News and Events for Nantucket Island
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 […]
Nantucket is one of the most beautiful and picturesque places in the world. If there isn’t a scene fit for a painting in front of you now, you probably just have to turn your head. To most of us, though, painting is an art form left to the professionals. Now, […]
This Saturday, August 20, the Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is hosting their second annual Donn Russell Print Collaborative at their Visual Arts Center, 24 Amelia Drive. Free and open to all, this day of events will be held from 10 am to 3 pm. The print collaborative provides printmakers […]
The Artists Association of Nantucket (AAN) is pleased to invite the public to its second Sidewalk Art Show of the season, Saturday, August 13 from 10 am to 3 pm in the dappled summer sun of the Nantucket Atheneum garden on India Street. More than twenty Artists Association of Nantucket […]
Comedian Kevin Flynn, nationally known and a favorite on Nantucket, is returning to an island stage for two Monday night performances. He’ll appear at the new White Heron Theatre Company in downtown Nantucket on Monday, August 15 and Monday, August 22, both at 7:30 p.m. It’s that hectic time in […]
