Film
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.
On Monday, July 25, Noam Chomsky will speak at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs at the screening of the documentary about his life, Requiem for the American Dream.
Media Voices for Children will present their new film, The Same Heart, which screens on Sunday, July 24, at the Strand Theatre in Oak Bluffs.
Alexandra London-Thompson returned to the Tisbury Amphitheatre this summer as the director of Much Ado About Nothing, which had its premiere last Thursday evening. Ten years ago she starred alongside her husband in the same play, the last time the MV Playhouse produced the show.
As a sunset faded over Menemsha, a crowd of beachgoers settled into the sand for short films about the local shellfishing industry and the perils of overdevelopment on the Cape and Islands.
Union Chapel was packed for Henry Louis (Skip) Gates Jr.'s film about African Americans over the past five decades. His talk later was part college lecture, part humorous observation, part nostalgic Vineyard experience.