Arts & Entertainment
The Oak Bluffs School is going to the sea for its annual fall musical with a production of The Little Mermaid. Showtimes are tonight, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 18 at 2 p.m., all at the Oak Bluffs School.
At 5:30 in the morning on a recent Saturday, Yann Meersseman parked his minivan outside of the Steamship Authority building in Vineyard Haven and dropped a few tokens into the yellow Boston Herald display box. He pulled open the box and changed the front copy of the Herald, placing a short stack of newspapers inside the box as he did so.
Honk is a particular sort of theatrical mash-up that combines a contemporary retelling of Hans Christian Anderson’s The Ugly Duckling with a score that leans heavily to Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat. The show first premiered in London and in 2000 won an Olivier Award for Best New Musical (the British equivalent of the Tony award).
Louise DuArt is known as a comedian. Which is why her latest one-woman show, a thinly veiled version of real life events here on Martha’s Vineyard, is so remarkable. Who else could make comedy out of being the victim of a con artist?
“It was SQuire’s idea,” she said, referring to her husband SQuire Rushnell. “He said, ‘put your fingers to the keyboard and see what comes out.’”
Vineyard Haven photographer Louisa Gould has traveled to over 100 countries and territories and she is bringing them all home to the Vineyard. On Sunday, Nov. 18, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Vineyard Haven Public Library, she will give a presentation of her photography. Some of the countries featured include Antartica, Burma, Cambodia, Morocco, Bali, India, Fiji, Vietnam, Spain, New Zealand, Egypt and Cuba.
On Sunday, Nov. 18 from 4 to 5 p.m., the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore in Vineyard Haven will host the West Tisbury Library’s semi-annual community poetry reading. This event features community members reading their own poems and/or the poems of others.
