2017

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks was on the founding fathers beat long before Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Vineyard Arts Project celebrates its 10 anniversary this summer. The summer season begins this weekend with a pair of shows at the Upper Main street campus in Edgartown.

2016

A Somali-Canadian rapper whose best-known song has racked up more than 50 million online-video views (so far) is in Edgartown this week to develop his first musical for the stage, commissioned by New York’s Public Theater.

Performing artists come to the Vineyard to refresh themselves creatively and develop new work, and Island audiences see exciting performances in return: new plays, musicals and even ice-skating dancers from Canada.

James Lapine is working. He looks as relaxed as any other summer resident, bicycling around Edgartown in shorts and T-shirt, but this is no vacation for the Pulitzer, Tony and Peabody award-winning dramatist, theatre director and filmmaker.

2014

Four years ago, Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews traveled to Martha’s Vineyard to participate in Vineyard Arts Project’s first annual New Writers New Plays festival.

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