Academy Dinner
Guild Hall's 37th Academy of the Arts Achievement Awards Dinner will take place at Gotham Hall, an event venue in Midtown Manhattan, on April 18. The architect Peter Marino will be honored for his work in the visual arts, and a special award for leadership and philanthropy will be given to Tom Roush and LaVon Kellner.
The academy is a community of more than 200 artists and creative professionals who have lent their talent to Guild Hall. Its newest members are Nanette Carter, Jeremy Dennis, Virginia Jaramillo, Annie Leibovitz, Jay McInerney, Isaac Mizrahi, Arcmanoro Niles, Maulik Pancholy, Lisa Perry, Eric Ripert, Jordan Roth, Iris Smyles, and Andrina Wekontash Smith.
Tickets for the dinner start at $1,500, $500 for those 21 to 40, and are available through the website.
Bay Street Classes
Workshops devoted to auditioning, voice-over, salsa dancing, and scene study will launch this week at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.
Beginning Saturday, SJ Allocco-St. Germain, a casting director, will bring her decade of experience to Booking the Co-Star Role at 10 a.m. The class is $99.
Allen O'Reilly, the theater's education director and the voice of over 40 audiobooks, will lead Everything Voice-Over, a six-session workshop on the art of voice-over acting. Starting Monday at 7 p.m., the class will focus on radio commercial spots, accents, and audiobooks.
Jaime Ruiz will return to Bay Street to teach an eight-session class in Cuban Salsa Dancing, beginning Tuesday evening at 7. Each class will include one hour of general instruction and 30 minutes of one-on-one coaching.
Noelle Parker, an actor and private coach, will lead Straight Up Scene Study, a six-session workshop for actors at every level. Set to kick off Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., the class will develop participants' artistic skills, teach new performance techniques, and focus on script analysis.
The multi-session workshops cost $200 and are open to those 16 and up, except for Cuban Salsa, which is for ages 18 and older.
'Steel Magnolias' at LTV
The Staged Series of Our Fabulous Variety Show, the Hamptons Bays theater troupe, provides adult actors opportunities to pitch and participate in staged readings.
The series will start the new year with a staged reading of Robert Harling's "Steel Magnolias" on Saturday at 6 p.m. at LTV Studios in Wainscott. The comedy-drama, set in a beauty salon in Louisiana in the early 1980s, stars Anita Boyer, Kasia Klimiuk, Krissy Feleppa, Ellora DeCarlo, Rachel Feldman, and Nicky Seitz. Joe Pallister will direct.
Admission is free, but a donation of $20 has been suggested.
Making Media
Bill Delano, a documentary filmmaker and social media producer, will lead Making Media That Matters, a free four-session workshop starting Wednesday at 3 p.m. at LTV Studios in Wainscott, and continuing through Feb. 22. The two-hour sessions will cover how to scope, write, shoot, edit, and export content.
Mr. Delano is the founder of Peconic Pictures, a production company that creates video-based social media campaigns for local organizations, and the director of "From One to Another," a documentary about the effects of the pandemic on the East End community.
Like the Grateful Dead
The psychedelic sounds of the Roses Grove Band, a Grateful Dead tribute band, will rock the Inner Sanctum of the Masonic Temple in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 8 p.m. The performance is a fund-raiser for Frank Daniele, a Montauk resident who was diagnosed with cancer in November. Tickets are $20.
The temple also hosts the Jam Session's live jazz programs on Tuesday evenings at 7. The suggested donation is $15.
