Star-Studded Week at Guild Hall
The stars will be shining at Guild Hall this week, beginning tonight at 8 with a staged reading of “Sharpies,” a new comedy by Eugene Pack, an Emmy Award-nominated writer. The play, which follows a group of iconic celebrities at an autograph-signing convention weekend in Milwaukee, will feature Matthew Broderick, Blythe Danner, Carol Kane, Marsha Mason, Dayle Reyfel, Sawyer Spielberg, Vanessa Williams, and other luminaries to be announced.
Tickets are $30, $28 for members, or $75 and $70 with a post-show V.I.P. reception. A portion of the evening’s proceeds will benefit the Felix Organization, whose mission is to enrich the lives of children growing up in the foster care system.
Mr. Pack will take the stage tomorrow evening along with Christie Brinkley, Debbie Harry, Susan Lucci, Ralph Macchio, Brooke Shields (9:30 only), Alan Zweibel, and Mr. Reyfel in “Celebrity Autobiography,” in which actual celebrity memoirs are acted out live by the cast.
Created and developed by Mr. Pack and Mr. Reyfel, the show has been aired on Bravo TV, performed at venues around the country, and enjoyed a three-year run off Broadway, for which it won a Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience. Tickets range from $40, $38 for members, to $75 and $70.
Comedy will be king again on Saturday evening, when J.B. Smoove will perform at 8. An actor, writer, and comedian, he began his career on “Def Comedy Jam” in the early 1990s, spent three years as a writer and performer on “Saturday Night Live,” and went on to a recurring role in “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” among many other television and film credits. Tickets start at $45, $43 for members, and rise to $100 and $95.
Laughter of a different kind will fill the house Sunday at 5 p.m. when the Big Apple Circus’s “Red Nose Review” brings a cavalcade of hospital “clown doctors” to the theater. Mayhem and merrymaking will share the stage with acts of astonishing skill, all directed by Karen McCarthy, creative director of the Clown Care program. Tickets are $50, $48 for members. A V.I.P. reception at a Main Street residence will boost the cost to $125 and $120.
On a more serious note, a National Theatre Live telecast of “Everyman,” the late-15th-century morality play, will take place Wednesday evening at 8. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Academy Award-nominee for “12 Years a Slave,” plays Everyman in this new adaptation by Carol Ann Duffy, which transforms the original into an indictment of the materialism of the modern world, with Everyman a wealthy hedonist who is confronted by a shopping bag-bearing Death. Tickets are $18, $16 for members.
Next Thursday at 8 p.m., Bill Boggs will host “Memories of Sinatra,” which will include stories, film clips, and highlights from Mr. Boggs’s television interview with Ol’ Blue Eyes.