The one thing you are guaranteed with anything that Built on Stilts director Abby Bender cooks up is the unexpected. This year’s fall offering is “Granger Things,” an immersive theater and dance experience where, as the promotional material says, “Worlds collide, and legends remain uncertain.” The undertaking is an intricate collaboration with Circuit Arts’ theater […]
Students at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School were hard at work rehearsing last week for this week’s production of “Chicago.” The musical features lots of singing and dancing, and this year, will offer two alternating casts for the four performances. Musical director Abigail Chandler explains why she and director Brooke Ditchfield selected the hit show: […]
Slough Farm in Edgartown was created as a nonprofit educational farm and gathering space in 2017. The majority of the food raised and grown on the farm goes to Island Grown Initiative (IGI), and to support food equity programs on the Island. It also donates a large amount of its meat and produce to Island […]
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget the way you made them feel.” –Maya Angelou, poet and author The Steamship Authority has announced that all Islanders will travel for free on all ferries from now on. This change will begin on April […]
An epic theater production, by definition, should include elements of love, tragedy, passion, and persistence, and should lift the audience from the role of passive spectator and place them directly in the middle of the action. “Les Misérables,” originally presented to the world in the form of a historical novel written by Victor Hugo in […]