Sometimes, one summer job can open the door to a lifelong career. For Claudia Weill—groundbreaking director of the 1978 feature film Girlfriends—the opportunity came halfway through her...

Quartet San Francisco’s July 15 concert at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown was resounding proof that classical music is not what it used to be — it’s better and more accessible...

“Camp Jabberwocky Presents: Wock of Ages,” read the program cover for the camp’s action-packed tribute to Rock of Ages, the Broadway musical adapted for the movies in 2012. With a...

Steve Earle—singer/songwriter, bandleader, actor, author and activist—brought his band the Dukes to Edgartown last week for a powerful two-hour performance that had the audience on its...

For the past two seasons, tragedy has ruled the stage in the summer Shakespeare productions at the Tisbury Amphitheatre. But after last year’s acclaimed Hamlet and a powerful, all-female Julius...

Galleries along Dukes County avenue in Oak Bluffs offered food, drink and a look at the work of close to 30 artists during the season’s first Arts District Stroll Saturday afternoon. A mix of...

Jonathan Richman influenced both punk rock and new wave music with his groundbreaking 1976 album The Modern Lovers, nine original tracks filled with chugging beats, seething guitar sounds and lyrics...

Following a concentrated blast of movies, music and conversation over a single weekend in March, the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival is stretching out this summer with three to four events a...

When pianist David Crohan moved to Florida in 2003, he brought with him a musical tradition that had delighted audiences at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs for more than a quarter of a century. “...

In 1921, Sidney Joseph Perelman couldn’t wait to get out of Providence, the city Howard Phillips Lovecraft never wanted to leave. The two young men couldn’t have been more different: Sid...