Borough Bard Slams at The Yard
Tony award-winning Def Jam poet Lemon Andersen brings his one-man spoken-word show, Excerpts from County of Kings: The Beautiful Struggle, to the intimate barn theatre at the Yard, July 10 and 11. It’s a jarring and poignant coming-of-age stage memoir that flows from hard-edged drama to urban poetry, creating a vivid portrait of growing up in New York city during the birth of hip-hop.
The New England Choreographers Project brings together two artists for one show on Sunday at 7 p.m. at the Yard in Chilmark: the theatrical, idiosyncratic and profoundly musical Lise Brody and Nicole Pierce.
Ms. Pierce brings her multi-media dance/theatre company EgoArt to share her ongoing exploration of Mozart’s Requiem, and performs her solo, Bunny, to electronic music. Lise Brody frolics through the Inquisition in Dances About Witches and mines the intricate music of Peter Schickele with her intergenerational dance company, Screech to a Stop.
The musical Summer of ’42 will open Thursday, July 16, at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven.
Based on the novel and screenplay by Herman Raucher, the story takes place on a small island in New England in the infamous summer of 1942. America is at war, and 15-year-old Hermie and his buddies experience hilarious adolescent adventures in a summer they’ll never forget. Along the way Hermie learns about life, love and the scope of human compassion.
As he sits for an interview in the kitchen of his mother’s Oak Bluffs cottage, Paul Padua seamlessly breaks into and out of character — not just one, but many of the roles he’s played over the years as a member of the Vineyard Playhouse performance group the Fabulists.
Island Theatre Workshop presents PigPen Theatre’s latest show, The Old Man and the Old Moon, for a limited engagement at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Sunday and Monday, July 5 and 6 at 8 p.m. The Old Man and the Old Moon is a tale of an old man who must abandon his duties of refilling the moon every month, to cross the seas in search of his missing wife. The show runs just under one hour and is appropriate for all ages, both children and adults. Tickets are $10, available at the door.
IMP All Things Theatre Camp will start its sixth year on Monday, July 6. The camp is part of a year-round theatre program where kids ages six to 18 are given the opportunity to explore theatre. Held at the Edgartown School, IMP camp is about choice. Children are given the opportunity to choose their path as they explore all types of theatre. They can choose full or half-day options, one-week or two-week sessions and different types of theatre. A theme encompasses the work of each IMP camp session.