November 2021
WARRIORS ROCK is a fabulous musical tribute to Veterans that has been performed nationally and we are thrilled to present it back here, at the WHBPAC!. It is a renewal of patriotism and an enjoyable night of music, with music performed by Founder of WARRIORS ROCK and former lead singer of the Vogues: Gary Racan & his studio e band. The concert will feature local Veterans who are the rock stars of the night! It is a well-produced show that presents pre-recorded interviews of the featured Veterans shown on the backdrop of the stage/screen throughout the concert. Each interview ends with he or she is stating, “the song that reminds them of home when they were deployed” and the band kicks into that song. The evening ends with all the Veterans & active Military in the audience being brought to the front and honoring them with God Bless the USA. It is a respectable and well-deserved tribute for the people we should be honoring in this country.
100% OF TICKET PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED TO THE WESTHAMPTON BEACH VFW POST 5350, HAMPTON BAYS AMER LEGION HAND-ALDRICH POST 924 & THE WESTHAMPTON AMERICAN LEGION POST 834
Find Out More
A mainstay of the comedy stage, JB Smoove is perhaps best known as Leon in the HBO series “Curb Your Enthusiasm”. In addition to hosting the hit show “Four Courses with JB Smoove”, other TV and film appearances include “Fresh Off the Boat”, “Polka King”, “Date Night”, and “Everybody Hates Chris”. Smoove’s standup brings the ruckus to sold out audiences all over the world.
Find Out More
So much science, so little time. . . Doktor Kaboom is having trouble picking his favorite science demonstrations, so he’s bringing them all! Unfortunately there are way too many to do them all in one show. The solution: The Wheel of Science! Doktor Kaboom has built a great big spinning wheel and labeled it with everything from optical illusions to chemical reactions to a homemade hovercraft, and more! At least a dozen fantastic demonstrations ready to go. Wherever the wheel stops, that’s what’s next! Will we turn a water bottle into a rocket or catapult bananas across the stage? Electrocute a pickle or create artificial gravity? Who knows? No two shows will be the same. So, step right up, and let’s spin that wheel!
Find Out More
National Players – Washington D.C.
The members of the Younger family dream bigger than the small house where they live on the south side of Chicago in the 1950s. When their deceased father’s insurance money comes through, those dreams might actually become reality. Walter Lee wants to run his own business and earn financial independence, but his sister Beneatha dreams of attending medical school. Meanwhile, their mother Lena wants to move them all to a bigger home in a white neighborhood. What will finally allow the Youngers to move up in the world, and who will have their dreams deferred? Don’t miss this award-winning drama with a universal story about an African-American family dealing with prejudice, history, and a world where everything changes.
Find Out MoreNational Players – Washington D.C.
The members of the Younger family dream bigger than the small house where they live on the south side of Chicago in the 1950s. When their deceased father’s insurance money comes through, those dreams might actually become reality. Walter Lee wants to run his own business and earn financial independence, but his sister Beneatha dreams of attending medical school. Meanwhile, their mother Lena wants to move them all to a bigger home in a white neighborhood. What will finally allow the Youngers to move up in the world, and who will have their dreams deferred? Don’t miss this award-winning drama with a universal story about an African-American family dealing with prejudice, history, and a world where everything changes.
Find Out More
Darlene Love is the Queen of Rock and Soul! Hers was the voice that helped launch a hundred hits: The No. 1 smash “He’s a Rebel,” “(Today I Met) the Boy I’m Gonna Marry,” “He’s Sure the Boy I Love” and “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” all of which she sang during the glory days of the girl-group era, as well as the countless songs she sang backup on for artists Sam Cooke, Elvis Presley, Cher, Aretha Franklin, and more.
Find Out More
WHBPAC and New York Blood Center are proud to present a different kind of rock star – you! On November 26th, between 11am & 5pm, you can take center stage and help meet the needs of members in your community.
Find Out MoreDecember 2021
Shop on Main Street during the Holiday Stroll and support the arts while supporting local businesses! Then return to the theatre to enjoy the foremost dueling piano show in the Northeast — known for their craftsmanship, deep repertoires, and unique personalities.
Fronted by Steve Savage, a classically trained pianist from the Berklee College of Music, Savage Pianos is the ultimate hybrid of all modern forms of entertainment: Two performers on two facing pianos taking turns playing audience requests and curated playlists. What sets Savage Pianos apart from the rest is their unique ability to engage the audience with comedy, witty banter and excellent musicianship. They’ll be putting their unparalleled spin on your requests all night long. This will be an engaging, interactive experience you won’t want to miss!
Find Out More
Join us for our first annual Holiday Stroll on Main Street! This spectacular night of shopping features the best in Westhampton Beach businesses and restaurants partnering to raise funds for WHBPAC! Pick up a punchcard at the Box Office and collect stamps from each participating retailer as you shop along Main Street and enjoy delicious bites. Then, return to the theatre to be entered into a deluxe holiday raffle while you listen to the hottest dueling piano show from Savage Pianos (ticket purchase required). This will be the kick off to your holiday shopping while you shop local and support the arts!
Find Out More
WHBPAC is once again collecting new, unwrapped toys for Toys for Tots! Our annual partners in the drive, Sheehan & Company, have teamed up with the United States Marine Corps Reserve to once again brighten the holidays for less fortunate children.
The program does not accept or distribute toys with realistic looking weapons, play doh or modeling clay, colorful liquid containers that can be opened, bats or sharp instruments, bubble producing toys, or drawing devices such as crayons, markers, color pencils, etc.
Donations may be dropped off at the Box Office through Saturday, December 5.
Find Out More
Join us for our fall music concert! With performances by UpBeat, our talented private music students, our newest Rock Band, and a special appearance of last year’s rock band, En Fuego, this is a sure-fire evening for any music lover and a delightful way to support budding talent!
Find Out More
Join Clara, as her beloved Nutcracker Doll turns into a prince and takes her on a journey to an enchanted wonderland forest and into the Land of The Sweets, where she meets the Sugar Plum Fairy, and many more beloved characters. Capture the holiday spirit and watch this year’s Peconic Ballet Theatre’s production of, “The Nutcracker.”
Find Out MorePeconic Ballet Foundation is proud to present this special edition of “The Nutcracker” starring our Dance Express students and the Peconic Ballet Foundation company! Join Clara, as her beloved Nutcracker Doll turns into a prince and takes her on a journey to an enchanted wonderland forest and into the Land of The Sweets, where she meets the Sugar Plum Fairy, and many more beloved characters.
Find Out More
Tickets are free but reservations are required.
Walter Meyer (Danny Glover) is a retired mechanic who lost the love of his life one year earlier. Now that the holiday season is here, he invites daughters Rachel (Gabrielle Union) and Cheryl (Kimberly Elise) and sons Christian (Romany Malco) and Evan (Jessie T. Usher) to his house for a traditional celebration. Poor Walter soon realizes that if his bickering children and the rest of the family can spend five days together under the same roof, it will truly be a Christmas miracle.
Find Out MoreJanuary 2022
A hilarious shipboard romp performed by our Teen Troupe in one of Cole Porter’s most magical scores – It’s Delightful, Delicious, and De-Lovely!
Find Out MoreFebruary 2022
An action-packed extravaganza performed by our Elementary & Middle School groups, with a special performance by our Little Players, based on Disney Channel’s blockbuster TV movie!
Find Out MoreMarch 2022
When Joanna Drayton (Katharine Houghton), a free-thinking white woman, and black doctor John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) become engaged, they travel to San Francisco to meet her parents. Matt Drayton (Spencer Tracy) and his wife Christina (Katharine Hepburn) are wealthy liberals who must confront the latent racism the coming marriage arouses. Also attending the Draytons’ dinner are Prentice’s parents (Roy E. Glenn Sr., Beah Richards), who vehemently disapprove of the relationship.
Sidney Poitier, K.B.E., was the first black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor (Lilies of the Field). His prodigious body of work established him as the first black matinée idol, and his career in Hollywood spanned 76 years. After starring in three major hits in 1967, he turned his attention behind the camera, where he once again found box office success with Uptown Saturday Night (1974), Let’s Do It Again (1975), and Stir Crazy (1980). His talent, his refusal to play to stereotypes, and his general likability helped to ensure that he broke down barriers in an industry that still has problems with racial representation and bias.
Find Out More
For the 17th consecutive year, WHBPAC, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. With all three categories offered this year – Animated, Live Action and Documentary – this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! Screen all three categories or choose to view just one. A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts before the Academy Awards on Sunday, March 27th.
Find Out More
Virginia Repertory Theatre
This compelling dramatization of the life and times of one of the most influential and charismatic leaders of the “American Century” and the Civil Rights movement will inspire your students as they experience this great leader’s struggle and his dream of lifting “our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.” The play traces Dr. King’s life from his humble beginnings in Atlanta, Georgia through his extraordinary evolution into one of the 20th century’s foremost figures.
Find Out More
A documentary celebrating the life of Robin Williams with interviews, tributes and clips from his career.
Robin Williams, widely regarded as one of the best comedians of all time, he was known for his improvisational skills and the wide variety of characters he created on the spur of the moment. After rising to fame portraying Mork in the ABC sitcom, Mindy & Mork, he went on to star in comedic movies and critically acclaimed films alike, including Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Dead Poets Society (1989), Patch Adams (1998), and One Hour Photo (2002). A string of family friendly box office successes like Hook (1991), Aladdin (1992), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Jumanji (1995), and the Night at the Museum trilogy (2006–2014) further cemented the breath-taking scope of his career and earned him new generations of fans. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor with his role in Good Will Hunting (1997) and was nominated for four Oscars in total. His many other accolades included two Primetime Emmy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and five Grammy Awards.
Find Out More
In this fact-based film, a New Jersey superintendent, Dr. Frank Napier (Robert Guillaume), watches helplessly as East Side High becomes the lowest-ranked school in the state. With nowhere else to turn, Dr. Napier enlists maverick ex-teacher Joe Clark (Morgan Freeman) to take over as principal of the declining school. Unfortunately for Clark, before he can focus on improving the student body’s state exam scores, he has to somehow rid the school of its gang and narcotics problems.
Find Out More
“Funky, cool and bad,” is how Robert Cray describes his latest album, That’s What I Heard, out February 28. Over the past four decades, Cray has created a sound that rises from American roots, blues, soul and R&B, with five Grammy wins, 20 acclaimed studio albums and a bundle of live albums that punctuate the Blues Hall of Famer’s career.
Cray’s band features Richard Cousins (bass), Dover Weinberg (keyboards), Terence F. Clark (drums), and Steve Jordan (drums, percussion).
Find Out More
In the spirit of the Allman Family Revival concerts, The Devon Allman Project and the Samantha Fish Band join forces on a co-headline tour featuring the River Kittens as the opening act. There will be a full-band set by the Samantha Fish Band and one by the Devon Allman Project, that will also feature Revival alumni guest artist Jimmy Hall (Wet Willie) & Larry McCray. The night will close with an encore set that will include DAP, Samantha Fish, The River Kittens, Jimmy Hall and Larry McCray all on stage together.
The Devon Allman Project is a 6-piece band that gracefully blends & bends genres and are well versed in the jamming vernacular that the Allman family is famous for. DAP has previously toured almost 20 countries. Playing the Peach Festival, Gov’t Mule’s Island Exodus, Joe Bonamassa’s Keepin’ the Blues Alive Cruise and festivals throughout Europe and the USA. The band features the two Allman Betts Band drummers, John Lum and R. Scott Bryan (Sheryl Crow), bassist Justin Corgan, guitarist Jackson Stokes and a keyboardist (tba). They will be playing songs of The Allman Brothers and Gregg Allman as well as Devon’s fan favorite originals and surprise covers. The show also features the liquid light show and video visuals behind the band courtesy of “Brotherhood of Light” the touring visual company that toured with the Allman Brothers for 20 years and for 3 years with Allman Betts Band.
Samantha Fish, international genre-bending guitarist, is one of the most exciting and inventive artists on the scene.. Guitar World Magazine placed Fish in their ‘Top 10 Best Blues Guitarists in the World’ list. A triple threat, Fish, is a singer, songwriter, and electrifying guitarist who’s topped the Billboard Blues Charts numerous times and is the recipient of Blues Music and Blues Blast awards. The Kansas City dynamo, has seven albums under her belt, the most recent being Faster, produced by Martin Kierszenbaum (Lady Gaga, Sting.) This is her sophomore release for Rounder Records, her debut, was 2019’s Kill or Be Kind. Revealing her affinity for North Mississippi blues heroes like R.L. Burnside and wildly inventive iconoclasts like Prince, the album ultimately embodies unbridled energy true to its emotional core.
Find Out More
Lightwire Theatre – Louisiana
We begin with Aesop’s classic fable of the The Tortoise and the Hare but continue the story which finds them 10 years down the road, now with children of their own and exploring modern day distractions. Smart phones and video games create a new landscape of lost connections to life experiences. The Next Gen features Tortoise Junior and Lil’ Hare in a whole new kind of race; where their adventures lead them into unexpected territory. Old man Tortoise and Big Daddy Hare must come together despite their differences to find and save their children. What hurdles will they have to overcome to make it to the finish line?
With dazzling visuals, poignant storytelling and the creative use of music from classical to pop, this production brings this tale into a new brilliant light.
Find Out More
After his mother dies, Oliver (Ewan McGregor) is stunned when his father, Hal (Christopher Plummer), recently diagnosed with terminal cancer, comes out of the closet. When Hal passes away a few years later, Oliver grows depressed, struggling with his failing career as an artist while constantly remembering his childhood and time spent with his dad. Oliver’s loneliness is eased when he meets actress Anna (Mélanie Laurent), but their relationship is threatened by their mutual fear of commitment.
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC was a Canadian actor whose career spanned seven decades and several mediums, including film, television, and stage. His roles were varied and included historical figures, Shakespearean characters, and animated antagonists, although the role he was possibly most widely known for was that of Captain Georg Von Trapp in 1965’s musical film, The Sound of Music. In 2012, at the age of 82, he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Beginners, becoming the oldest person to win until Anthony Hopkins’ win in 2021. At the age of 88, he was nominated for All The Money In The World, making him the oldest person to be nominated in any acting category at the Academy Awards. Plummer was also the recipient of two Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award, and a British Academy Film Award.
Find Out More
Scientist H. George Wells (Rod Taylor) builds a time machine, and despite the warning from his friend David (Alan Young) against “tempting the laws of providence,” decides to visit the future. Jumping ahead 14 years, he observes changes in women’s fashion. Jumping ahead 40, he meets David’s son (also Young) amid a terrible war. Finally, he travels thousands of years ahead to discover a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by humanoid Eloi and the monstrous Morlocks that feed on them.
Yvette Carmen Mimieux was an American film and television actress, best known for her role as Weena in The Time Machine (1960). Throughout the course of her career, both contracted with MGM and after, she often was cast as “a wounded person, the ‘sensitive’ role”, citing it was a “soulful quality” of hers that lead to that casting. However, by the 1970s, she began to express dissatisfaction with the types of roles available to women in general, calling them out as flat and uninteresting. Not content to sit back, she began writing short stories and films, and worked with Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg to produce one of her scripts, a thriller, as a made-for-TV movie for ABC.
Find Out MoreApril 2022
Based on the popular Tom Clancy novel, this suspenseful movie tracks Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) as he abandons his orders and heads for the east coast of the United States. Equipped with innovative stealth technology, Ramius’ submarine, “Red October,” is virtually invisible. However, when an American sub briefly detects the Russians’ presence, CIA agent Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) sets out to determine Ramius’ motives, fearing he may launch an attack on the U.S.
Sir Sean Connery was a Scottish actor. The first to cinematically portray British super-spy James Bond, he starred in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. The acclaim the Bond films brought him led to offers of work with remarkable directors like Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Lumet, and John Huston, and his acting career spanned six decades, officially retiring in 2006. He was the winner of an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables, two BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, and received the US Kennedy Center Honors lifetime achievement award. He was knighted in 2000, and won several honors related to his Scots nationality.
Find Out More
Griffin Theatre Company – Chicago
Based on the book by Andrew Clements. Nicholas Allen has plenty of ideas. When he ends up in Mrs. Granger’s language arts class, he has his best idea ever. He decides to create his own word…FRINDLE! Before long Nick’s word creates a buzz in his school, his town and then to his surprise it spreads all around the country, and a power struggle erupts with the strict Mrs. Granger. Will the word “Frindle” win? Based on the multiple award winning best-selling novel by Andrew Clements this quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words will have your young audience inventing their own words.
Find Out More
Eight men pick up shiny brass and drum instruments, lock into an unspoken groove and rotate genres like your favorite playlist shifting from funk and R&B to hip-hop and beyond. With fire, focus and fluidity, New Orleans-bred staple THE SOUL REBELS expand musical boundaries with an unwavering commitment to originality and innovation through genre-bending songs and collaborations.
Find Out More
Betty White: First Lady of Television chronicles the remarkable career of this true television pioneer, who was the first woman to produce a national TV show, the first woman to star in a sitcom, the first woman to receive an Emmy nomination – and the first woman to ever appear on television, given her performance on an experimental broadcast in 1939.
Betty Marion White Ludden was an American actress and comedian. A pioneer of early television, with a career spanning over eight decades, White was noted for her vast work in the entertainment industry and being one of the first women to work both in front of and behind the camera. After an early career in radio, she transitioned to television, where after her initial sitcom work she became a game show staple. Her roles took her from soap operas to sketch comedies to legal comedy-dramas, but she is perhaps best known to contemporary audiences as Rose from The Golden Girls. A holder of a Guinness World Record (Longest TV Career by an Entertainer (Female)), she was also the recipient of eight Emmy Awards, three SAG Awards, and a Grammy Award.
Find Out More
Carl Fredricksen, a 78-year-old balloon salesman, is about to fulfill a lifelong dream. Tying thousands of balloons to his house, he flies away to the South American wilderness. But curmudgeonly Carl’s worst nightmare comes true when he discovers a little boy named Russell is a stowaway aboard the balloon-powered house.
Ed Asner was an American actor, best remembered for portraying Lou Grant on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off, Lou Grant. He was one of only a few television actors to portray the same character in both a comedy and a drama. When not acting on screen, he was president of the Screen Actors Guild, and served on various boards for non-profit organizations. He was the most honored male performer in the history of the Primetime Emmy Awards with seven wins – five for portraying Lou Grant.
Special pricing for children 12 and younger!
Find Out More
Filmmaker Kate Novack explores the life and career of fashion journalist André Leon Talley — from his childhood in the segregated South to his iconic, barrier-breaking work at Women’s Wear Daily, W and Vogue.
André Leon Talley was an American fashion journalist, stylist, creative director, and editor-at-large of Vogue magazine. He was the magazine’s fashion news director from 1983 to 1987, its first African-American male creative director from 1988 to 1995, and then its editor-at-large from 1998 to 2013.
“Novack is aware of the imagined incongruity of Talley in these places and outright rejects it, making The Gospel According to Andre not only a portrait of its subject but a challenge to our assumptions…” Battleship Pretension
Find Out More
He’s back with all new music for 2022! His lush lyrics and smooth sound are what Westhampton Beach nights are made of!
Singer-songwriter Jeff LeBlanc returns to the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center this spring for his third headlining appearance.
Since releasing his first album, he has epitomized success as an independent artist – netting millions of streams, achieving both satellite and commercial radio play, selling-out headline shows and touring the country with a wide range of artists such as Boz Scaggs, Chaka Khan, Brett Dennen, Michael McDonald and Tori Kelly.
Find Out MoreMay 2022
Cahoots NI, Belfast Ireland
Suni and Mae are dreamers. As young girls, they dreamt about journeying far beyond our solar system, singing among the stars and discovering all that was unknown to them: the secrets of space.
Using magical illusions and a state-of-the-art digital LED wall, the sisters and the audience embark on an interactive journey across the galaxy. The wonders of outer space are explored with dazzling imagery and key ideas and inventions in science, technology, and engineering.
Find Out More
Teen Theatre Performance
It is a spring afternoon at the Dowd family home, and a tea for the high-society ladies of the Wednesday Forum is in full swing. The hostess, Veta Louise Simmons, is hoping that the event will allow her daughter, Myrtle Mae, now in her twenties and still unmarried, to mingle with the mothers and grandmothers of some of the town’s remaining eligible bachelors. However, to Veta’s horror, her brother, Elwood P. Dowd, arrives home unexpectedly and in the company of his closest friend, HARVEY the pooka (spirit creature of celctic folklore), a six foot one-and-a-half inch tall white rabbit—a friend nobody else can see…
Find Out More
Theatre Works USA
Charlotte’s Web is based on E.B. White’s loving story of the friendship between a pig named Wilbur and a little gray spider named Charlotte. Wilbur has a problem: how to avoid winding up as pork chops! Charlotte, a fine writer and true friend, hits on a plan to fool Farmer Zuckerman. She will create a “miracle.” Spinning the words “Some Pig” in her web, Charlotte weaves a solution which not only makes Wilbur a prize pig but also ensures his place on the farm forever.
Find Out More
Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), a homeless black teen, has drifted in and out of the school system for years. Then Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) and her husband, Sean (Tim McGraw), take him in. The Tuohys eventually become Michael’s legal guardians, transforming both his life and theirs. Michael’s tremendous size and protective instincts make him a formidable force on the gridiron, and with help from his new family and devoted tutor, he realizes his potential as a student and football player.
Tickets are free but reservations are required.
Find Out More
Tracy Morgan is one of the most well-respected comedians in his field, known for his roles across seven seasons of 30 Rock, where he received a Supporting Actor Emmy Nomination, and Saturday Night Live, which earned him an Emmy nod for Outstanding Guest Actor. He can most recently be seen in season four of TBS’s The Last O.G. which he executive produces and stars in. Morgan recently
appeared in Amazon’s Coming 2 America alongside Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Jermaine Fowler, which was released in March 2021 and Warner Brothers animated movie Scoob! which was released on PVOD on May 14th, 2020. He has had standup specials for Netflix, HBO and Comedy Central. In 2009, he released his first book, I Am The New Black, a compilation of anecdotes and serious moments that shaped him and his career. He has also had memorable voiceovers in G-Force, Rio and Rio 2 and the Oscar-nominated Boxtrolls. Additional film credits include The Longest Yard alongside Adam Sandler, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Head of State, Son of No One, Why Stop Now and Fist Fight.
Ages 18+
Find Out More
Join the Westhampton Rotary Club for “Rotary Rocks!” – a fun concert featuring local bands En Fuego and Bingo Bango performing music from the 60’s to the 90’s to today.
En Fuego is Westhampton Beach’s own homegrown band and winners of Southampton Town’s ‘Battle of the Bands’. Bingo Bango has a wide following performing music by the Beatles, Blondie, the B’52’s, The Byrds, Johnny Cash, Mamas & the Papas, The Monkees, The Lovin’ Spoonful, Ray Charles, and much more!
The event is made possible by sponsors Ted and Kristin Jankowski of Westhampton True Value, Rubio Premier Motors, Kelly & Hulme PC, Joe and Carol Nemeth, Jen Going Interiors, Urban Wealth Management, Tom Otis of Otis Ford, and Aimee Fitzpatrick Martin of Saunders & Associates.
Find Out More
Elementary & Middle School Performances
Legendary Musical Theatre Composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber has created musicals that have soared to fame since his very first musical on Broadway, Joseph and the Amazing Color Dream Coat in 1967. Since then, he has written over 21 musicals with many that continue to wow Broadway’s stages today. Join WHBPAC Arts Academy students in a concert celebrating the best of the best of Broadway.
Find Out More