2012 Season
Eilin O'dea
as
Molly Bloom
Elizabeth F. Bagley & Theatre Workshop Present
Southie &
The Commitments:
An Irish Double Bill
Film Screenings at the Starlight
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Southie
Starring Donnie Whalberg, Rose McGowan, Amanda Peet, Anne Meara, Lawrence Tierney, Jimmy Cummings, and Will Arnet.
A hard hitting family drama about a man caught in the web if the Irish mob, Southie was the first film ever shot entirely in the Irish neighborhood of South Boston. Winner of the Jury Prize for Best Picture, Seattle International Film Festival, it later played on HBO for five years. “ This film has the ring of truth.” Boston Herald. Rated R.
Please join co-writer and director John Shea for a Q&A after the screening.
The Commitments
A rousing comedy drama about unemployed Dubliners who dream of forming a soul band, Alan Parker’s film version of Roddy Doyle’s book is a joy. Starring a cast of unknown singer-actors that Parker discovered in Dublin, The Commitments won the BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe nomination as Best Film. Voted the best Irish film of all time in 2005, this film has a classic soul soundtrack that inspired a generation of Irish musicians.Produced by Armyan Bernstein. Rated. PG 13
Discussion to follow.
Nantucket Atheneum Great Hall
- Oct. 28, Nov. 25, Dec. 9, Jan 27, Feb. 10, Mar. 25
- ALL READINGS @ 7 PM
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TWN & The Nantucket Atheneum present
2012 Staged Reading Series
Theatre Workshop and the Nantucket Atheneum invite you to a free season of Staged Readings- new and old plays, cabarets and comedy nights performed on the Great Hall Stage. These readings give us all a wonderful escape over the "off season" through enjoying a night of theatre. Cookies and tea provided and a lovely time for all!
March 23th
Peter Shaffer's Equus
Directed by Meredith Martin
Michael Frayn's
Noises Off
Called the funniest farce ever written, Noises Off presents a manic menagerie of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop called NOTHING'S ON. Doors slamming, on-stage and backstage intrigue, and an errant herring all figure in the plot of this hilarious and classically comic play.
"The most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy. A spectacularly funny, peerless backstage farce. This dizzy, well-known romp is festival of delirium."—The New York Times
"Bumper car brilliance...If laughter is indeed the best medicine, NOISES OFF is worth its weight in Cipro."—New York Daily News
"The funniest farce ever written! Never before has side-splitting taken on a meaning dangerously close to the non-metaphorically medical."—New York Post
"As side-splitting a farce as I have seen. Ever? Ever."—New York Magazine
Donald Margulies'
Time Stands Still
TIME STANDS STILL focuses on Sarah and James, a photojournalist and a foreign correspondent trying to find happiness in a world that seems to have gone crazy. Theirs is a partnership based on telling the toughest stories, and together making a difference. But when their own story takes a sudden turn, the adventurous couple confronts the prospect of a more conventional life.
Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's
Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop is one of the best and most loved musicals of all time. TWN invites you and the entire family to come see why!
John Buchan's
The 39 Steps
Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This 2-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of 4), an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old-fashioned romance!
Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan's
Annie
The wonderful, award winning heart stealing Annie comes to the Nantucket summer stage. The joy and memories of "The sun will come out tomorrow" and "It's a hard knock life" will leave you singing on the streets for weeks to come. TWN presents this show is honor of summer resident and author Thomas Meehan.
Sam Forman's
Moscows of Nantucket
TWN presents the East Coast premiere of Sam Forman's Nantucket based family comedy . Moscows focuses on members of the "affluent, anxious and at-each-other's-throats" Moscow family, who attempt some unusual family bonding over a summer weekend in Nantucket.
Anton Chekhov's
The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov's masterpiece brought to the Nantucket stage, newly adapted by this productions Dramaturg and Chekhov historian Gregory Stroud. This adaptation sets the cast and story of Madame Ranevskaya and her beloved Cherry Orchard in the 1970's and translates its locale to Nantucket Island at the start of this islands developmental boom.
L. Frank Baum, Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg's
The Wizard of Oz
TWN invites you and your family to travel "somewhere over the rainbow". This magical musical will come to Nantucket for the holiday season to remind us all that there is "no place like home!"
Kevin Flynn's
Comedy Night
Monday Nights at TWN- Kevin Flynn takes Centre Stage and cracks the audience up with his one man comedy routine, fresh and different every show. Flynn is a pro who not only has headlined at the BEST comedy clubs across America to rave reviews, Flynn also is the Executive Director of the Nantucket Comedy Festival and ProjACK Comedy!
A staged reading of
Orson Welles'
Moby Dick Rehearsed
It takes a fool or perhaps a genius to adapt one of the greatest American novels for the stage — and Orson Welles was a bit of both. He chased “Moby-Dick” through much of the 1950s.
'CALL ME ISHMAEL'
With these words, a young sailor begins the story of his voyage with Captain Ahab, a man possessed by the single-minded desire to kill the creature that took off his leg - the great white whale, Moby Dick.
Adapted by America's most celebrated stage and screen director, TWN's adaptation of Moby Dick Rehearsed sets one of America's greatest novels in the quintessential venue under the great whale in the Nantucket Whaling Museum, where Ahab leads his crew in their evocation of Nantucket Docks, the great whale ship, and the ocean itself.
A staged reading presented in collaboration with the Nantucket Historical Association.
Jane Condon & Friends
Comedian and mom JANE CONDON lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, but she’s still a nice person. She has two boys. Otherwise everything’s fine. Since she’s from a blue-collar town in Massachusetts, she likes to make fun of Greenwich. The Associated Press has dubbed her “an uppercrust Roseanne” and The New York Times says, “Condon had the audience cackling, guffawing and in hysterics as she sliced through marriage, husband, kids, politics and other topics.” She loves to tell stories about her adventures (mostly survival tales) with her husband and kids.
Condon was named one of 10 Comedy Best Bets in Back Stage’s annual comedy issue (2001). She has appeared on ABC-TV’s “The View” and Lifetime TV’s “Girls’ Night Out,” FOX-TV’s series finale of “24,” as well as NBC’s “Last Comic Standing.”
She is the grand prize winner of the Ladies of Laughter Contest in 2004
She won “Audience Favorite—NY” on NBC’s Last Comic Standing in 2007.
And in May 2011, she gave the commencement speech at Wellesley College (her alma mater). You can reach her at www.janecondon.com
Brad Zimmerman
My Son the Waiter, A Jewish Tragedy
In MY SON THE WAITER, A JEWISH TRAGEDY, Brad Zimmerman weaves a bittersweet tale of one man's lengthy, and we do mean lengthy struggle to make it as an actor in New York. Brad's send-ups on his childhood, family, career and misbegotten love life are as warm and poignant as they are hilarious.
To quote Joan Rivers "I've had 3 great opening acts in my lifetime: Billy Crystal, Garry Shandling and Brad Zimmerman. There is no one on the comedy scene quite like Brad Zimmerman. A complete original, Brad has worked with such well known performers as Susie Essman, Brad Garrett, Gabe Kaplan, Norm Crosby, Pat Cooper, Julio INglesias, and perhaps best of all, Brad had the distinction of being George Carlin's regular opening act for the last 3 years of George's life. In addition to headlining all over the country at casino's, theatres, festivals and comedy clubs, Brad has done television and film, including his role as Johnny Sacks lawyer on one of the most decorated television shows of all time: The Sopranos.
Bennett Hall- 62 Centre Street
- Monday, June 18 @ Centre Stage
- Tuesday, August 7 @ Bennett Hall
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Minus 32 Million Words
Written and preformed by Sue Costello from "The Fighter"
Sue Costello, Boston native and acclaimed comic, actor and writer, is excited to perform a long run of her one-woman show “Minus 32 Million Words” in New York later this year after several self-financed workshops. The show — alternately hilarious and heartbreaking — tracks Costello’s life growing up in a chaotic home in Boston and how it led her to a desperate need for fame and money, and to the final realization that it was all part of a spiritual quest to find her authentic self.
Rave reviews have poured in for Minus 32 Million Words, the show that mixes Costello’s street smart Boston savvy with her ability to bring a room full of patrons to tears —combining her trademark take-no-prisoners cutting wit and a poignant vulnerability. Through her irrepressible spirit and powerful delivery, Sue proves that her past does not have to become her future and shares that hope and joy with her audiences. The Boston Herald called the show “powerful, thanks to Costello’s frank charisma and her ability to mingle humor with tragedy” and the Patriot Ledger mused that “Costello rivets the audience with a comic’s gift for delivery and wit and an actress’ skill with emotion.” Kristen Johnston called the show “brilliant and agonizingly funny,” and Kevin Nealon commented, “Great characters, great writing and hilarious delivery. She is the next Whoopi…only not black.” Patricia Clarkson agreed, saying "Sue Costello is an incredible talent – I LOVED this show!"
“Sue Costello’s charismatic performance is mesmerizing as you march with her through her teenage years on the Dorchester streets through her life in New York and Hollywood.”
- Colin Quinn
“…a wonderful journey filled with lots of laughter and love.”
- Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara
“Sue’s show was amazing, hilarious, dark and brutally honest, run don’t walk to the theatre!
- Molly Shannon
Nantucket Comedy Improv
Nantucket (ACK-ATTACK COMEDY) IMPROV TROUPE has been making audiences laugh on Nantucket since 1999! Improvisors will have you in stitches with their improv, and sketch comedy shows that are for all audiences. Every show is different, original and always hilarious so come on down and have a ball with us!
Nantucket Short Play Festival
Nantucket's Own Short Play Competition brought to the stage.
Playwrights from across the country submit 10 - 30 minute plays for consideration by a panel of readers. Winners are chosen after a winter of reading plays. The most noteworthy are then staged simply, using scripts, for your enjoyment. A fun evening out!