While we are still in the summer season, early Saturday morning in Montauk Harbor felt as if a faint hint of September were in the air. A cold front had passed through a few hours earlier and the breeze was coming from the cooler and drier northwest.
The Calvary Baptist Church on Spinner Lane in East Hampton held its annual barbecue on Sunday and it was a gloriously beautiful day.
“Love is a battlefield,” Pat Benatar sang about the bumpy path to romance in her 1983 hit, while a few centuries earlier Shakespeare wrote about it in his most popular of plays, “Romeo and Juliet.” These two powerhouses of music and literature will collide Friday and Saturday at Mashashimuet Park in Sag Harbor.
All plays and musicals are products of their time. The trick for a director is to find a way to contextualize them, or make them speak urgently to the here and now. Hats off, then, to Irving Berlin’s great musical “Annie Get Your Gun,” now at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater.
