Arts & Entertainment
From the Page to the Stage, the Pick of the Crop
Three original plays, penned by Islanders Taffy McCarthy, John Ortman and Peter Palches, will move from the page to the stage for two weekends in a row at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven in an Island Theatre Workshop presentation called Pick of the Crop.
Longtime Island Theatre Workshop artistic director Lee Fierro directs Peter Palches’ Sam Meets Maria, or Still Here, which features Island actors Niki Patton and George Ricci.
Local Art in Boston
Edgartown artist Deborah T. Colter has two large-scale original paintings and a series of four works on paper with the developers of Post 390, an upscale Back Bay comfort food restaurant opening this month near the corner of Stuart and Clarendon streets. Post 390 is the latest project from the owners of Harvest in Cambridge and Boston’s Grill 23.
Movie Night
Art Exhibit
West Tisbury artist Leslie Baker is exhibiting her large landscapes and plein air studies in oil throughout the month of October at the Chilmark Library.
One of the paintings displayed, titled Trying to Remember, recently won a jurors award at the Copley Society’s Summer Members’ Show in Boston.
This Friday, Oct. 2, the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society presents The Headless Woman at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven at 7:30 p.m. The Spanish-language film from Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel tells the story of a bourgeois woman (played by Maria Onetto) who accidentally runs over something while driving on a remote dirt road. In the days following the incident, she becomes dazed and emotionally disconnected from the people and events in her life, obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone.
Susan Davy, co-owner of the Dragonfly Gallery in Oak Bluffs, recently presented a $500 check to Guinevere Cramer of Island Affordable Housing Trust. Island plein air artists donated a portion of the proceeds from sales during the gallery’s recent show, September Light on the Vineyard, which was matched by the gallery.
