Tag: theatre

Nantucket Film Festival
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NFF Turns 18

In 1996, brother and sister team Jonathan and Jill Burkhart founded the Nantucket Film Festival to promote the awareness and appreciation of screenwriting.  This week through June 30, screenwriters, actors, producers, agents, and fans will gather on Nantucket for the 18th year of NFF. Mystelle Brabbée, who has been the […]

Six Degrees of Separation
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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 […]

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“A Comedy of Manners without the Manners”

•  by Sarah Teach  • Nantucket’s own White Heron is officially flying. Nantucket’s newest theatre company presents French playwright Yasmina Reza’s Broadway hit God of Carnage, winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Play. Reza’s script manages to entwine slapstick with the subtle, refined humor allowed by the fact that banter […]

theatre Workshop of Nantucket
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A Nantucket Tale on Nantucket

by Sarah Teach They’re wealthy, they’re smart, they’re successful; and they own a giant summer home on Nantucket. Sound familiar? Meet the Moscow family, the brainchildren of playwright Sam Forman, the author of the Helen Hayes Award-nominated The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall. Theatre Workshop of Nantucket presents the […]

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Nantucket Exports

by Sarah Teach The Grey Lady has a habit of gathering great theatre talent and providing a stage upon which it can flourish. This is a luxury for those of us on Nantucket, but unfortunately, not everyone can make it here to see the caliber of our work. Two islanders […]