News and Events for Nantucket Island
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 […]
Theatre Workshop of Nantucket’s newest production opened last week with a song that sets your toes tapping and puts a smile on your face that’s likely to stay through to the last echo of applause. Annie Get Your Gun is a fictionalized account of the true romance between American sharpshooters […]
There are just three more chances to see the edgy exploration of the lines between seduction and power in Theatre Workshop of Nantucket’s production of Venus in Fur. Directed by Jedadiah Schultz, Kaitlyn Jane Kurowski and Jeff Barry star in this production of David Ives’ play (based on a novel […]
Need to refine your acting skills? Interested in a behind- the-scenes look at producing theater? This July and August, the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket is bringing back The Seinfeld Series: Master Classes in Theatre and Performance, an exciting educational program open to the public. All three sessions (July 9, August […]
Love, marriage and friendship abound as the fastidious Florence and the slovenly Olive decide to share an apartment together after their lives have been turned upside down in Theatre Workshop of Nantucket’s production of The Odd Couple. This gender swapped remix of Neil Simon’s Tony Award winning classic comedy is […]
We all have that one friend. She’s single. She’s messy. And when you go over to her house the only thing in her fridge are condiments. And we all have that other friend. She’s married. She’s a neat freak. And she thinks she’s Martha Stewart or at least pretends to […]
