After “musical theater,” the second most beautiful words in the English language are “90 minutes, no intermission.” Thanks to the third production in the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket’s current season, Buyer & Cellar offers audiences a perfect escape from reality. Think of it like this: “memorabilia, light the corners of my mind.”
Tag: summer theatre
A New Chapter in the Island Theatre Scene
Early this spring, a board member from the Nantucket Performing Arts Center (NPAC) approached director Mark Shanahan during intermission of Theatre People, or The Angel Next Door in the Westport Country Playhouse, and the conversations and collaborations that followed brought this theater production to our island in record time. “He came to me and said ‘I think this would be great on Nantucket,’” Shanahan recalls. What typically takes a year to plan became a summer reality, part of an new chapter in Nantucket’s theater scene.