News and Events for Nantucket Island
• by Sarah Teach • Picasso sits alone in a dingy brick basement with the trappings of an interrogation room. Cold concrete floors. Bare light bulbs. A single table flanked by upright chairs, designed for discomfort. But the oddity of this interrogation room is that stacks of paintings line both […]
• by Sarah Teach • Twentieth century artists frame the fall lineup at Theatre Workshop of Nantucket. Showing in repertory with Jeffrey Hatcher’s A Picasso is playwright John Logan’s Red, which dramatizes a defining period in the life of abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko. A Picasso and Red share the […]
Nantucket Memorial Airport will be executing a full scale “Emergency Response Exercise” on Wednesday, September 24. The “Emergency Response Exercise” is a full-scale, interagency deployment of on-island resources, with the goal of providing continuous improvement of emergency services to the flying public and the citizens of the county of Nantucket. […]
• by Sarah Teach • The Nantucket Island Fair brings together many of the best parts of Nantucket: family, friends, community spirit, the fruits of islanders’ summer of labor. And, of course, a beautiful shoreline. This annual family event has all the trimmings of a traditional country fair, with a […]
Nantucket’s history is filled with tales of heroic lifesaving efforts by everyday citizens and those who went above and beyond the call of duty. Honoring that tradition, the Egan Maritime Institute and Nantucket Cottage Hospital are recognizing two modern-day lifesavers during the annual Lifesavers Recognition Day at the Nantucket Shipwreck […]
Nantucket Cottage Hospital has entered the 2014 Pink Glove Dance competition to bring together island caregivers, cancer patients and survivors, and the Nantucket community to raise breast cancer awareness and funds for the Marla Ceely Lamb Cancer Travel Fund. The Pink Glove Dance is an international competition in which hospitals […]
• 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. […]
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 […]
