The young actors of Theatre Workshop of Nantucket present
Rodgers' and Hammerstein's "Cinderella"
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
      At the beginning of each rehearsal for Theatre Workshop of Nantucket's musical "Cinderella," the little girls playing the fairies each find a lap for sitting, according to the show's director, Laura Gallagher-Byrne. These petite performers are enamored of their first acting experience.
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New Perspectives at the East End Gallery
BY SHARON LORENZO INDEPENDENT CONTRIBUTOR
      In place early this week at the East End Gallery is work by photographer Celia Pearson, whose masterful images of sea glass take the medium of contemporary photography and digital printing to a new dimension.
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The early bird gets the goods
      Small Friends on Nantucket and Nantucket Looms are bringing together 50 nationally and locally recognized artisans for the 14th Annual "Event Under the Tent" Folk Art and Artisan Show.
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Et tu, Nantucket?
Vanity Fair editor-at-large Cullen Murphy launches Plum literary series with "Are We Rome?"
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
      With his recent socio-historic bestseller "Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America," Cullen Murphy walks in the footsteps of Edward Gibbon. That path brings him to Nantucket this week to make his case for raising the question.
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BALANCING THE FOOD AND WINE HIGH WIRE ACT
By Panos Kakaviatos
      To close a deal, you decide to take a potential business partner to a fancy restaurant. You've reviewed your briefs and you are dressed to impress.
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ONCE UPON A TIME
by Lucretia Voigt
      Most of the kids I know are natural born actors. They begin by mimicking our every move and sound. I know because I have had the distinct honor of having my children repeat things better left unsaid. Once they get tired of mimicking, however, the real acting begins. My son Holbrook can turn on t...
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UVA poetry professor hosts summer workshops
BY MARLI GUZZETTA INDEPENDENT ARTS EDITOR
      There are poets who wear their erudition like tweed armor against the world, and then there are poets like Gregory Orr, the NEA and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and University of Virginia Creative Writing professor who trails down the Nantucket sidewalks in sandals and a shirt with the sleeves ...
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REEL TO REEL
NOW PLAYING ON NANTUCKET
      "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (Rated PG-13 for sequences of fantasy violence and frightening images; 138 min.) Harry begins his fifth year at Hogwarts as a bit of an outcast, as the warnings he and Dumbledore sound about the return of Voldemort are dismissed as lunacy.
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GALLERYGUIDE
      ARTSTS' ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET 19 Washington St. The AAN Gallery is a cooperative representing over 150 year-round and seasonal Nantucket artists, from emerging talent to seasoned veterans with an established following. Open daily 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., with fresh exhibitions hanging every two wee...
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for the ARTS record
      TWN's "The Faith Healer" Faith healing is a fickle art in Brian Friel's beautifully written and dramatic "Faith Healer," which went up at the Theatre Workshop last week. "Basically, it's the story of an artist, of a man who has a magnetism that people want to be around.
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Media you can Trust
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      BOOKS Mitchell's Book Corner 54 Main Street, 228-1080 "The Surfboard - Art, Style, Stroke" by Ben Marcus Awonderful new addition to MBC's growing surfing section is "The Surfboard - Art, Style, Stroke" ($35) by Ben Marcus. This is a beautifully illustrated (fullcolor) history of the surfbo...
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