MHI Calendar 2008

Lead Artist: Josh Gladstone Featuring Sloane Shelton and Kate Mueth. Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, this eloquent, enthralling and ultimately shattering play explores the final hour in the life of a young woman who has decided that life is no longer worth living. "…honest, uncompromising, lucid, penetrating, well-written, dramatic, and…unmanipulatively moving…" —NY Magazine. "It is sparse and concise, introspective and penetrating, powerful and uncompromising, intense and intelligent, warm and theatrical. It is THE American tragedy." —New England Entertainment Digest. "…a shattering evening…" — NY Times. The Naked Stage is a working collective of performing artists dedicated to the development of theatre on the East End of Long Island. The members of The Naked Stage believe in the possibilities generated by the collaboration of devoted people. We wish to provide a focal point for the encouragement of theatre and all its associated arts. The Naked Stage: Works in Progress serves as an incubator and laboratory for actors, writers, directors, dancers, composers, musicians and designers to practice and explore their craft free from the constraints of production schedules, budgets, criticism and public performance.

Tues 1/29 Staged Readings of 2 Short Comedies “Riverside Drive” by Woody Allen & “Snowglobe of Doom” by Jonathan Wallace Lead Artist: Judi Roth Featuring an ensemble cast TBD. Riverside Drive by Woody Allen: This absurdist play tackles marital infidelity on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Fred, a homicidal, paranoid, schizophrenic vagrant ex-copywriter, has been stalking a screenwriter for weeks, convinced that his prey stole his idea (and his life) to create a successful movie plot. The screenwriter, caught in an extra-marital affair gone sour, has his own problems to consider.

"Non-stop one-liners" - Curtainup.com "Full of funny material" – NY Daily News Snowglobe of Doom by Jonathan Wallace: Sookie Steinman is the CEO of Brooklyn Snowglobe, a company founded by her late father.

Steve Klein, the vice president of operations, worked for dear old dad for thirty years and adores Sookie as a daughter. Then a macabre new product forces both to confront and cross the dangerous border between business and friendship. Jonathan Wallace's plays have been performed in the Midtown International Theatre Festival in New York City and at venues including the Stephen Talkhouse, the Flea Theatre, the Civic Center in Valdez Alaska; and outdoors in Brooklyn Bridge Park and the Avenue B Gardens. He is a member of The Naked Stage and lives in Amagansett with his wife Meri.

GUILD HALL Moran and Spiga Galleries and Boots Lamb Education Center 158 Main Street, East Hampton 324-0806 Sat 1/12 – Sun 2/3 16th Annual Student Arts Festival- Part I PreK – 8 Sat 1/19 Reception 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm An Educational outreach exhibition that showcases student art from Montauk through Bridgehampton. Last year’s exhibition featured over 3,500 pieces of student art. These inspiring community-centered exhibitions cover the gallery walls floor to ceiling, salon style, featuring the works of students in pre-school, elementary and middle schools and in a second exhibition featuring the work of our talented high school students. The exhibition is open to public and private schools in the East Hampton Township. Admission to this exhibition is free.

Coordinated by Education Department BAY STREET THEATRE Bay Street at Long Wharf Sag Harbor 725-9500 THE PICTURE SHOW @ BAY STREET THEATRE Bay Street at Long Wharf, Sag Harbor 725-9500 Join us for The Picture Show@Bay Street Theatre - our classic film series that gives you the opportunity to see films as they were meant to be seen - - on the big screen! All movies start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5.00 each - unless otherwise noted - and can be purchased one hour prior to the movie.

Dinner and a Movie? Stop by The American Hotel before the movie and enjoy a wonderful prix-fixe dinner for just $24.95. Your dinner price includes the movie and a small bucket of popcorn. Reservations are necessary and can be made by calling The American Hotel at 7253535.

Fri 1/4 On The Town 8:00 pm Sat 1/5 An American In Paris 8:00 pm Fri 1/11 King Creole 8:00 pm Sat 1/12 Jailhouse Rock 8:00 pm Fri 1/18 Stairway To Heaven 8:00 pm David Niven & Kim Hunter- A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court. "Neither Heaven nor Earth could keep them apart!"

Sat 1/19 Separate Tables 8:00 pm