Puccini's 'Turnadot' and JDTLab Tackles Joyce This Week

Puccini’s “Turandot,” the next offering of the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series, will be shown Saturday at 1 p.m. at Guild Hall in East Hampton.

An epic fairy tale set in ancient China, with an unusual score and an innovative use of chorus and orchestra, “Turandot” stars the soprano Nina Stemme in the title role of the princess, and the tenor Marco Berti as Calaf, the prince who tries to win her hand, in a Franco Zeffirelli production.

The John Drew Theater Lab will present a free staged reading of “James Joyce: A Short Night’s Odyssey From No to Yes,” a one-man show written by Joe Beck, performed by Drew Keil, and directed by Elizabeth Falk, on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

Personifying Joyce, Mr. Keil reminisces about the writer’s early years, his self-exile from God, Ireland, and family, the books and women in his life, and the vengeful reaction to his work by a prudish public.