News and Events for Nantucket Island
Don’t miss out on 5 chances to win your own seat plaque in the Dreamland’s main theater with their Take A Seat raffle, to be held on September 8, 2015. All raffle proceeds benefit the non-profit film and performing arts theater’s year-round programming. Tickets are $20 each, or 6 for […]
Concertgoers on Nantucket will hear J. Reilly Lewis, an acclaimed classical keyboard player and renowned interpreter of Johan Sebastian Bach, when he leads the third annual “Nantucket Baroque” concert on Wednesday, August 5, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. The candlelit concert also features Lewis along with Ann Colgrove, an accomplished […]
For the ninth year in a row Ben Larrabee, a nationally recognized photographer with work in the permanent collections of museums, including the MOMA in New York and The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, is exhibiting a show of his family portraits at the ‘Sconset Café on Nantucket. […]
• by Rebecca Nimerfroh • More than just a metaphor on how we play the hand of cards we are dealt in the game of life, “The Gin Game,” D.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play produced by the White Heron Theatre Company paints a picture of two dynamic characters in the […]
• by Abigail Terres • We are all familiar with classic “knock-knock” jokes, however at this year’s Nantucket Comedy Festival from July 15-18, there is much more to expect than these simple gags. The Nantucket Comedy Festival, founded eight years ago, is an annual festival that hosts nationally recognized comedians […]
Every summer morning, Children’s Beach is a hub of activity for all ages. Little ones chase each other across the soft grass of the spacious lawn while older kids swing and climb on the playground equipment. Parents gather to watch and to enjoy some adult conversation. Couples sit on the […]
• by Robert P. Barsanti • July and August depend a great deal on what you see and what you choose to ignore. The houseguests come in those months, predominantly, and we live a parallel life to theirs. All of them are great friends from other times: We have heard […]
Nantucket will be throwing it back to the 1970s on Jetties Beach this summer when Nantucket Cottage Hospital and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra welcome The Australian Bee Gees Show as their special guest for the 19th annual Boston Pops on Nantucket concert. General admission tickets for the event are […]
It is very rare that a group of working actors like the cast of the take time away from their very complicated schedules to come together to work on a new play. But this is a very special play. Samuel Hunter, the playwright, is only 34 years old and his […]
