News and Events for Nantucket Island
• by Sarah Teach • Consider yourself cordially invited to sink into the comfy seats at White Heron Theatre Company (WHTC) and enjoy the latest work of American playwright A. R. Gurney. Family Furniture curtsies before an audience for the first time since its premiere at the Flea Theater in […]
• by Sarah Teach • Saddle up your horses and clip-clop over yonder to Oklahoma!, where the dancin’ is lively and the gals are purdy. You must cross neither the Sound nor the prairie to get to Oklahoma!, because Theatre Workshop of Nantucket is bringing this distinctly American musical to […]
• by Julianne Adams • What began as a one-off evening of dance quickly became the multi-day event brimming with world-class talent known as the Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival. In 2008, the Atheneum sponsored a performance from Stiefel and Stars, an intensive summer program that was run on Martha’s Vineyard […]
• by Suzanne Daub • Gallery owner and collector Kathleen Knight has brought to Nantucket a exhibition of art that is surprising, engaging, provocative, and very unlike most seen on our island. Opening this week at The Gallery at Four India with a reception Friday evening, July 18, is “Pop […]
• by Sarah Teach • We denizens of the 21st century are not the first mortals to mutter, “darn kids,” as we shake our heads at the agenda à la mode then stuff them back into the cage of our conventions. Every mutterer should mind that he or she too […]
• by Julianne Adams • Nestled in a small enclave just outside of town at 8 Howard Street is a house called Greater Light. First serving as a livestock barn in the late 1700s, Greater Light transformed into an artistic hub in the 1930s thanks to two industrious sisters, Gertrude […]
Nantucket artists are taking to the streets. On July 5, the annual Sidewalk Art Show returns, bringing with it a slew of artists. Begun in 1930 by artist Maud Stumm, the Show brought together professional and amateur artists for a few days in August. Featuring artists like Colonel Julian Yates, […]
• by Sarah Teach • August on Nantucket is about to get cooler. The inaugural Nantucket Music Festival (NMF), slated for August 2-3, will welcome a stellar music lineup, 3,900 festival goers and a boatload of good vibes. The event’s oceanside location at Tom Nevers Field will provide an unparalleled […]
• by Julianne Adams • For the second year in a row, Nantucket will be the site of a great theatre collaboration: White Heron Theatre and Long Wharf Theatre are once again sharing the stage. First founded in 2005 by Earle Gister and Lynne Bolton, White Heron has called Nantucket […]
