News and Events for Nantucket Island
• by Sarah Teach • Nantucket’s professional repertory theatre company has chosen a winner. You may know Boston Marriage’s Pulitzer-prize winning playwright David Mamet from the literary term coined by his characteristically terse writing style: “Mamet speak.” He first started writing plays in the 70s, and his writing was Hollywood-adaptation […]
The Nantucket Dreamland Foundation’s Junior Theater Company returns for its fourth summer season to present Disney s Beauty and the Beast, Jr. with performances through August 20. The junior version is adapted from a book by Linda Woolverton and the Disney Theatrical Productions show that premiered on Broadway in 1994, […]
• by Sarah Teach • Some people just have “it,” and Bulgarian National Dance Champion Andrey Stanev is one of them. Stanev, owner of Nantucket Ballroom, the island’s only ballroom dancing instruction studio, has been summering on Nantucket since he got sand in his dance shoes a decade ago. After […]
TWN is thrilled to be reprising their hit production, The Wizard of Oz, this summer. With sold-out houses last year, Oz grabbed hearts and imaginations, carrying audiences on a fantastical journey with music, dancing, and special effects. One of America’s greatest and best-loved tales, The Wizard of Oz promises to […]
One of the island’s favorite outdoor summer events—the Boston Pops Concert on Jetties Beach—will be held this Saturday, August 10, with guest host Katie Couric and guest performer Matthew Morrison, known for his roles on Broadway and on the television show Glee. Nearly 6,000 concert goers are expected to attend […]
This is the week to “laugh your ACK off” as top comedians from around the country come to our island for the Sixth Annual Nantucket Comedy Festival. The festival opened Wednesday, July 17, and continues night and day through Saturday, July 20. As of press time, tickets are scarce for […]
• by Sarah Teach • Playwright Sarah Ruhl’s offbeat humor returns to the island’s limelight, as rife with existential ponderings as it was in 2011 when Theatre Workshop of Nantucket staged Ruhl’s In The Next Room or The Vibrator Play. The 2007 world premiere of Dead Man’s Cell Phone took […]
It’s half-past six, and the main dining room is filling with people having fun. The group at the front table (the window seat under the pop-chic chandelier) is clearly having a celebration—dressed in their fashionista best and toasting with perilously full margherita and martini glasses. Nearly every seat at the […]
Beloved for their live performances, Rusted Root hits the ground running with a new slew of live dates to support their brand new release The Movement. They’ll play The Chicken Box on Nantucket on Tuesday, July 16 and Wednesday, July 17. The Movement. commemorates their 20th year as a band […]
