News and Events for Nantucket Island
The Artists Association of Nantucket annual Wet Paint Weekend has been expanded this year and coincides with the Nantucket Arts Festival. Wet Paint events get started with an opening reception for an Art Without Borders exhibition on Friday, September 30 from 6 to 8 pm in the Cecelia Joyce & […]
The Nantucket Historical Association and The House that Mac Built will present four staged readings during the Nantucket Arts Festival to honor the life of Joseph ‘Mac’ Dixon, the co-founder and forty-year Artistic Director of The Theatre Workshop of Nantucket. This tribute will include many of Mac’s former students and […]
Music, film, visual arts, crafts, design, and theatre all take center stage from Friday, September 30 through Sunday, October 9 during the annual Nantucket Arts Festival, produced by the Nantucket Arts Council. This year’s festival theme, “Expect the Unexpected,” is meant to be interpreted literally, figuratively, or playfully by artists […]
by Rebecca Nimerfroh Think Mad Men’s Donald Draper and Roger Sterling, hashing it out with loosened ties and wrinkled suits, bouncing ideas off each other in rapid-fire succession. But instead of advertising, their banter is rip-roaringly funny, and pertaining to a whole different ballgame, albeit not too different: American politics. […]
The majority of Artist Association of Nantucket exhibitions feature work solely by AAN artist members, but every year they invite artists from across the island community to enter work in their annual “10 x 10 Open Exhibition.” Now in its twelfth year, the “10 x 10 Open” (formally called Collaboration) […]
Theatre Workshop of Nantucket has a new addition to it’s 60th Anniversary season: Amy Stiller in Just Trust one night only, Sunday, September 11 at 7 pm in Bennett Hall, 62 Centre Street. This one-woman show is a semiautobiographical journey of a spiritually struggling young woman, striving to emotionally survive […]
Photos by Cary Hazelgrove • by Rebecca Nimerfroh • Have you ever day-dreamed about hunting down a long-lost ex, storming through their front door, and demanding once and for all an explanation for all their wrongs? Sure, it’s been years and years, and you both have moved on long ago, […]
Legends Paul Winter and Roger Payne Perform “Whales Alive: The Music of Whales” Concert at the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street on Wednesday, August 31 at 7 pm. Winter is a saxophonist, composer, and seven-time Grammy winner. Dr. Payne is the biologist famous for the discovery of humpback whale songs […]
More than 50 children ranging in age from 6 to 14 are reveling in the joy of performance as they follow the yellow brick road in the Children’s Theater production of the beloved family musical adventure The Wizard of Oz. These participants in The Dreamland’s Young Performers troup take audiences […]
