News and Events for Nantucket Island
The Nantucket Theatre Institute and the White Heron Theatre Company today announce a summer season of professional theatre in rotating repertory in a tent at their new permanent home at 5 N Water Street. The season will include the plays “God of Carnage” on Wednesdays and Saturdays, “Boston Marriage” on […]
• 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 […]
• 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 […]
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA), in partnership with Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (TWN) will present the dramatic staged reading of Moby Dick Rehearsed this week in the Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street. Moby-Dick Rehearsed, starring renowned TWN actor John Shea as Captain Ahab with an illustrious cast of community actors, […]
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 […]
• by Sarah Teach • A youth spent on Nantucket sounds divine, doesn’t it? But living on this island is not an everlasting vacation, free of the existential issues faced by people everywhere else in the world. Nantucket native Andrew Cromartie spent the first 18 years of his life absorbing […]
