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KIDFEST: TIM KUBART & THE SPACE CADETS

Tim Kubart and the Space Cadets bring their new show, Really Real You, to Guild Hall. This full-band, highly interactive concert blends live music, sing-alongs, tap dancing, and playful audience participation into a shared experience that fills the room with energy and connection.

Known for creating performances that are both exuberant and sincere, Tim invites children and families into a space where feelings are welcomed and expressed openly. Without ever feeling like a lesson, the show offers young audiences a way to engage with their emotional lives through music, movement, and collective joy.

A GRAMMY Award-winning artist for his album HOME, Tim has become one of the most celebrated voices in children’s music. He is also Emmy-nominated as the longtime host of Sprout’s Sunny Side Up, where he spent years connecting with young audiences each morning through music and play. His work has been featured on major stages including the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Lollapalooza, and Austin City Limits, and he has written music for Sesame Street.

Really Real You is the newest chapter in his work with families, bringing together high-level musicianship, humor, and heart.

Join us out-front at the Phanstiel Plaza for an arts & crafts workshop with our friends at CMEE before the show!

KIDFEST: MARIO THE MAKER MAGICIAN

TWO PERFORMANCES:
1 PM TICKETS
4:30 PM TICKETS

Fresh off sold out runs in New York City, London, Sydney, and beyond, and featured on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, this show receives rave reviews everywhere it lands!

Robots and magic and slapstick… oh my! Contagiously upbeat and full of heart, the ever-innovative Mario the Maker Magician leads you through a romping explosion of energy and belly laughs punctuated with moments of heart and emotion that will catch you by surprise.

Not “just a kids’ show,” Mario the Maker Magician is an all-ages theatrical experience… for adults, kids, families… everyone, centered around magic and art. Do what you love, use what you have, and have fun! With robots to boot!

Written & Performed by: Mario Marchese

Produced by: Katie Rosa Marchese

Show Warnings: Loud Vocals & Music; A couple of moments of very light water spray

PARSONS DANCE

“It does not take long to see why Parsons and his company are one of the hottest tickets in contemporary American dance.” — The New York Post

“This is a ‘dance your heart out’ (at all times, no excuses) kind of enterprise.” — The New York Times

Known for its energized, athletic, and joyous style, Parsons Dance is internationally celebrated for its distinctive approach to contemporary American dance. The company’s bold ensemble work, striking musicality, and dynamic physicality have established it as one of the world’s leading dance companies.

Each performance radiates a “dance your heart out” intensity, combining technical precision with an infectious sense of joy. With stunning dancers and effortlessly powerful movement, the company continues to captivate audiences around the globe, delivering an exhilarating program that is both visually dazzling and deeply engaging.

This program features David Parsons’ Ludwig, Brothers, the iconic Caught, and Nascimento, alongside Fearless by Courtney Balenciaga Washington and Juke by Jamar Roberts. Together, these works showcase the company’s signature athleticism while highlighting its continued commitment to innovative choreography and exceptional artistry, offering audiences a thrilling evening of contemporary dance.

This program contains the use of strobe lights.

GEORGE CIVERIS & FRIENDS—JAKE CORNELL, LIZA TREYGER & JULIA SHIPLETT

Join New York-based writer, performer, and StraightioLab co-host George Civeris—whose debut special A Sense of Urgency was named among The New York Times’ Best Comedy of 2025—as he hosts an evening of stand-up featuring some of today’s funniest comedians.

Curated and emceed by Civeris, the lineup includes Liza Treyger, whose critically acclaimed debut hour Night Owl premiered on Netflix in 2025; Julia Shiplett, a Comedy Central Up Next comedian, TBS Comic to Watch, and Vulture Comedian You Should Know, with appearances on Overcompensating, High Maintenance, and Love Life; and Jake Cornell, a Brooklyn-based comedian, actor, and writer who has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, Joe’s Pub, and the Gramercy Theatre, with work featured in Vogue and The Washington Post.

Together, these four distinct comedic voices deliver an evening packed with fresh perspectives, unexpected turns, and laugh-out-loud moments. Expect sharp observations, surreal detours, big swings, and even bigger laughs as Civeris guides audiences through a showcase of standout New York comedy talent.

THE 24 HOUR PLAYS

Presented by Guild Hall & The 24 Hour Plays

For 30 years, The 24 Hour Plays has brought together acclaimed artists from Broadway, film, television, music, and comedy for one of theater’s most exhilarating creative challenges: write, rehearse, and perform brand-new plays in just 24 hours.

Created exclusively for Guild Hall audiences, this East Hampton edition features Directors Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), Pippin Parker (Betrayed), Thomas Caruso (Emojiland) and Jennifer Holmes (Global Empowerment Theatre); Actors David Burtka (Elle), Sophie Sumner (Killington), Ronald Guttman (Mad Men), Tovah Feldshuh (Nobody Wants This), Howard McGillin (The Phantom of the Opera), Jaime Rosenstein (Sunday in the Park with George), Lois Robbins (One Life to Live), William Popp (Bros), Gregg Bello (The Thomas Crown Affair), Rebecca Salzhauer (I’m So Happy for You), Alifair Burke (The Better Sister), Gideon Burtka-Harris (A Series of Unfortunate Events); Playwrights Amanda Green (Hands on a Hard Body), Josh Koenigsberg (Orange is the New Black), Sofia Alvarez (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before) and Ron Carlivati (Days of Our Lives); musical guest Max Vanderbeek and host Colin Cosell. Additional cast to be announced. 

Featured Actors: Greg Bello, David Burtka, Gideon Burtka-Harris, Alifair Burke, Tovah Feldshuh, Ron Guttman, Howard McGillin, Rebecca Salzhauer, Sophie Sumner, Jaime Rosenstein, Lois Robbins, William Popp – with more to be announced.

Playwrights: Josh Koenigsberg, Amanda Green, Sofia Alvarez, Ron Carlivati

Directors: Neil Patrick Harris, Tom Caruso, Pippin Parker, Jennifer Holmes

Musician: Max Vanderbeek

Emcee: Colin Cosell

DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM

Dance Theatre of Harlem returns to Guild Hall for a special evening celebrating the company’s extraordinary legacy through performance and conversation.

This intimate program features two acclaimed works from the company’s repertoire: Blake Works IV (The Barre Project)by internationally renowned choreographer William Forsythe and Higher Ground by Artistic Director Robert Garland. Created for Dance Theatre of Harlem, Forsythe’s Blake Works IV is set to the propulsive, intricately structured music of British singer-songwriter and composer James Blake, whose contemporary electronic soundscape inspires a dynamic reimagining of classical ballet vocabulary.

Garland’s Higher Ground draws on the music of Motown icon Stevie Wonder, weaving together songs including the title track “Higher Ground” and selections from Wonder’s seminal 1970s catalog. Through a vibrant fusion of ballet, social dance, and contemporary movement, the work reflects on themes of resilience, community, and social progress while exploring connections between past and present.

The evening also includes conversations with Artistic Director Robert Garland and members of the company, offering audiences unique insight into the creative process, the history and evolution of Dance Theatre of Harlem, and the artistic vision guiding the company today.

 

LLOYD KNIGHT: THE DRAMA

Created by dancer Lloyd Knight, choreographer Jack Ferver, and filmmaker Jeremy Jacob, The Drama highlights the life of Martha Graham Dance Company Principal Dancer Lloyd Knight in an intimate and personal solo dance work inspired by two important women in his life: his mother and the legendary modern dance choreographer Martha Graham. The Drama lays bare what it takes both physically and psychologically to pursue a life in dance and touches on Knight’s upbringing and what drew him to dance from an early age.

Exploring ideas around femininity, iconic roles within the Martha Graham Company, and more, The Drama utilizes movement, spoken word, sound, video, and creative colorful projection to give audiences an immersive experience. Knight will have audiences in awe of his physicality, his remarkable dance technique, and his storytelling in this moving and entertaining one-hour solo work.

Written & Performed by Lloyd Knight
Directed & Choreographed by Jack Ferver
Production Design by Jeremy Jacob

The Drama was commissioned by Works & Process and DANCECleveland, and developed over a series of Works & Process LaunchPAD residencies at Bridge Street Theatre, Modern Accord Depot, and The Watermill Center.

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. 

 

SUMMERDOCS: THE LAST FIRST: WINTER K2

Co-Presented by HamptonsFilm & Guild Hall

In THE LAST FIRST: WINTER K2, Amir Bar-Lev tells a complex, harrowing, and moving story that unpacks the industry of extreme mountain climbing and its changing culture.

Focusing on a 2021 expedition, mountaineers John Snorri Sigurjónsson, an Icelander, and Pakistani father-son team Ali and Sajid Sadpara set out to be the first to summit K2 in the winter, when the mountain’s conditions are the cruelest. The men soon find themselves sharing the treacherous ascent with influencer climbers and their film crews, commercial expedition clients, and Nims, a Nepalese celebrity mountaineer, and his team of Sherpas.

THE LAST FIRST: WINTER K2 takes us to the icy heights and unpredictable weather of K2 and reveals a surprising and layered story — one of strategy and determination, class and caste, money and power — all under life and death circumstances.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with director, Amir Bar-Lev, HamptonsFilm Co-Chair, Alec Baldwin, and HamptonsFilm Chief Creative Officer, David Nugent.

Amir Bar-Lev’s directorial credits include FIGHTER (2001), MY KID COULD PAINT THAT (2007), the Emmy-winning THE TILLMAN STORY (2010), HAPPY VALLEY (2014), and LONG STRANGE TRIP (2017). Bar-Lev also co-produced TROUBLE THE WATER, which was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2008 Academy Awards.

SUMMERDOCS: KNIFE—THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF SALMAN RUSHDIE

Co-Presented by HamptonsFilm & Guild Hall

More than 30 years after Iran issued a fatwa, a religious decree calling for author Salman Rushdie’s death over The Satanic Verses, Rushdie traveled to Chautauqua to speak about the United States as a sanctuary for exiled writers and artists. The event marked the 20th anniversary of a writer-refuge program—a setting meant to celebrate safety and creative freedom. It was there, in an unrelated incident, that a young man rushed the stage, intent on killing him with a knife. Using excerpts from Rushdie’s works, including his powerful memoir Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Alex Gibney’s documentary is both a striking testament to freedom of expression and a defiant response to the attempt on Rushdie’s life.

The film incorporates never-before-seen footage shot by Rushdie’s wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, in the days and weeks following the attack. This material offers a graphic, unflinching, and deeply intimate account of what happened. It also traces Rushdie’s physical and spiritual recovery, including the challenges he continues to face, from losing an eye to the reduced use of one hand.

Knife blends reportage with fictionalized dialogues to explore the mindset of the attacker, probing the “why” behind the violence. At its core, the film is a portrait of resilience—of Rushdie’s own extraordinary strength and the love that carried him through—and a call to action against censorship and hatred. It argues that art itself can be a form of resistance.

In Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie, Gibney, working with longtime collaborators Andy Grieve (editor) and Will Bates (composer), crafts a poetic dreamscape that reflects how Rushdie views his writing as his own “knife,” a tool to fight back, reclaim his story, and respond to violence with imagination and art.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with Knife director, Alex Gibney, HamptonsFilm Co-Chair, Alec Baldwin, and HamptonsFilm Chief Creative Officer, David Nugent.

Alex Gibney is an Oscar-, Emmy-, Grammy-, and Peabody-winning filmmaker known for incisive, gripping documentaries. His works include TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE, GOING CLEAR, ENRON, IN RESTLESS DREAMS, and forthcoming films on Elon Musk and Luigi Mangione.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES

by Christopher Hampton
based on the novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
directed by Marianne Elliott

BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin.

Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they turn seduction into strategy and weaponise desire. But when their alliance collapses into rivalry, the battle between them threatens to destroy everyone in their path.

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Marianne Elliott (Angels in America) directs this thrilling game of love, lies, and social warfare.