Dan's Papers - October 19, 2007 - Take Five 2007 with Jan Silver

The Hamptons International Film Festival is on in East Hampton, Southampton, Sag Harbor and Montauk through Sunday, and there is also good theater and music plus interesting speakers at South Fork venues this week. The Picture Show at Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, screens a classic Charlie Chaplin silent film on Friday and a Harold Lloyd film on Saturday. The prize-winning play Doubt is onstage in Quogue, and Kristen Lowman's new play Time Will Tell will be read at Bay Street Theatre on Saturday afternoon. The popular Irish Celtic band MacTalla Mor plays in Southampton on Friday evening, PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk speaks in Sag Harbor on Saturday afternoon, and well-known local poets read from their work at the Southampton library on Sunday afternoon. Southampton's Parrish Art Museum invites everyone to the Bindlestaff Family Cirkus on Sunday, 1 p.m., for the "Wild West Jamboree" show. There will be lasso tricks, bullwhip-cracking, line dancing, knife throwing, juggling and music. From 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., there are special activities for children. Admission is free and no reservations are required.

There are still tickets available at the East Hampton box office at Design Within Reach, 30 Park Place (631-747-7978). The schedule of films is online at www.hamptonsfilmfest.org and there are last-minute "rush" tickets sold at the East Hampton, Southampton and Montauk cinemas 10 minutes before a screening. Next Monday is "Locals Day." Several HIFF films will be shown all day at the East Hampton Cinema at no charge. The list of films will be posted on the movie theater's front doors. THEATER

The Hampton Theatre Company's production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play Doubt by John Patrick Shanley, about a priest's possibly dubious behavior with a parochial schoolboy, continues at the Quogue Community Hall. The show plays Thursday to Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. through October 28. Tickets are $22 for adults, $20 for seniors and $10 for students; call (631) 653-8955 to reserve seats.
Actress Kristen Lowman's touching new play about love and loss, Time Will Tell, will be read at Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, on Saturday in the "Tea at 3" series. There is no admission charge but tea and cake at the concession stand are $3.

The popular Irish band MacTalla Mor, specializing in Celtic music, will play tonight, 7 p.m., at the Southampton Cultural Center, 25 Pond Lane, across from Agawam Park. Tickets are $10 at the door.
The Foxhollow Trio, a classical music ensemble, will play a noon concert next Wednesday, October 24, at the Rogers Memorial Library, Southampton. Bring a sandwich; the library provides coffee, tea and cookies.There is no admission charge but donations are accepted. Reservations are requested (call 631-283-0774 ext.523).
Recommended entertainers at local clubs and restaurants this week: Montauk - live bands weekend afternoons at 668 Gigshack; Amagansett - at the Stephen Talkhouse (631-267-3117) Fri.- rock & roll with Nancy Atlas Project, Sat.-70s rock/disco with Booga Sugar; East Hampton - jazz Fri. at Almondito; Fri. pop and jazz standards with Jane Hastay and Peter Martin Weiss at Coco Restaurant (Maidstone Arms), pianist Paul Gene at Babette's Sat.; Sagaponack - Twilight Thursdays (5-7:30 p.m.) at Wolffer Estate Vineyard with live music. Sag Harbor - Annie Morgan Band on Fri. at Mumbo Gumbo; Bridgehampton - World Pie jazz brunch Sun. with Stefanie Cardinali Group, Pierre's Restaurant light jazz with Dennis Raffelock on Sun. and Jody Carlson next Tues., Monica sings at One Ocean on Thurs.; Water Mill - guitarist Steve Fredericks at Muse on Thurs; Westhampton Beach - musicians Thurs. thru Sun. at The Patio, musicians Fri. & Sat. at Annona; Riverhead - jazz at Tweed's Restaurant, Fri. to Sun.

Ingrid Newkirk, the founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), will speak at BookHampton, Sag Harbor, on Saturday at 3 p.m. about her new book Let's Have A Dog Party. Sculptor Setsuo Ito will sign copies of his new book at East End Books. East Hampton, on Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m., and illustrator Gahan Wilson will be there on Sunday from 11 a.m. until noon to sign copies of his new book.
Former Suffolk County poet laureate Daniel Moran hosts a reading of local poets featured in the 2006 anthology The Light of the City and Sea on Sunday, 3 p.m., at Southampton's Rogers Memorial Library. Poets to read include Anne Porter, Paddy Noble, Janice Bishop, and Allen Planz. A reception follows the reading; there is no admission charge but please call 631-283-0774 ext. 523 to reserve a seat.

The Picture Show at Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, has a silent film weekend. Charlie Chaplin wrote, directs and plays The Tramp in the romantic comedy City Lights (1931) on Friday, 8 p.m. ($5 at the door). On Saturday at 8 p.m., Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis star in the comedy Safety Last (1931) with live piano accompaniment by Ben Model ($15). The Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center screens the well-received comedy Rocket Science (2007), about a stuttering high school boy who conquers his fears, tonight through Sunday; call PAC for showtimes (631-288-1500; $3-10). Sag Harbor's John Jermain Library shows the Mel Brooks classic, Young Frankenstein (1974), on Friday at 6:30 p.m. The film stars Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman and Madeline Kahn; there is no admission charge but arrive by 6:15 for good seats.