Recent Stories: Arts

   Konstantin Soukhovetski, a Pianofest distinguished artist and Pianofest’s artist in residence, will perform on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Levitas Center for the Arts at the Southampton Cultural Center. Mr. Soukhovetski was the first pianist to perform in the center’s Rising Stars Piano Series when it was founded in 2003. He joined the board of the Southampton Cultural Center last year.

   Before Saturday’s performance of “In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)” by Sarah Ruhl, the Hamptons Independent Theatre Festival, also known as HITFest, will hold a benefit at the Bridgehampton Community House for its summer outdoor performance of William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.”

   An estimated 10,000 people came to the Montauk Music Festival last year to enjoy free, live, original music, a combined effort by organizers and businesses that they said resulted in a win-win-win situation for music lovers, musicians, restaurants, bars, and motels.
    From tonight through Sunday, twice the amount of businesses will welcome 100 musical acts for 250 performances with the only paid event being the $35 opening night party tonight at Gurney’s Inn, which includes passed hors d’oeuvres and a three-hour open bar.

   The Watermill Center has invited the East End community to a new program initiative, Saturdays @ WMC, focusing on unique ways to interact with the Watermill Center grounds, collection, studios, and kitchen. On Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. the center will host local artists to lead workshops inspired by everything the center has to offer.

Expressionism Part II
    The Pollock-Krasner House in Springs will have a discussion called “Expressionism in the 21st Century: Part 2” on Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. Participants will include Sally Egbert, Connie Fox, Colin Goldberg, Carol Hunt, and Haim Mizrahi. Linda Hatofsky, the widow of Julius Hatofsky, a West Coast Expressionist, will discuss her late husband’s work.
    Contributions from the audience will be welcomed. Admission is free and no reservations are required.

   Much like a chrysalis, the stage of Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater is undergoing a living transformation as the company of actors put together by director Stephen Hamilton embody their roles in the Martin McDonagh play “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” which opens for a very limited run on Wednesday.

   Amber Liao, a classical pianist, will perform at the Montauk Library on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The concert, which is free, will include masterworks by Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, and Daniel­pour.
    Ms. Liao has given recitals and solo performances throughout the United States and abroad, including recent engagements at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. Her recording of works by Schumann, Beethoven, and Granados was recently released on the MSR Classics label.
 

   Toby and Itzhak Perlman and young artists of the Perlman Music Program will return to Shelter Island for concerts this weekend.

    You think you know Caroline Doctorow? “Something Pulls Me to You,” the opening track of the singer-songwriter’s new album, leaves behind flowery folk for Hank Williams lonesome. Backed by the loping twang of Pete Kennedy’s guitar, it calls to mind hunched patrons at a late-night New Mexico roadside diner, nursing their sorrows as much as their coffee cups.

   Guild Hall and the Naked Stage will present three staged readings on Tuesday from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in the Boots Lamb Education Center. On tap are “WHOA!” by Lisa Bonner, “From Ship to Shape: An Excerpt” by Walker Vreeland, and “At the Bar” by Hortense Carpentier.

    Audrey Flack and the History of Art Band will perform on Tuesday at 6 p.m. as part of an all-day conference at the Baruch Jewish Studies Center at 55 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. The performance happens at the Engelman Recital Hall in the Baruch Performing Arts Center. The entrance is on East 25th Street between Lexington and Third Avenue. 

    Tina Andrews will bring her new production of “Buckingham” to the South­ampton Cultural Center for seven performances beginning tonight with a preview at 8 p.m.