Save the Date! Luce Playreaders Benefit for the Library!

Proceeds support the Vineyard Haven Library Building Fund's Capital Campaign for the new Library Community Room

Live In-Person Performance

Sun Jan 8, 4:00 pm @ Martha's Vineyard Film Center

Doors open for admissions 30 minutes prior to screening

Enjoy a special reading of I AND YOU, performed by John Brannen and Beebee Horowitz of the Peter H Luce Playreaders, directed by Linda Comstock. Come support our library and its mission to build a brand-new Community Space! 

Your in-hand *TICKET buys you a chance to WIN AWESOME PRIZES from: 

Salvatore’s, Cronigs, Our Market, Louisa Gould Gallery, Nochi, Pie Chix, Calleen’s Day Spa, Vineyard Pilates, The Green Room, CB Stark Jewelers, and Bunch of Grapes Bookstore!

“I AND YOU” is a play about the search for connection as two young adults (performed by two not-so-young Play Readers!) navigate a rocky path to a relationship. As they work together on a project in witty, non-stop repartee, they discover what makes up an ‘I and You’ relationship – a challenge as Caroline is housebound with a life-threatening illness while Anthony is a popular thriving athlete. Written by Lauren Gunderson, a multiple award-winning playwright, who in 2019 alone had a whopping total of 16 plays in production!

* Tickets are $25, sold at the Film Center or online at mvfilmsociety.com. 

Performance sponsored by the Friends of the Library and the MV Film Society.

“I AND YOU” is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)

Luce Play Readers: Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage

On Wednesday, February 12th at 6:30 pm at the Vineyard Haven Public Library, the Peter H. Luce Play Readers will present a free reading of "God of Carnage," a play by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton. Paul Doherty will direct a cast that includes Cynthia Segal, Roberta Hurtig, John Brannen and Wayne Greenwell. This free performance is sponsored by the Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library, and refreshments will be served. Doors will open at 6 pm for the 6:30 pm performance.

In this "Comedy of Manners, without the manners," A playground altercation between 11-year-old boys brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first, niceties are observed, but as the meeting progresses and the liquor flows, tensions emerge, the gloves come off, and the conversation goes from civilized to savage. "God of Carnage" is the winner of numerous awards, including Tony Award for Best Play and Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy.

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For more than 15 years, the Peter H Luce Play Readers have met every Wednesday of the year at the Vineyard Haven Senior Center from 9am to Noon to read plays of every era and of every genre, from the Greek and Roman classics to the cutting-edge works of contemporary playwrights... and everything in between: Shakespeare, Shaw, Checkov, Moliere, Miller, Ibsen Albee, O'Neil, Pinter and Neil Simon. The group is named for its founder, Peter Luce, who died in 2007.

The Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library encourage public understanding of the Library's vital role in the community, support activities for both adults and children, and provide various other volunteer services. Their mission is to support the Library, to build a partnership between the Library and the community and to advocate for exemplary library service. All volunteers and those who are interested in knowing more about the Friends meet at 10:15am on the second Saturday of every month at the library.

Luce Play Readers: Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers

On Wednesday, March 13th at 7pm at the Vineyard Haven Public Library, the Peter H. Luce Play Readers will present a reading of  Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers, produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Charlena Seymour will direct a cast that includes Polly Brown, Joe Corbo, Felicity Russell, Cynthia Segal, Jay Sigler, Linda Vadasz and CK Wolfson. This free performance is sponsored by the Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library, and refreshments will be served. Doors will open at 6:30pm for the 7pm performance.

By America's great comic playwright, Lost In Yonkers won a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize. This memory play is set in Yonkers in 1942. Bella is thirty-five years old, mentally challenged, and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz. As the play opens, ne'er-do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady's doorstep. He is financially strapped and taking to the road as a salesman. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a small-time hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers. Neil Simon is widely regarded as one of the most successful, prolific and performed playwrights in the world.

For more than 15 years, the Peter H Luce Play Readers have met every Wednesday of the year at the Vineyard Haven Senior Center from 9am to Noon to read plays of every era and of every genre, from the Greek and Roman classics to the cutting-edge works of contemporary playwrights... and everything in between: Shakespeare, Shaw, Checkov, Moliere, Miller, Ibsen Albee, O'Neil, Pinter and Neil Simon. The group is named for its founder, Peter Luce, who died in 2007.

The Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library encourage public understanding of the Library's vital role in the community, support activities for both adults and children, and provide various other volunteer services. Their mission is to support the Library, to build a partnership between the Library and the community and to advocate for exemplary library service. All volunteers and those who are interested in knowing more about the Friends meet at 10:15am on the second Saturday of every month at the library.