News and Events for Nantucket Island
Music, film, visual arts, crafts, design, and theatre all take center stage from Friday, October 2 through Sunday, October 11 during the 2015 Nantucket Arts Festival. Produced by Nantucket Arts Council, the festival includes amateur and professional artists from Nantucket and beyond. This year’s festival theme, Art of the See, […]
1st Place Winner in the Yesterday’s Island Photo Contest: Ward Vogt 2nd Place, 2015 Yesterday’s Island Photo Contest: David Policansky To see a gallery of our Winners and Honorable mentions and other great shots from the 2015 Annual Yesterday’s Island Photo Contest, visit Nantucket.Net. THANK YOU! to the hundreds of […]
The bonds of friendship between six brassy Southern women are explored in Theatre Workshop of Nantucket’s current production of Steel Magnolias. Expertly staged so that the audience is “behind the mirror,” this play that is part comedy, part tragedy is superbly acted by Karen Lee, Jessica Jensen, Jackie Freeman, Cynthia […]
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA), in partnership with Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (TWN), present a staged reading of Twelve Angry Women on Thursday, September 24, and Friday, September 25, 2015, at 7 pm in the NHA’s Quaker Meeting House, 7 Fair Street. Based on Reginald Rose’s iconic courtroom drama Twelve […]
The weekend of September 19 and 20 is when islanders will celebrate the harvest of land and of sea, with both the Nantucket Maritime Festival and the Nantucket Island Fair being held this same weekend. Nantucket Maritime Festival is held from 10 am to 4 pm on Saturday, September 19 […]
This week and next, paintings by members of the Nantucket community will be on display alongside work by member artists of the Nantucket Artists Association in the AAN’s annual Collaboration Exhibition. This popular show opens with a festive reception from 6 to 8 pm this Friday, September 11 in the […]
September 12 is the deadline to enter the 2015 Yesterday’s Island Photo Contest. For more than 20 years, this popular contest has been a terrific way for you to share your images of Nantucket Island. Any season, any view, any time period (we love the old photos) are accepted, as […]
In the riveting drama, Secrets Laid Bare, by award-winning playwright Jon Robin Baitz, Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her parents, her brother, and her aunt. Announcing that she is about to publish a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic […]
You have just three more days to catch White Heron Theatre’s production of the “deliriously funny” Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Tony Award winner Martin Platt. Performed in The Dreamland Theatre, the play is a masterful, utterly hilarious comedy about grown siblings and the complications of […]
