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VOW: GIAN CARLO FELEPPA

Album Release Concert

Guild Hall presents the album release concert of Vow, a new collection of songs by composer, sitarist, and multi-instrumentalist Gian Carlo Feleppa.

Written and developed over several years, Vow features some of Feleppa’s most intimate works to date, exploring the layering of sounds, textures, and instruments shaped by the people and experiences that have influenced his life and practice.

This concert marks the first complete live performance of Vow. Vinyl will be available for purchase following the performance.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: THE FIFTH STEP

The Fifth Step
by David Ireland

Directed by Finn den Hertog

Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland.

After years in the 12-step programme of Alcoholics Anonymous, James becomes a sponsor to newcomer Luka. The pair bond over black coffee, trade stories and build a fragile friendship out of their shared experiences. But as Luka approaches step five – the moment of confession – dangerous truths emerge, threatening the trust on which both of their recoveries depend.

Finn den Hertog directs the provocative and entertaining production filmed live from @sohoplace on London’s West End.

Run Time:
1 hour, 40 minutes
No Intermission

★★★★★
‘Raw, excruciating and often alarmingly funny’
– Daily Mail
★★★★
‘Two actors at the top of their game’
– Evening Standard
★★★★
‘Jack Lowden is staggeringly good’
– Times
★★★★
‘Freeman and Lowden spar like champions’
– WhatsOnStage
★★★★
‘Hilarious two-hander’
– Guardian
★★★★
‘Taut, funny and richly compassionate’
– Financial Times

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams

Directed by Benedict Andrews

Gillian Anderson (Sex Education), Vanessa Kirby (The Crown), and Ben Foster (Lone Survivor) lead the cast in Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece, returning to cinemas. As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.

From visionary director Benedict Andrews, this acclaimed production was filmed live during a sold-out run at the Young Vic Theatre in 2014.

Run Time:
3 hours, 38 minutes
One Intermission

Gillian Anderson won ‘Best Actress’ at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards and was nominated for the Olivier Award for ‘Best Actress’ for her performance.

★★★★★
‘Gripping. Gillian Anderson is unmissable’
‘Thoughtful and bold’
– Evening Standard
★★★★★
‘A first-rate performance from Vanessa Kirby as Stella’
‘Gillian Anderson is utterly compelling’
– Guardian
★★★★★
‘An absolute knock-out. Raw, emotional and deeply unsettling’
– Telegraph
★★★★
‘Ben Foster is chillingly thuggish
– Daily Mail
★★★★
‘Gillian Anderson gives a shatteringly powerful performance’
– Independent
★★★★
‘A stellar, modern-dress production’
– Times

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: LIFE OF PI

Life of Pi

by Yann Martel, adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti
directed by Max Webster

Puppetry, magic and storytelling combine in a unique, Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of the best-selling novel.

After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a 16-year-old boy named Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with four other survivors – a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Royal Bengal tiger. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive?

Filmed live in London’s West End and featuring state-of-the-art visuals, the epic journey of endurance and hope is bought to life in a breath-taking new way for cinemas screens.

Run Time:
2 hours, 30 minutes
One Intermission

★★★★★ ‘It will make you believe in theatre. A triumph.’ – Sunday Times
★★★★★ ‘Puppetry, projection and magic combine to stunning effect in a superlative stage adaptation.’ – The Stage
★★★★★ ‘A wonder to behold.’ – Daily Mail
★★★★★ ‘Everything about this production is amazing.’ – Observer
★★★★★ ‘The puppetry is out of this world.’ – Mail on Sunday
★★★★★ ‘Breath-taking. It will make you believe in the power of theatre. Roar it out: this is a hit.’ – The Times
★★★★ ‘Extraordinary. One of the most visually stunning shows I have ever seen.’ – Time Out

DANCE OUT EAST: NAOMI FUNAKI – IKIGAI

Recognized as a 2023 Princess Grace Award recipient in dance, a 2024 Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch,” 92NY Artist-in-Residence and 2025 Asian American Jadin Wong Fellow, tap dance artist Naomi Funaki shares an in-process presentation of a new evening-length work, Ikigai. Reflecting on the 2011 Tohoku earthquake & tsunami, Fukushima nuclear disaster, and personal experience, Funaki blends rhythm, live music, and narrative to explore resilience, memory, and connection.

This in-process presentation is a culmination of Funaki’s weeklong Works & Process Tino and Rajika Puri creative residency at Guild Hall. Consisting of both performance and conversation, the evening offers audiences an intimate glimpse into the work’s development and the ideas shaping its evolution prior to its March 8^th premiere with Works & Process at Guggenheim New York as part of the Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival.

This presentation is part of the 2026 Dance Out East Festival—a collaboration between Guild Hall, The Church, The Watermill Center, and Works & Process that highlights the creation of new choreographic work ahead of its continued development within Works & Process’ 2026 dance festivals.

Ikigai was commissioned and created, in part, with the support of Works & Process Residency Tino & Rajika Puri Creative Residency and The Joyce Theater Foundation’s Creative Residencies Program made possible by lead funding from TD Charitable Foundation. Additional support provided through residencies at 92NY, CUNY Dance Initiative at Hunter College, Guild Hall of East Hampton, and an Asian American Arts Alliance Jadin Wong Fellowship.

ADDITIONAL DANCE OUT EAST EVENTS
Saturday, January 10, 2 PM
The Church: Kristine Bendul & Abdiel: The Lineage Project
Info & Tickets

Sunday, January 11, 2 PM
The Watermill Center: Sekou McMiller & Friends’ Palladium Nights
In Memory of Robert Wilson and Michéle Pesner
Info & Tickets

EITAN LEVINE: COMEDIAN. WRITER. MENSCH.

Presented by Guild Hall & Jewish Center of the Hamptons

Join us for an evening of smart, high-energy comedy with Eitan Levine—whose quick wit, sharp observational humor, and distinct voice make him one of today’s most compelling comedic storytellers. Known as a “writer and comedian/human theme park,” Eitan’s appearances include Jimmy Kimmel LIVE, Late Night with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, Extra, Access Hollywood and The Kelly Clarkson Show.

He’s also written for The New York Times, New York Magazine (The Cut), Amazon, Sony, and Reader’s Digest, and collaborated on creative campaigns with Nike, Red Bull, JEEP, Audible and TruTV. Eitan’s quick wit, sharp observational humor, and distinct voice has made him one of today’s most compelling comedic storytellers, with a viral social-media presence (150,000+ followers) from series such as “Jewish Man On The Street” – especially “Jewish or Antisemitic” (28 million+ views).

Audiences and community members are invited to arrive early to visit the Student Art Festival galleries, open from 12-5 PM, and then as a special pre-show moment, participate in a Pop-Up Chanukah presented by Rabbi Josh Franklin, Cantor Debra Stein, Rabbi, and Jewish Center of the Hamptons at 5 PM in Guild Hall’s Boots Lamb Education Center.

IN-PROCESS: LOVE LETTERS—CAGE TO CUNNINGHAM

Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artists-in-Residence, Site-Specific Dances (artistic directors: Michael Spencer Phillips and Dino Kiratzidis) share an in-process presentation of their new dance-theater work, Love Letters: Cage to Cunningham.

LOVE LETTERS: CAGE TO CUNNINGHAM is a dance/media-performance work by Site-Specific Dances, based on selected letters from Love, Icebox. These letters reveal the interwoven nature of John and Merce’s artistic and personal lives. They contain moments of flirtation, humor, insecurity, joy, longing, arousal, and jealousy, emotions specific to the letters but also universal to human experiences of love and longing.

The piece unfolds as a series of vignettes that follow the emotional arc of the letters, combining media and live music with a new ensemble dance suite by Michael Spencer Phillips. The set design is an assemblage of various media elements drawn from the text of the letters and curated by Dino Kiratzidis in collaboration with videographer Emma Kazaryan and graphic designer Riley Hooker. Adam Tendler joins the team as a John Cage specialist, performer and adviser, alongside collaborating composers Warren Hildebrand and Matthew Ricketts.

The in-process presentation will be followed by a conversation between the creative team and Executive Director of the John Cage Trust, Jeffrey Lependorf.

THE MET: LIVE IN HD—EL ÚLTIMO SUEÑO DE FRIDA Y DIEGO

Estimated Run Time: 2 hours and 50 minutes with one intermission

On May 30, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met-premiere staging of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker.

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—EUGENE ONEGIN

Estimated Run Time: 4 hours and 5 minutes with two intermissions

Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide on May 2. Baritone Igor Golovatenko is the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance” (The Telegraph).

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—TRISTAN UND ISOLDE

Estimated Run Time: 5 hours 10 minutes with two intermissions

After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives in cinemas worldwide on March 21 as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan. The momentous occasion also marks the advent of a new, Met-debut staging by Yuval Sharon—hailed by The New York Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation” and the first American to direct an opera at the famed Wagner festival in Bayreuth—as well as Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s first time leading Tristan und Isolde at the Met. Mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova reprises her signature portrayal of Brangäne, alongside bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny, who sings Kurwenal after celebrated Met appearances in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer and Ring cycle. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes an important role debut as King Marke.

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.