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NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

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NTL 2025 A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois (Gillian Anderson). Photo: Johan Persson

Tag: Performing Arts

HIFF Now Showing: Shoplifters

Throughout the winter and spring, HIFF presents NOW SHOWING, a series of screenings that brings notable films currently in theaters to the East End. Curated by HIFF, NOW SHOWING features acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema at Guild Hall of East Hampton.

Synopsis:
(Japan, 2018, 121 minutes)
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that it is love—not blood—that defines a family. Winner of the Palme D’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

HIFF Now Showing: Shoplifters

Throughout the winter and spring, HIFF presents NOW SHOWING, a series of screenings that brings notable films currently in theaters to the East End. Curated by HIFF, NOW SHOWING features acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema at Guild Hall of East Hampton.

Synopsis:
(Japan, 2018, 121 minutes)
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that it is love—not blood—that defines a family. Winner of the Palme D’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

HIFF Now Showing: Shoplifters

Tonight’s Screening of SHOPLIFTERS has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

Throughout the winter and spring, HIFF presents NOW SHOWING, a series of screenings that brings notable films currently in theaters to the East End. Curated by HIFF, NOW SHOWING features acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema at Guild Hall of East Hampton.

Synopsis:
(Japan, 2018, 121 minutes)
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that it is love—not blood—that defines a family. Winner of the Palme D’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

Scrooge…The Relapse

And Scrooge became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew. – A Christmas Carol

But did it stick? In an homage to Charles Dickens and his classic holiday ghost story, co-creators John McCaffrey and Jack Gwaltney conjure up a comic drama that imagines Scrooge backsliding into bitterness and miserdom after his holiday breakthrough, with Jacob Marley forced to send three new “spirits”…Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Charles Darwin. Can they help Scrooge rekindle love in his heart for mankind? Can they help Scrooge learn about the past, the present and the future?

With: Gerard Doyle, Tina Jones, Brian Keane, and Jack Gwaltney

 

Jack Gwaltney was born in Virginia, went to UVa and lives in New York City. He is fortunate to perform as an actor on stage, television and in film. Jack spent nine years as a director and dramaturge for The Greylock Project at the Williamstown Theater Festival, an offshoot of Willie Reale’s 52nd St. Project. Collaborating with John McCaffrey is one of the wisest things Jack does. Thanks to Josh, Guild Hall and all their team!

John McCaffrey grew up in Rochester, New York, attended Villanova University, and received his MA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York. He is the author of The Book of Ash and Two Syllable Men. He is the Director of Development for the Training Institute for Mental Health in New York City, and teaches creative writing at the College of New Rochelle’s Rosa Parks Campus. He lives part-time in Wainscott, NY.

 

Tina Jones (Woman, Sigmund Freud) has performed on the east end at Guild Hall, Bay Street Theater and Hampton Theater Company. Ms. Jones has worked across the country. Regional theaters include Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Cleveland Playhouse, American Conservatory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare Company, Arizona Theatre Company; as well as Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, film, and television. She holds a Masters Degree from the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and studies with the Barrow Group in New York City.

Brian Keane (Jacob Marley, Karl Marx, Man 3) appeared in the North American tour of the National Theatre’s War Horse. New York credits include Timon of Athens (Public/NYSF), Happy Now? (Primary Stages), The Misanthrope (Classic Stage Company), Cyrano de Bergerac and All My Sons (Roundabout). Regional credits include Frost/Nixon (Bay Street Theater), A Streetcar Named Desire (Guthrie), Macbeth (Old Globe), The Winters Tale (Yale Rep), Book of Days (Arena Stage), How I Learned to Drive (Centerstage). Television and film credits include House of Cards, Ray Donovan, The Young Pope, Chicago PD, Gypsy, The Blacklist, Elementary, Brain Dead, Gotham, The Good Wife, Person of Interest, Lights Out, Law & Order series, Queens Supreme, Downsized, Hustling, Urbania, Going Under, Brain Off, Public Property, and the BearCity trilogy.

HIFF Now Showing: Maria by Callas

Throughout the winter and spring, HIFF presents NOW SHOWING, a series of screenings that brings notable films currently in theaters to the East End. Curated by HIFF, NOW SHOWING features acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema at Guild Hall of East Hampton.

Synopsis:
Upon her untimely death in 1977, the name Maria Callas was inseparable from the art form that she helped to define in the 20th century. One of the most celebrated opera singers of the modern era, Callas rose to prominence in the years following World War II, as her unrivaled voice—and much discussed private life—captivated audiences worldwide. Culled from a treasure trove of archival footage, interviews, rare live footage, and personal Super 8 recordings, director Tom Volf creates a loving portrait of Maria through her own words, never losing sight of the woman behind the voice.

HIFF Now Showing: Maria by Callas

Throughout the winter and spring, HIFF presents NOW SHOWING, a series of screenings that brings notable films currently in theaters to the East End. Curated by HIFF, NOW SHOWING features acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema at Guild Hall of East Hampton.

Synopsis:
Upon her untimely death in 1977, the name Maria Callas was inseparable from the art form that she helped to define in the 20th century. One of the most celebrated opera singers of the modern era, Callas rose to prominence in the years following World War II, as her unrivaled voice—and much discussed private life—captivated audiences worldwide. Culled from a treasure trove of archival footage, interviews, rare live footage, and personal Super 8 recordings, director Tom Volf creates a loving portrait of Maria through her own words, never losing sight of the woman behind the voice.

Guild Hall Game Night

Out with the old, in with the new! In the past couple decades, game designers have been creating fascinating, immersive 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 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 games on the market the last Monday of each month. Ages 16 and up only.

This month at Game Night we will be playing Bohnanza, designed by Uwe Rosenberg. Bohnanza is a game about bean farming, and it is one of Noah’s favorite games of all time. In Bohnanza, players trade, plant, grow, harvest, and sell beans to make as much money as possible. The heart of this game is haggling and arguing with your friends over whose beans are more valuable and shouting things like, “Who’s got a green bean for my two wax beans?” This is one of the best negotiation and trading games out there, and shows that great games can be made about anything…even beans.

Entry fee includes snacks generously donated by Carissa’s Breads and Cavaniola’s Gourmet and your first drink free courtesy of Montauk Brewing Company!

Space is limited – purchase tickets in advance!

Operatif Lecture: Biography or Myth? With Victoria Bond

Before the Met Live screening of Verdi’s Aida on Saturday, October 13, at 12 pm, opera lecturer extraordinaire Victoria Bond will give a presentation Biography or Myth: Do opera composers modify history to tell a better story?  Bond will speak about historically-themed operas, including those by Donizetti and Rossini as well as Aida and Bellini’s Norma.  Join us for this Season Opener “Operatif” which includes a light buffet brunch.

Guild Hall opera donors at the $200 level and above enjoy these lectures at no charge. Half-price tickets are available for Met Opera donors of $100. Tickets to the lecture are $30 for all other patrons and may be purchased at the Box Office.

Bond is a powerful force in 21st century concert music, having distinguished herself both as a composer and conductor, being commissioned by major symphonies, chamber orchestras, ballet companies, dance festivals, and opera houses, Ms. Bond is the founder of Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival which she produces each spring at Symphony Space in New York. She is also a frequent pre-concert lecturer for the New York Philharmonic.

National Theatre Live Screening: The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett

Multi-award-winning drama The Madness of George III will be broadcast live to cinemas, in National Theatre Live’s first ever broadcast from Nottingham Playhouse. 

Written by one of Britain’s best-loved playwrights Alan Bennett (The History Boys, The Lady in the Van), this epic play was also adapted into a BAFTA Award-winning film following its premiere on stage in 1991. 

The cast of this new production includes Olivier Award-winners Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Wolf Hall, NT Live Coriolanus) in the title role, and Adrian Scarborough (Gavin and Stacey, Upstairs Downstairs, After the Dance). 

It’s 1786 and King George III is the most powerful man in the world. But his behavior is becoming increasingly erratic as he succumbs to fits of lunacy. With the King’s mind unraveling at a dramatic pace, ambitious politicians and the scheming Prince of Wales threaten to undermine the power of the Crown, and expose the fine line between a King and a man. 

National Theatre Live Screening: King Lear by William Shakespeare

★★★★★ “Ian McKellen reigns supreme in this triumphant production.” – Daily Telegraph
Broadcast live from London’s West End, see Ian McKellen’s “extraordinarily moving portrayal” (Independent) of King Lear in cinemas. 

Chichester Festival Theatre’s production received five-star reviews for its sell-out run, and transfers to the West End for a limited season.  Jonathan Munby directs this “nuanced and powerful” (The Times) contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s tender, violent, moving, and shocking play. 

Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two aging fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them.  Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with bitter ends.