News and Events for Nantucket Island
by Suzanne Daub I’ve never seen the movie Footloose, so I didn’t know what to expect from the current Theatre Workshop’s stage adaptation. What I got was an entertaining evening and a story with more substance than many musicals I’ve seen. Thanks to a talented and charismatic cast, skilled directing […]
The works of British artist Elizabeth Waggett are highly sought after and have been exhibited internationally at solo shows in NYC, L.A, Abu Dhabi, and Manchester. Waggett has exhibited her drawings and editions around the world, in art fairs in Basel, Miami, New York, London, Hong Kong, Zurich, Brussels, Houston, […]
White Heron Theatre Company of Nantucket’s 2018 exciting main stage summer season opens this week with a preview Thursday, July 5 of the Drama Desk-nominated musical Daddy Long Legs, music and lyrics by Paul Gordon, book by John Caird from the novel by Jean Webster starring Brian Krinsky (The Underpants, […]
This Saturday, June 30, the Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) will hold it’s first 2018 Sidewalk Art Show in the dappled summer sun of the Nantucket Atheneum garden, India Street. More than twenty AAN’s artist members will be available to discuss art and sell their works. The outdoor art show […]
Opening this week in Hostetler Gallery, 42 Centre Street is an exciting exhibit curated by filmmaker Rajko Grlic` that is perfect for pairing with the Nantucket Film Festival. In “Cinematic Exposure, Scene One,” a very special exhibit by the collaborative duo hazart, has combined their devotion to the masters of […]
“Rising Tides,” a documentary that explores the topic of coastline erosion, will be screened this Monday, June 25 at 6 pm in the Great Hall of the Nantucket Atheneum on India Street. Dr. Sarah Oktay, who served as one of the film’s consultants and has a cameo appearance in the […]
by Suzanne Daub The laughs start at rise, from the moment wide-eyed Gus enters the posh upstairs bedroom of a Manhattan townhouse, staggering under an armload of coats from the famous partygoers “downstairs.” He unceremoniously dumps them on the bed, then wanders starstruck through the room. The expressions and physical […]
by C. Oscar Olson Nantucket is an island of Kodak Moments. From Madaket to ‘Sconset and every cobblestone in between, there is a nary a bad angle for the perfect picture. But these days, virtually everybody carries a camera in their pocket. The art and skill that once went in […]
