Kids’ Improv Classes
A new session of after-school improv classes for all ages with IMP theatre company will begin Feb. 5. Classes take place at the Edgartown School and are open to students from across the Island.
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Drama Department will present Rent: School Edition, Feb. 11 to 13, at the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center.
Show times are Thursday and Friday at 7 p.m., with two shows on Saturday, 1 and 7 p.m.
Tickets are $7 for students and seniors and $10 for adults.
The musical play Bears Beware — Goldilocks Is in Your Town answers the question “What kind of world is it were little girls break into houses that bears own?”
Islanders Play Festival
Three Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School musicians participated in the Music Educators’ Southeast District Festival at Oliver Ames High School last weekend. Sidra Dumont and Emily Lowe sang with the choir of over 200 voices, and Madison Ibsen, second chair viola out of 14, performed with the 96-piece orchestra.
Later this month, Emily and Madison will be auditioning for the Massachusetts All State Festival, which will be held at Symphony Hall in March.
Two years ago, as Brooke Hardman made the move to what she then saw as “a remote Island,” the actress whose career had taken her to Boston, New York and Chicago resigned herself to the fact that “I wouldn’t be acting anymore.”
Dudley Brooks sits cross-legged on the floor of room 405 at the regional high school, staring intently at two students in the center of the room. His eyes flicker back and forth between the performers, analyzing their movements with an expert, subtle gaze.