News and Events for Nantucket Island
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 […]
Theatre Workshop of Nantucket brings us Clark Gesner’s 1967 musical comedy based on Charles Schultz’s beloved comic strip “Peanuts,” You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown. The show has been twice nominated for a Grammy, first in 1968 in its original form, and again in 2000 for the Broadway revival. The […]
Bob Marley tribute band the Duppy Conquerors is made up of some of Boston’s best reggae musicians. Their name is a shout out to Marley and the Wailers’ 1973 hit song “Duppy Conqueror,” which celebrates achieving freedom from malevolent forces in life. The Duppy Conquerors will play three amazing shows […]
• by Sarah Teach • It was 1983 when the brilliant and accomplished young con man was chewing his way through the Upper East Side’s upper crust. Nineteen-year-old David Hampton turned the same trick several times over: he’d visit a wealthy household masquerading as a college friend of that family’s […]
