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NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: THE MISANTHROPE

by Martin Crimp after Molière
Directed by Indhu Rubasingham

Award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) plays the title role in this razor-sharp reimagining of Molière’s classic dark comedy.

Telling the truth isn’t always that simple. Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the carefully constructed lies of modern society. But the more she challenges those around her, the fiercer the backlash becomes. Soon, she must confront the price of speaking her truth in a world that would rather silence her.

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Indhu Rubasingham directs Martin Crimp’s (Cyrano de Bergerac) highly anticipated play.

RUN TIME: 125 minutes, no intermission

RUSH TICKETS
A limited number of $25 Rush tickets may be available for Guild Hall-produced programs, 20 minutes before start time, in person only. Guests are instructed to line up outside in the rush line for the potential release of tickets.

ON THE SPOT: IMPROV, TAKE 2

Six-Week Course
Tuesdays, October 13, 20, & 27 and November 3, 10, & 17
6-7:30 PM

Take your improv skills to the next level in this dynamic six-week course focused on creating richer characters, stronger relationships, and compelling scenes. Through dramatic, comedic, and even musical improvisation, students will explore point of view, build longer-form scenes, and learn how to raise the stakes to create engaging, spontaneous stories. The course will revisit techniques from last season’s “Yes, And…,” and build on that foundation, culminating in a performance for family and friends.

Appropriate for all levels, including new and past participants, ages 18+.

Instructed by Kayla Matters and Amy Kirwin

FAMILY DAY

Gather your crew and spend the day getting creative at Guild Hall! Each month, Family Day brings hands-on art workshops, kid-friendly tours of our galleries led by the Teen Arts Council, and lively performances from local student artists in the Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan Theater.

It’s a fun, free day for families to make, explore, and celebrate art together—drop in and join the fun!

WE MET AT GROSSINGER’S

We Met at Grossinger’s is an immersive journey through the Jewish Catskills—once known as the Borscht Belt—reviving the iconic resort that inspired Dirty Dancing and defined an era of Jewish American life.

Throughout decades of prejudice stifling the integration of Jewish immigrants in America, the Borscht Belt in the Catskills provided an oasis of belonging, and Grossinger’s Resort and Hotel was the crown jewel. The real-life inspiration for the setting of the 1987 classic film Dirty Dancing, Grossinger’s provided both a physical and mental getaway where Jews—and others from marginalized communities—needing a break from NYC could relax.

The resort’s growing reputation attracted a wide variety of comedians, athletes, and political figures, including Mel Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Jackie Robinson, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Award-winning filmmaker Paula Eiselt (Aftershock, 93Queen) resurrects this vanished world with an immersive warmth, providing a timely reminder of the historic richness of Jewish culture and its immeasurable contributions to American life.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with producer Robert Friedman and Jennie Grossinger’s granddaughter, Susan Estess. Moderator to-be-announced.

EMERGENCY EYEWASH ABC: CAROL SZYMANSKI, BARRY SCHWABSKY & WADADA LEO SMITH

Artist Carol Szymanski and poet and art critic Barry Schwabsky present Emergency Eyewash ABC, a live performance bringing together poetry, visual art, and music.

Moving between poetry, art, and music, the performance features a series of live readings from a new alphabet book for grown-ups written by 28 contemporary American poets alongside projections of Szymanski’s video fantasia on the alphabet and musical improvisation by legendary trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith. Performing on Szymanski’s sculptural horns—playable brass instruments developed from the forms of an eccentric alphabet font of Szymanski’s design—Smith responds in real time to the spoken word and projected imagery.

Together, the artists transform the stage into a meeting place for poetry, imagery, sculpture, and music.

Featured readers: Susan Bee, Charles Bernstein, Lee Ann Brown, Edwin Frank, Andrea Glimcher, Joan Jonas, Simone Kearney, Suzanne McClelland, Eileen Myles, Geoffrey O’Brien, Julie Patton, Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Sarah Riggs, Canning Robb, Barry Schwabsky, Eleni Sikelianos, Mónica de la Torre, Catherine Wagner, and Cynthia Zarin. More to be announced.

Featured poets: Andrea Applebee, Molly Bendall, Jill Bialosky, Charles Bernstein, Lee Ann Brown, Peter Cole, Edwin Frank, Judith Goldman, Richard Hell, Simone Kearney, Vincent Katz, Joyelle McSweeney, Eileen Myles, Geoffrey O’Brien, George Quasha, Julie Patton, Sarah Riggs, Aram Saroyan, Barry Schwabsky, Steven Seidenberg, Eleni Sikelianos, Eileen Tabios, Daniel Tiffany, Mónica de la Torre, Catherine Wagner, Matvei Yankelevich, and John Yau.

BHCCRC BLACK FILM FESTIVAL: WE WANT THE FUNK

Kick off The Center’s Black Film Festival with an evening of film, music, celebration, and plenty of funk. Guests are encouraged to come dressed to impress in their best 1970s style, funk & flair!

WE WANT THE FUNK! is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from its African, soul, and early jazz roots to the explosion of 1970s urban funk and its lasting influence on music and culture.

Featuring the dynamism of James Brown, the extraterrestrial sounds of George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic, the transformation of Labelle, and Fela Kuti’s groundbreaking Afrobeat, the film celebrates the artists and movements that made funk a cultural force while tracing its influence on new wave, hip-hop, and generations of music that followed.

Following the screening, keep the funk going at a special post-screening party celebrating the birthday of The Center’s Executive Director, Bonnie Michelle Cannon. Come ready to dance, celebrate, and get funky!

RUN TIME: 84 minutes

COLLECTING CONTEMPORARIES: GLENN FUHRMAN & JEFF KOONS

Presented by BookHampton & Guild Hall

Join collector and philanthropist Glenn Fuhrmanand artist Jeff Koons for a conversation exploring their distinguished careers and the ideas, relationships, and experiences that have shaped their engagement with contemporary art.

Taking Fuhrman’s recent book,  Collecting Contemporaries: The Fuhrman Collection, as a point of departure, Koons and Fuhrman reflect on defining moments in their respective journeys as artist and collector. Together, they consider the evolution of artistic practice and collecting, the personal impulses behind building a collection, and the dynamic relationship that develops between artists, collectors, and their work.

Book sale & signing to follow.

$25 Rush tickets are subject to availability, 20 minutes before start time of the program, in person only. Guests are instructed to line up outside in the rush line for the potential release of tickets.

BETTER LATE: DAN BUCATINSKY, DANNY BURSTEIN, DEBRA MONK, DAVID HYDE PIERCE

A Comedic Play by Larry Gelbart
Staged Reading directed by Susan Stroman

Starring Dan Bucatinsky, Danny Burstein, Debra Monk & David Hyde Pierce

Run Time: 2 hours, with one intermission

As Better Late opens, composer Lee Baer (Danny Burstein) is forced by his wife, Nora (Debra Monk), to take in her ex-husband, Julian (David Hyde Pierce), after he suffers a stroke. Tension mounts as Julian’s presence makes it increasingly difficult for Lee to write, while long-simmering family dynamics come to the surface. Matters become even more complicated when Julian and Nora’s son, Billy (Dan Bucatinsky), reveals he is navigating a divorce of his own. How long will Julian stay—and how long before Lee finally cracks?

Directed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman, this biting December-December romance is a witty, heartfelt comedy about love, family, and the unexpected ways life keeps rewriting the script.

Better Late is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.

Rush Tickets: A limited number of $25 rush tickets will be on sale for this performance, starting 20 minutes before the program begins, in person only, subject to availability. Customers will be instructed to line up outside no earlier than 45 minutes before the start of the show in order to access rush tickets, which are max 2 per customer.

MET LIVE IN HD: PARSIFAL

Wagner’s epic final opera, set in a sacred realm of ritual and mystery, unfolds as a meditation on healing and redemption with a medieval knight’s heroic quest for the Holy Grail.

François Girard’s celebrated production, a “thoughtful and intrepid staging, full of striking imagery” (The New York Times), features tenor Piotr Beczała (Andrea Chénier, Aida, Carmen, Lohengrin, Fedora) in the title role, alongside an all-star cast.

CAST: Elīna Garanča, Piotr Beczała, Peter Mattei, Ryan Speedo Green, Jongmin Park, Alfred Walker
CONDUCTOR: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
DIRECTOR: François Girard

ESTIMATED RUNTIME: 6 hours and 5 minutes, with two intermissions

Refreshments will be available for purchase at the Coffee Bar, including fresh sandwiches, and are permitted in the theater.

MET LIVE IN HD: OTELLO

Verdi’s monumental Shakespearean tragedy follows a triumphant war hero driven to destruction by jealousy and his enemies’ hatred. The ultimate Italian opera returns to cinemas with tenor Brian Jagde (La Forza del Destino) taking on the tour-de-force title role, opposite soprano Ailyn Pérez (Florencia en el Amazonas, Falstaff) as Desdemona.

CAST: Ailyn Pérez, Deborah Nansteel, Brian Jagde, Piotr Buszewski, Artur Ruciński, Vitalij Kowaljow
CONDUCTOR: Michele Mariotti
DIRECTOR: Bartlett Sher

ESTIMATED RUNTIME: 3 hours and 20 minutes, with one intermission