News and Events for Nantucket Island
• by Sarah Teach • Hamish Linklater—perhaps best known for his role alongside Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the CBS series The New Adventures of Old Christine—makes his playwriting debut with The Vandal, a dark comedy that launched at the Off-Off-Broadway Flea Theater in January 2013. Now playing at Nantucket’s White Heron […]
Anne Rose seeks to convey the essence of the person within her paintings. Using color and her excellent draftsmen skills, she recreates, imagines, and captures the secret quality that lives within her subjects. She develops each painting as a whole, working expressively, and her finished work is poetic and poignant. […]
Nantucket Arts Council could gain $100,000 in coming weeks to sustain the arts on Nantucket, through a matching challenge grant from the Hall-Froelich Foundation. The monies would be used to advance the Nantucket Arts Council mission of encouraging the growth and stability of all the arts on Nantucket including visual, […]
There are just a few performances left of this stunning musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up . . . or from break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it. The Last Five Years is an intensely personal look at […]
Son and mother Nick (Max Roll) and Claire (LeeAnne Hutchinson) interact in A. R. Gurney’s new play, Family Furniture. White Heron Theatre Company’s final showing of Family Furniture will be Friday, August 29 at 7:30 p.m. The theater, located under the tent at 5 North Water Street, presents multiple plays […]
Nantucket Island has been an inspiration to photographers, painters, writers, and poets for centuries. If Nantucket has inspired you to capture the island in verse, enter your poem in our annual Nantucket Poetry Contest. The winning poet will receive a $250 prize, and his or her work will be published […]
• by Sarah Teach • After decades spent traveling the globe, serigraph master, satire sculptor and painter Donn Russell chose to make his home on Nantucket. Long-time island art enthusiasts may recognize Russell’s work from his eponymous gallery on Old South Wharf, which was active from 1978 to 2001. The […]
Blue eyes sparkling, with a mischievous grin, Paul Willer explained how he fell in love with Nantucket: “Oh, it was right away…I fell in love with the island as the boat was coming into the harbor…the next day, Peter said ‘Let’s go to the beach,’ and I said ‘No, let’s […]
This Friday, August 22, from 6 to 8 pm, Hostetler Gallery at 42 Centre Street will host the opening of an exhibition of vibrant, energetic abstract paintings by internationally known artist Xanda McCagg. McCagg’s paintings challenge the imagination and create a setting of conversation with the sculptures in the room, […]
• by Julianne Adams • Running a small business on top of full time work is not exactly most people’s idea of relaxing. For Janette Vohs, her eponymous photography company is where all her free time goes and she hopes to keep it that way. “It’s so relaxing and peaceful […]
