The Featherstone Center for the Arts holiday gift show has been an annual tradition for the past 23 years. This year it includes handmade gifts from over 100 local artists.

Two year-round arts nonprofits will be combining forces in the new year, forming a creative coalition that encompasses theatre, film, literary and arts education. The Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse and Circuit Arts announced this week that they plan to merge in 2026.

The Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse and Circuit Arts issued statements Monday morning saying the organizations will soon come together as one entity.

The History of Sound comes to the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center this weekend, a movie adaptation of a book of short stories written by Ben Shattuck.

Longtime Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse artistic and executive director MJ Bruder Munafo announced this week that she will retire at the end of December after more than 40 years with the nonprofit theatre, with 30 of them in the top job.

My aunt in her heyday / Scanned the skies / For signs of alien life, / Her skeptical husband bemused.