News and Events for Nantucket Island
• by Sarah Teach • At the heart of any great play is quality storytelling, and Tom Dudzick’s Miracle on South Division Street delivers. In choosing to show this play alongside A. R. Gurney’s Family Furniture, White Heron Theatre Company juxtaposes the lower-middle class normalcy of Dudzick with the well-heeled […]
In a lively performance on Saturday, August 16 in the Whaling Museum, island favorite Bill Schustik will deliver a troubadour’s tribute to summer with music and stories. Schustik’s one-of-a-kind folk music combines his love of American history & lore with a signature blend of folk instruments, dramatic delivery, and his […]
• by Sarah Teach • This Saturday, August 9, Nantucket welcomes the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and conductor Keith Lockhart back to Jetties Beach for the Pops’ 18th annual concert to benefit Nantucket Cottage Hospital. Though many of us know the back of Lockhart’s head better than we know his […]
Concert goers on Nantucket will get the chance to hear J. Reilly Lewis, an acclaimed classical keyboard player and renowned interpreter of Johann Sebastian Bach, when he leads the second annual “Nantucket Baroque” concert on Wednesday, August 6, in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. The candlelit concert also features an unusual […]
Fresh from New York City come four great singers, one excellent pianist, and an effervescent MC who is ready to explain it all in this special one-night only performance of Opera Laughing. This 70-minute review, takes place on Monday night August 4 at 7:30 p.m., sandwiched in between White Heron’s […]
With summer skies and salt spray on ocean breezes serving as a backdrop, the inaugural Nantucket Music Festival is set for this Saturday and Sunday, August 2 and 3, featuring a stellar lineup that includes Dispatch, Guster, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Alya Brown, Entrain, Steel Pulse, Donovan Frankenreiter, […]
• by Sarah Teach • Nantucket isn’t known for having a robust hip-hop scene. Instead, we rely on Neil Diamond to make us sing, Bing Crosby to get us on the dance floor, and we’ve never been to a wedding reception without Sinatra. But 26-year-old island-based hip-hop artist Mark Dwyer […]
~by Julianne Adams •~ For the past few weeks, the Dreamland has been a flurry of activity during the day, not with film but with theater – Seussical Jr., to be exact. Spearheaded by Tiffany Gallo, the Children’s Theater Education at the Dreamland has grown rapidly since its humble tent […]
• 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 […]
