Rock ’n’ Roll, Cabaret, and Dr. and Lisa Oz
Rock ’n’ roll, ballet, cabaret, and Dr. Oz will take turns entertaining and informing audiences at Guild Hall in East Hampton Village this week, with “Bjork: Biophilia Live,” a film that captures the artist’s 2013 multimedia concert in London, set to conclude the Rock Cinema series tonight at 8. Tickets are $12, $10 for members.
Balletomanes will no doubt be disappointed that Friday’s appearance by the New York City Ballet is sold out, but fans of R & B, gospel, and rock ’n’ roll should hasten to the Guild Hall box office before Mavis Staples’s Saturday night appearance suffers the same fate.
From the family group she is so identified with, the Staple Singers, to the 2013 gospel album “One True Vine,” her second collaboration with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, Ms. Staples has been a force in American music for six decades. She is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a winner of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and a National Heritage Fellowship recipient. Tickets to the performance, which will happen Saturday at 8 p.m., range from $55, $53 for members, to $100 and $95.
Another show business icon, Linda Lavin, will bring her repertoire of Broadway favorites, standards, and jazz to Guild Hall on Sunday evening at 8. A veteran of the cabaret stage, she began her career playing such New York City nightspots as the Showplace in Greenwich Village and Midtown’s Downstairs at the Upstairs.
Ms. Lavin received her first Tony nomination for “Last of the Red Hot Lovers” in 1970 and worked in television and film before returning to Broadway in 1987, when she won a Tony Award for “Broadway Bound.” Other theater credits include “Gypsy,” “The Sisters Rosensweig,” and “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Tickets to Sunday’s show start at $40, $38 for members, and peak at $95 and $90.
Though neither has won an Emmy Award as of yet, Dr. Oz and his wife, Lisa, are familiar to followers of “The Dr. Oz Show” on television and “The Lisa Oz Show” on Oprah radio for their advice on everything from nutrition and diet to alternative medicine to relationships. On Sunday morning at 11, Florence Fabricant, food writer for The New York Times and author of 11 books, will interview the couple as part of the series “Stirring the Pot: Conversations With Culinary Celebrities.” Tickets are $15, $13 for members. A pre-talk V.I.P. reception at 10 a.m., including a continental breakfast, raises the tariff to $75 and $50.
Looking ahead to next Thursday, Matthew Broderick, Carol Kane, Marsha Mason, Vanessa Williams, and others to be announced will star in a staged reading of “Sharpies,” a new play by Eugene Peck, at 8 p.m.