News and Events for Nantucket Island
by Catherine Macallister Wop ba-ba lu-mop and wop bam boom! Grab your lettermans, saddle shoes, and leather jackets and prepare to be transported back the 1950s at Rydell High. The cast of Grease can do it all: sing, dance, and act, making them the latest triple threat at the Theatre […]
Theatregoers have just 3 more chances to see the hilarious Theatre Workshop of Nantucket production of Neil Simon’s California Suite, directed by Justin Cerne and starring Timothy Booth, Casey Boukus, Kevin Flynn, Sarah Fraunfelder, and Susan Lucier. Comprised of a quartet of “playlets” set in a suite at the Beverly […]
“Maureen is to comedy what James Brown was to soul.” —Jerry Stiller Daughter of a Garbageman is a tale of Maureen Langan’s 1970’s upbringing in New Jersey in which her Irish mother and Bronx-born father, a retired New York City sanitation worker, told her to work hard, get educated, and […]
There are just four more chances to see Theatre Workshop of Nantucket’s current production of Love, Loss, and What I Wore. The play was written by sisters Nora and Delia Ephron, who are responsible for some of America’s most beloved films. Based on Ilene Beckerman’s book of the same name, […]
The Nantucket Historical Association and The House that Mac Built will present four staged readings during the Nantucket Arts Festival to honor the life of Joseph ‘Mac’ Dixon, the co-founder and forty-year Artistic Director of The Theatre Workshop of Nantucket. This tribute will include many of Mac’s former students and […]
~ by Rebecca Nimerfroh ~ The lights on the audience go down and a full moon comes up –er, should I say, a buttocks comes up? This is the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket’s The Full Monty, after all, and in the first five minutes of this hilarious gender-bender comedy you […]
Theatre Workshop of Nantucket’s production of The Full Monty, reimagined in Buffalo, New York featuring six unemployed steelworkers, is as riproaringly funny as the film that premiered here at the Nantucket Film Festival in 1997. If you’re looking for some hot stuff on Nantucket, get your tickets to The Full […]
