Freestyle Love Supreme was an improvisational hip-hop comedy musical group started in 2004 by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anthony Veneziale and directed by Thomas Kail. It played its final performance in January 2023, but on Saturday at 8 p.m. at Guild Hall, it is reborn in Freestyle + , which brings together Veneziale, Aneesa Folds, Manny Houston, and Chris Sullivan, who will create, remix, and respond in real time.
Beats drop, bodies move, stories unfold — but nothing is preplanned and everything is possible, Guild Hall promises. Folds is a Broadway performer and improviser, Houston is a world-champion beatboxer and musical innovator, and Sullivan is a well-known human beatbox artist. Together with Veneziale, a Tony Award-winner, they solicit audience suggestions and transform them into spontaneous performances that blur the boundaries between concert, theater, comedy, and community.
Tickets are $92 to $122.
Does John Waters need an introduction? Certainly not judging by the brisk ticket sales for his upcoming performance at Guild Hall. “John Waters: Going to Extremes,” his new comedy show, will happen on Sunday at 7 p.m.
Waters may not be the first name that comes to mind as a renaissance man, but he has written and directed 16 films, among them “Pink Flamingos” (1972), “Polyester” (1981), “Hairspray” (1988), “Cry-Baby” (1990), “Serial Mom” (1994), and “A Dirty Shame” (2004). The list of actors who have appeared in his films is a cross-section of the entertainment business, including Johnny Depp, Kathleen Turner, Ric Ocasek, Debbie Harry, Sonny Bono, Divine, Tab Hunter, Johnny Knoxville, Stiv Bators, Ricki Lake, and Iggy Pop, to name only a few.
In 2014, the Film Society of Lincoln Center presented “Fifty Years of John Waters: How Much Can You Take?” a complete retrospective of his work.
Waters is the author of 10 books, the creator of two music compilation CDs and several EPs, and a photographer whose work has been shown in galleries worldwide, In 2011 he was selected as a juror for the Venice Biennale. As an actor, he appeared in Jonathan Demme’s “Something Wild” and Woody Allen’s “Sweet and Lowdown,” as well as a number of television shows. When in Tinseltown, look for his Star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
Tickets are $92 to $146.
