JOEL MESLER: MILES OF SMILES

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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THE MET: LIVE IN HD—ARABELLA

Estimated Run Time: 4 hours and 10 minutes with two intermissions

On November 22, Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to cinemas worldwide in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Radiant soprano Louise Alder is her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the dashing count who sweeps Arabella off her feet.

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This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

THE MET: LIVE IN HD—LA BOHÈME

Estimated Run Time: 3 hours and 30 minutes with two intermissions

With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Soprano Juliana Grigoryan is the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenor Freddie De Tommaso as the ardent poet Rodolfo. Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts the November 8 performance, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas worldwide.

Read synopsis here.

This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe. 

THE MET: LIVE IN HD—LA SONNAMBULA

Estimated Run Time: 3 hours and 15 minutes with one intermission

Following triumphant Live in HD performances in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Verdi’s La Traviata, and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found. In his new production, Rolando Villazón—the tenor who has embarked on a brilliant second career as a director—retains the opera’s original setting in the Swiss Alps but uses its somnambulant plot to explore the emotional and psychological valleys of the mind. Tenor Xabier Anduaga co-stars as Amina’s fiancé, Elvino, alongside soprano Sydney Mancasola as her rival, Lisa, and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Count Rodolfo. Riccardo Frizza takes the podium for one of opera’s most ravishing works, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas on October 18.

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This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe. A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Opéra de Nice Côte d’Azur, Semperoper Dresden, and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: MRS. WARREN’S PROFESSION

Mrs. Warren’s Profession
by Bernard Shaw
directed by Dominic Cooke

Five-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time, playing mother and daughter in Bernard Shaw’s incendiary moral classic.

Vivie Warren is a woman ahead of her time. Her mother, however, is a product of that old patriarchal order. Exploiting it has earned Mrs. Warren a fortune – but at what cost?

Filmed live from the West End, this new production reunites Staunton with director Dominic Cooke (Follies, Good), exploring the clash between morality and independence, traditions and progress.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: INTER ALIA

Inter Alia
a new play by Suzie Miller

Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn) is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from the team behind Prima Facie.

Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent. When an event threatens to throw her life completely off balance, can she hold her family upright?

Writer Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin reunite following their global phenomenon Prima Facie, with this searing examination of modern motherhood and masculinity.

Please note: Inter Alia contains a sequence of flashing lights which might affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

IN PROCESS: KNONAME ARTISTS | RODERICK GEORGE

Co-Presented by Guild Hall & Pomegranate Arts

Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artists-in-Residence, kNoname Artists | Roderick George return to Guild Hall for an in-process presentation of The Missing Fruit (Part I), ahead of its premiere at New York City Center’s Fall For Dance Festival.

The Missing Fruit explores the impacts of racial violence and racism in public health through an interdisciplinary production rooted in dance and set to an original score by the musical duo Slowdanger. First conceptualized during the most recent Black Lives Matter protests, The Missing Fruit examines the experiences of Black and indigenous people and people of color, particularly addressing their struggles to combat oppression, death, financial insecurity, and health vulnerabilities while making space for Black joy to thrive.

The in-process presentation will be followed by a conversation between choreographer and kNoname Artist founder, Roderick George, and Bill T. Jones, Artistic Director/Co-Founder/Choreographer: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; Artistic Director: New York Live Arts.

The Missing Fruit is a YoungArts Fellow project, supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund & Mertz Gilmore Foundation. The work was developed and previewed during a creative residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in September 2023. Additional residency support provided by New York Live Arts and the 2025 Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence program in September 2025. 

The Missing Fruit (Part I) has been commissioned by New York City Center for the Fall for Dance Festival. Support for new dance works at New York City Center is provided by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation and the Arlene Shuler Artistic Innovation Fund.

Produced by kNoname Artist in collaboration with Pomegranate Arts. Worldwide tour representation by Pomegranate Arts.

 

THE MATTHIESSEN TALKS: BILL MCKIBBEN

THE MATTHIESSEN TALKS: BILL MCKIBBEN, A LAST CHANCE FOR THE CLIMATE AND A FRESH CHANCE FOR CIVILIZATION

Presented with The Peter Matthiessen Center

Writer, activist and environmentalist Bill McKibben, among the first to alert the world of the imminent perils of climate change with his book The End of Nature, comes to Guild Hall in East Hampton with a powerful message: In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, solar energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient energy choice around the world.

Even as the current U.S. government renews its embrace of fossil fuels and turns the nation away from renewables, solar power is taking off around the world. Against all the big, bad things happening on the planet, this is a very big and hopeful thing. McKibben will discuss groundbreaking revelations in his new book, Here Comes the Sun, A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization, followed by a conversation with environmental activist and PMC president, Alex Matthiessen.

The program will be followed by a book signing in the lobby. Copies of Bill McKibben’s book will be available for purchase in person on the day of the program, subject to availability. Advance sales are now closed.

ABOUT THE PETER MATTHIESSEN CENTER

Since 2019, the Peter Matthiessen Center has organized a myriad of popular events on the East End of Long Island–the writer’s home of 55 years from where the great majority of his 33 books was written–in furtherance of the issues he cared and wrote about most: protection of the environment and native peoples and (hu)man’s spiritual search for meaning. In 2025, the Matthiessen Talks was launched, a series of public events, or “dialogues,” designed to amplify the views of writers and activists who are working and organizing on behalf of nature and indigenous peoples. In addition to sponsoring the series, the PMC aims to establish an international literary prize in Peter Matthiessen’s name to support and promote writers producing works of fiction and non-fiction that aim, directly or indirectly, to address the most challenging issues of our time–and, in this way, further empower and mobilize the grassroots movements toiling to save civilization and the planet, as we know them.

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KARAOKE AT THE HUB

KARAOKE + SHOPPING = THE ULTIMATE FLAMINGO FRIDAY NIGHT

The Hub in Bridgehampton is hosting a night of retail therapy and shameless singing — all to support East Hampton’s longest-running arts institution, Guild Hall! 

Shop: 6–7 PM
Sing: 7–9 PM with Karaoke by Mister Lama
$20 cover — all for a great cause! 

Come for the clothes, stay for the high notes. Sip and shop with light bites. All vibes, no judgment.

THE HUB Location: 2183 Montauk Highway, Bridgehampton

 

HAMPTONS INSTITUTE: ORDER OR CHAOS—THE ECONOMY UNDER TRUMP

Trump’s sweeping tariff overhaul—dubbed “Liberation Day”—sent shockwaves through global markets and rattled investors. It’s the biggest shift in the international economic order in at least 80 years. What happens next? Will it spark a manufacturing revival and shrink the trade deficit—or fuel inflation, crush small businesses, and stall growth? Fred Hochberg, seasoned business executive and government leader who served eight years of service as Chairman and President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) and Glenn Hutchins, chairman of North Island and North Island Ventures, and co-founder of Silver Lake are joined in conversation with Gillian Tett, journalist, author and member of the editorial board for The Financial Times.

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FULL SCHEDULE:

GUARDRAILS ON DEMOCRACY
MONDAY, JULY 7, 7 PM

SNL: 50 YEARS OF AMERICAN SATIRE
MONDAY, JULY 14, 7 PM

POST-PLAY CHILDHOOD
MONDAY, JULY 21, 7 PM

ORDER OR CHAOS: THE ECONOMY UNDER TRUMP
MONDAY, JULY 28, 7 PM

Hamptons Institute is a forum for ideas that shape both our community and the world. Founded in 2010 at Guild Hall, the Hamptons Institute returns with a compelling series of dynamic conversations. Each session features world-renown experts from diverse fields exploring a single topic through multiple perspectives, followed by an audience Q&A. 

The Hamptons Institute’s 2025 installment is guest-curated by Ellen Chesler—author and Hamptons Institute co-founder (alongside Guild Hall’s late Chair, Mickey Straus)—and Patricia Duff, founder of the nonpartisan nonprofit The Common Good, dedicated to civic participation, civil dialogue, and finding solutions through common ground.

ABOUT HAMPTONS INSTITUTE

Founded in 1931 by Mary Woodhouse and her husband Lorenzo, Guild Hall began as a civic institution anchored by a museum and theater. The multidisciplinary arts institution has long been driven by the conviction that engaging with the arts—through exhibitions, performances, and meaningful dialogue—sparks connection, deepens understanding, and inspires people to participate more actively in the world beyond the boundaries of the East End. 

This mission expanded in the 1980s with the launch of Hot Topics, a series designed to spark civic discourse, featuring notable panelists like Peter Jennings, recognized for his commitment to democratic journalism. Today, alongside its rich offerings in performing and visual arts, Guild Hall continues to foster thoughtful dialogue with leading luminaries across diverse fields.