Motown Museum, in partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is bringing the sound of Hitsville U.S.A. to Martha’s Vineyard with “Motown Monday,” a community concert featuring the Hitsville NEXT Revue. The performance will feature emerging artists from Hitsville NEXT, Motown Museum’s creative and educational hub dedicated to developing the next generation of musicians, performers, and entrepreneurs. The performance will feature hits from Stevie Wonder, the Temptations, the Supremes,…
This weekend, the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse will present Brooke Adams and Marilu Henner in “Pen Pals,” a smash hit from the 2025– 26 Off-Broadway season. ‘Pen Pals’ charts five decades of letters between Bernie and Mags, two women who have never met in person. In the original production, the cast rotated every two weeks. Directed by Michael Griffo, Adams and Henner will be reprising their roles at the Playhouse for three nights only.
Oscar Wilde’s quote, “One should always be in love … that is the reason one should never marry,” sets the tone for “The Invite,” playing at the M.V. Film Center beginning August 6. Next, we hear a sweet melody being played on a piano by two laughing people. But if you think that Olivia Wilde’s new feature, which she also stars in, is a romance, think again. Yes, “The Invite” is about love — but love that is found, lost, crumbling, and stumbling along in a marriage that is on the…
The title of Rabbi Caryn Broitman’s “The Torah Is an Open Book: Radical Readings for the Seeker and the Skeptic” signals its thought-provoking nature. Stimulating us to think is, in fact, aligned with her strong message about the participatory nature of the Torah; the word comes from the Hebrew root meaning “teaching” or “instruction.” Broitman writes, “In Torah, meaning is not there to read. It is rather created, and therefore revealed by a process of serious searching, engaging,…
On Sunday night, in a packed auditorium at the Performing Arts Center, Mark Leibovich turned to Maggie Haberman and quipped, “Maggie, look out at this crowd. Trump couldn’t draw a crowd like this.” Leibovich and Haberman are both veteran journalists and best-selling authors who have written extensively about Donald Trump’s presidencies. They were on the Vineyard to speak at the MV Author Series about Habermen’s new book, co-authored with Jonathan Swan, “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial…
Menemsha By Caoimhín Byrne dusk is not dusk out here
To the Editor: The incident at Long Point on Friday is a heartbreaking reminder that the ocean is incredibly dangerous. The beach that runs along the entire south coast of the Island fronts the open sea, the North Atlantic Ocean. As magnificently seductive as this beach is, a swimmer there must anticipate the possibility of life-threatening circumstances arising in an instant, with the horrifying panic that may accompany it.
To the Editor: July 25, 2026.
To the Editor: As Chabad on the Vineyard’s fourth annual Jewish Cultural Festival has now concluded, I want to respond to the events that occurred, which were covered in The Times.
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