With cheers, laughter and sighs, Billy Collins was welcomed back to Featherstone Center for the Arts Tuesday.

Opening night for Who You See Here at the Martha's Vineyard Playhouse is Thursday, August 10. The new comedy by Matt Hoverman begins and ends with a married couple making salad together.

This year’s Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, August 7 to 12, is bringing heavy hitters including Kathryn Bigelow and Spike Lee to the performing arts center.

For the seventh summer in a row, high art meets low humor at Featherstone Center for the Arts when Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theater presents Gaetano Donizetti’s comic opera, Don Pasquale.

Across the country, farmland is disappearing forever at a rapid rate, according to American Farmland Trust president John Piotti, who will speak at the Agricultural Hall in West Tisbury Monday night at 7 p.m.

At the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse through July 29, Cusi Cram’s political comedy Dusty and the Big Bad World is a fast-paced and funny take on the culture wars of the last Republican administration, sparing neither the right nor the left.