Our Mission

The mission of Theatre Workshop of Nantucket (TWN) is to entertain, enrich, educate, challenge and inspire performing artists and audiences of all ages. Working with members of the community and visiting artists, and collaborating with other cultural organizations, TWN produces a variety of theatrical works that reflect the highest artistic standards.

ADMIT ALL is a shorthand expression of our support for diversity and inclusion in our staff and leadership, our programming, talent, creativity, and community outreach.

Theatre Workshop of Nantucket acknowledges that our theatre is situated on the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Wampanoag Tribe

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Our History

THEATRE WORKSHOP PRODUCTIONS 1956 - 2023

2023

• Boeing Boeing (by Marc Camolett, translation by Beverly Cross)
• Rock of Ages (Book by Chris D’Arienzo, Arrangements and Orchestrations by Ethan Popp)
• James Gallagher (World Premier) (by Valerie Curtin)
• Elin Hilderbrand's Winter Street (adaptation by Justin Cerne)

2022

• Meteor Shower (by Steve Martin)
• We Will Rock You (Music and lyrics by Queen, story and script by Ben Elton)
• On Golden Pond (by Ernest Thompson)
• Scrooge (Book, music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse)

2021

• Mamma Mia! (Music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, book by Catherine Johnson)
• A Grand Night for Singing (Music by Richard Rodgers Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Conceived by Walter Bobbie)
• London Suite (Neil Simon)
• Forever Plaid Tidings (by Stuart Ross)

2020

• On With The Show, A Live Telethon Event (Cerne/Oliver)
• Love and Information (Caryl Churchill)
• Nantucket! the Musackal (Ryan Runstadler, Matt Sav, Jeff Luppino-Esposito)
• Jenna and the Whale (Vanessa Garcia and Jake Cline)
• Home for the Holidays (Conceived by Justin Cerne)

2019

• California Suite (Neil Simon)
• Grease (Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey)
• Seussical (Lynn Aherns and Stephen Flaherty)
• Terms of Endearment (adapted by Dan Gordon)
• Matilda (Music & Lyrics, Tim Minchin; Book by Dennis Kelly)

2018

• Laugh Lines (Various)
• It's Only a Play (Terrance McNally)
• Footloose (Composers/Lyricist: Dean Pitchford, Kenny Loggins, Sammy Hagar, Jim Steinman, Eric Carmen, Tom Snow; Book: Dean Pitchford, Walter Bobbie
• The Cocktail Hour (A.R. Gurney)
• Miracle on 34th Street, the Musical (Meredith Willson)

2017

• Mere Mortals (David Ives)
• Barefoot in the Park (Neil Simon)
• Fully Committed (Becky Mode)
• Mamma Mia! (Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus, book by Catherine Johnson)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Edward Albee)
• The Sound of Music (Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse)

2016

• Relatively Speaking (Ethan Cohen, Elaine May, Woody Allen)
• The Odd Couple (Female Version)  (Neil Simon)
• Venus in Fur (David Ives)
• Annie Get Your Gun (Irving Berlin as revised by Peter Stone & Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields)
• The Full Monty (David Yazbek & Terrence McNally)
• November (David Mamet)
• Love, Loss and What I Wore (Nora Ephron & Delia Ephron)
• A Christmas Story (Joseph Robinett & Benj Pasek and Justin Paul)

2015

• All in the Timing (David Ives)
• Rumors (Neil Simon)
• Betrayal (Harold Pinter)
• Into The Woods (Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine)
• Other Desert Cities (Jon Robin Baitz)
• Steel Magnolias (Robert Harling)
• A Christmas Carol (Alan Menken & Lynn Ahrens)

2014

• Hay Fever (Noel Coward)
• Black Tie (A. R. Gurney)
• Oklahoma! (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
• The Last 5 Years (Jason Robert Brown)
• Red (John Logan)
• A Picasso (Jeffrey Hatcher)
• Cinderella (Rodgers & Hammerstein)

2013

• Six Degrees of Separation (John Guare)
• Dead Man's Cell Phone (Sarah Ruhl)
• You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz & Clark Gesner)
• The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum, Harold Arlen, and E.Y. Harburg)
• Dracula (Edward Gorey, Novel by Bram Stoker, Adaptation Hamilton Deane and John Balderston)
• Dinner (Moira Buffini)
• A Christmas Carol (Alan Menken & Lynn Ahrens)

2011-2012

• The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum, Harold Arlen, and E.Y. Harburg)
• The Cherry Orchard (Anton Chekhov, Translation & adaptation by Gregory Stroud)
• The Moscows of Nantucket (Sam Forman)
• The 39 Steps (adapted by Patrick Barlow)
• Little Shop of Horrors (Howard Ashman & Alan Menken)
• Annie (Thomas Meehan, Charles StrouseandMartin Charnin)
• Time Stands Still (Donald Marguiles)
• Noises Off (Michael Frayn)

2010-2011

• Oliver! (Lionel Bart)
• In the Next Room or the vibrator play (Sarah Ruhl)
• The Director (Nancy Hasty)
• The Fantasticks (Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt)
• Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie)
• The Book of Liz (David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris)
• The Seafarer (Conor McPherson)
• I Hate Hamlet (Paul Rudnick)

2009-2010

• Peter Pan (Lionel Bart)
• A Cheever Evening (A. R. Gurney)
• Veronica's Room (Ira Levin)
• Blackbird (David Harrower)
• Dinner with Friends (Donald Marguiles)
• Our Town (Thornton Wilder)
• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Rachel Sheinkin & William Finn)

2008 - 2009

• Almost, Maine (John Cariani)
• It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Joel Landry)
• Captain Louie (Stephen Schwartz & Anthony Stein)
• Duets: Two One Act Plays featuring John Shea
• Lend Me A Tenor (Ken Ludwig)
• Madeline's Christmas (Ludwig Bemelmans)
• A View of the Harbor (Richard Dresser)

2007 - 2008

• Rounding Third (Richard Dresser)
• Doubt, A Parable (John Patrick Shanley)
• Grease (Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey)
• The Little Mermaid (R. Eugene Jackson)
• Pinocchio (Michele Vacca)
• Seussical the Musical, Jr. (Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty)
• Sylvia (A.R. Gurney)
• Moon Over Buffalo (Ken Ludwig)
• Blown Sideways Through Life (Claudia Shear)
• Wait Until Dark (Frederick Knott)

2006 - 2007

• Faith Healer (Brian Friel)
• To Grandmother’s House We Go (Joanna Glass)
• Jack and the Beanstalk (Michele Vacca)
• A Kind of Alaska & The Dumb Waiter (Harold Pinter)
• Lone Star Grace (Suzanne Bradbeer)
• Cinderella (Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II)
• Moby Dick the Musical (Robert Longden & Hereford Kaye)
• I’ll Be Back Before Midnight (Peter Colley)
• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Barbara Robinson)
• You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz & Clark Gesner)

2005 - 2006

• A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley (adapted by Israel Horovitz)
• Beyond Therapy (Christopher Durang)
• The Smell of the Kill (Michele Lowe)
• Over the River and Through the Woods (Joe DiPietro)
• The Graduate (Terry Johnson)
• Godspell (book by John-Michael Tebelak, Music by Stephen Schwartz)

2004 - 2005

• The Bald Soprano (Eugenelonesco)
• Kiss of the Spider Woman (Manuel Puig)
• Bad Dates (Theresa Rebeck)
• Really Rosie (Maurice Sendak & Carole King)
• Love Letters (A.R. Gurney)
• My Old Lady (lsraelHorovitz)

2003 - 2004

• Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
• Don't Count Your Chickens Until They Cry Wolf (Carol Lyn Wright Pearson & J.A.C. Redford)
• Born Yesterday (Garson Kanin)
• Art (Yasmina Reza)

2002 - 2003

• A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
• Criminal Hearts (Jane Martin)
• The Taffetas (Rick Lewis & Arthur Whitelaw)
• Together Alone (Kate Stout)

2001 - 2002

• The Miracle Worker (William Gibson)
• Oliver! (Lionel Bart)
• Fully Committed (Beck Mode)

2000 - 2001

• Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
• I Hate Hamlet (Paul Rudnick)
• Wit (Margaret Edson)

1999 - 2000

• Forever Plaid (Stuart Ross)
• Isn't It Romantic (Wendy Wasserstein)
• Sister Mary lgnatius Explains It All for You (Christopher Durang)
• Actor's Nightmare (Christopher Durang)
• The Playboy of the Western World (John Millington Synge)
• I Do! I Do! (Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt)
• The Tempest (William Shakespeare)

1998 - 1999

• A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
• Sylvia (A.R. Gurney)

1997 - 1998

• The Mousetrap (Agatha Christie)
• Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (based on Jacques Brel’s lyrics and commentary, music by Jacques Brel)

1996 - 1997

• California Suite (Neil Simon)
• Dancing at Lughnasa (Brian Friel)
• Iolanthe (William Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan)
• Confessions of a Colonial Dame (Maggie Conroy)
• Benchley Despite Himself (Nat Benchley)
• Final Curtain (Arlene Sterne)
• Blue (Michel Magee)
• City Girl, Country Woman (Maggi-Meg Reed)
• Moby Dick Rehearsed (Orson Welles)

1995 - 1996

• Pantomime (Derek Walcott)
• Sunflowers (Victoria Bassett Bakshi)
• Flying West (Pearl Cleage)
• Major Disaster in Minor Key (Jennifer Lane)
• Romance Night: 3 Short Plays (Marc Bilgrey, Seth Kramer & Dain Dunston)
• Don't Dress for Dinner (Marc Camoletti & Robin Hawdon)
• The National Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)

1994 - 1995

• You Know I Can't Hear You When The Water's Running (Robert Anderson)
• Arsenic and Old Lace (Joseph Kesselring)
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Christopher Hampton)
• Out Of the Blue (Richard Hoehler)

1993 - 1994

• Portia's Legacy (Jennifer Lane)
• Taking Steps (Alan Ayckbourn)
• Pump Boys and Dinettes (Foley, Hardwick, Monk, Morgan, Schimmel & Wann)

1992 - 1993

• Butterflies Are Free (Leonard Gershe)
• A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley (adapted by Israel Horovitz)
• You Can't Take lt With You (George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart)
• The Subject Was Roses (Frank D. Gilroy)
• The Fantasticks (Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt)
• Sleuth (Anthony Shaffer)

1991 - 1992

• The Skin of Our Teeth (Thornton Wilder)
• Rumors (Neil Simon)
• Little Shop of Horrors (Howard Ashman & Alan Menken)

1990 - 1991

• Charley's Aunt (Brandon Thomas)
• On Golden Pond (Ernest Thompson)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Dale Wasserman based onbookby Ken Kesey)
• Coastal Disturbances (Tina Howe)
• Amadeus (Peter Shaffer)
• The Child Behind the Eyes (Nava Semel)

1989 - 1990

• Cheaters (Michael Jacobs)
• Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Ed Graczyk)
• The Boys Next Door (Tom Griffin)
• I'm Not Rappaport (Herb Gardner)
• The Pirates of Penzance (William Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan)
• A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking (John Ford Noonan)

1988 - 1989

• Play On! (Rick Abbot)
• Crimes of the Heart (Beth Henley)
• P.S. Your Cat is Dead! (James Kirkwood)

1987 - 1988

• Hotel Paradiso (Georges Feydeau)
• Talking With (Jane Martin)
• School for Scandal (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
• Wait Until Dark (Frederick Knott)
• Tom Foolery (Tom Lehrer)
• How the Other Half Lives (Alan Ayckbourn)
• Social Security (Andrew Bergman)

1986 - 1987

• True West (Sam Shepard)
• Philadelphia, Here l Come! (Brian Friel)
• Oklahoma! (Richard Rogers & Oscar Hammerstein II)
• The Dining Room (A.R. Gurney)

1985 - 1986

• Born Yesterday (Garson Kanin)
• Amahl and the Night Visitors (Gian Carlo Menotti)
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennessee Williams)
• H.M.S. Pinafore (William Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan)
• The Unexpected Guest (Agatha Christie)

1984 - 1985

• Lunch Hour (Jean Kerr)
• Blithe Spirit (Noel Coward)
• Barefoot in the Park (Neil Simon)
• Company (Stephen Sondheim & George Furth)

1983 - 1984

• Our Town (Thornton Wilder)
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Stephen Sondheim,  Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart)
• Plaza Suite (Neil Simon)
• The Time of Your Life (William Saroyan)
• Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (based on Jacques Brel’s lyrics and commentary, music by Jacques Brel)

1982 - 1983

• The Fantasticks (Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt)
• Picnic (William lnge)
• The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Neil Simon)
• Zoo Story (Edward Albee)
• The Bald Soprano (Eugene lonesco)
• Light up the Sky (Moss Hart)

1981 - 1982

• The Hollow (Agatha Christie)
• Summer and Smoke (Tennessee Williams)
• The Lady's Not for Burning (Christopher Fry)

1980 - 1981

• Harvey (Mary Chase)
• Little Nell, The Orphan Girl (Nelson Goodhue)
• Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
• Cactus FIower (Abe Burrows)
• Three Men on a Horse (George Abbott & John Cecil Holm)

1979 - 1980

• White Liars/Black Comedy (Peter Shaffer)
• The Bat (Mary Roberts Rinehart & Avery Hopwood)

1978 - 1979

• The Happy Journey (Thornton Wilder)
• The Moon Shines on Kylenamoe (Sean O'Casey)
• My Fair Lady (Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe)

1977 - 1978

• The Miracle Worker (William Gibson)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
• Night Must Fall (Emlyn Williams)
• A Marriage Proposal (Anton Chekhov)

1976 - 1977

• Bus Stop (William lnge)
• Seven Keys to Baldpate (George M. Cohan)
• The Emperor Jones (Eugene O'Neill)
• Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)
• Arsenic and Old Lace (Joseph Kesselring)

1975 - 1976

• Charley's Aunt (Brandon Thomas)
• Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carrol)
• Tonight at 8:30 (Noel Coward)
• Breath of Spring (Peter Coke)
• Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
• Waltz of the Toreadors (Jean Anouilh)
• Working (Studs Terkel)

1974 - 1975

• I Tell of an Island (Margaret Fawcett-Barnes)
• Dames at Sea (George Haimsohn, Robin Miller & Jim Wise)
• Murder in the Cathedral (T.S. Eliot)
• The Knack (Ann Jellicoe)
• Once Upon a Mattress (Mary Rogers)
• The Innocents (William Archibald)
• Promenade, All (David B. Robison)
• Hello and Goodbye (Athol Fugard)
• Rhinoceros (Eugene lonesco)

1973 - 1974

• Butterflies Are Free (Leonard Gershe)
• Saint Joan (George Bernard Shaw)
• Don't Drink the Water (Woody Allen)
• The Night of the Iguana (Tennessee Williams)
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Paul Zindel)
• Private Lives (Noel Coward)

1972 - 1973

• Angel Street (Patrick Hamilton)
• Saint Joan (George Bernard Shaw)
• Paint Your Wagon (Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe)
• House of Blue Leaves (John Guare)
• You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz & Clark Gesner)
• Story Theatre (Paul Sills)
• The lnnocents (William Archibald)

1971 - 1972

• You Can't Take it With You (George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart)
• All The Way Home (Tad Mosel)
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Hugh Wheeler)
• A Cry of Players (William Gibson)
• Riverwind (John Jennings)
• Forty Carats (Jay Allen)
• The Confidential Clerk (T.S. Eliot)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Edward Albee)
• Little Women (John Ravold)
• The Time of the Cuckoo (Arthur Laurents)

1970 - 1971

• See How They Run (Philip King)
• Wait Until Dark (Frederick Knott)
• The Fantasticks (Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt)
• The Little Foxes (Lillian Hellman)
• Anna Christie (Eugene O'Neill)
• Plaza Suite (Neil Simon)
• The Seagull (Anton Chekhov)

1969 - 1970

• Catch Me lf You Can (Jack Weinstock & Willie Gilbert)
• A School for Wives (Moliere)
• Lovers (Brian Friel)
• The Lion in Winter (James Goldman)
• Macy's Bright Star (Margaret Fawcett)
• Spoon River Anthology (Charles Aidman)
• The Corn is Green (Emlyn Williams)

1968 - 1969

• The Odd Couple (Neil Simon)
• A Thousand Clowns (Herb Gardner)
• Carnival! (Bob Merrill & Michael Stewart)
• Macy's Bright Star (Margaret Fawcett)
• Cactus Flower (Abe Burroughs)

1967 - 1968

• Barefoot in the Park (Neil Simon)
• The Potting Shed (Graham Greene)
• Juno and the Paycock (Sean O'Casey)
• Philadelphia, Here l Come! (Brian Friel)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
• The Man from Salem (Robert D. Wilson)
• Halfway Up the Tree (Peter Ustinov)

1966 - 1967

• Born Yesterday (Garson Kanin)
• Three One Acts by Thornton Wilder: The Long Christmas Dinner, Queens of France, the Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden
• Black Chiffon (Lesley Storm)
• The Mousetrap (Agatha Christie)
• The China Trade (Margaret Fawcett)
• The Man From Salem (Robert D. Wilson)
• Four One Acts (Arthur Schnitzler, Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder & Sean O'Casey)

1965 - 1966

• Thieves' Carnival (Jean Anouilh)
• A Man for All Seasons (Robert Bolt)
• The Emperor's New Clothes (Charlotte Chorpenning)

1964 - 1965

• The Fan (Carlo Goldoni)
• The Private Ear and the Public Eye (Peter Shaffer)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)

1963 - 1964

• Rain (John Colton & Clemence Randolph)
• The Pleasure of His Company (Samuel Taylor & Cornelia Otis Skinner)
• Ladies in Retirement (Edward Perry & Reginald Denham)

1962 - 1963

• She Stoops to Conquer (Oliver Goldsmith)
• The Innocents (William Archibald)
• The Fantasticks (Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt)

1961 - 1962

• Liliom (Ferenc Molnar)
• The Man Who Came to Dinner (George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart)
• Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit (Jean Cocteau & Darius Milhaud)
• Androcles and the Lion (George Bernard Shaw)
• Blithe Spirit (Noel Coward)

1960 - 1961

• The Servant of Two Masters (Carlo Goldoni)
• Comic Strip (George Panetta)
• The Diary of Anne Frank (Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett)
• Brigadoon (Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe)

1958 - 1959

• The Teahouse of the August Moon (John Patrick)
• Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw)
• Separate Tables (Terence Rattigan)
• The Matchmaker (Thornton Wilder)

1957 - 1958

• The Mikado (William Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan)
• I Remember Mama (John Van Druten)
• Witness for the Prosecution (Agatha Christie)
• Our Town (Thornton Wilder)

1956 - 1957

• Heaven Can Wait (Harry Segall)
• Dial M for Murder (Frederick Knott)
• The White Steed (Paul Vincent Carroll)
• An Italian Straw Hat (Eugene Labiche & M. Marc-Michel)

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