PRESS & MEDIA COVERAGE
The Man Who Came to Broadway
Vanity Fair
By James Wolcott
Published in 1959, Moss Hart’s glorious memoir, Act One, has been a lasting inspiration for theater buffs, as well as a 1963 movie starring George Hamilton and Jason Robards. Now it’s being reincarnated as a Broadway play.
Dance Theatre of Harlem Returns
Vineyard Gazette
By Remy Tumin
When the Dance Theatre of Harlem was created in 1969, its mission was
straightforward: change the world through dance.
Dance Theatre of Harlem Visits Martha's Vineyard
Martha's Vineyard Times
By Gwyn McAllister
The performance company of the Dance Theatre of Harlem had enjoyed a long and illustrious history until it was forced to go on hiatus due to financial difficulties in 2004.
Vineyard Arts Project Going Strong in Fifth Year
Martha's Vineyard Times
By Gwyn McAllister
Ask the average Vineyarder where the Vineyard Arts Project compound is, and you're likely to get a blank stare.
Young Playwrights and Innovative Work at Vineyard Arts Project
Martha's Vineyard Times
By Gwyn McAllister
For the last three weeks, two playwrights and a playwriting/performing troupe have been on the Island working on new material as part of the Vineyard Arts Project's third annual New Writers/New Plays residencies.
Embracing Island Time, Vineyard Arts Project Is Oasis of Creativity
Vineyard Gazette
By Olivia Hull
Bekah Brunstetter was feeling lackluster about her play last week. She had already completed a first draft, but there were still kinks to work out.
Art of Human Experience Takes Many Forms
Vineyard Gazette
By REMY TUMIN
Artists communicate in different forms. But whether the message is through visual or performing art, it always comes back to the essence of the human experience.
Opening The Curtain On New Plays
Vineyard Gazette
Alumni of RADA include Snape, Voldemort and Hannibel Lecter, also known as Alan Rickman, Ralph Fiennes, and Sir Anthony Hopkins, to name just a few. Who knows what future stars will be among this weekend's performers.
Vineyard Arts Project Presents New Writers. New Plays.
Martha's Vineyard Times
By Gwyn McAllister
Four young playwrights have been on the Vineyard now for a month completing new work, which will be presented this weekend at the Vineyard Arts Project's campus on Main Street in Edgartown.
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Morphoses dancers in rehearsal at Vineyard |
Vineyard Arts Project welcomes contemporary ballet company
The Martha's Vineyard Times
By Sam McCoy
The Vineyard Arts Project, whose cutting edge studio is nestled on Upper Main Street in Edgartown, is an impressive Island residency program initiated to foster new work. The local organization boasts in-studio performances that enable the public to experience firsthand the development of each new production alongside its creators.
Curving Around Classical Ballet’s Free Revolution
Vineyard Gazette
By REMY TUMIN
Ballerinas dance with their feet, balancing on pointe shoes with their limbs elongated to expose the intricate workings of muscles, or leaping across stage, leaving only a slight noise on the floor. But this week at the Vineyard Arts Project, they were dancing with their hands. Wrists became entangled, thumbs circled other digits, and knuckles discovered unexplored crevices.
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Play-by-Play at Art’s Cutting Edge
Vineyard Gazette
By MEGAN DOOLEY
The folks responsible for the musical Witness Uganda were seated in a circle of folding chairs in a large mirrored Vineyard Arts Project studio Tuesday afternoon, taking a needed break from their rehearsal schedule to talk about the origins of their project. Writer and director team Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews offered tales of their travels to Africa, shared stories of the Ugandan university students around whom the script is based, and introduced two of their star actors, Leslie Odom Jr. and Nicolette Robinson.
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Theater: Vineyard Arts Project play festival
The Martha's Vineyard Times
By Naomi Pallas
Contrary to polished and rehearsed performances that many people go to the theater for, the upcoming theatre festival, New Writers, New Plays, gives the audience power to shape the works that they will see this Thursday through Saturday.
Dance: Wild, Wonderful and World Class - Vineyard Gazette
Vineyard Gazette
By WENDY ARNELL BROPHY
“My dad has a barn,” chirped a wide-eyed, hyperactive Mickey Rooney. “And my mom can sew the costumes,” the pigtailed, pinafore-bedecked Judy Garland replied. And off they went, hand in hand, singing and dancing their way across the barnyard.
Season of First Looks Lays Bare The Creative Process of Theatre - Vineyard Gazette
Vineyard Gazette
By LAUREN MARTIN
Story will be fending for itself this summer on the stages of Martha’s Vineyard. Stripped like the economy (and because of it), this season promises something much more seductive than blockbuster pretense, jaw-dropping set design, or celebrity leads: a glimpse at the so-called creative process.
Christopher Wheeldon, Unbowed
New York Times
By ROSLYN SULCAS
CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON wasn’t feeling cheerful. As he sat in a restaurant in Lower Manhattan in April, his usual store of ebullience seemed spent as he offered a startlingly frank assessment of his ballet company, Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, which he started with much fanfare almost three years ago.
Morphoses at Vineyard Arts Project
Christopher Wheeldon's dance company spent six weeks creating and rehearsing on Martha's Vineyard. Video by Benjamin Pierce
Everything Is Happening for Millepied
New York Observer
By ERIC HERSCHTHAL
Days before President Obama arrived on Martha’s Vineyard this August, Benjamin Millepied was in a house not far from where the president would stay. “What’s that smell?” Mr. Millepied pricked his nose in the air, muttering to himself. “Shit. They were smoking in here, weren’t they?”
Vineyard Arts Project: Dancers at work - The Martha's Vineyard Times
Martha's Vineyard Times
By BROOKS ROBARDS
The dance troupe Morphoses is hard at work this month in a sparkling new studio at the Vineyard Arts Project (VAP) on Upper Main Street in Edgartown. The world-class company is rehearsing for a 2009 fall season that will take it to New York City Center, the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, London's Sadler Wells Theatre, and Amsterdam's Het Musiektheater.
Summer School for Dancers Stretches To Other Artforms
Vineyard Gazette
By NICOLE GALLAND
You’ve almost certainly seen the shingled building, sitting obvious yet unobtrusive between the dentist and the hair salon on Upper Main street in Edgartown. Perhaps you have heard the skinny: that it’s a dance studio built by a fabulously wealthy man so his daughter, an aspiring ballerina, would have a place to take private lessons for two weeks every summer.
