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Please note: Spelling Bee and Blackbird are selling out nightly. We strongly recommend you purchase tickets online to guarantee your seat! The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Blackbird July 16 - 31 July 14 - Aug 1 Susan Burns' Storytelling I Will be Good - Tricia Rose Burt August 2, 17th and 23rd August 16th
Veronica's Room A Cheever Evening August 11 - 28 September 8 - 25 Nantucket Improv Susan Burns Every Sunday Night Comedy Extravaganza June - October August 30 - 31
I love a Piano Peter Pan October 1,2,7,8,9 November 19 - December 5
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Introducing our 2010 Season Passes
The Season Pass - $150 - entrance to all 8 shows The Gold Pass - $300 - all 8 shows and all 8 opening night parties The Summer Season Pass - $125 - entrance to 6 out of 8 shows Season passes must be purchased through the box office (508-228-4305) Once you have your pass, simply call the box office and reserve your seat. (A pass does not guarantee a seat so please call ahead!) |
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin July 14 - 31 Wednesday - Saturday Evenings at 5:00 PM with a Sunday matinee on July 25th at 2:00 PM (note time change) Also: Added performance Tuesday July 27 at 7:00 PM!! Buy Tickets $25 show only $35/$50 Opening Night Party + show Sunday matinees are free to Island Seniors and Students thanks to a grant from the Tupancy-Harris Foundation Opening Night Party Even Keel Cafe Patio 3:30 PM July 14th hors d' oeuvres, wine, signature kids drink, face painting $50 adults/ $35 kids includes the show of course.
About the show: Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who have barely escaped childhood themselves, learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser.
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Blackbird by David Harrower July 16 ~ July 31 at 8:30 PM Added performance Sunday August 1 at 5:00 PM Wednesday ~ Saturday Evenings Opening Night Party + Show: $50 Sunday matinees are free to Island Seniors and Students thanks to a grant from the Tupancy-Harris Foundation Opening Night Party Friday July 16th at 7:00 PM Please join Mark and Joyce Goldweitz at the Levi Starbuck House, 14 Orange Street for the Opening Night of Blackbird starring John Shea and Gabrielle Gould~ Champagne, hors d' oeuvres in one of the most beautiful homes on Nantucket. $50 THE STORY: Blackbird was commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival, where it received its world premiere. In it a young woman confronts the man who had seduced her fifteen years earlier. After years in prison and subsequent hardships, Ray, now 56, has a new identity. Ray has made a new life for himself, but Una, now twenty-seven, has thought of nothing else than pursuing the truth of what happened to her fifteen years before. This powerful play brings the audience directly into the questions it raises about the past, the present, and the future of the two people confronting each other before us. It is a story you will not forget. "The gifted David Harrower's intense Blackbird promises to be the most powerful drama of the season…masterly, mesmerizing…extraordinary…a miracle" —NY Times. "Four stars! This haunting, powerful, incendiary work is the sort of daring theater far too absent from our stages these days" —NY Post. Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service |
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"What I did for Love" A night of storytelling Monday August 2 & 23 & Tuesday August 17 Join Susan Burns as she hosts storytellers Maggie Conroy, Molly Martin and Susan McGinnis. Bring your own 10 minute story to tell and win a prize for best story! "Tell me a story." "Take me away." Don't we all love to hear "Then |
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Veronica's Room by Ira Levin August 11~ August 28 Wednesday ~ Saturday Evenings with a Sunday matinee on Aug. 22 Buy Tickets $25 show only Opening Night Party and Show $50 Sunday matinees are free to Island Seniors and Students thanks to a grant from the Tupancy-Harris Foundation Opening Night Party 7 PM Wednesday August 11th at the home of Nina and Bob Hellman, 4 Gay Street Cocktails and hors d'eouvres $50 for the party and the show, 8:30 curtain. The Story: This chilling mystery thriller by the author of Rosemary's Baby explores the thin line between fantasy, reality, madness and murder. Susan and Larry, two students, are enticed as guests to the Brabissant mansion by its dissolute caretakers, the lonely Mackeys. Struck by Susan's resemblance to Veronica Brabissant, long-dead daughter of the family for whom they work, the older couple induces her to impersonate Veronica. The ostensible purpose is to solace the only living Brabissant, Veronica’s addled sister who believes Veronica still alive. But once dressed in Veronica's clothes, Susan finds herself both locked in the role and in Veronica's room. Or is she Veronica in 1935 pretending to be an imaginary Susan? "Like being trapped in someone else's nightmare...jarring and (with a) surprising climax...a neat, elegant thriller"--Village Voice. Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. |
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I Will Be Good Written and Performed
by Monday, Sept. 20 at 8:00 PM In this humorous, autobiographical one-woman show, visual and performance artist Tricia Rose Burt chronicles her unexpected journey from businesswoman raised in the South to contemporary artist living in New England. Using captivating snapshots from her youth and adulthood, she explores family upbringing, women’s roles, the creative process, vocation, and the struggle to lead a life freed from other people’s expectations.
Highlights of the show include a PowerPoint presentation detailing the “shoulds” of her upbringing (e.g., I should keep my place, I should defer to my husband, I should not show signs of aging), her teenage fantasy to be Bette Midler, a choreographed number as a high school “Dancero,” and the agony -- and ultimate liberation -- of her first drawing class. Throughout the show, Burt comically – and sometimes poignantly -- documents her battle to lead an authentic creative life while under enormous pressure to conform.
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by A.R. Gurney Based on the stories of John Cheever September 8 ~ September 25 Wednesday ~ Saturday Evenings with a Sunday matinee on Sept. 19 Buy Tickets $25 Sunday matinees are free to Island Seniors and Students thanks to a grant from the Tupancy-Harris Foundation THE STORY: John Cheever, master chronicler of America's post-war angst and alienation left a storehouse of dramatic possibilities in his fiction. In A Cheever Evening, A.R. Gurney brings them to life, adapting some of Cheever's funniest and most moving stories to the stage. Seen through the lens of Gurney's dramatic sensibility, Cheever's stories of a fragmented and lonely universe combine into a whole and resonant portrait of a culture that combats loss with humor, wit, and feeling. "Exhilarating! A first rate theatrical piece”-- NY Times "Three cheers for A Cheever Evening! Diverting and marvelously entertaining! Gloriously funny!" —N.Y Post. "A marvelous play that captures the wry humor and the underlying melancholy of the author to whom it pays tribute"-- NY Daily News. Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service |
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I Love A Piano A Musical Review Directed by Barbara Elder October 1,2,7,8,9 Adults $20, Children $15 (12 and under) Sunday matinees are free to Island Seniors and Students thanks to a grant from the Tupancy-Harris Foundation |
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Sunday Nights at 8:30 PM June 27 - October 10 Come treat yourselves to an evening of laughter and fun and see Nantucket's Comedy Improv Troupe as they pull off spontaneous games and skits similar to what you may see on TV's "Whose Line Is it Anyway". The show is interactive, but not meant to pull you up on stage against your will. This show is appropriate for all ages and although it may start out as being that thing to entertain the kids, you will leave happy you came. |
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August 30 - 31 8:30 PM An island tradition! Susan Burns's Comedy Extravaganza with MC Scott Blakeman (Political comedian. Liberal pundit. Talk show host. Nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn), special guest Jane Condon ("the uppercrust Roseanne") and more to come... |
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Performance Dates November 19 ~ December 5Bennett Hall - 62 Centre StreetFriday, Saturday & Sunday Evenings at 5PMWith additional performances Friday Nov 25 & Dec 3 at 2PM Buy Tickets: $15 Adults/ $12 Children Laura Gallagher Byrne is looking forward to mounting TWN’s holiday show again this year. Hoping to recreate the success of last season’s Madeline’s Christmas, (which played to sold out audiences throughout its three week run). Laura is planning another family musical which will include many island children in the cast: Peter Pan! J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan This is one of the world’s most celebrated musicals. Here is all the charm of J.M. Barrie’s
Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, the children (Wendy, Michael and John), pirates and Indians embellished with Produced by Special Arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
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Thornton Wilder's classic American tale Our Town May 13~ May 29, 2010 Thursday~ Friday~ Saturday Eveningswith a Sunday matinee on May 23Sunday matinees are free to Island Seniors and Students thanks to a grant from the Tupancy-Harris Foundation |
Rich in wisdom about life, love, and death in a small community, we have come to think of Our Town as Our Island since it is so full of the kinds of relationships, sorrows, and joys of our own time and place. Theatre Workshop of Nantucket is proud to begin our 2010 season with Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Our Town. The play is set in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, a fictional New England town in the early years of the 20th century. At the center of Our Town is the courtship and marriage of George and Emily. But surrounding them are twenty-four other characters, doctors, newspaper editors, choir directors, policeman, churchgoers, fathers and mothers, kids growing up, others growing old, everything that makes wonderful and mysterious our everyday world. And with so many characters, in age ranging from 11 to 80, Our Town is a perfect play for letting the most people possible participate. People of all ages and levels of acting experience came to our auditions, all eager to partake in a new adventure in theater. Some had acted in TWN plays over many years, some had not acted since high school, some had never set foot on a stage before. In one case a retired Broadway performer came to our auditions, looking for the thrill of being on stage again. All were welcome and wonderful in their different ways, as are the characters in the play. TWN is a “Community Theater.” Our mission is to entertain, enrich, educate, challenge and inspire artists and audiences of all ages. We expect to do this with Our Town. It is significant that when Thornton Wilder wrote this timeless play, his sister owned a house in ‘Sconset. And he was known to visit his sister on our island. Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
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Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies June 9 ~ June 26 Held over!!! Thursday July 1, Friday July 2 and Saturday July 3! Wednesday ~ Saturday Evenings with a Sunday matinee on July 20Sunday matinees are free to Island Seniors and Students thanks to a grant from the Tupancy-Harris Foundation THE STORY: Karen & Gabe and Beth & Tom, couples who have been friends for years, participate in all the familiar and comfortable rituals of shared vacations, good conversation and great food—so when Tom abruptly walks out on Beth it threatens more than just their marriage alone. A Pulitzer Prize-winning play that explores the difficulties of divorce ... even when it isn’t your own. Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service |
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA), Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (TWN), African Meeting House, and the Nantucket Atheneum are pleased to present award-winning actor André De Shields in his recently created solo performance of Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: from Douglass to Deliverance, a Kim Vasquez / Gray Lady Entertainment production inspired by Frederick Douglass, the great American abolitionist.
We invite you to join us at the Opening Night Gala & Performance – including a Q&A with André, champagne and hors d’oeuvres – at 6 P.M., Monday, July 12, at the NHA Whaling Museum, 13 Broad Street. Tickets are $150 and $100.
On Tuesday, July 13 at 4 P.M. in the Nantucket Atheneum Garden, the public is invited to a free Q&A with André. Later that evening, at 6:30 PM in the NHA’s Whaling Museum, André will give another performance. Tickets are $25. Tickets to all paid events are available at the TWN box office by calling (508) 228-4305 or by clicking here to purchase now online.
De Shields is the recipient of the 2009 National Black Theatre Festival Living Legend Award, and the 2007 Village Voice OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance. In a career that has spanned over forty years, he is best known for his show-stopping performances in the original Broadway productions of four legendary musicals: The Full Monty, Play On!, Ain’t Misbehavin’, and The Wiz. |
Janie Condon: Raw & Unchained Written & Performed by Jane Condon Directed by Gus Kaikkonen Monday July 19th at 8:00 PM The winner of Audience Favorite - NY on NBC's Last Comic Standing will take you on her journey from blue collar Brockton, Mass., to upscale Greenwich to truly funny. Along the way she will share her many reasons for doing comedy. Among them: "I am the youngest of four and just wanted attention. I'm a Mom and just wanted to get out of the house. And one of ther real reasons I do comedy? I was NOT voted FUNNIEST in my suburban Catholic High School. Mary del Sordo was. And that just put the fire in my belly. The Associated Press called her "an uppercrust Roseanne." |
