Theatre

IMP Camp Arrives

The Vineyard’s teen improvisational group the IMPers is inviting children and teens ages 6 to 18 to the IMP All Things Theater camp. The sessions are...

12:58 pm, May 30, 2013
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Island Theatre Workshop and Vineyard Playhouse Auditions Begin

Calling all Island thespians: it’s audition weekend and time to strut your inner scarecrow, mad monkey or one of Shakespeare’s finest. The Island...

1:16 pm, May 16, 2013
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Island Theatre Workshop

The Island Theatre Workshop is headed to Pooh Corner. Well, Pooh Bear himself won’t be the main attraction but A. A. Milne is the man of the weekend...

1:07 pm, May 2, 2013
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Playhouse Fundraiser

Last year the Vineyard Playhouse began an ambitious capital campaign to refurbish the theatre in Vineyard Haven. Because of construction the house...

12:59 pm, April 25, 2013
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IMProvising Their Way to the Top

IMP has returned from two sold out shows at the Chicago Improv Festival and is showcasing their show this weekend back on the Vineyard. The troupe...

12:00 pm, April 25, 2013
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Charter School Play Opens This Weekend

This weekend a group of villains, heroes, lovers and a crooked lawyer are taking over the Grange Hall in West Tisbury. No, this is not the opening...

1:09 pm, April 4, 2013
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IMP Troupe is Bound for Windy City

Ivy Ashe

During last Thursday’s IMP rehearsal, there was some hesitation about Hansel. The game was called “Happily Ever After . . . Or Not,” and the improv...

12:14 pm, March 28, 2013
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All Hail IMP Troupe

IMP is headed to Chicago. The Island improv troupe has just been named an official selection of the 2013 Chicago Improv Festival. The festival is one...

12:36 pm, March 7, 2013
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Betrayed is Back

Prepare to be Betrayed, this time in Edgartown. The one-woman show starring Louise DuArt which premiered to a standing-room-only crowd earlier this...

12:27 pm, March 7, 2013
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Black Summer Theatre's History Retold

Olive Tomlinson (as told to Linsey Lee)

Editor’s Note: Olive Tomlinson spoke with Linsey Lee, oral history curator for the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, about her recollections of Liz White’s...

5:11 pm, February 28, 2013
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Vineyard Playwright Brings 'Mom' Musical to New York Stage

Elizabeth Bennett

"My Mom is trying to ruin my life!” The phrase has been uttered, screamed and moaned countless times through the ages. And now it’s being sung from...