BravEncore, a nonprofit organization that supports Island high school performing arts, presents Closets, an original play written by Kate Murray and her Theatre 2 class, on Friday, March 26 at 7 p.m. at the high school performing arts center. The play was recently performed at the Massachusetts High School Drama Guild competition.
Admission is free, but donations are welcome; all proceeds benefit the BravEncore troupe trip to perform at the 2010 Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.
With sweet harmonies, songs both charming and funny, a guitar, mandolin, banjo and accordion and more talent than you can fit on the band bus, the boys of PigPen Theatre Company will unpack their latest work for all ages this week, outdoors at Featherstone Center for the Arts.
Auditions for A Midsummer Night’s Dream are on Saturdays, May 15 and 22, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. both days, at the Vineyard Playhouse. Director M.J. Bruder Munafo is seeking young, nonequity actors of all ethnic backgrounds, with access to housing on Martha’s Vineyard.
Arrive at the audition and sign up for an appointment that day. Everyone who comes to the audition will be seen. Actors should come prepared to perform a short (under two minutes) Shakespearean monologue from any play.
Fame was the production theme for Camp Jabberwocky’s annual July theatre performance last Friday and Saturday. Their Fame had a huge cast, lots of laughs, moments of beauty, and Darth Vadar.
The musical play Bears Beware — Goldilocks Is in Your Town answers the question “What kind of world is it were little girls break into houses that bears own?”
The Yard hosts a free, open performance from its choreographer in residence, Ana Isabel Keilson, on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at the barn theatre on Middle Road near Beetlebung Corner in Chilmark.
At this year’s Massachusetts High School Drama Guild Festival the students in Kate Murray’s Theatre II class presented a new work, the brainchild of a creative collaboration between teacher and students. And this weekend, they are bringing it home, with several productions for the Vineyard audiences slated at the high school’s performing arts center.
A Fairy Ballet School by the Martha’s Vineyard School of Ballet will run from July 26 through August 6, Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9 a.m. to noon at the Tisbury School. All children finish with a performance in the annual Summer Fairy Ball.
Class size is limited. For details, call 508-939-0074.
The Summoning of Everyman, sometimes known simply as Everyman, is a play focused on morality and mortality within a Christian context that dates back to 15th century England, where it was penned by author/s unknown.