Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce new dates for the start of The Grift, the immersive, site-specific theater experience written and directed by Tom Salamon, which is scheduled to be performed at Bay Street Theater and throughout Sag Harbor village. Performances of The Grift now begin Thursday, March 24, and continue through Sunday, April 3, with 12 shows over the course of its two-week run.
Part theater and part game, The Grift is an immersive, site-specific experience beginning and ending at Bay Street, and moving through several locations nearby in Sag Harbor. Dropping its audience of 50 per show into the middle of an adventure in which they are trained in the art of the con, participants meet characters, solve clues, and get a master class in the ways of the grifter, all in the interest of pulling off one final grift to take down a seamy criminal mastermind. Audiences will have their intelligence tested and get trained in scams like The Pig In The Poke, The Round-The-Corner, and The Money Swap—but will they be sharp enough to take down an evil genius at his own game?
Joining The Grift is Ally Callaghan (Wendy), Elena Faverio (Jackie), Rachel Feldman (Eloise), Edward Kassar (Hammer), Joe Pallister (Danny), Gabriel Portuondo (Narrator), and Jonathan Silver (Grady).
The Grift premiered in 2015 to rave reviews and to sold-out performances in San Diego, produced by the Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse. Writer-director Tom Salamon makes his return after his other immersive UK successes, Accomplice (produced by the Tony Award-winning Menier Chocolate Factory) and Goosebumps Alive (The Vaults at Waterloo).
“We’re so excited to be bringing immersive theater to the Hamptons, says Tom Salamon. “We think we’ll be giving audiences something really new and unique that they haven’t seen before.”
An experience unlike anything ever performed on a stage, The Grift sweeps its audience into a thrilling adventure, turning everyday theatergoers into master cons. And when the show ends? They’re released into the world with a whole new skill set—one that can pay off for years to come.
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