Brazil and Everest
In partnership with Hamptons JazzFest, The Church in Sag Harbor will host Nilson Matta’s Brazilian Voyage Quartet Friday at 6 p.m. Mr. Matta, a Grammy-nominated bassist and Chico Pinheiro, a guitarist, composer, and arranger, will celebrate their homeland’s musical heart and spirit with a blend of samba, bossa nova, and modern Brazilian jazz.
Mr. Matta has redefined the role of the bass in Brazilian jazz by fusing traditional forms with a contemporary jazz sensibility. Mr. Pinheiro’s music blends classic Brazilian form with jazz, pop, and fusion.
Tickets are $30, $25 for members, $15 for ages 8 to 18.
Cory Richards, a National Geographic photographer and writer and an athlete who has climbed Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, is also the first and only American to climb Gasherbrum II in the Himalayas of Pakistan.
His talk at The Church, set for Saturday afternoon at 3, will explore his most difficult challenge, navigating his own struggles with mental health, including PTSD, addiction, and bipolarity. Titled “Breaking the Story of Broken,” his aim in the lecture is to show that “our differences are not our downfall . . . The goal isn’t to fix what’s broken. It’s to break the story that says we are.”
Tickets are $15, $10 for members.
A Deadbeat Dad
“The Jackie Mason Musical,” a comedy based on the 10-year romance between the comedian and Ginger Reiter, who wrote the musical, will be performed at the Southampton Cultural Center on Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 and 7.
Sheba Mason, a comedian, actress, and the daughter of the comedian, who died in 2021, stars in the play as her mother, Ms. Reiter. Mason never acknowledged that he had a daughter until he was forced by a judge to pay child support. Even then, he never contacted his child despite her attempts to meet him.
According to South Florida Theater Magazine, the musical, which has been running for 40 years, takes a lighthearted and comic look at Mason and his many romantic relationships.
Tickets are $59.
From HamptonsFilm
HamptonsFilm has announced that Richard N. Gladstein, a two-time Academy Award-nominated film producer, has been appointed the new executive director of HamptonsFilm and the Hamptons International Film Festival.
Mr. Gladstein, who most recently served as executive director of Brooklyn College’s Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, is the founder and president of FilmColony, a production company. He has produced more than 30 films, among them “The Bourne Identity,” “Pulp Fiction,” “Reservoir Dogs,” “Jackie Brown,” “The Cider House Rules,” and “Finding Neverland.” His films have received 27 Oscar nominations in all.
Shakespeare Alfresco
“Much Ado About Nothing,” one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, will be performed on the lawn at Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island on Saturday and Sunday.
Allen O’Reilly, Bay Street Theater’s director of education and community outreach, will direct a cast of New York City and local actors in the play, which revolves around the young lovers Hero and Claudio and their friends Benedick and Beatrice, whose war of words masks their feelings for each other.
Admission is $30, free for children 10 and under. Gates will open at 5 p.m. both days, and the show will begin at 6. Picnics have been encouraged.
Watermill Center Party
The Watermill Center’s summer benefit is a two-part affair this year. The artists’ dinner, set for Friday at 7, is sold out, but tickets remain for Saturday’s festival, which will include performances, exhibitions, a “grazing” dinner, and cocktails from 6 to 9, and an after-party performance by Kelsey Lu, dancing, and dessert from 9 to 11. This year’s honorees, who will be celebrated on both nights, are Isabella Rossellini and Francis Kéré.
Tickets are $600, $500 for those 40 and under.
