Madoo in Manhattan
The ninth annual Madoo in Manhattan lecture, set for Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Cosmopolitan Club at 122 East 66th Street, will feature a talk by Tania Compton, the author of “The Private Gardens of England” and the co-author, with Andrew Lawson, of “Dream Gardens: 100 Inspirational Gardens.”
Ms. Compton will focus on her 20-year gardening project at Fonthill House in Wiltshire in the U.K., as well as her work on the formal garden at Longford Castle near Salisbury and at Vanners in Bucklebury, Berkshire. Other topics will include her Mediterranean-inspired garden designs on Ibiza and in the Peloponnese.
A cocktail reception will begin at 6, to be followed by the lecture at 7. Tickets are $150, $135 for members.
Farce in Quogue
“Boeing Boeing,” a farce written by the French playwright Marc Camoletti, will start a three-week run next Thursday as the Hampton Theatre Company’s latest production at the Quogue Community Hall.
Premiered in London in 1962, the play centers on a confirmed bachelor and swinger, Bernard, who lives in Paris and is engaged to three flight attendants at the same time. His friend Robert’s arrival, weather delays, and the advent of faster jets mean trouble for Bernard’s romantic life. The play ran for seven years in London.
The company’s cast includes Molly Brennan, Kevin Russo, Jill Linden, Jason Moreland, Samm Jenny, and Emily Vaeth. Direction is by Catherine Clyne, set design by Joe Kenny, lighting design by Sebastian Paczynski, and costumes by Teresa Lebrun. George Loizides is the producer.
Performances will run through March 30 on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 7 and Sundays at 2:30, with an additional matinee on March 29. Tickets are $40 for adults, $36 for senior citizens, $25 for students 25 and under, and $30 for veterans and Native Americans.
Poetry Performance
“ArtWords: The Poetry of Michelangelo,” a solo performance by Bob Spiotto, will happen at the Montauk Library on Sunday afternoon at 3.
Mr. Spiotto has selected poetry and madrigals written from Michelangelo’s “optimistic 20s to his melancholic 80s,” according to the library, providing insights into the private feelings that fueled his creativity. While universally regarded as an artistic genius, his less-well-known literary works “reveal what he could not express in art.” The performance will include intervals of Renaissance music.
The former director of programs at New York’s Friars Club, Mr. Spiotto has developed and starred in many solo shows based on the lives of famous men.
Soul Spectacular
Bay Street Theater will host a “Soul Spectacular” featuring the HooDoo Loungers, Mighty Ramon and the Phantoms of Soul, and a special guest, Jessie Wagner, on Saturday at 8 p.m.
The Loungers are known for their blend of classic soul and New Orleans swing, and the Phantoms concentrate on the soul music of the 1960s and ‘70s. Ms. Wagner is a multitalented artist who has toured with Lenny Kravitz, Kid Rock, Stevie Van Zandt, and Duran Duran. The Sag Harbor theater promises tunes by Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Otis Redding, and Ray Charles, to name a few.
Tickets are $42 to $54.
Temple Jazz
Jazz Night at Sag Harbor’s Masonic Temple will return with Iron City celebrating Fat Tuesday tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. The lineup features Yuma Uesaka on tenor saxophone, Charlie Apicella on guitar, Brad Whiteley on organ, and Claes Brondal, drums. Part of the $20 admission fee is donated to local charities.
Beneficial Wasps
The next Zoom lecture from the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons will feature Heather Holm on “Native Predatory Wasps: Their Role as Pollinators and Beneficial Insects” on Sunday at 2 p.m.
“Native bees and predatory wasps share the same lineage” and “many behaviors and habitat requirements,” it says in the Alliance newsletter. Ms. Holm will focus on many “natural history and biology facts about native wasps, illustrating their nesting habitats, prey specificity, and the ecosystem services they provide — pest insect population control and pollination.”
Ms. Holm is a pollinator conservationist and the author of four books, two of which have won the American Horticultural Society Book Award.
Horticultural Society members will receive a link via email. Nonmember tickets are $10 and can be bought at hahgarden.org/tickets.
