Arts

Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible,” which used the Salem witch trials as an allegory targeting McCarthyism, is next up in Bay Street Theater’s Literature Live! series with two and a half weeks of public performances and daytime shows for school groups.

“Shot in the Arm,” a new film by Scott Hamilton Kennedy, looks at the fear, uncertainly, and politicization surrounding vaccinations and takes dead aim at the unproven arguments of the anti-vaxxers.

Hamptons Doc Fest tickets on sale, Carl Safina plays jazz, Steve Taub talks television, and four comedians in a Southampton showcase in Bits.

Claire Watson took the top honors prize in Guild Hall’s Artist Members Exhibition, with honorable mentions going to Chris Siefert, Philippe Cheng, Michael Butler, Isla T. Hansen, and Mary Martha Lambert.

Richard Rutkowski, a former assistant to and longtime friend of Robert Wilson of the Watermill Center, chronicles his trip to Japan to see Mr. Wilson, and four other notables, receive the Praemium Imperiale, often described as the Nobel Prize of the arts.

A classically trained Russian artist brings her complex surrealistic paintings to a Montauk gallery.

Solo shows for Jeremy Dennis, Pat Lipsky, and David Slater, quilting workshop at The Church in Sag Harbor, White Room Gallery moves to East Hampton.

The Church has a talk by the founders of a local Spanish-language media organization and an evening of music and dance by local Latinx artists this weekend.

Dante Nero is a trained martial artist and Mike King is a pediatric dentist, but both will bring their comic chops to Bay Street Theater.

Opening at Guild Hall are its 84th Artist Members Exhibition and a solo show of work by Mary Boochever, who took top honors in the exhibition’s 2019 iteration.

While it has a clever plot device, “Rose and Walsh,” Neil Simon’s last play, now at the Hampton Theatre Company, has its flaws, according to The Star’s drama critic, but Rosemary Cline’s superb performance as Rose turns it into an enjoyable evening.

For “Artists Choose Artists III,” Richard Aldrich, Joanne Greenbaum, Virginia Jaramillo, Rashid Johnson, KAWS, Mel Kendrick, David Salle, Sean Scully, and Amy Sillman have selected works from the museum’s collection to pair with their own.

Stand-up and Dr. K’s Motown Revue at Bay Street, wilding and seed bombs at the Leiber Collection, open call from Hampton Theatre Company, Monster Smash benefit at The Church, silent disco in Southampton, the Dead rise for Halloween in Sag Harbor.

Monica Ramirez-Montagut took over the Parrish Art Museum at a time of flux, but she has reinvigorated it by bringing East End artists firmly into its orbit, highlighting its collection, showing Latinx artists with purpose and conviction, and expanding the exhibition program to include architecture and design.

Sheridan Lord and Racelle Strick, who moved to the South Fork in the 1960s and are now showing at the Drawing Room, were inspired by their surroundings but took very different approaches, Lord with restrained realism, Strick with exuberant abstractions.

Robert Dash paintings at Madoo, Philippe Cheng’s insights at The Church, solo shows for Elise Asher and Linda K. Alpern, portrait sittings with a celebrity photographer at MM Fine Art, collectors’ talk in Southampton, group show in Springs.

David Netto's new book covers his interior design projects and his eclectic aesthetic, blending modern and classic pieces. He will speak about both at BookHampton on Saturday.

Ryan Sherman’s many hats include photographer, media consultant, and musician, but his newest venture, the “Highly Educated” podcast, focuses on his millennial East End peers and their ventures, in the hope of helping his former classmates make a go of it here.

The Hamptons International Film Festival has announced its award winners, who were given a total of $124,000 in cash or goods and services.

LongHouse lecture by Liz Collins in Manhattan, ‘War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast” landing in Southampton, Cowgirls’ “The Dreamer” at LTV, lecture on post-war modernist architecture, African drumming and dance workshops, Gershwin recital.

The Church in Sag Harbor will present a lecture and two workshops devoted to break dancing, and a contemporary music concert inspired by an April Gornik painting.

Stand-up comedy from the Sticks and Stones Comedy Club, a classical piano concert, and a solo show about a woman’s complicated family life and her return to Cuba are all at the Southampton Cultural Center.

Coming to Bay Street: the Complete Unknowns with a concert of Bob Dylan’s classics, and the Ha Ha Hamptons Comedy Tour, featuring four stand-up veterans.

Neil Simon’s last play, the comedy “Rose and Walsh,” will launch the 2023-24 season of the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue.

The next performance at LTV Studios, “A Milonga for Gabriel Isaacs,” is a brew of comedy, drama, music, and passion about a just-divorced man looking for love on the dance floor, and that dance is the tango.

Grants for the Moran Studio in East Hampton and the D’Amico Home and Studio on Napeague, solo shows for Valerie Jaudon in Manhattan and Mary Heilmann at Dia Beacon, spotlight on animals at the Oscar Molina Gallery.

The Church will present music, writings and more from Taylor Barton and G.E. Smith, as well as a live podcast with Alexis McGill Johnson, the president of Planned Parenthood.

Parrish talk on the future of museums, glam jam, blues, and jazz at the Masonic Temple, auditions at Southampton Arts Center, nature’s sounds revealed at Guild Hall, Dylan tribute band at Bay Street, plant sale and talk in Bridgehampton, and more.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music’s “Autumn Series” will feature “Heroic Beethoven” in October and a “Fall Fantasy” of chamber music classics in November, followed in December by a holiday concert with Baroque selections.

In a film festival double play, Alex Gibney’s epic documentary on Paul Simon and his new album, “Seven Psalms,” was followed by a conversation between Mr. Simon and Rolling Stone’s Dave Fear in which the singer-songwriter elaborated on his creative process and the arc of his career.