The Yard serves up everything from hip-hop to ballet to traditional Indian dance this...
The Yard, the Island's dance residency and performance facility, recently announced the lineup for its summer season. As always, it's an impressive roster of contemporary dance groups and individuals who represent some of the...
Ugandan for a day
“Today we are going to have some fun to the maximum,” said Godfrey Muwulya as an introduction to his program at the Oak Bluffs library last Thursday. It was the first of a number...
The Yard's season's offerings
The Yard, the Island's dance residency and performance facility, recently announced the lineup for its summer season. As always, it's an impressive roster of contemporary dance groups and individuals who represent some of the...
An April Fool’s not-foolin’ dance at the Artist Studio in Edgartown
What could be cooler than to have a cathedral-size dance studio on your own property? Especially if you’ve been passionate about dance your whole life? This is the lucky fate of Sally Cohn, dancer,...
Peter Luce Play Readers bring on the belly laughs
For the past 22 years, a group named the Peter H. Luce Play Readers has been meeting every Wednesday morning at the Tisbury Council on Aging for one purpose: to read and discuss plays....
Pathways ‘We Dance’ series gets bodies in motion
There's always something new at Pathways at the Chilmark Tavern. The arts incubator and performance space hosts a range of artistic endeavors, including a weekly poetry and prose series and regular music and video...
Year in Review: Performance
So much to do, so little time. Every year performers of all sorts visit the Vineyard from New York, Boston, and all over. Unfortunately, most arrive in the short span of two months that...
Exploring Rasa Sol dance class with Christina Montoya
This past Tuesday night, I found myself in a room with a handful of women stomping our feet, rolling our hips, and twirling our arms to Prince’s “Erotic City.” Islander Christina Montoya, a dance...
Friendships, collaborations, and new paths are forged through internships at the Yard
The Yard, Chilmark’s nonprofit contemporary artist residency and dance performance center, began its official internship program in 2011. Summer interns submit applications in a highly competitive nationwide search beginning each fall. Applicants do not...
“The Second Girl” is the final play of the season at Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse
There’s probably no theatergoer alive who hasn’t seen at least one production of Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece, “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” an autobiographical portrait of the playwright’s own family, set in pre-World War I...
Artists rise together through Yard events
A.R.T. on the Vine (Artists Rising Together on the Vineyard) is a celebration of an Island community of creators and performers who have found their way up-Island to the rustic stage and acoustical surround...
Patti Lupone sings the swan song for the Broadway Concert Series season
Broadway legend Patti Lupone will close out Martha’s Vineyard’s inaugural Broadway @ concert series this Friday, September 2.
The Vineyard shows are an extension of the popular nationwide Broadway @ series which founder Mark Cortale...
Dance theater gets big at the Yard
The Yard is preparing to wrap up its summer season, with only a handful of events scheduled through the end of August and into September.
Big Dance Theater, a Bessie, Obie, and Jacob’s Pillow Dance...
Rosie’s Theater Kids bring song and dance to Edgartown students
Rosie’s Theater Kids, a nationally recognized arts education organization co-founded by Rosie O’Donnell and Lori Klinger, has come to Martha’s Vineyard for a summer residency at Vineyard Arts Project.
The group is working in conjunction...
Tony Award-Winning Play ‘RED’ hits the Vineyard Playhouse
In “RED,” the newest play at the Vineyard Playhouse, the boss man meets the young intern, and we instantly know this will be the job from hell. But not just any job from hell....
Built on Stilts dances into its 20th year
Built on Stilts, the lively community dance festival which takes place annually at Oak Bluff’s Union Chapel, is celebrating 20 years this August. Dance events take place from August 11 through 14, and August...
Broadway series continues with Kristin Chenoweth and Audra McDonald
Along with the grand finale excitement of August, a new series of events is adding some bang and a burst of color to the Island's climactic summer month. Two of Broadway's biggest stars will...
The sun’ll come out Saturday at the Tabernacle
The Tabernacle Summer Theater presents a one-night-only performance of “Annie Jr.,” an approximately 60-minute version of the popular Broadway show “Annie,” on Saturday, August 13, at 7:30 pm. The script and music are adapted...
Island Theater Workshop invites you to ‘Be Our Guest’ at ‘Beauty and the Beast’
Cutlery comes alive in Island Theatre Workshop’s (ITW) rendition of “Beauty and the Beast.” “People are dressed as giant five-foot plates, forks, and knives. We have two seven- or eight-foot-tall whisks,” director Kevin Ryan...
War letters humanize history on the Performing Arts Center stage
Updated June 30, 10:30 am.
In a world of social media, emails, and text messaging, Andrew Carroll is one of the few who still seek out good old-fashioned letters. War letters to be exact, and...