Installation view of Joel Mesler: Miles of Smiles, Guild Hall, East Hampton, August 3 – October 26, 2025. Photo: Francine Fleischer. Image Courtesy of Guild Hall.
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Mondays, January 20–March 2 from 6–9pm PLAYWRITING: PROCESS & PROJECTS is a seven-week workshop designed to unleash the playwright's inner imaginings, explore how stories emerge, and prepare for production. Producer/director Bill Burford helps writers, actors, and other artists foster each other’s work through free-drafting, reading each participant's new pages together, and mutually supportive feedback. Artists...
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This month at Guild Hall Game Night we will be playing Letter Jam, the cooperative word game. Letter Jam is a game of deduction and teamwork. Each player has a secret word, unknown to themselves, with one letter revealed at a time. Players go around spelling words with each other's letters, essentially giving clues to... |
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Designed for all levels and experiences, IMPROV 1 focuses on the fundamentals of improvisation. Through playful exercises and games we will learn the basic skills of improvisation and collaboration, developing a new sense of spontaneity, imagination, and confidence. Open to everyone. No experience necessary. |
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Primarily known today as the composer of oratorio such as The Messiah, George Friderich Handel was a prolific opera composer; with around 50 operatic works to his name. In this lecture, Victoria Bond will reveal how the German born composer became a master of Italian Baroque Opera, through the specific lens of his political drama,... 
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As the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of Handel’s tale of deception and deceit. Harry Bicket conducts Sir David McVicar’s wry new production, which gives this Baroque black comedy a politically charged, modern updating. Delve even deeper into Handel's Agrippina? Join us for a pre-opera lecture, Operatif: Handel, The Opera Composer before... 
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Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne (Belgium, 2019, 84 minutes) The Dardenne Brothers won this year’s Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for this brave new work, another intimate portrayal-in-furious-motion of a protagonist in crisis. The filmmakers’ radical empathy alights on a Muslim teenager (extraordinary first-time actor Idir Ben Addi) in a... |
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Mondays, January 20–March 2 from 6–9pm PLAYWRITING: PROCESS & PROJECTS is a seven-week workshop designed to unleash the playwright's inner imaginings, explore how stories emerge, and prepare for production. Producer/director Bill Burford helps writers, actors, and other artists foster each other’s work through free-drafting, reading each participant's new pages together, and mutually supportive feedback. Artists... |
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Guild Hall has named the recipients of the 35th Academy of the Arts Achievement Awards. This year’s honorees are Dorothea Rockburne for Visual Arts presented by Richard Armstrong, Salman Rushdie for Literary Arts presented by Taryn Simon, Barry Sonnenfeld for Performing Arts presented by Kelly Ripa, and Ted Hartley will receive the Special Award for... |
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For 82 years Guild Hall has reserved space in its exhibition schedule for the Annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition. The first installment took place in 1938, shortly after Guild Hall’s inception in 1931. It is the oldest non-juried show on Long Island and one of the few non-juried exhibitions still running. Deeply rooted in...
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Join us in celebrating the opening of our 82nd Artist Members Exhibition. Exclusive to Members of Guild Hall. For 82 years, Guild Hall has reserved space in its exhibition schedule for the Annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition. The first installment took place in 1938, shortly after Guild Hall’s inception in 1931. It is the...
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Directed by Mike Nichols (USA, 1983, 131 minutes) In 1983, celebrated director Mike Nichols put his successful theater career on hold to tell the story of chemical technician and union labor activist Karen Silkwood. From a script by Alice Arlen, and a first time screenwriter named Nora Ephron, Nichols assembled an all-star cast featuring Meryl... |
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Circle of Voices is an evening workshop of collective singing, creative writing, and communal dialogue to explore and connect our individual thought, breath, and tone to the peoples and environments around us. Led by Guild Hall’s Patti Kenner Fellow, Anthony Madonna, the evening will center around tenets of Deep Listening, collective singing, and other participatory... |
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A look back at some of the great moments in our history of arts and education programming. Museum Talks 82nd Artist Members Exhibition - Museum Mondays: Curatorial Assistant’s Choice with Casey Dalene Abstract Expressionism Revisited: Selections from the Guild Hall Museum Permanent Collection - Gallery Talk with Joan Marter Joyce Kubat: My People - Gallery... |
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James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) returns to the stage in an inventive new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, broadcast live to cinemas from the West End in London. Fierce with a pen and notorious in combat, Cyrano almost has it all - if only he could win the heart of his true love Roxane. There’s just... |
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Evgeny Nikitin is the mysterious seafarer searching for salvation. Director François Girard, whose mesmerizing production of Parsifal recently wowed Met audiences, returns to stage Wagner’s eerie early masterwork. Valery Gergiev conducts.
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Directed by Melina León (Peru/Spain/US, 2019, 97 minutes) Spanish & Quechua w. English subtitles Based on harrowing true events, Song Without a Name tells the story of Georgina, an indigenous Andean woman whose newborn baby is whisked away moments after its birth in a downtown Lima clinic - and never returned. Stonewalled by a byzantine and indifferent legal... |
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Gallery Tour of the 82nd Artist Members Exhibition led by Guild Hall Curatorial Assistant Casey Dalene, highlighting her personal favorites in the show. For 82 years, Guild Hall has reserved space in its exhibition schedule for the Annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition. The first installment took place in 1938, shortly after Guild Hall’s... 
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The co-host of The Kitchen talks about her favorite East End ingredients, recipes, and tips with Florence Fabricant, our host of Stirring the Pot. Recorded on August 18, 2019 in our John Drew Theater Join us for this YouTube Premiere to experience this stream with arts lovers around the world. A moderator from Guild Hall... |
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Meeting on the third Thursday of each month, Drink and Draw With Me... (Bri Ashe)is an opportunity to meet new people, discuss your day, and create art together. Equipped with “small art stuff” – pens, pencils, markers –, and some uncommon surfaces – napkins, coasters, receipts –, Drink and Draw invites you to... |
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Directed by Ken Loach (UK, 2019, 101 minutes) The British working class is once again the empathetic subject of Ken Loach’s SORRY WE MISSED YOU, a wrenching, intimate family drama that exposes the dark side of the so-called “gig economy”. Ricky, a former laborer, and his home-attendant wife Abby—who lost their home in the 2008... |
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During this livestream premiere on Sunday which will also celebrate the 90th birthday of Stephen Sondheim, Errico will be joining Guild Hall’s YouTube Channel to answer questions from viewers in real time about the concert and Sondheim. The concert can be viewed here: guildhall.org/melissaerrico or https://youtu.be/Ryo4VzX677A The Wall Street Journal raved about Melissa Errico’s album... |
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In the past couple decades, game designers have been creating fascinating, immersive table-top games that make Monopoly seem like it was designed in 1905. Game night no longer means suffering through hours of rolling dice in Monopoly or Risk. Today’s newest non-digital board and card games cultivate creativity, problem solving, social skills, and dexterity through clever... |
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YouTube Premiere and chat with artist GE Smith during the concert. A musical series with very rare couplings, highlighting conversations, stripped down to the bone, with exclusive artists in a highly intimate setting. Recorded Live in our John Drew Theater at Guild Hall on June 28, 2019. Artists Taylor Barton and GE Smith along with... |
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Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles (Brazil/France, 2019, 131 minutes) English and Portuguese with English subtitles A few years from now... Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants (among them Sônia Braga) notice that their village... 
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Gallery Tour of the 82nd Artist Members Exhibition led by Guild Hall Executive Director, Andrea Grover highlighting her personal favorites in the show. For 82 years, Guild Hall has reserved space in its exhibition schedule for the Annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition. The first installment took place in 1938, shortly after Guild Hall’s inception... |
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Featuring a Tony Award-winning performance from host of the The Late Late Show, James Corden, the hilarious West End and Broadway hit One Man, Two Guvnors is National Theatre At Home’s first free YouTube stream. Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in... |
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Join us as we invite you into the studios of our closest artist friends and supporters for a weekly art break. Utilizing simple materials found at home, learners of all ages will explore new ways of bringing creativity into their everyday by virtually visiting and creating with an East End artist. In this episode, join... |