Phyllis Vecchia will be teaching a women in history theatre education program for the Charter School and Tisbury School.
The program has been initially funded by Mal Jones and supported by Francie Desmone of West Tisbury. Funding was obtained by Sheila Bracy, the former executive director of Women Empowered.
Stories are inevitably going to be told when the energy of a folk artist and the writings of a prewar author become entangled. Suzanne Vega is known for telling stories of life’s struggles and rewards through her music, but for the first time, Ms. Vega will be marrying both text and song to tell the stories of the life and works of Carson McCullers. The musical-theatre piece Carson Talks About Love will be performed by Ms. Vega, a guitarist and pianist, at the Yard in Chilmark this weekend.
This weekend the students from the Oak Bluffs School will be proving that yes, the sun does come out tomorrow. Metaphorically, at least, given the state of the weather on the Island these days.
It’s Annie we’re talking about, the story of the irrepressible young girl who won’t let anything get her down — not the Depression, the orphanage, Miss Hannigan, Lily St. Regis nor a perpetually gray November on the Vineyard.
“Astonish me!” Sergei Diaghilev famously demanded of the poet Jean Cocteau; this past week and the next at the Vineyard Playhouse — until Sept. 16 — the theatre does exactly that. From the moment the audience arrives and is ushered not to the theatre but to tables and chairs downstairs in a pub setting or, as the trio of actors all iterate, “a lounge bar, really,” the astonishment begins.
We’re waiting to see just what we are waiting for. Confused? So are the students in the high school’s fall production of Waiting for Godot, but the program note from opening night on Thursday is an example of what the students have come to embrace in what they all agree is the most challenging play they’ve ever performed.
Island Theatre Workshop will host its annual meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 13 at 7 p.m. at its new location in West Tisbury on Music street (in the old West Tisbury library building). The meeting is open to the public; a meeting of the newly elected board of directors will follow.
Island Theatre Workshop announces classes for children and adults starting Monday, June 1, at their new home on Music street in West Tisbury. For details, 508-693-2769.
James Joyce once declared that if Dublin were ever destroyed, it could be wholly reconstructed from the text of his famously impenetrable opus, Ulysses. On Wednesday night, or Bloomsday night rather, the Dublin of Joyce was thus faithfully restored in Vineyard Haven.
Island Theatre Workshop’s Children’s Theatre summer program opens for the season on Monday, June 28, at the Sailing Camp Park on the Lagoon in Oak Bluffs. There will be four two-week sessions for ages 6 to 18 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Nurturing self-expression with immersion in voice, movement and acting training in a unique and supportive environment, students rehearse and perform an original play at the end of each session, with the support and guidance of experienced staff.
