“The Outcasts of Penikese Island” at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse through August 26, is about rejecting those who are different. In the play, the outcasts are those people in the early 20th century in Massachusetts with Hansen’s disease, then referred to as leprosy, and their forced isolation in a hospital on Penikese, a 75-acre island […]
Heard on Main Street: Save the whales. Collect the whole set. Kids especially will appreciate a family-friendly concert with Brooklyn’s “kindie” rock band Rolie Polie Guacamole, at 3 pm on Tuesday, August 22, at the bandstand in Owen Park. This high-energy, interactive show is a mix of funk, rock, and folk music mashed into original […]
The court of the St. James Theatre has assembled! The Tony Award-winning Best Musical comedy Monty Python’s SPAMALOT has just announced its cast and we have the full list!
Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, the Island’s renowned professional nonprofit theater, has historic roots. The white clapboard building was erected in 1833 and used for many purposes, including a public meeting hall, a venue for weddings and community meals, and up until 1845, a Methodist Meeting House. In 1982, Eileen Wilson and Isabella McKamy purchased it […]
If you opened the Boston Globe on any given day around 1980, you were likely to be greeted by a Jordan Marsh ad depicting a stylishly dressed and elegantly drawn figure. That was undoubtedly the artwork of Lane Gregory, who passed away peacefully in her home in Oak Bluffs on June 17, 2023. Lane grew […]