“Always: The Love Story of Irving Berlin,” a book musical in which Mark Nadler and KT Sullivan sing and re-enact the romance between the composer and Ellin Mackay, is next up at LTV Studios, on Saturday at 7:30 p.m., in its Hamptons Summer Songbook by the Sea series.
Berlin’s first wife died in 1912, the same year they were married. Years later, in the 1920s, he fell in love with Ms. Mackay, a writer and heiress, and their marriage lasted from 1926 until she died 63 years later.
Among the songs that bring that romance to life are “Cheek to Cheek,” “Let’s Face the Music and Dance,” “I Got Lost in His Arms,” and “Always.” Other classics, such as “Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning” and “God Bless America,” were written in 1918 as responses to the Great War and military life.
Besides headlining in the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel for almost 20 years, Ms. Sullivan stars annually at the Pheasantry in London. She has performed at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and Australia’s Adelaide Festival.
Mr. Nadler has won eight awards from the Manhattan Association of Cabarets, two New York Nightlife Awards, three Backstage Bistros, and two Broadway World Awards. A singer and pianist, he has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Mann Center in Philadelphia, and has been nominated for France’s Trophée de la Théâtre Musicale.
Tickets are $50 in advance, $55 at the door, $80 for table seating.
The East End Underground Live Concert series will bring the pianist Zaccai Curtis to the Wainscott venue on Monday at 6 p.m. Mr. Curtis, a professor of music at the University of Hartford, composes and arranges for his own quartet and trio, which has performed with artists such as Eddie Palmieri, Cindy Blackman Santana, the Mambo Legends, Ray Vega, and others.
Fluent in both jazz and Afro-Cuban Jazz idioms, Mr. Curtis has written two books, “Art of the Guajeo” and “Theory of the Common Voicing,” which aid students in their jazz and Latin Jazz education. In 2017, he received a New Jazz Works grant from Chamber Music America, and three years later he was voted a Rising Star in the Critics Poll for Downbeat Magazine.
Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door.
Kerry Kearney and Jack Licitra will be at LTV for “An Evening of Blues From the Delta to New Orleans” next Thursday at 8 p.m. Mr. Kearney’s guitar playing draws from Chicago-style electric, Delta slide, and Piedmont acoustic fingerstyle blues. With his rolling piano riffs and smoky voice, Mr. Licitra calls to mind Dr. John.
The two have been collaborating for over 20 years, from opening for the Allman Brothers and the Dickey Betts Band on tours to selling out many Long Island venues. Mr. Kearney has toured the world as guitarist for Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane, while Mr. Licitra was part of the Water Street Blues Band.
Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door, $65 for table seating.
