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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.
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.
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.
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.
Mugimp. Flaxijen. Rilidun. Which is the toxic mushroom, the Scandanavian fish dish, and the term for a lazy person?
This month at Guild Hall Game Night we will be playing Krazy Wordz, the game about making up, well, crazy words. Each round, players will privately receive a card with a prompt like “Baby Food Brand” and a selection of random letters. Everyone uses their letters to make up a fake word that fits their own prompt. Then, the cards are shuffled and each player must guess whose crazy words match which prompt. Krazy Wordz is a super fun word game that rewards creativity over a big vocabulary, and will have the whole table laughing from the get go.
Out with the old, in with the new!
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 game design. Join Guild Hall and Game Master Noah Salaway in embracing the tabletop revolution as we play some of the best modern board games on the market the last Monday of each month. Take a break from the digital age and join us at the table! Ages 16 and up only.
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.
Casey Carle, international performer & consultant to Cirque du Soleil, brings his BubbleMania: Comedy……With a Drip! to Guild Hall with jaw-dropping bubble sculptures, funky funny foam, jazz inspired bubble choreography and eye-popping giant bubbles. Come see how this guy combines soap and showmanship to amaze and amuse all ages!
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Starring Harris Yulin, Mercedes Ruehl, Darren Goldstein, and Elizabeth Marvel.
The time – the mid ’70s. The place – upstate New York. Young playwright John returns to his family’s house, seeking permission to produce the play he has written about his family. As martinis flow, so do recriminations and revelations. One of Gurney’s funniest and most poignant plays.
Larry and Teresa’s new album “Contraband Love” revisits the Americana textures of the duo’s debut, deftly channeling Memphis, Chicago, the Delta, and Appalachia with equal assurance. Larry’s world-famous guitar work – scorching here, funky there, stellar always – punctuates the proceedings with riveting emotion, often like a third voice weighing in on a myriad of emotional states.
The East Hampton Star is proud to announce its new Experiential division, dedicated to providing both their readers and their partners with innovative and unexpected experiences designed to surprise, delight and create long-lasting community connections.
Join The East Hampton Star for a private three-course dinner at the Maidstone Hotel before each performance.
Breathtaking, cutting edge, incredible illusions – when Jason Bishop makes magic, you won’t believe your eyes! Close-up sleight of hand and projections on a huge movie screen meld with a totally modern energy and an outstanding rock and pop soundtrack.
Also performing at 1pm
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