| Issue #33, November 10, 2006 |
Take Five 2006 with Jan Silver
HIGHLIGHTS
This is Veteran’s Day weekend and there are remembrance events in most local villages. Southampton hosts a brief parade open to all vets on Saturday, starting at the First Presbyterian Church at 10:45 a.m., proceeding down Job’s Lane to Veteran’s Memorial Hall across from Agawam Park where there will be a short service at 11 a.m. Hampton Bays has a service at its American Legion post on Saturday at 11 a.m. with a dinner dance there on Saturday evening (for tickets call (631) 728-4340).
Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center is bringing in West Point’s Jazz Knights, an 18-piece band, for a free performance on Saturday at 8 p.m. The group will play jazz, pop, and patriotic selections; and the 106th Rescue Wing will present a brief color guard ceremony. For more information, call PAC at (631) 288-1500.
There are accomplished performers on the East End this weekend. The Juilliard String Quartet plays at Southold High School on Saturday evening. Nilas Martins Dance Company performs on Saturday in Patchogue. Pianist Michael Berkovsky concertizes in Southampton on Saturday, and there are independent film screenings in Sag Harbor and Westhampton Beach. Dorothy Lichtenstein, Frederic Tuten and James de Pasquale will talk about artist Roy Lichtenstein at the Parrish Art Museum on Saturday, and the Parrish hosts a bilingual Family Fiesta Day on Sunday afternoon. The Naked Stage offers a staged reading of Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things next Tuesday evening at Guild Hall in East Hampton. For details on all of the above, read on.
THEATER
The Naked Stage, a local theater artists’ collective, presents theatrical Tuesday evenings from October through May. This coming Tuesday, November 14, at Guild Hall, East Hampton, actor Michael Nathanson directs a staged reading of contemporary author Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things. The play is a modern version of Eve’s seduction of Adam. The program begins at 7:30 p.m. and there is no admission charge.
MUSIC and DANCE
The Juilliard String Quartet will play selections from the music of Mozart, Bartok and Schubert on Saturday, 7:30 p.m., at Southold High School. The concert is presented by Arts in Southold Town; tickets are $25 for adults, $10 for students 18 and under, call (631) 734-6320.
Nilas Martins, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and son of NYCB’s artistic director Peter Martins, brings his dance company to the Patchogue Theater for the Performing Arts, 71 East Main Street, on Saturday at 8 p.m. Dancers from Complexions Contemporary Ballet will also perform with Martins’ troupe. Tickets ($29-$49) are sold at the box office (631) 207-1313.
The next program in Southampton Cultural Center’s piano recital series is this Saturday at 7 p.m. Michael Berkovsky will perform at the new Levitas Center, 25 Pond Lane. Tickets are $15 general admission, $20 reserved seats, and $10 seniors and students; space is limited so call (631) 287-4377 for reservations.
Southampton’s Parrish Art Museum and Rogers Memorial Library present Family Fiesta Day at the Parrish on Sunday, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The celebration of Latin American culture includes traditional music, singing and dancing plus food sampling from local restaurants and art workshops. All activities will be conducted in both English and Spanish. Admission is $5 for Parrish members and Museum Friends, $10 for guests no charge for children 3 and under.
Recommended performers at local clubs and restaurants: Amagansett – Stephen Talkhouse call (631) 267-3117 for tickets) – rock bands (Fri.), soul/R&B singer Annie Morgan (Sat.); Montauk – music weekend at Gurney’s Inn; East Hampton –Turtle Crossing (Annie Morgan band Thurs., Mama Lee & friends Fri.), Maidstone Arms (Jane Hastay and Peter Weiss on Fri.), Babette’s (pianist Paul Gene on Sat.); Sagaponack – Wine/cheese/music Thurs., 5 to 7 p.m. at Wolffer Estate Vineyards; Bridgehampton – pop standards and soft jazz at Kipling’s Fri. and Sat.; jazz brunch Sun. at World Pie; jazz Tues. and Sun. evenings at Pierre’s; Southampton – music weekends at Lori’s (75 Main St.) and Tugboats North Sea (Fri.); Hampton Bays – pianist Bruce Dinsmore on Fri. at Edgewater; Westhampton Beach – Annona’s (Fri.), music weekend at The Patio, Casa Basso (Sat.);Riverhead – Eastenders Coffee House (Thurs.-Mon.), Tweed’s (Fri. and Sat.).
FILMS
Sag Harbor’s John Jermain library screens the independent film Aaltra (Belgium, 2004) tonight at 6:30 p.m. There is no admission charge but arrive a few minutes early for a good seat. “The Picture Show” at Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, is having an Alfred Hitchcock mini-festival this weekend. The two mystery thrillers to be screened are Psycho starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh (tonight, 8 p.m.) and To Catch A Thief with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly (Saturday, 8 p.m.). Tickets are $5 and the box office opens at 7:30 p.m.
Dan’s Papers “They Made the Movie Here” feature this week is Garbo Talks with Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver and Carrie Fisher. (Due to a schedule change, this film was not shown last Saturday.) The movie goes on at 3 p.m. in the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, hosted by Lee Davis. Light refreshments are served and there is no admission charge.
SPEAKERS
Dorothy Lichtenstein, author Frederic Tuten and artist James de Pasquale will share their memories of artist Roy Lichtenstein on Saturday, 6 p.m., at the Parrish Art Museum, Jobs Lane, Southampton. Arrive an hour early and enjoy “Roy Lichtenstein: American Indian Encounters,” the current exhibit at the Parrish. Admission to the talk is $5 for Parrish members, $8 for non-members.
The East Hampton Historical Society offers two programs this Saturday. Historian Richard Barons, director of the Society, will read selections from the ship’s log of the Concordia, a whaling barque which sailed from Sag Harbor in 1864. The reading takes place at the Marine Museum, Bluff Rd., Amagansett, at 4 p.m. (free admission). At 7 p.m., East Hampton town crier and history buff Hugh King offers a walking tour by lantern of the village’s colonial sites. Tickets are $15 and the tour goes on weather-permitting. Tour size is limited so call for reservations (631)324-6850 or go online to www.easthamptonhistory.org.
Musician Dennis Watlington will read from his new memoir, Chasing America: Notes of a Rock ‘n’ Soul Integrationist, on Saturday, 6 p.m., at Canio’s Books, Upper Main St., Sag Harbor.
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