AN EVENING OF SHORT PLAYS DIRECTED BY BOB BALABAN

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Bob Balaban, photo courtesy of Guild Hall.

Tag: Performing Arts

Hamptons International Film Festival presents NOW SHOWING: Framing John DeLorean

Money, power, politics, drugs, scandal, and fast cars. The incredible story of John DeLorean is the stuff of a Hollywood screenwriter’s dreams. But who was the real John DeLorean? To some, he was a renegade visionary who revolutionized the automobile industry. To others, he was the ultimate con man. For the first time, Framing John DeLorean recounts the extraordinary life and legend of the controversial automaker, tracing his meteoric rise through the ranks of General Motors, his obsessive quest to build a sports car that would conquer the world, and his shocking fall from grace on charges of cocaine trafficking. Interweaving a treasure trove of archival footage with dramatic vignettes starring Alec Baldwin, Framing John DeLorean is a gripping look at a man who gambled everything in his pursuit of the American Dream.

Discussion to follow with David Nugent, Alec Baldwin, and directors Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce.

NOW SHOWING brings acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema films currently in theaters to the East End.

A Thousand Thoughts: A Live Documentary with the Kronos Quartet and Sam Green

 

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A multimedia experience for the eyes, ears, and soul. Kronos Quartet performs and Sam Green narrates LIVE in perfect harmony with a documentary about Kronos Quartet projected behind them.

Written and Directed by Sam Green and Joe Bini 

Oscar-nominated filmmakers Sam Green and Joe Bini team up with Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet for a wildly creative multimedia performance piece that blends live music and narration with archival footage and filmed interviews with such prominent artists as Philip Glass, Tanya Tagaq, Steve Reich, Wu Man and Terry Riley. 

As Green tells the multi-decade and continent-spanning story of the groundbreaking string quartet, Kronos revisits its extensive body of work, performing music by George Crumb, Aleksandra Vrebalov and many others. Together on stage, Green and Kronos interact with the stirring cinematic imagery on screen to craft an important record and exploration of late 20th– and early 21st–century music. Transcending the typical live music and film event, this collaboration quickly becomes a meditation on music itself – the act of listening to it closely, the experience of feeling it deeply, and the power that it has to change the world. 

Mo Amer

Comedian Mo Amer recently debuted his first stand­ up special, “The Vagabond” on Netflix, followed by appearances on Late Night with Stephen Colbert and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Named as one of Rolling Stone’s 10 Comedians You Need to Know, Amer’s humor consists of observational comedy, political satire, and race related material, heavily drawing on autobiographical elements, as well as his unique improvised, conversational style. He tells his unusual, circuitous lifestory, detailing how he managed to travel the world without a passport for years before finally becoming a U.S. citizen after two decades; had an American soldier pull a weapon on him (at a military show) in Iraq; and once had Bradley Cooper (unintentionally) rescue him in the Middle East.

Bay Street Theater in Association with Guild Hall present Under the Stars: The Romeo & Juliet Project – A New Musical featuring the music made famous by Pat Benatar & Neil Geraldo

Directed by Scott Schwartz

A free community event in Mashashimuet Park!
“The Romeo and Juliet Project” reinvents the story of our star-crossed lovers using the power of Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo’s music to remind us what happens when we forget the impact of love, equality, and acceptance. Written by Bradley Bredeweg and directed by Scott Schwartz, the show brings us into the modern, war-torn metropolis of Verona as the newly-minted Chancellor Paris takes control and promises to return the city to its traditional roots and destroy the progressive resistance. This new musical is an intricate weaving of Benatar and Giraldo’s deeply emotional rock anthems exploring the question – what does it take to regain a world where peace is possible?

On Friday, August 16th only, we will have a reserved VIP seating area available. For $85 per person or $150 per pair, we will provide a chair, a delicious charcuterie box, and a drink. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE
Reservations in advance are required. Seating availability is limited. Seating area will open at 6pm. Rain date is Saturday, August 17.

Bay Street Theater in Association with Guild Hall present Under the Stars: The Romeo & Juliet Project – A New Musical featuring the music made famous by Pat Benatar & Neil Geraldo

Directed by Scott Schwartz

A free community event in Mashashimuet Park!
“The Romeo and Juliet Project” reinvents the story of our star-crossed lovers using the power of Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo’s music to remind us what happens when we forget the impact of love, equality, and acceptance. Written by Bradley Bredeweg and directed by Scott Schwartz, the show brings us into the modern, war-torn metropolis of Verona as the newly-minted Chancellor Paris takes control and promises to return the city to its traditional roots and destroy the progressive resistance. This new musical is an intricate weaving of Benatar and Giraldo’s deeply emotional rock anthems exploring the question – what does it take to regain a world where peace is possible?

On Friday, August 16th only, we will have a reserved VIP seating area available. For $85 per person or $150 per pair, we will provide a chair, a delicious charcuterie box, and a drink. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE
Reservations in advance are required. Seating availability is limited. Seating area will open at 6pm. Rain date is Saturday, August 17th.

The Met: Live in HD – Berg’s Wozzeck

Berg’s 20th-century shocker stars baritone Peter Mattei in the title role, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium and soprano Elza van den Heever as the long-suffering Marie. Groundbreaking visual artist and director William Kentridge unveils a bold new staging set in an apocalyptic wasteland.

Hamptons International Film Festival presents SummerDocs: Cold Case Hammarskjöld

Alec Baldwin leads conversations with filmmakers and guests, presenting new and groundbreaking documentary films and thought-provoking stories to the East End.
Q&A with Alec Baldwin, HIFF Artistic Director David Nugent, and director of Cold Case Hammarskjöld, Mads Brügger.

In 1961, United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane mysteriously crashed, killing Hammarskjöld and most of the crew. With the case still unsolved 50-plus years later, Danish journalist, filmmaker, and provocateur Mads Brügger (The Red Chapel, The Ambassador) leads us down an investigative rabbit hole to unearth the truth. Scores of false starts, dead ends, and elusive interviews later, Brügger and his sidekick, Swedish Göran Björkdahl, begin to sniff out something more monumental than anything they’d initially imagined.

In his signature agitprop style, Brügger becomes both filmmaker and subject, challenging the very nature of truth by “performing” the role of truth seeker. As Brügger uncovers a critical secret that could send shockwaves around the world, we realize that sometimes absurdity and irony are the emboldening ingredients needed to confront what’s truly sinister.

Let Me Entertain You – The Jule Styne Songbook

Featuring Valerie diLorenzo, Danny Gardner, Meagan Michelson, and Sal Viviano.
Musical Direction by Jeff Harris.
Bassist – Steve Shaughnessy

With the scores of such Broadway classics as Gypsy, Funny Girl, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan, and Bells Are Ringing to his credit, composer Jule Styne ranks as one of the undisputed architects of the American musical theater.   Join us for an evening filled with gold standards of the American Songbook including Just In Time, Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend, Don’t Rain On My Parade, Time After Time, Everything’s Coming Up Roses, The Party’s Over and People.

Call Her Barbra!

Featuring Edwardyne Cowan, Valerie diLorenzo, Doreen Montalvo, and Ellen Dolan as narrator.
Musical Direction by Steven Silverstein
Bass – Steve Shaughnessy
Percussion – Christopher J. Bill

This evening’s songs capture the heart and soul of one of the best-selling singers in history, Barbra Streisand – recounting her amazing journey from the streets of Brooklyn to Broadway to the heights of Hollywood. Includes songs from Funny Girl, A Star Is Born and Yentl and hits such as People, Evergreen, The Way We Were, My Man, Don’t Rain on My Parade and many more surprises.