A Cinema Pioneer
Dan Talbot, a theater owner and distributor, brought the best of international arthouse cinema to the United States over almost six decades by championing such filmmakers as Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, and Agnes Varda.
The Sag Harbor Cinema will celebrate Talbot and his recently published memoir, "In Love With Movies," on Monday at 6 p.m., with a screening of "Tampopo," Juzo Itami's 1985 comedy about a band of ronin who help the widow of a noodle shop develop the perfect recipe.
The screening will be followed by a conversation between Toby Talbot, Mr. Talbot's widow, and Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan, the cinema's artistic director. Tickets are $15, $12 for senior citizens, people with disabilities, and those 12 and under.
Shakespeare Alfresco
The Neo-Political Cowgirls are bringing "A Midsummer Night's Dream. (As Seen Through the Sleepy Eyes of a Young Girl)" to East Hampton's Mulford Farm next Thursday and Friday, July 29, at 7:30 p.m. The production is a work-in-progress that Cowgirls is developing for a 2023 run in New York City. Kate Mueth, its founder, will direct, with text direction by Josh Gladstone.
Audiences have been encouraged to bring blankets or beach chairs and picnics; limited bench seating will be available. General seating is $25. V.I.P. seating, which includes four tickets, finger foods, drinks, a swag bag, and priority seating, is $350.
Music at Calissa
Calissa Sounds has returned to the Greek restaurant of the same name in Water Mill with a Friday night series of D.J. sets and live performances. Friday's program will be a D.J. set by Chromeo, a Grammy-winning electro-funk duo whose sound draws from soul, dance music, rock, synth-pop, disco, and funk.
Subsequent sets will come from Shallou, Bob Moses, Sultan & Shepard, Duke Dumont, and St. Lucia X Rac. Fat Joe will perform live at the restaurant on Aug. 12.
All shows will start at 10 p.m. under a tent in Calissa's garden. Table reservations for four begin at a $300 food and beverage minimum per person.
The restaurant will donate a portion of proceeds from all performances to the Southampton Volunteer Ambulance Corps and to Headstrong, a nonprofit that provides mental health care to veterans and first responders.
Theater Plus Fashion
"Royal Oak," a theater/fashion event that played to sold-out audiences at 2022 Spring Fashion Week in SoHo, will come to the Southampton Cultural Center on Monday evening at 7.
Written and directed by Justin Vibbert, the event weaves together the stories of seven individuals all vying for control of the House of Oak, the most iconic couture fashion house in America. As sex, drugs, and violence ensue, the head designer, Merrywether Oak, watches as his house crumbles and he faces the possible loss of everything.
Tickets, at $60, include a cocktail reception after the show, featuring clothes from the designer's fall line.
Shelter Island Musical
In June 1942, the New Prospect Hotel on Shelter Island Heights burned to the ground the day before it was to open for the season. According to an article in The Shelter Island Reporter, the 150-room hotel had been a favorite haunt of Clark Gable and other notables.
"The Prospect of Summer," a musical by the island resident Lisa Shaw, takes place a decade before the fire. Based on actual events, it is set on an eventful weekend for guests and staff.
Performances will take place at the Shelter Island Historical Society Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 6 p.m. Tickets are $75.
Southampton Arts Renamed
Southampton Arts, the division of Stony Brook Southampton featuring degree programs in creative writing, television writing, and film, has been renamed the Lichtenstein Center, in recognition of the support of Dorothy Lichtenstein, a Stony Brook University trustee.
The center, which is also a presence on Stony Brook's main campus and at its Manhattan location, will house the Southampton Writers Conference, and will continue publishing The Southampton Review and overseeing the Young Artist and Writers Project.
