Fed up with the punditocracy doing the yellathon thing day after day? Tired of watching fellow humans go frothy with the rightousness of their own ego? Whatever happened to the color gray, anyway? Or humor?
Well, this Saturday the air is being taken out of the gasbags — all of them, be they Democrat or Republican.
In 1992 David Sedaris was simply David Sedaris, just another nobody cleaning apartments for a living. Sure, he was most likely the funniest dude out there swabbing strangers’ toilets, but who knew?
Then he took a job playing an elf at Macy’s for the holiday season. It did not go well. The job that is. Sedaris’s career is another story.
For two nights only, Opera Noire of New York comes to Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs with two separate but equally spectacular programs: tonight, August 17, A Gala Performance of Opera’s Greatest Hits begins at 8 p.m. Then on Thursday, August 19, From The Underground Railroad to the
The Edgartown School presents the classic musical comedy Once Upon a Mattress. The play was originally created at a summer camp and opened on Broadway in 1959. It featured the debut of a talented young lady named Carol Burnett.
The cast includes over 25 Edgartown School students in grades six through eight, with stage direction by Donna Swift, musical direction by Beth Carr, stage management by Mariah Mac-Kenzie, sets by Alison Carr and sound by William Fligor and Peter Sawyer,
Improv is fun to perform. It’s fun to watch. But improv is not so groovy when looking for a space to strut your stuff. Let’s face it, comedy is tough enough without doing it in the dirt.
So it’s good news that Imp, the Island’s top-notch youth improv troupe, has a new home. It’s at the Space, the new exercise and perfoming arts center taking root at the Triangle in Edgartown across from the post office. The Space includes a 70-seat black box theater and this Friday, Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. Imp will be holding court at their new digs.
We sat in a circle trying to make each other laugh. The tent at the Yard in Chilmark provided a writers’ den for the 11 fledgling or developed comedy writers who signed up to take Anne Beatts’s comedy workshop last week.
Will Queen Aggravain meet her match? Will Prince Dauntless the Drab learn how to lighten up? Will King Sextimus the Silent raise his still small voice. And how about Sir Studley? How does his dudeness fit into this mess?
All this and more will be played out in real time this weekend as the Edgartown School puts on the classic musical comedy, Once Upon a Mattress.
What’s a body to do between Christmas and New Year’s? How about visiting Renaissance Vienna and a time when sexual debauchery rolled common as Vineyard winter potlucks.
New York political comedian Scott Blakeman presents A Liberal Dose of Political Humor, bringing his political humor from a liberal Jewish point of view to the Grange Hall in West Tisbury, on Saturday, August 28 at 8 p.m.
Years from now. when they go Hollywood and won’t return your calls you’ll be able to say, yeah, well I saw them back in the day when they were still green in the green room. That’s if you head out this week and next to the Vineyard Playhouse’s annual fourth grade theatre project.
