Arts

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will inaugurate its 70th anniversary season on Sunday at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church with performances at 3 and 5:30 p.m. Ottorino Respighi’s “Laud to the Nativity” will be the centerpiece of the program, which will also include shorter selections, among them medieval English carols, a Venetian polychoral work by Gabrieli, and Christmas music by composers including Vulpius and Praetorius.

The Christian Science church in Southampton will present its annual Christmas concert and carol sing on Saturday at 3 p.m. Ron Meixsell, a baritone, and Julie Ann Meixsell, a soprano, who live in Northport, will be the featured performers.

The Sag Harbor Whaling Museum will hold its second annual holiday cocktail party and fund-raiser on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

The Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack will deck the halls of the studio and make everything bright at its annual holiday market on Saturday. Featuring fresh-cut greens for wreaths and sprays, and homemade gifts and decorations, the market will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

It’s not too surprising to see that Susan Ecker spent an extra year studying art history after receiving her M.F.A. in drawing and painting. Her subject matter teems with classical, neo-classical, and postmodern references in the show now on view at the Peter Marcelle Project in Southampton.

The Quogue Library will show “Small Treasures,” an exhibition of small and intimate works by nine East End artists. A reception will be held on Dec. 12 from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Ille Arts will reopen in the spring at a new location across the street at 171 Main Street.

Bay Street Theater has announced that “Grey Gardens: The Musical,” which played last summer at the Sag Harbor venue, will enjoy a new production next summer at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles.

Every year, South Fork artists garner new and increased attention at the various fairs and events that make up Miami’s Art Basel week. Whether in the grand booths of the Miami Beach Convention Center, in a funky satellite in Wynwood or North Beach, in a family museum in an old warehouse, in a pool cabana, or even in a hotel room, exhibitors from around the corner or around the world bring international exposure to our regional faves and allow us to see how they measure up to the giants of the current and historical marketplace.

Arne Maynard, an internationally renowned garden designer from the U.K., will give a lecture and sign copies of his newest book, “The Gardens of Arne Maynard,” on Saturday at 2 p.m. at Marders Nursery in Bridgehampton.

The Art of Song’s Parlor Jazz series will return to the Bridgehampton Museum’s archive building on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with a performance by Alina Engibaryan, winner of the 2015 Montreaux Jazz Voice Competition.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will celebrate Thanksgiving weekend with a Hamptons Holiday Party and Market tomorrow and Saturday.

If you are looking for some holiday cheer of the musical variety in the coming weeks, there are quite a few events to put you in the spirit of the season. Concerts and sing-alongs are planned in wineries, restaurants, churches, and theaters.

LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will open its gates for a holiday gathering on Saturday afternoon from 2 to 4.

The Hamptons International Film Festival is now accepting submissions for its 16th annual Screenwriters Lab, which will take place in East Hampton in April.

ArtSolar will hold a reception and exhibition of work by nine East End artists on Saturday from 3 to 6 p.m. at 12 Koala Lane in East Hampton. Take a Thanksgiving ArtWalk on Saturday afternoon from 1 to 5. Twenty-five galleries from Southampton to Montauk will participate in the self-guided tour, and many will accept donations of food and/or money for local food pantries.

Center Stage at the Southampton Cultural Center will present 10 performances of “It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play” starting tomorrow at 7 p.m. and continuing through Thanksgiving weekend.

“Harvest Harmonies,” a chamber music concert by the Poetica Ensemble, will take place on Saturday at 4 p.m. at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.

An Indonesian textile and handicraft exhibit will be held at Ashawagh Hall in Springs for two weeks starting Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The Perlman Music Program will return to Shelter Island this weekend for two concerts at the Clark Arts Center.

Artists and musicians are invited to bring their work down to the Woodbine Collection in Montauk on Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. The artwork will hang until Dec. 5. The Peter Marcelle Project in Southampton will open “Susan Ecker: Players, Places” with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

The Met: Live in HD will return to Guild Hall Saturday at 12:30 p.m. with the artist and director William Kentridge’s production of “Lulu,” a three act opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg that premiered in 1937.

With perfect timing, Daniel Simone, author of the recently published “The Lufthansa Heist: Behind the Six-Million-Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World,” will discuss the book and screen Martin Scorsese’s film “Goodfellas” on Sunday at noon at the East Hampton Library.

The case was in the news last week when Vincent Asaro, a reputed mobster, was acquitted of participating in the robbery. The cash and jewelry taken have never been recovered, and nobody has been convicted of the crime.

Ordinarily, the talents of playwright and fiction writer are mutually exclusive. Rare it is that a writer shows a gift for both, though there are exceptions: Chekov, of course, was a genius who juggled drama and fiction effortlessly, and Oscar Wilde’s novella “The Picture of Dorian Gray” stacks up well against his numerous plays. Add to this list John Steinbeck, who adapted his own novel, “Of Mice and Men,” into a very effective drama in 1937, the same year of the book’s publication. Its simple, tragic material is a perfect fit for theater, and in many ways the drama is more powerful than its fiction counterpart.

The John Drew Theater Lab will present a free staged reading of “The Ape and the Whale: An Inter- play Between Darwin and Melville in Their Own Words” on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

The Springs Community Theater Company will present “The Wizard of Oz” in seven performances at Guild Hall over the next two weekends, starting tomorrow at 7 p.m. The production will feature the music and lyrics created for the original MGM motion picture by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg and the book by John Kane, adapted in 1987 for the Royal Shakespeare Company in London.

Edna’s Kin, a Sag Harbor band featuring Dan Koontz on guitar, his brother, Andrew, on fiddle and bass, and their father, Warren, on guitar, will return to the village’s Christ Episcopal Church for its annual fall concert on Sunday at 2 p.m.

The 2015 release “RandyPOP!” is a live recording that is both a summation of a half-century-and-counting professional career and a birthday present to the artist who was an integral component to the selections within. Arrangements of songs by James Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Donald Fagen, Todd Rundgren, and others, delivered by a first-rate ensemble, exemplify the jazz-rock fusion that developed in the fertile musical ground of the late 1960s and ’70s.

The Rising Stars Piano Series will present Hunter Noack, a classical pianist, on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Southampton Cultural Center. A Pianofest alumnus, he will present his themed program “Boyhood,” which includes works by Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Janacek, and John Cage.

The 16th annual Midtown International Theater Festival, which runs through Nov. 22 at the Workshop Theater’s Jewel Box Theater in Manhattan, features dramatic, comedic, and musical performances in a celebration of the finest off-off-Broadway talent. On Sunday, a young man with roots on the South Fork will be part of the offerings.

Anne Seelbach will teach private watercolor classes at the Victor and Mabel D’Amico house in Lazy Point, Amagansett, starting Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to noon. The Sara Nightingale Gallery in Water Mill will open concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Cara Enteles and Stephanie Brody-Lederman with a reception on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.