Hamptons Summer Songbook by the Sea Comes to LTV

This summer, LTV Studios will present “Hamptons Summer Songbook by the Sea,” a series produced by LTV’s creative director Josh Gladstone and independent producer Donna Rubin showcasing performances by the world’s best cabaret and Broadway artists.

Rubin has a 30-year history with The Triad Theater in New York City and this year, she’s making her Hamptons producing-debut with the Summer Songbook season at LTV. On Tuesday, May 7, a launch party preview featuring some of the performers lined up for the summer series will be held at The Triad Theater at 158 West 72nd Street.

“My first ‘day’ job in New York City, where I was working as a dancer and musical theater performer, was learning how to seat a sold-out Mark Nadler performance at The Triad — so it’s full circle!” said Rubin.

“Donna is an amazing partner — she’s a devotee of cabaret and is completely focused on supporting the art form and generating opportunities for artists by building a new home for cabaret in the Hamptons, where she also resides for part of the year,” said Gladstone. “How fortunate for our community that she’s bringing her passion to LTV Studios, an intimate and ideal venue for vocal performance. I’d like to think of LTV as the downtown, Off-Broadway of the Hamptons — so this partnership with Donna and our showcase launch at The Triad is a potent and auspicious match.”

The series will kick off at LTV Studios on Saturday, June 22,with songstress Anna Bergman. Hosted in the intimate, funky and unique environs of a reconfigured, industrial black-box television Studio 3, “Hamptons Summer Songbook by the Sea” will include state-of-the art lighting and audio merging with the romantic ambiance of cafe’ table seating, modular staging and a Baby Grand piano. Each performance offers an up-front, live encounter with legendary songs and songwriters as interpreted by today’s finest performers. The lineup includes: Anna Berman, Steve Ross and Karen Murphy, Tovah Feldshuh, Liz Larsen and Sal Viviano, Karen Akers, Mark Nadler and K.T. Sullivan, Christine Andreas and Marty Silvestri, Mark Singer and Darcy Dunn, Anna Bergman, Alex Rybeck and others to be announced.

The Manhattan launch party is $75 plus a two drink minimum per person. Purchase tickets at ltveh.org. Attendees at the spring launch party in New York City will receive a special discount code for use toward the summer series ticket purchases. LTV Studios is at 75 Industrial Road in Wainscott. For more details, visit ltveh.org or call 631-537-2777.