Arts

"Gene Casey - ten gallon hat - 20 gallon heart," Nancy Remkus said about the next Songwriters Share headliner.

"Our main objective is to stay in this space, we are very happy here," Scott Schwartz said about Bay Street's current venue.

The laughs, the groans, the oh and ahs from the audience was total proof that the show was working and the audience was thoroughly engaged.

"The Museum strives to illuminate the creative process of artists in myriad disciplines, and the intimate setting of Salon Series allows musical artists to engage in a dialogue with the audience about their program selection and approach to interpretation," Terrie Sultan noted.

"I absolutely loved this play from the moment I read it and Joe, Eddie and Sawyer are the exact right cast," Anita Boyer, OFVS co-director, co-producer, and co-founder, noted. "Their chemistry onstage is captivating and their comedic timing is impeccable."

"We greet the new season with what we do best…screening a new crop of docs," Jacqui Lofaro, founder/executive director of Hamptons Doc Fest, relayed. "Our 3- film series pays homage to our planet, print journalism and the primo music of Miles Davis."

"The concert will showcase two of the greatest musical masterpieces of the late 19th century: Brahms exquisite First-String Sextet and Schoenberg's monumental Transfigured Night," Paolo Bartolani, Founder and Artistic Director of the Festival remarked.

"Knock Down the House is a film about hope that challenges the narratives that create cynicism and despair. The film is ultimately about power and how to build it in yourself and in the world, and what it takes to make the politically impossible possible," said the film's director Rachel Lears.

Schwartz stressed he finds it most important to give playwrights, "The opportunity to see their works in front of a live audience. So they can see what works and where they might have to revise and tinker."

"I've been really wanting these comics on the show for a while, so I'm happy they are finally there and I know Sag Harbor will enjoy them," comedian Joseph Vecsey noted.