HAMPTON BALLET THEATRE SCHOOL’S 15TH ANNUAL NUTCRACKER

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Hampton Ballet Theatre School's Nutcracker. Photo Credit Kyle Froman

Tag: Performing Arts

ACADEMY ICONS: SUSAN LACY—LOU REED

ACADEMY ICONS: SUSAN LACY
LOU REED: ROCK AND ROLL HEART
WITH SUSAN LACY, LAURIE ANDERSON & TIMOTHY GREENFIELD- SANDERS

TICKETS $25 ($22.50 FOR MEMBERS)

Musician, poet, and composer Lou Reed made rock and roll into avant-garde. This incredible retracing of Reed’s evolution is filled with interviews with the artist, his friends, and some of the major artists he influenced. With David Bowie, David Byrne, John Cale, Philip Glass, and Patti Smith. Followed by a talk with Susan Lacy, multidisciplinary artist and Reed’s wife, Laurie Anderson, and director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

Film Run Time: 72 Minutes

Guild Hall introduces Academy Icons, a new program that spotlights Guild Hall Academy of the Arts members and their work. Inaugurating the series is Susan Lacy, an acclaimed director and producer best known for creating American Masters, the PBS biography series, which began in 1986, profiling artists and visionaries who have helped shape our country’s culture. Her subjects have included James Baldwin, Bob Dylan, Judy Garland, David Geffen, Lena Horne, Joni Mitchell, and hundreds more. American Masters garnered unprecedented awards over the years. Susan earned the series 71 Emmy nominations and 28 wins, including a remarkable ten for Outstanding Non-Fiction Series, in addition to 13 Peabody Awards, three Grammy Awards and a nomination, and an Academy Award and four nominations. Since moving to HBO in 2013, Susan has directed and produced Spielberg, Jane Fonda in Five Acts, Very Ralph, and executive produced The Janes, all for HBO Documentary Films. Among many other distinctions, Susan served as the Governor of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for eight years, is an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences member and a cherished member of Guild Hall’s Academy.

COMEDIAN DULCÉ SLOAN

COMEDY
TICKETS $40-$60 ($36-$54 FOR MEMBERS)

Don’t miss a night filled with sharp wit and honest humor featuring Emmy-winner Dulcé Sloan, a rising comedy star and senior correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. Hailed by Variety, Rolling Stone, and Time Out LA as a “Top Comedian To Watch,” Dulcé brings her unique perspective on society and personal relationships to inform her hilariously entertaining point of view.

The evening will be hosted by Jay Whitaker, featuring opener Jatty Robinson.

See Dulcé after winning an Emmy with The Daily Show on 9/15!

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TAYLOR MAC: BORN TO RUN (TO AND FROM THE HAMPTONS)

TICKETS $85-$155 ($75.50-$139.50)
Note: This work may include mature content and is intended for adult audiences.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT! Our friends at Almond Restaurant in Bridgehampton are offering 10% off your meal when you show your Taylor Mac ticket. They are open late, so we encourage you to head over after the show for a meal, cocktails, and fun.

“If you’re not invited to the party, throw a better one.” — Taylor Mac

One of the most singular artists of our time, Taylor Mac – performance artist, singer, playwright, director, and actor– creates fearlessly irreverent works that build community through the making of theater. Equal parts community organizer, Elizabethan fool, and “contemporary sage” (The Guardian), Taylor Mac (who uses the pronoun ‘judy’) appears decked and bedazzled in gloriously irreverent regalia in a performance that doesn’t “just defy categorization; [Mac] makes the categories themselves seem irrelevant.” (Time Out NY). 

Nearly a decade ago, Wesley Morris of The New York Times called Taylor Mac’s marathon performance art concert A 24-Decade History of Popular Music “one of the great experiences of my life”  before it became the subject of an HBO original feature documentary film. Taylor Mac continues to reframe and reflect on American history  through spectacular original performances.  

In “Taylor Mac: Born to Run (To and From the Hamptons),” seasoned provocateur Taylor Mac punctures New York’s beautiful bubble with a set built to meet Hamptonites on their own turf via a fresh look on our fragile democracy. This new evening of  songs and Mac’s signature banter will feature recent works – including songs from the 24-Decade project and Bark of Millions, a new rock opera meditation on queerness – written in collaboration with the composer and Music Director Matt Ray and accompanied by an incomparable band.

As a visual feast, the event includes fantastical costumes by Machine Dazzle, who recently won the Creative Arts Emmy for “Outstanding Costumes For Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Programming” for his designs in the HBO documentary “Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History of Popular Music.”

“Fabulousness can come in many forms, and Taylor Mac seems intent on assuming each and every one of them.” – The New York Times

“Mac is one of this country’s most heroic and disarmingly funny playwrights.” – American Theatre Magazine

“One of the most exciting theater artists of our time.”– TimeOut New York

Taylor Mac is a playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, performance artist, director and producer. Mac is a MacArthur “genius award” Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, the first American to receive the International Ibsen Award, Tony nominee for Best Play, a recipient of the Kennedy Prize, the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Guggenheim, a Drama League Award, a NY Drama Critics Circle Award, two Obies, and two Bessies. His documentary Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music was directed by Oscar-winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffery Friedman and premiered on HBO in 2023.

Taylor Mac, Lyrics, Concept, Direction and Performer
Matt Ray, Music Director, Arranger, Musician/Keys
Viva DeConcini,  Musician/Guitar
Gary Wang, Musician/Bass
Shirazette Tinnin, Musician/Drums
Marián Gómez Villota, Sound

Get prepped and watch Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music on HBO!

 

AN EVENING WITH DAVID SEDARIS

THIS PROGRAM IS SOLD OUT

David Sedaris is back due to popular demand! The author of the previous bestsellers Calypso, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and regular National Public Radio contributor will be live on stage, following the release of his newest book Happy Go Lucky. This is a unique opportunity to see the best-selling humorist in an intimate setting. As always, Sedaris will be offering a selection of all-new readings and recollections, as well as a Q&A session and book signing.

GHOULD HALL’S HALLOWEEN SILENT DISCO DANCE PARTY

HEADSET RENTAL $15 ($13 FOR MEMBERS)
$10 for Students!

Join us in Guild Hall’s “spookified” Furman Garden for the return of our Halloween Silent Disco Dance Party. Wireless headsets will feature three different channels, and guest DJs will spin the best dance tunes from the 70s to today for a scary good time. In addition to the dancing, Guild Hall’s Teen Arts Council will offer interactive activations and activities for all ages. Make sure to come in costume for a chance to win a prize!

Concessions, including wine, beer, and a special witches brew cocktail, will be available for purchase in Louise & Howie’s Coffee Bar in the lobby.

Falls for Jodie a new play by Eric Micha Holmes

Directed by Bill Burford and featuring Trevor Vaughn and Michael Paul.  

Inspired by the months before John Hinckley’s attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, “Falls for Jodie” is an imagined account of Hinckley’s strange partnership with a concierge at a hotel next to the Yale campus, who tries to help Hinckley win the affections of his child-star crush. 

SILENT DISCO DANCE PARTY

Headset Rental:
$15 ($13 for Members)

Get ready to kick off the summer with the return of everyone’s favorite Silent Disco Dance Party. Guild Hall’s Furman Garden will be lit up and ready to greet dancers for some uproariously quiet movin’ and groovin’. Wireless headsets will feature three different channels, including 70s disco and funk, 80s and 90s pop and hip-hop, and hits from the 2000s to today. Each station is represented by a color, so when you notice someone having a great time, you can just switch over to that color and join them!

Blue Channel: Pop and Contemporary from the 80’s to today with DJ Sits-a-Lot (Amy Kirwin)
Green Channel: Disco & Funk with DJ Mister Lama
Red Channel: Hip-Hop & Rap with DJ Almond Z

Skip the lines and reserve your headphones in advance – which also guarantees you will get them on arrival! Headsets can be rented on site, but advance reservations are recommended.

Wine, beer, a signature cocktail, and snacks will be available at Louise & Howie’s Coffee Bar located in the front lobby.

Book Talk: Scott Chaskey in Conversation with Evan Harris

Join East End farmer and author, Scott Chaskey, in conversation with writer Evan Harris, as they discuss his book Soil and Spirit, our reciprocal relationship with land and species, and share poetry. Soil and Spirit is filled with lively essays exploring Scott’s evolving perspective as a farmer and poet, describing his experiences in environments close to home and as far flung as Ireland, China and New Mexico. 

“Enlivened by decades of work in open fields washed by the salt spray of the Atlantic”–words that describe his prose as well as his vision of connectedness, “Scott both expands our horizons and deepens our contemplative capacities with the astonishing connections he makes between soil, soul, and sustenance in these challenging and eloquent essays…” — Gary Paul Nabhan

This program is presented in conjunction with the current exhibition, Student Art Festival: Eco vs Ego.

SOIL AND SPIRIT WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THE PROGRAM THROUGH BOOKHAMPTON.

ABOUT SCOTT CHASKEY’s book SOIL and SPIRIT

As a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shaped by daily attention to the earth. A leader in the international Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, he has combined a longstanding commitment to food sovereignty and organic farming with a belief that humble attention to microbial life and diversity of species provides invaluable lessons for building healthy human communities.  

Along the way, even while planning rotations of fields, ordering seeds, tending to crops and their ecosystems, Chaskey was writing. And in this lively collection of essays, he explores the evolution of his perspective—as a farmer and as a poet. Tracing the first stage in his development back to a homestead in Maine, on the ancestral lands of the Abenaki, he recalls learning to cultivate plants and nourish reciprocal relationships among species, even as he was reading Yeats and beginning to write poems. He describes cycling across Ireland, a surprise meeting with Seamus Heaney, and, later, farming in Cornwall’s ancient landscape of granite, bramble, and windswept trees. He travels to China for an international conference on Community Supported Agriculture, reading ancient wilderness poetry along the way, and then on to the pueblo of Santa Clara in New Mexico, where he joins a group of Indigenous women harvesting amaranth seeds. Closer to home on the Southfork of Long Island, he describes planting redwood saplings and writing verse under the canopy of an American beech.

Scott Chaskey has given us a book for our time. A seed of hope and regeneration.

https://milkweed.org/book/soil-and-spirit

 

Landscape Therapy: Edwina von Gal + PRFCT Earth Project

Join landscape designer, Edwina von Gal, and her collaborators at PRFCT EARTH PROJECT for a Landscape Therapy Session. As a collective, we will share gardening woes and mishaps, followed by small-group consultations. Participants are encouraged to share specific questions, concerns, and even photographic proof (!) of their garden spaces, and will receive actionable tactics from each Guest Speaker to create a more nature-based garden.

This workshop, which will take place in Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center, is open to gardeners of all experiences & interest levels, and programmed in relation to the current exhibition, Student Art Festival: Eco vs Ego.

PRFCT Earth Project’s Nature-Based Gardening booklet will be available for purchase in advance for an additional $10 + tax, or can be purchased at the program, while supplies last.

ABOUT PRFCT EARTH PROJECT

Founded in 2013 by Edwina von Gal, Perfect Earth Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating, engaging, and inspiring individuals, land care professionals, and decision-makers to adopt toxic-free, nature-based, and climate-responsible landscaping practices necessary for a healthier, more sustainable—and beautiful—environment for all.

The core of our mission is nature-based land care, which means working with nature and its beauty, not against it. When we use these simple methods, our gardens become a feast for the senses, hosting a healthy and vibrant ecosystem that is safe for us, our kids, and our pets.

https://perfectearthproject.org

 

SILENT DISCO DANCE PARTY

Advance Reservations Are Now Closed – Admission Can be Paid in Person

Everyone’s favorite night of fun returns this Saturday when Guild Hall’s Furman Garden will be lit up and ready to greet dancers for some uproariously quiet movin’ and groovin’. Wireless headsets will feature three different channels, including 70s disco and funk, 80s and 90s pop and hip-hop, and hits from the 2000s to today. Each station is represented by a color, so when you notice someone having a great time, you can just switch over to that color and join them!

Skip the lines and reserve your headphones in advance – which also guarantees you will get them on arrival! Headsets can be rented on site, but advance reservations are recommended.

Wine, beer, and snacks will be available at our Coffee Bar located in the front lobby.

RAIN DATE: Sunday, 9/3