• 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 […]
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It’s A Good Show, Charlie Brown
• by Sarah Teach • Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (TWN) whisks us back to childhood this summer with composer Clark Gesner’s 1967 musical comedy You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown. Based on cartoonist Charles Schulz’s beloved comic strip “Peanuts,” the show has been twice nominated for a Grammy, first in […]
TWN Opens “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown”
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 […]
Six Degrees of Spectacular
• 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 […]