Theater

For the last two years Boston's Actor's Shakespeare Project has been voted Best Theater Company by the Boston Phoenix.

On one hand, it is not really about the 1977 Academy Award-winning mega-hit movie "Annie Hall.

Those precocious kids we love to hate are played for laughs as they reveal an arsenal of emotional damage in Island Theatre Workshop's (ITW) production of the musical "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

Moments before the proverbial curtain was to rise on this year's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," something seemed amiss.

A very talented band of troubadours has landed on Martha's Vineyard briefly to stage an original outdoor show before heading on to New York City's Fringe Festival.

The Vineyard Playhouse and Artistic Director MJ Bruder Munafo present "The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall" from July 22 to August 7, the New England premiere of a new comedy by Sam Forman, directed by Johanna McKeon.

"Welcome to our island," said actor Liz Hartford.

It is the music of a gritty, unconventional, poignant, funny, and successful life story sung with a foot-stomping Arkansas twang that will bring audiences to their feet.

This weekend, Amy Brenneman, of television and movie fame, and longtime collaborator Sabrina Peck, will present an original work, "Mouth Wide Open," based on writings of Ms.

Contrary to polished and rehearsed performances that many people go to the theater for, the upcoming theatre festival, New Writers, New Plays, gives the audience power to shape the works that they will see this Thursday through Saturday.

Attorney, college professor, and Edgartown summer resident for the last 25 years, Dennis C.

On Wednesday last week, this year's edition of Arts & Society's Bloomsday celebration at the Katharine Cornell Theatre was a delightful 90 minutes of Irish music, history, whimsy, laughter, and serious dramatic renderings of the words of the exuberant, sensual, brilliant, and sometimes-difficult-to-understand Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941).

On Thursday, June 3, Martha's Vineyard Regional High School graduate Allison Carr, formerly of West Tisbury, performed her original play "H.

If the humor, pacing, and performances that shone during rehearsal this past Saturday are any indication, you would do well to beg, borrow, or bring a child of your own to Vineyard Playhouse this weekend.

The medieval morality play "The Summoning of Everyman" is uniquely suited to its venue, St.

Students in grades five through eight performed in the West Tisbury School's production "Once on This Island, Jr.

For every season there is a play, and right after New Year's, it's time for "Twelfth Night." Cue Shakespeare for the Masses: Quick and Painless and Free, the irreverent, witty, script-in-hand performance troupe. MJ...