The newest iteration of the East End Underground Live Concert Series at LTV Studios will feature the musical stylings of Reilly Rose, a singer/songwriter from Sag Harbor, on Saturday at 8 p.m.
Ms. Rose, now based in New York City, performs original piano folk music, and writes and performs sketch/improv as well as musical comedy with her troupe, LaLaHaHa. She recently graduated from N.Y.U.'s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, with a concentration in "The Ethics and Aesthetics of Storytelling."
East End Underground, now airing on multiple New York platforms, honors grassroots creativity with its focus on the region's composers, vocalists, soloists, ensembles, bands, and singer-songwriters.
Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door, and $15 for students. Cafe table seating is available for $65.
LTV will move from the contemporary to the historical with a staged concert reading by Hugh R. King, East Hampton Village's historian and town crier, with a group of community players, in "The Lisping of a Muse: The Literary and Dramatic Writing Career of John Howard Payne" on Sunday afternoon at 4. The program is part of the LTV-based Playwrights' Theater of East Hampton.
Payne (1791-1852) was an actor, playwright, poet, newspaper editor, critic, consular official, and the author of the song "Home Sweet Home." Because his father had taught at Clinton Academy in East Hampton in the late 18th century, and because Payne had relatives here, the song is often said to have been inspired by the 18th-century saltbox that is now the Home, Sweet Home Museum.
The actors will present readings from two of Payne's theatrical pieces, including "Clari, the Maid of Milan," which introduced the famous song. Poems, theatrical critiques from his newspaper, The Thespian Mirror, as well as love letters between Payne and Mary Shelley, the author of "Frankenstein," and correspondence with his sister and various East Hampton citizens, will be featured.
In addition to Mr. King, the cast will include Amanda Jones, Barbara Strong Borsack, Leonore Thomas, Marissa Friedes Cangiolosi, Martha Lee, and Joe Brondo.
Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door, and $5 for students.
