Attention Playwrights
Bay Street Theater will begin accepting submissions for its 11th annual Title Wave: 2025 New Works Festival, on Tuesday. Preregistration, which holds a submission spot for the play, is available now. Submissions will close when a maximum of 300 plays have been received, or no later than Oct. 31.
The theater is seeking full-length plays from writers of all backgrounds whose plays have undergone significant edits and rewrites, preferably now in their third or fourth draft. Those selected will have the opportunity to see their work through a rehearsal and into a public presentation, working with a professional director and actors.
The specific requirements, including the types of plays the theater is not looking for, as well as application links, can be found at baystreet.org/page/title-wave-at-bay-street.
The theater has also announced its fall lineup of adult classes. The first, Ballroom Dancing With Touch Dancing, taught by Alphonso Triggiani and Agnes Maria Bristel-Soethoudt, will launch on Monday at 6:30 p.m. and continue on Mondays through Nov. 4.
The cost is $200, $40 per session for drop-ins. More information is on the theater’s education page.
Poetry Read-In
The Church in Sag Harbor will celebrate National Poetry Day next Thursday at 6 p.m. with the first of a series of poetry read-ins. “Verse 1” will invite guests to read aloud from a collection of poems inspired by the “Saints of Sag Harbor,” who are depicted by Eric Fischl in the venue’s semipermanent window installation.
The reading will include poems by Nelson Algren, Olivia Ward Bush-Banks, Langston Hughes, Herman Melville, and E.L. Doctorow. Interested readers have been asked to buy or reserve a ticket and then fill out the “request to read” form on the confirmation screen. Tickets are $10, free for Church members who R.S.V.P. Questions can be addressed to [email protected].
Tea and the Dome
LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will host two Japanese tea ceremonies and workshops this Sunday, at 1 and 3 p.m. Chado, the Japanese tea ceremony, is a spiritual and aesthetic discipline for refinement of the self. Since the 12th century, matcha, a powdered green tea, has been offered to the Buddhist monks, aristocracy, and samurai lords in Japan.
Ayako Souryo Takamoto, the great-granddaughter of the 14th Grand Tea Master, and Yoko Sanada, a LongHouse friend, will present an authentic Urasenke Chado, followed by a matcha-making workshop. Tickets are $50, $40 for members.
Also on Sunday, at 5 p.m., Alec Nevala-Lee, author of “Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller,” will discuss Fuller’s career, the impact of his ideas, and the history of his “Fly’s Eye Dome,” the 28-foot enclosure that has been a familiar sight for LongHouse visitors for almost 25 years.
Tickets are $35, $25 for members.
A Mexican Batwoman
The Parrish Art Museum, in collaboration with Cinema Tropical, is holding an outdoor screening of “The Batwoman/La Mujer Murcielago” tomorrow at 6 p.m. on its event lawn and terrace. A light reception and costume contest will take place at 5:30.
Dating from 1968, the film, recently restored, stars Maura Monti in the title role. The director, Rene Cardona, was known for his “luchador” films, which feature masked wrestlers. The plot of “The Batwoman” involves the kidnapping and murder of Acapulco’s wrestlers, a mystery the Batwoman is called upon by the police to solve.
In a recent New York Times feature on the film, Nicolas Rapold called it “a delightful, warmhearted entertainment with a handmade quality, featuring a star with effortless charm.”
The film is in Spanish with English subtitles. Tickets are $20; $18 for senior citizens, $15 for members’ guests, $13 for members and Friends of Project Most, $10 for students, and $5 for children. Guests have been encouraged to take outdoor chairs and blankets.
Drumming and Dance
M’bemba Bangoura, a master drummer from Guinea, West Africa, will lead workshops in African drumming and African dance at Sag Harbor’s Masonic Temple on Sunday afternoon. The drum class will take place from 1 to 3; the dance class from 3 to 5. Participants will learn the use of the djemba drum and Wula dance. Each class is $20.
