The desert set the scene for The Fabulists’ hour-long show­—a production filled with improv, one-liners and lots of help from the audience.

Ladders were up and painters on the job at the Island Theatre Wednesday.

Emergency repairs to the crumbling Island Theatre have been completed, although a town-approved window for painting the building’s facade has come and gone.

Repairs got underway this week at the Island Theatre in Oak Bluffs.

The owners of the Island Theatre in Oak Bluffs, a public safety hazard at one of the Vineyard’s busiest intersections, have pledged to launch work to shore up the building as early as this week.

The Hon. Cornelius J. Moriarty sternly told an attorney for the Hall family to submit a detailed plan for repairs by the end of the day Tuesday — or face the prospect of a speedy trial.