Theatre

Creative Cast Helps Bring Shakespeare to the Masses

Aliyah Walker |

Shakespeare for the Masses is typically an off-season, indoor production. This summer, however, the troupe of intrepid actors and Shakespeare experts have taken their show outside and on the road.

In collaboration with the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, the show is performed at the Tisbury Amphitheatre on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. It also pops up at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, Featherstone Center for the Arts and the Vineyard Drive-In.

But despite the venue shifts, the core message from 13 seasons remains the same: “Quick & Painless & Free!”

 

 

 

Oak Bluffs School Presents the Little Mermaid

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.
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Ugly Duckling Takes the Stage

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).
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Stage Show Finds Bright Side of Betrayal

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.’”

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Fourth Grade IMP

Tonight, Nov. 9, the Tisbury fourth graders along with IMP will perform two musical fairy tales — Bears Beware! Goldilocks is in your town! and Waking Sleeping Beauty —

a fairy’s tale.

During the last six weeks the fourth graders worked together to create the scenery, props, musical numbers, set changes, costumes, sound equipment and acting.

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King John Wants Your Theatrical Vote

Mitt and Barack, please step away from the podium. This weekend the Vineyard stage belongs to another power struggle, one that due to its historical significance easily trumps the contemporary ways of man. King John is coming to the Katharine Cornell Theatre.

It is the first show of the season for Shakespeare for the Masses, a theatre troupe that condenses the master’s plays to a running time of one hour. The concise telling usually results in more humorous tales.

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Funny Bone Anchors Stories of the Heart

Bill Eville

On Sunday, Oct. 28, Ann Randolph will perform her one-woman show Loveland at the Katharine Cornell Theatre. The show, like all her shows, is based on real life.

“The tale came out of traveling back and forth from Loveland, Ohio to Los Angeles,” Ms. Randolph said. “My dad was dying and my mother had a stroke and then took up drinking for the first time in her life.”

If this sounds like subject matter one usually runs in the opposite direction from, consider this.

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