Bid for a bachelor to be your date, complete with manners and trade certificate, providing services in carpentry, air conditioning, landscaping and even music, at the Men in Kilts fundraiser at Mediterranean Restaurant in Oak Bluffs on Thursday, June 24.
With food, cash bar (it’s an over-21 event) and the rocking southern bluegrass music of Christopher Robin, this event is raising funds to send the high school drama troupe to Scotland to perform at the Festival Fringe in August.
It started as a sort of experiment, an off-season diversion for theatre enthusiasts interested in staging Shakespeare’s more serious works, the ones that are often skipped over in favor of his lighter comedy fare during the carefree summer months. In the fall of 2007, Nicole Galland teamed up with Chelsea McCarthy to tackle some of the great Shakespearean tragedies and spin their stories into something accessible for all.
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.
Island theatre arts educator Phyllis Vecchia is offering a Thursday afternoon spring creative drama workshop from May 6 through June 10. Designed for children ages four-and-a-half to nine, classes will be held from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. in the home economics room of the Oak Bluffs School. Each week, in addition to theatre exercises, costuming and character games, young thespians will reenact a new folk or fairy tale. No acting experience is necessary.
Spellcheck is for wussies. Plus it’s boring. A right answer every time. Where’s the drama in that? How about backing away from the keyboard and heading to where the real action is, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Starting July 22 and continuing through August 8, this Tony Award winning musical will be moving into the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven, courtesy of the Island Theatre Workshop.
