THE MET: LIVE IN HD—LA SONNAMBULA

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Nadine Sierra stars as Amina in a new production of Bellini's "La Sonnambula." Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera

Tag: Performing Arts

JDT Lab: Waiting for Nothing

Two college freshmen, stuck living life through social media in this day and age, struggle in a changing society – dealing with their own inner demons while seeking love. The two students meet and unexpectedly build a remarkable bond that later leads to a challenging moment in their lives – fearing the feeling of love and causing them to mask their true identities. However, in time, someone’s healing and joy becomes someone else’s inner pain, revealing truths for better and worse.

In February 2014, Guild Hall debuted the John Drew Theater Lab (JDTLab), a workshop devoted to fostering East End performing artists and cultivating audiences for their work. The mission of JDTLab is to support actively-engaged performing artists by providing the helpful resources of the John Drew Theater to further them along on the journey of their creative process. Participants in the JDTLab receive access to the theater and its rehearsal rooms as well as the support of Guild Hall’s administrative and production staff to present a one-night showcase of their work. Artists selected for the series will also receive a modest honorarium and a travel stipend to help bring in out-of-town collaborators.

Thinking Forward Lecture with Charnele Brown moderated by Lynn Sherr

Karen Charnele Brown is a native of East Hampton, New York. Charnele is best known for her portrayal of Kim Reese, the pre-med student on the hit NBC sitcom A Different World. She was also one of the first Americans in the hit Broadway musical Sarafina, which was nominated for a Tony Award. She’s done numerous off-Broadway plays, as well as cabaret in New York City. She has also toured with the musical Heaven’s Child, The Emmet Till Story, with Regina Bell.  Charnele’s film credits includes: Spike Lee’s Drop Squad, The Kangeroo, and Tendrils, which won 9 indie awards. She’s appeared on numerous hit sitcoms: Girlfriends, My Wife and Kids, Living Single, Oliver Beene, Martin. She’s also spearheaded an acting workshop at The Challenger Memorial Correctional Facility offering young adults an opportunity to develop skills and possibly another way out of gang life. Charnele has also assisted in creating an acting workshop at A Place Called Home.

Lynn Sherr to moderate the discussion. She is an American broadcast journalist and author, best known as a correspondent for the ABC news magazine 20/20 and a long-time journalist for ABC. Lynn is a long time East End resident.

Vivian’s Music, 1969 A new play by Monica Bauer

“Vivian’s Music is a stunning piece of work…Like the title character, it’s funny and smart and so, so heartbreaking.” – WomanAboutTown.com

“Vivian’s Music, 1969 is outstanding… The script is superb… both actors capture the characters perfectly… You absolutely must catch this.” – chrisontheatre.wordpress.com

“It’s a dynamic show that is beautifully written, directed, designed and performed. This show could be performed anywhere, with only candles or the light from an open fire and still completely move you to tears with its truth.”  – StageBiz.com

Inspired by these real events: in 1969, in a segregated city in the American Midwest bursting with racial tension, a 14 year old black girl named Vivian was shot by a white cop, igniting one of the worst race riots in American history. No one knew anything about her, just her name, her age, and how she died. This fantasia for two actors gives Vivian a life, a family, a love of music, and a reason to live; the jazz legend who’s back in the neighborhood might be her real father. Can they find each other, before the city explodes?

Actors: Kailah King and Russell Jordan
Directed by Glory Kadigan
Playwright Monica Bauer

Vivian’s Music, 1969 A new play by Monica Bauer

“Vivian’s Music is a stunning piece of work…Like the title character, it’s funny and smart and so, so heartbreaking.” – WomanAboutTown.com

“Vivian’s Music, 1969 is outstanding… The script is superb… both actors capture the characters perfectly… You absolutely must catch this.” – chrisontheatre.wordpress.com

“It’s a dynamic show that is beautifully written, directed, designed and performed. This show could be performed anywhere, with only candles or the light from an open fire and still completely move you to tears with its truth.”  – StageBiz.com

Inspired by these real events: in 1969, in a segregated city in the American Midwest bursting with racial tension, a 14 year old black girl named Vivian was shot by a white cop, igniting one of the worst race riots in American history. No one knew anything about her, just her name, her age, and how she died. This fantasia for two actors gives Vivian a life, a family, a love of music, and a reason to live; the jazz legend who’s back in the neighborhood might be her real father. Can they find each other, before the city explodes?

Actors: Kailah King and Russell Jordan
Directed by Glory Kadigan
Playwright Monica Bauer

Student Film Contest Screening and Awards Ceremony

Featuring original films created by East End students and judged by a committee of local leaders in the film and television community.
 
Grades 1-5
First place: Shockwave by Eve Achuthan Kozar and Lila Deuel
Second place: Seasons by Rive Weiner
Third place: The Dicing Hour by Lia Mizrahi and Arabella Troy
 
Grades 6-8
First place: I Am More Than This by Lexi Cantwell and Leah Fromm
Second place: Solitary by Rock Hamada
Third place: Rush Hour by Reno Manion
 
Grades 9-12
First place: The Life of a Pen by Aiden Cooper, Maximilian Eberle, Anni Spacek, and Megan White
Second place: People are Strange by Lilly Norris
Third place: Idle Town by Sophie Flax

Guild Hall Contemporaries Circle at Johannes Vogt Gallery

Dust off your velvets and tartans and join Johannes Vogt Gallery and the Guild Hall Contemporaries Circle for cocktails, holiday cheer, and the opening of Walter Robinson’s Salad, Candles, Money. 

Featuring a Pop-Up Shop in collaboration with Artware, Dieu Donné, Dashwood Books, Printed Matter, Inc., Exhibition A, and artbook– for all your imminent gift-giving needs!

Johannes Vogt Gallery is committed to bringing attention to the complex artistic and cultural ties that bind New York to Europe, the Americas, and beyond. The gallery program features a strong roster of emerging to mid-career artists and has become known for reintroducing established artists to new audiences, including Garth Evans, Mernet Larsen, and Abby Leigh, among others. Founded in 2011, Johannes Vogt first opened at 526 West 26th Street in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood, where it resided before relocating to 55 Chrystie Street in the Lower East Side. In September 2018, the gallery relocated to the Upper East Side.

National Theatre Live Screening: The Tragedy of King Richard II

Simon Russell Beale plays William Shakespeare’s Richard II, broadcast live from the stage of the Almeida Theatre in London to cinemas. 

This visceral new production about the limits of power will be directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins, whose previous plays include Little Revolution at the Almeida and Absolute Hell at the National Theatre.

Richard II, King of England, is irresponsible, foolish and vain. His weak leadership sends his kingdom into disarray and his court into uproar. Seeing no other option but to seize power, the ambitious Bolingbroke challenges the throne and the king’s divine right to rule.
Simon Russell Beale returns to National Theatre Live screens following broadcasts of Timon of Athens and King Lear, and his recent role in the National Theatre’s critically acclaimed production of The Lehman Trilogy. 

Great Art on Screen: VAN GOGH: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies

Take a fresh look at Van Gogh through the legacy of the greatest private collector of the Dutch artist’s work: Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939), one of the first to recognize the genius of Van Gogh. In the early 20th century, Kröller-Müller amassed nearly 300 of Van Gogh’s paintings and drawings now housed at her namesake museum in Holland. The Basilica Palladina exhibition in Vicenza, “Amid Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies,” with 40 paintings and 85 drawings on loan from the Kröller-Müller Museum, lends the basis of this program, revealing Van Gogh’s art and his genius, while allowing audiences to understand the importance of drawing as part of his craft. Van Gogh’s seemingly instinctive canvases were the result of long, preparatory studies very rarely exhibited – not just sketches but stunning works of art in and of themselves, where the broken flow of lines that characterize the style and strokes in Van Gogh’s paintings can already be seen.

National Theatre Live Screening: I’m Not Running

I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas.

Pauline Gibson has spent her life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a local health campaign. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, a stalwart loyalist in Labour Party politics, she’s faced with an agonising decision.

What’s involved in sacrificing your private life and your peace of mind for something more than a single issue? Does she dare?

Hare was recently described by The Washington Post as ‘the premiere political dramatist writing in English’. His other work includes Pravda and Skylight, broadcast by National Theatre Live in 2014.

National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra

From the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power.

Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war.

Director Simon Godwin returns to National Theatre Live screens with this hotly anticipated production, following previous broadcasts of Twelfth Night, Man and Superman and The Beaux’ Stratagem.