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Dune: Part Two
Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of
Next Show: Mar 6, 2025 at 1:00 pm in the Main Theater

The Monkey
When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.
Next Show: Mar 6, 2025 at 1:30 pm in the Studio Theater

The Sloth Lane
After a terrifying storm destroys their home, a speedy sloth named Laura and her kooky family move to the big city in their rusted old food truck,
Next Show: Mar 6, 2025 at 4:30 pm in the Main Theater

Nantucket Comedy Festival Presents: The Stand Up & Learn Kids’ Show
The Nantucket Comedy Festival Presents: Stand Up & Learn Our stage is set for the funniest, most talented kids in
Next Show: Mar 6, 2025 at 5:00 pm in the Studio Theater

NCF Presents: Dreamland Pro Show with Jim Colliton & Pat Bolduc
Are you looking for some laughter to brighten your year? Look no further! Join us at the Dreamland for the
Next Show: Mar 6, 2025 at 7:00 pm in the Studio Theater

Mickey 17
Mickey Barnes, an “expendable” employee, is sent on a human expedition to colonize the ice world Niflheim. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. With one regeneration, though, things go very wrong.
Next Show: Mar 6, 2025 at 7:30 pm in the Main Theater

Anora
WINNER BEST PICTURE OSCAR, BEST ACTRESS, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY AND BEST EDITING.

Night of the Zoopocalypse
A wolf and mountain lion team up when a meteor unleashes a virus turning zoo animals into zombies. They join forces with other survivors to rescue the zoo and stop the deranged mutant leader from spreading the virus.
Next Show: Mar 7, 2025 at 4:00 pm in the Main Theater

Free Community Screening: In the Heart of the Sea
Free Community Screening (with ticket) presented in partnership with the Nantucket Historical Association, the Nantucket Atheneum and the Egan Maritime
Next Show: Mar 9, 2025 at 5:00 pm in the Main Theater

Film Series – Best Screenplays of 21st Century: There Will Be Blood
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview’s motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
Next Show: Mar 10, 2025 at 7:00 pm in the Main Theater

Matinee Classics Series: Philadelphia Story
When a rich woman’s ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Next Show: Mar 11, 2025 at 1:00 pm in the Main Theater

Film for Thought: The Girl with the Needle
Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.

Celebrate Irish Film: That They May Face the Rising Sun
Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters around them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere.
Next Show: Mar 15, 2025 at 4:00 pm in the Main Theater

Celebrate Irish Film: Housewife of the Year
It was a different time! The female contestants on an Irish TV show with an iconic gentleman host look back on a beige-coloured chapter in TV history. More than entertaining kitsch, and with some delightfully quick-witted ladies in the winning role.
Next Show: Mar 15, 2025 at 7:00 pm in the Main Theater

National Theatre: PRESENT LAUGHTER
The multi award-winning production of Noël Coward’s provocative comedy featuring Andew Scott (Vanya, Fleabag) returns to the big screen.
Next Show: Mar 16, 2025 at 2:00 pm in the Main Theater

Matinee Classics Series: Oklahoma
In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.
Next Show: Mar 18, 2025 at 1:00 pm in the Main Theater

Film for Thought: Exhibition on Screen – Dawn of Impressionism: Paris 1874
The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history – millions flock every year to marvel at their masterpieces.

Special Screening: NY International Children’s Film Fest – Hola Cine! LatinX Big Kid Flicks (Ages 8+)
Hola Cine! LatinX Big Kid Flicks (8+): This program is presented for FREE with a ticket thanks to a grant from the Community Foundation for Nantucket’s Nantucket Fund.
Next Show: Mar 22, 2025 at 1:00 pm in the Main Theater

Dreamland Concert Series: SPRUNG featuring DJ Pete Ahern
Join us for a very special evening at the Dreamland Saturday, January 25th, from 7-10pm for a live set featuring DJ Pete Ahern with special guest DJ Ecstasy. Cash Bar available throughout the evening. Tickets are very limited, so get yours today!

MET Live: AIDA
Soprano Angel Blue makes her long-awaited Met role debut as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country, one of opera’s defining roles.
Next Show: Mar 23, 2025 at 2:00 pm in the Main Theater

Matinee Classics Series: Witness for the Prosecution
An ailing famous barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where his self-possessed wife’s unconvincing testimony confuses him.
Next Show: Mar 25, 2025 at 1:00 pm in the Main Theater

National Theatre: IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
While assuming the role of a dutiful guardian in the country, Jack lets loose in town under a false identity.
Next Show: Mar 30, 2025 at 2:00 pm in the Main Theater

Free Community Screening: Ponyo
When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for. Ponyo is a curious, energetic young creature who yearns to be human, but even as she causes chaos around the house, her father, a powerful sorcerer, schemes to return Ponyo to the sea.

Matinee Classics Series: Sunset Boulevard
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Next Show: Apr 1, 2025 at 1:00 pm in the Main Theater

Dreamland Presents The Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare’s Macbeth
The Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare unleashes the dark and powerful tale of Shakespeare’s Macbeth: a tale of murder, madness and magic begins as Macbeth is promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by supernatural forces.
Next Show: Apr 2, 2025 at 5:30 pm in the Main Theater

Dreamland Comedy Nights – Abandonment Issues 3: Not This Again
Four local comedians (Sandy Kohner, David Hayes, Sarah Fraunfelder, John Eboli) discover they are often at their wits end with
Next Show: Apr 3, 2025 at 7:00 pm in the Studio Theater

Dreamland Presents Dreamland Plays
For One Night Only the Dreamland Plays will showcase new plays by Nantucket residents ages 10-100. These plays will be entirely rehearsed, and performed in less than 24 hours! And for one night only they will premier their plays. This is a show you don’t want to miss!
Next Show: Apr 5, 2025 at 6:00 pm in the Main Theater

MET Live: FIDELIO (Beethoven)
Following a string of awe-inspiring Met performances, soprano Lise Davidsen stars as Leonore, who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny.
Next Show: Apr 6, 2025 at 2:00 pm in the Main Theater

NAC’s Downtown Concert Series: The Chris Hanson Band
Join us at The Dreamland as the Nantucket Arts Council presents another new edition of their long-running Downtown Concert Series featuring singer/songwriter Chris Hanson and his band playing a great mix of covers and original songs.

National Theatre: VANYA
Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.
Next Show: Apr 20, 2025 at 2:00 pm in the Main Theater

The 2025 Daffy Party
The Dreamland is excited to continue another annual tradition: The Daffy Party utilizing the full second floor of The Dreamland and featuring live music by one of Nantucket’s favorite bands!

National Theatre: FLEABAG
Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve) and directed by Vicky Jones, Fleabag is a rip-roaring look at some sort of woman living her sort of life.
Next Show: Apr 27, 2025 at 2:00 pm in the Main Theater

MET Live: LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (Mozart)
Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her Met debut leading two extraordinary casts in Mozart’s comic masterpiece.
Next Show: May 11, 2025 at 2:00 pm in the Main Theater

National Theatre: DR. STRANGELOVE
Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove.
Next Show: May 18, 2025 at 2:00 pm in the Main Theater

Film for Thought: Exhibition on Screen – Michelangelo: Love & Death
The spectacular sculptures and paintings of Michelangelo seem so familiar to us, but what do we really know about this Renaissance giant?

Dreamland Concert Series x Nantucket Crisps Present: Wilderado featuring Tim Skelly
Wilderado is coming to The Dreamland Sunday, May 25th supported by singer/songwriter Tim Skelly.
Next Show: May 25, 2025 at 8:00 pm in the Second Floor

Special Screening: The 2025 International Fly-Fishing Film Festival
The International Fly-Fishing Film festival is the world’s leading fly-fishing film event, consisting of films produced by professional filmmakers from all corners of the globe and showcases the passion, lifestyle, and culture of fly fishing.
Next Show: Jun 5, 2025 at 7:00 pm in the Main Theater

MET Live: SALOME (R. Strauss)
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years.
Next Show: Jun 8, 2025 at 2:00 pm in the Main Theater

HAPPY PLACE: a wellness symposium
Welcome to the reimagined Nantucket Yoga Festival! At Happy Place, our mission is to empower you to create your blueprint for a happier and healthier life. Our intention is to raise consciousness through the power of deep connections and meaningful conversations – one community at a time.
Next Show: Jun 21, 2025 at 8:00 am in the Main Theater

Dreamland Stage Company Presents: Singing in the Rain Jr.
The “Greatest Movie Musical of All Time” is faithfully and lovingly adapted by Broadway legends Betty Comden and Adolph Green, in a junior version performed by the Dreamland Stage Company.
Next Show: Jul 17, 2025 at 5:30 pm in the Main Theater

DreamBig 2025
Mark your calendar! Nantucket Dreamland’s annual DreamBIG fundraiser returns on Friday, July 18th, at the Siasconset Casino. This unforgettable evening

Dreamland Comedy Nights – Brian Glowacki
Nantucket native and nationally touring comic Brian Glowacki will be back at The Dreamland for a hilarious set Saturday, August 2nd. Fresh off a couple of years touring and performing at some of the best comedy clubs and venues around the country, this is a night of laughs you won’t want to miss.
Next Show: Aug 2, 2025 at 6:00 pm in the Main Theater

Dreamland Stage Company Presents: Beetlejuice Jr.
The ghost-with-the-most comes to the stage in Beetlejuice JR., the frightfully funny musical based on the beloved motion picture turned Broadway phenomenon, performed by the Dreamland Stage Company.
Next Show: Aug 7, 2025 at 5:30 pm in the Main Theater

Dreamland Comedy Nights: Jimmy Tingle (Documentary & Talkback)
Nationally recognized comedian, commentator, producer, and activist Jimmy Tingle’s new documentary, “Jimmy Tingle: The ‘Radical’ Middle—Why Would a Comedian Run for Office?” is coming to The Dreamland followed by a seriously funny talkback with Tingle.
Next Show: Aug 19, 2025 at 6:00 pm in the Main Theater