Marisa Tomei, Matthew Broderick and Amy Brenneman will headline a one-night-only staged reading of The Big Chill on Monday, August 31, 2026, at Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York (Variety).

The performance is set for 7:00 p.m. at the venue, located at 158 Main Street. David Saint will direct, with producers Julianne Hoffenberg, Debby Hirshman and Madelyn Paquette overseeing the event. Columbia Pictures is lending its support to the presentation, which will be followed by a talkback featuring the cast, creative team and special guests.

Joining Tomei, Broderick and Brenneman in the announced cast are Spencer Garrett, Frederick Weller, Ilana Levine and New York City Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams. Additional cast members will be revealed in the coming weeks, according to Variety.

Tickets range from $1,000 to $10,000 and are available at centeratwestpark.org/big-chill. Those prices reflect the event's role as a benefit: proceeds support The Center at West Park, a nonprofit community, arts and culture hub on Manhattan's Upper West Side that serves all five boroughs of New York City.

The Big Chill, the 1983 dramedy co-written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan — he shared screenplay credit with Barbara Benedek — earned three Academy Award nominations and became a cultural touchstone for its story of college friends reuniting after a funeral. A staged reading strips a screenplay back to its bones: actors perform with scripts in hand, no full set, no costume changes, the dialogue carrying the weight.

This is the latest in a series of high-profile benefit readings from The Center at West Park. Last year the organisation presented a staged reading of All the President's Men at the same Guild Hall venue. Past events have also included readings of the screenplays for Network and Broadcast News, and a Fall 2025 benefit directed by Scott Wittman and starring Scarlett Johansson.

For audiences, the format offers a rare chance to watch accomplished performers work with material they might never otherwise touch on stage — a film-to-theatre crossover that lives for a single evening and then is gone.