Arts & Entertainment
Today is the deadline for Island students, grades one through eight, to enter the Mom of the Year essay writing contest. The contest, in conjunction with the Edgartown Board of Trade and Pink and Green Weekend, will award three winning prizes—one each in grades one to three, four to six and seven to eight. The winning essays will be recognized and read at the Harbor View Hotel’s Mother’s Day brunch on Sunday, May 13, at 11 a.m.
When people ask Arnold Carr why he chose to become an underwater explorer/marine biologist instead of taking over his family’s iconic store, Darlings, on Circuit avenue he says, “Because I grew up on Martha’s Vineyard. I was surrounded by water.”
No contest, Iago, the evil genius of William Shakespeare’s Othello, is the most brutal villain in any of the bard’s productions. The play was first presented in 1604 during what literary historians have deemed Shakespeare’s period of despair, when the struggle for good and evil in the human soul preoccupied him.
But what made Iago so ruthless yet so ostensibly above-reproach that he could win a loving and well-bred wife like Emilia and the trust and promotion of a great general such as Othello?
The Sisters Rosensweig by Wendy Wasserstein first opened in 1992 at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. It premiered off-Broadway at the Lincoln Center Theatre and then moved to the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway. During its journey, the play gathered suitcases full of awards, including a Tony nominee for best play, a Tony award for Madeline Kahn, a drama desk award for Jane Alexander; the list goes on.
But this note is not to rehash the past. The Sisters Rosensweig is being performed on Sunday, April 22, at the Hebrew Center in Vineyard Haven.
On Sunday, April 22, Featherstone Center for the Arts is holding a reception for its newest exhibit: The Art of Vineyard Architecture — Celebrating Vineyard Architecture.
The exhibit features local noted architects including, Patrick Ahearn, Stephen Pogue, Architecture Indigo, LLC, Hutker Architects, MacNelly Cohen Architects, Mashek MacLean Architects, South Mountain Company, Sullivan O’Connor Architects, Judge Skelton Smith Architects, and Terrain Architects.
It’s a busy week at the Pathways gathering space at the Chilmark Tavern, located at Beetlebung corner. All performances take place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., so plan your week’s dinner possibilities around that time.
First up on Saturday, April 21, is a John Cage centennial concert tribute with a presentation of Innovations for the piano by David Stanwood. The performance will also feature Delores Stevens on prepared grand piano and toy piano.
