News and Events for Nantucket Island
There are just three more chances to see the edgy exploration of the lines between seduction and power in Theatre Workshop of Nantucket’s production of Venus in Fur. Directed by Jedadiah Schultz, Kaitlyn Jane Kurowski and Jeff Barry star in this production of David Ives’ play (based on a novel […]
~ by C. Oscar Olson ~ Incorporated in 1641, Nantucket is easily one of the oldest towns in the country. One would assume that in the span of 375 years, all the “firsts” would be taken, and that there simply weren’t any new or notable trails to blaze. Think again. […]
This Friday, July 15, the Artists Association of Nantucket will open their Summer Small Works Exhibition with a festive opening reception on from 6 to 8 pm in the Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery, 19 Washington Street. “The small works exhibition is a perennial favorite for artists and customers […]
More than a year after his frozen “Slurpee Wave” photos became a viral Internet sensation, Nantucket photographer Jonathan Nimerfroh returns to The Samuel Owen Gallery with a new collection for the 2016 season, marking the event with an Opening Party Celebration on Friday, July 1 from 5 to 8 pm […]
Need to refine your acting skills? Interested in a behind- the-scenes look at producing theater? This July and August, the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket is bringing back The Seinfeld Series: Master Classes in Theatre and Performance, an exciting educational program open to the public. All three sessions (July 9, August […]
For more than two decades, Nantucket has been the venue for a festival designed to promote the awareness and appreciation of screenwriting. This week through June 27, screenwriters, actors, producers, agents, and fans will gather on our island for the 21st Annual Nantucket Film Festival. Films that have premiered at […]
Author David O. Dowling will present his latest book Surviving the Essex: The Afterlife of America’s Most Storied Shipwreck on Monday, June 20 at 6 pm in the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street. In this book, Dowling explores the survivors’ accounts of the ill-fated voyage of the whaleship Essex and […]
Artistic endeavors are being celebrated across our island this week as one festival honoring writing and another that salutes the visual arts share the venue of Nantucket. Plein Air Nantucket The Artists Association of Nantucket’s Plein Air Festival began Tuesday and continues through Sunday, June 19. The public is invited […]
by Richard Trust Herman Raucher has spent only two weeks on Nantucket, but those 14 days have created a lifetime of bittersweet memories – and then some. Don’t dismiss the “then some”—it has paid a lot of bills. Raucher’s fortnight on Nantucket 74 years ago was captured in the 1971 […]
