkins.
After 18 months of planning, rehearsing and fundraising, the BravEncore Theatre Troupe departs the Vineyard on Saturday to perform their original musical play at the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland. Islanders are invited to join a bagpiper in sending off the student thespians departing on the 3:45 p.m. ferry out of Oak Bluffs.
The troupe will perform Secret of the Seven Sisters (book by Kate Murray, music and lyrics by Kate Murray and Jake Estabrook) from August 20 to 23 at a theatre in Edinburgh.
Fed up with the punditocracy doing the yellathon thing day after day? Tired of watching fellow humans go frothy with the rightousness of their own ego? Whatever happened to the color gray, anyway? Or humor?
Well, this Saturday the air is being taken out of the gasbags — all of them, be they Democrat or Republican.
In 1992 David Sedaris was simply David Sedaris, just another nobody cleaning apartments for a living. Sure, he was most likely the funniest dude out there swabbing strangers’ toilets, but who knew?
Then he took a job playing an elf at Macy’s for the holiday season. It did not go well. The job that is. Sedaris’s career is another story.
For two nights only, Opera Noire of New York comes to Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs with two separate but equally spectacular programs: tonight, August 17, A Gala Performance of Opera’s Greatest Hits begins at 8 p.m. Then on Thursday, August 19, From The Underground Railroad to the
The Edgartown School presents the classic musical comedy Once Upon a Mattress. The play was originally created at a summer camp and opened on Broadway in 1959. It featured the debut of a talented young lady named Carol Burnett.
The cast includes over 25 Edgartown School students in grades six through eight, with stage direction by Donna Swift, musical direction by Beth Carr, stage management by Mariah Mac-Kenzie, sets by Alison Carr and sound by William Fligor and Peter Sawyer,
Improv is fun to perform. It’s fun to watch. But improv is not so groovy when looking for a space to strut your stuff. Let’s face it, comedy is tough enough without doing it in the dirt.
So it’s good news that Imp, the Island’s top-notch youth improv troupe, has a new home. It’s at the Space, the new exercise and perfoming arts center taking root at the Triangle in Edgartown across from the post office. The Space includes a 70-seat black box theater and this Friday, Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. Imp will be holding court at their new digs.
We sat in a circle trying to make each other laugh. The tent at the Yard in Chilmark provided a writers’ den for the 11 fledgling or developed comedy writers who signed up to take Anne Beatts’s comedy workshop last week.
