Arts

The Hampton Theatre Company will launch its season with “Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery" on Thursday. The play weaves elements of farce with theatrical ingenuity and a touch of drama.

A new season of The Met: Live in HD, with performances of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” and “Tosca,” Philip Glass’s “Akhnaten,” Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman,” and Handel’s “Agrippina,” among others, kicked off Saturday at Guild Hall with Puccini’s opera “Turandot.”

MM Fine Art in Southampton has a refreshing show of photography up through the weekend. Composed of many East End artists, the exhibition is a brew of thoughtful vistas and beach scenes, figure studies that often have a twist, interiors, and some experimental or more conceptual works.

This week's art happenings include a benefit exhibition for the Sag Cinema, a Ross School faculty show, Michael Light's immersive photographs at the Drawing Room, and much more

Awards for the 27th Hamptons International Film Festival were presented on Monday morning in East Hampton.

Lots of drama at Guild Hall this week, classical and contemporary music in art spaces, a Watermill Center In Process afternoon, and more

The director Brian De Palma was in East Hampton to receive the Hamptons International Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award and spend an hour lobbing anecdotes, opinions, and snippets of film industry gossip back and forth with Alec Baldwin on Saturday afternoon at a packed Guild Hall.

A reading of “Love, Loss, and What I Wore” by Nora and Delia Ephron will be performed at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m. in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and National Mammogram Day.

New shows at Halsey McKay and Ashawagh Hall, plus a new Grenning Gallery venture.

Vija Celmins is a visual seductress. From her early treatment of everyday objects to the water and sky images that have become her trademark, she has fashioned an art that skirts the line between representation and abstraction in a way that is mesmerizing.

Audiences at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor can look forward to two nights of laughter and an afternoon of drama this weekend with a visit from Lisa Lampanelli, a new all-star comedy show, and a screening of the 1961 film “A Raisin in the Sun.”

An immersive theatrical experience devoted to "Hysteria," a concert with a clarinet and piano and one with four cellos, and more

The Hamptons International Film Festival, which happens today through Monday, offers scores of films in every category — narrative and documentary, features and shorts, foreign and domestic, and now even virtual reality. Each year The Star’s writers and editors preview a handful of selections for the curious who may want a bit more information before committing to a ticket or a rush line.

The producing partnership of Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro is as storied as it is long. Brought in to co-found and lead Tribeca Productions in 1989, Ms. Rosenthal has been key to expanding their empire to Tribeca Enterprises, Tribeca Institute, and the Tribeca Film Festival.

“The Little Mermaid” will swim ashore at the Southampton Cultural Center tomorrow for the first of 11 performances of the Disney classic musical.

The Hamptons International Film Festival has announced it has a new parent company and logo and some additional films to round out its screening schedule for its main event beginning today.

Matthew King at Harper's, abstract group show at Ashawagh, Folioeast back at Malia Mills with painting show, and more

It was easy to walk into a film called “The Artist’s Wife” with a number of assumptions and delightful to come out with each one of them negated. Tom Dolby's sensitivity to his characters and setting positions it well above even the typical independent offering.

The story of the Godfrey family explored in “3 Days, 2 Nights” is a natural for film or print. A tragic plane accident leaves two brothers — Andy, 8, and Mark, 11 — parentless and fighting for their lives on a stormy mountainside in Colorado. They survived to tell the tale, and yet, for decades, they didn't.

For Laurie Lambrecht, a Bridgehampton native, it was natural to choose the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack as the site for her Parrish Road Show exhibition.

Music at Bay Street from Carmichael to Bon Jovi covers, survivalist saga screening from Hamptons Film, Strauss at Salon Series, and more

Although it is tempting to believe that everything that ever could have been said about Truman Capote has been, “The Capote Tapes” proves nothing is further from the truth.

“The Lehman Trilogy,” a National Theatre Live presentation of the five-time Olivier Award-nominated play, will have an encore screening at Guild Hall Friday at 7 p.m. A new playwriting class will also start soon with Bill Burford.

A montage during the first 60 seconds of the documentary “Alan Pakula: Going for Truth” includes clips from “Sophie’s Choice,” “Klute,” “All the President’s Men,” “Presumed Innocent,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and many more "first-class productions."

"Movie Night" at Ille, a watercolor show in Springs, new art lecture series at Stony Brook Southampton, Tripoli pops up at Gabimode on Main Street, and much more

There’s a deep moral center at the heart of Marc Meyers’s film “Human Capital.” Unfortunately for its characters, it remains elusive as they each unspool their individual stories, tied to a shared tragedy.

The Sag Harbor American Music Festival returns this weekend with free performances by more than 30 artists at various locations throughout the village as well as three ticketed events.

OptoSonic Tea will present a four-hour, site-specific indoor-outdoor multimedia performance by video and sound artists from around the world Friday from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Parrish Art Museum.

The next two JDT Lab productions at Guild Hall conjure up the 16th-century English authors Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare. But look closer and you’ll see that Friday evening’s production is “The Daerie Queene,” a play by Savannah Hankinson.

It’s easy to fall in love with the work of Hilary Pecis at Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton. Judging by the many paintings already sold there, quite a few have.