Reviews & Features
By Tony Omer
Over the last 14 years, The Vineyard Playhouse’s producer/artistic director MJ Bruder Munafo has collaborated in a variety of ways with playwright Jon Lipsky of West Tisbury, who is also a drama professor at Boston University. Mr. Lipsky has written and directed plays performed at the Playhouse, and served as associate artistic director [...]
Still contentious, after all these years
By Sandy MacDonald – Boston Globe Correspondant
VINEYARD HAVEN – In format more like a short-story collection than a novel, the eight 10-minute plays that make up Jon Lipsky’s “Walking the Volcano’’ weren’t written as a unit. In fact, they represent eight years’ worth of disparate entries for the Boston Theatre [...]
The Vineyard Playhouse has been featured in the Sunday New York Times Arts Section, July 12th edition!
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Joe Forbrich’s “Full Circle” to Martha’s Vineyard
Last year, I spent six months building an 18-foot sailboat with the acting money I earned playing a detective on NBC’s “Law & Order.” Since that show kept getting rerun, the residual checks were rolling in. It was the first time in 20 years of trying that I didn’t [...]
Wonderful Life at Playhouse
By Katy Plasse
Published: December 11, 2008
The Vineyard Playhouse begins its six-show holiday run of “It’s A Wonderful Life,” tomorrow, December 12. The radio play by Philip Grecian is based on the 1946 film by Frank Capra. It is the bittersweet story of a man chasing the American dream in the turbulent post-war [...]
Theatre : Excellent direction to Playhouse
By Samantha McCoy
Published: August 14, 2008
When asked how long it takes her to complete a play, playwright/director Joann Green Breuer’s response is simple and immediate: “A lifetime plus two and a half weeks.”
It is that lifetime of work in the theatre that enables the quiet mannered, but impressive director to [...]
“Homecoming” for the Holidays
By CK Wolfson – December 13, 2007
The setting of Christopher Sergel’s “The Homecoming,” is a place most Vineyarders might find familiar. Spencer Mountain, Va., at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is a small isolated place where everyone knows everyone else, where neighbor helps neighbor, rules are negotiated, and those who [...]
The Homecoming Showcases Children in Depression-Era Play
By Tom Dresser – December 12, 2007
Years ago, Daniel Cuff was cast in the role of a tree in his sixth grade play. Now Mr. Cuff, as a high school junior, has blossomed with an accomplished performance as Clay-Boy Spencer, a role which bonds the vast cast of characters [...]
“Great Strides, Great Show”
By Anna Marie D’Addarie – August 9, 2007
Martha’s Vineyard Times
Just because they can, does it mean they should? A simple question can become very complicated when it is applied to the heady world of scientific research. In the case of the play “Copenhagen,” the new offering at the Vineyard Playhouse, playwright Michael [...]
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Different Times, Same Issues
By Tony Omer – July 19, 2007
The current play at the Vineyard Playhouse is a bold production about a young couple caught up in a vortex of international terrorism and politics. It puts human faces and emotions on a political crisis from the 1980s that is eerily similar to our [...]
Loud and Clear
By Anna Marie D’Addarie – June 21, 2007
A part of our Island’s history is currently on stage at the Vineyard Playhouse and everyone should hear it. “Who even knows who can hear and who can’t,” says Mrs. Look, played by Katherine Diamond. By Act I, scene 4, when her comment is made, the [...]
Bittersweet Comedy at Playhouse Tracks Decline of a Creative Mind
By ARIEL ABERG-RIGER
Published: July 10, 2001
“Her mind had been smashed to pieces. The person she had been before hadn’t been around for a long time, but the pieces were still her pieces.”
At the Vineyard Playhouse this month, actors struggle to pick up such scattered pieces in [...]
Actor as Poet
by Amy Abern
Published: June 22, 2001
Mario Van Peebles is mercifully afflicted with Dorian Gray syndrome. Sitting across from him during a recent interview on Martha’s Vineyard and comparing that face with the one seen as Agent Stone in the 1991 release of “New Jack City,” it’s hard to believe he didn’t make some [...]
Oak and Ivy, Powerful New Drama, Opens Promising New Season For Vineyard Playhouse
By Della Brown Hardman
Published: June 22, 2001
IF THE INITIAL PRODUCTION at the Vineyard Playhouse is any indication of what the theatre-goer might expect this season, a great summer is in store. Oak and Ivy, written by Kathleen McGhee-Anderson, is an incredible presentation [...]
Published: May 3, 2001
Women at Work: Creating Art
Story by Sara Piazza
What began as a weekend festival two springs ago, All Women All Weekend, and grew into a week-long event last year, All Women All Week, this year has blossomed into a month-long celebration of women in the arts. Women at Work: Creating Art, which opened [...]
