Five Things You Need to Know Today: August 2

Five Things You Need to Know Today is a Patch column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance.

1. Lilly the Mouse Visits Storytime today at the . 10:30 am.

2. Tonight at in Edgartown is the . 5 pm

3. Tonight the Chilmark Community Center Author Series welcomes ” a novel that won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award and was widely praised as one of the best books of the year. One admission ticket is $10. One book and one admission ticket is $15. Tickets are available at , the . 7:30 pm

4. The presents a screening of at in Oak Bluffs tonight. Filmed on Martha’s Vineyard and other locations in the 1960’s, this never before shown film includes cast members from the Shearer Summer Theater appear in this groundbreaking interpretation of Shakespeare’s famous play with an all-black cast. 7:30 pm

5. Tonight join and the 25 to 30 Vineyard residents and visitors, artists and non-artists alike, as they come together under the guidance of the lead artists, Tina Croll and Jamie Cunningham for the production of . $15-$25. 8 pm. For more information, call 508-645-9662