Comedian Kevin Flynn, nationally known and a favorite on Nantucket, is returning to an island stage for two Monday night performances. He’ll appear at the new White Heron Theatre Company in downtown Nantucket on Monday, August 15 and Monday, August 22, both at 7:30 p.m. It’s that hectic time in […]
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“The Velocity of Autumn” takes Summer Stage
~ by Rebecca Nimerfroh ~ One of the reasons to see a play as opposed to a film is that unlike the mundane and overly tired themes repeated in every “rom-com” or action flick, you just never know what you are going to get. There’s no happy-ending guaranteed – in […]
Utterly Hysterical – Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
You have just three more days to catch White Heron Theatre’s production of the “deliriously funny” Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Tony Award winner Martin Platt. Performed in The Dreamland Theatre, the play is a masterful, utterly hilarious comedy about grown siblings and the complications of […]
A Family Affair You Won’t Soon Forget – Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
~ by Rebecca Nimerfroh ~ Whether you are an only child, or have never heard of Anton Chekhov, you will still love the hilariously funny Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, a tale of three grown siblings struggling over their life trajectories (or lack thereof), echoing the late Russian […]
Theatre Review: Gin Game Deals a Winning Hand
• by Rebecca Nimerfroh • More than just a metaphor on how we play the hand of cards we are dealt in the game of life, “The Gin Game,” D.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play produced by the White Heron Theatre Company paints a picture of two dynamic characters in the […]
White Heron Theatre Dream Coming True
-by Ira Kantor- White Heron Theatre’s dream of establishing the first Equity theatre on the island of Nantucket began with a large tent planted on North Water Street. The tent, which reached dimensions of 30 feet by 50 feet, had a capacity to seat 75 and remained up from mid-May […]
Strange Fiction-The Vandal
• by Sarah Teach • Hamish Linklater—perhaps best known for his role alongside Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the CBS series The New Adventures of Old Christine—makes his playwriting debut with The Vandal, a dark comedy that launched at the Off-Off-Broadway Flea Theater in January 2013. Now playing at Nantucket’s White Heron […]
Last Chance to See New A.R.Gurney Play on Nantucket
Son and mother Nick (Max Roll) and Claire (LeeAnne Hutchinson) interact in A. R. Gurney’s new play, Family Furniture. White Heron Theatre Company’s final showing of Family Furniture will be Friday, August 29 at 7:30 p.m. The theater, located under the tent at 5 North Water Street, presents multiple plays […]
A Feel-Good Family Comedy
• by Sarah Teach • At the heart of any great play is quality storytelling, and Tom Dudzick’s Miracle on South Division Street delivers. In choosing to show this play alongside A. R. Gurney’s Family Furniture, White Heron Theatre Company juxtaposes the lower-middle class normalcy of Dudzick with the well-heeled […]
“Opera Laughing” One Night Only
Fresh from New York City come four great singers, one excellent pianist, and an effervescent MC who is ready to explain it all in this special one-night only performance of Opera Laughing. This 70-minute review, takes place on Monday night August 4 at 7:30 p.m., sandwiched in between White Heron’s […]