Arts

The Southampton Cultural Center’s 2018 Spring Performing Arts Festival will feature a Chinese face changer as one of its major attractions.

Paul Moschetta has issued a casting call for a screenplay reading of “Do No Harm,” to be presented at the East Hampton Library on Aug. 5.

The Bridgehampton Museum’s archives building will be the site of a live-music series called “Summer Songs: The Great American Songbook . . . and Other Stories,” featuring Caroline Doctorow and her band, the Ballad Makers.

Randy Brecker and Ada Rovatti will perform at the Made in New Yokr Jazz Competition on Saturday in New York City.

Amy Kirwin, who joined the Southampton Arts Center in 2016 as director of programs, has been promoted to artistic director of that institution.

Inna Falks will intersperse her concert at the Parrish Art Museum with tales of her life as a child in Odessa.

“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” from the National Theatre in London will be screened at Guild Hall on Saturday at 7 p.m.

The comedian Joseph Vecsey will host a new All Star Comedy Show at Bay Street Theater Friday at 8.

“THINK — Show and Tell Art Exhibition” at Ashawagh; Torreano and Bonevardi at Drawing Room, and more.

In Process at the Watermill Center will provide an opportunity on Saturday to see what the three current resident artists, ANTIMETODO, Jarrod Beck, and Bastienne Schmidt, are up to.

Music for Montauk will kick off its 2018 season Saturday with “Bach to Brazil,” a free concert featuring the soprano Rachelle Durkin, the guitarist Rupert Boyd, and an ensemble of cellists.

A nearly half-century career in garden design will lead Halsted Welles to Carnegie Hall, where his artwork will be featured in a concert with music by Georgia Shreve.

Placed in the mix of dramas, docs, shorts, and talks at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, which wrapped up on Sunday, were a couple of small film projects that involved some of the bolder-faced names of East Hampton.

Louis Schanker, an artist who lived in New York City, East Hampton, and Stanford, Conn., is not as widely known as his famous colleagues.

A drip work created in 1949 by Jackson Pollock will be featured in the May 16 evening sale of contemporary art at Sotheby’s in New York.

Edward Albee, might have cracked a wry smile on Saturday as Mercedes Ruehl and Harris Yulin read the opening scene from "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" The reading helped inaugurate the Edward Albee Amphitheater at LongHouse Reserve.

The Southampton Arts Center will celebrate Cinco de Mayo on Saturday at 7 with an evening of tango, jazz, bolero, and dance.

The Montauk Library will present a free concert of classical music Saturday evening at 7:30.

Drew Petersen, a classical pianist who made his debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall at the age of 5, will perform tomorrow evening at 6 at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill as part of its Salon Series.

Max’s Kansas City, the iconic New York City nightclub and restaurant that was a hangout for artists and musicians in the '60s and '70s will be celebrated by the band Cracked Actor Friday at 8 p.m. at the Stephen Talkhouse.

A one-day Crush; Reynold Ruffins at John Jermain; a new poster for the Hampton Classic

The White Room Gallery and Jeff Nichols, a comedian, will present an art exhibition and a live comedy show to raise money for a Westhampton Beach facility for people in recovery.

While few shed tears at the Francis V. O’Connor memorial symposium on April 12, there was respect and some wry affection for a man who seemed to live by the credo it is better to be feared than loved.

Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton will be the site of a community organ recital featuring six organists and two singers on Sunday afternoon at 3.

If the name Anzia Yezierska doesn’t exactly ring a bell, you are not alone. A writer who chronicled Jewish immigrant life, she may soon come to prominence through several upcoming projects.

The Montauk Library will host “Jazz Times Three,” a free concert by Gil Gutierrez, a jazz guitar virtuoso, with Bob Stern, a jazz violinist, and Peter Martin Weiss on bass, on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

“Bernard and Huey,” a comedy written by Jules Feiffer and directed by Dan Mirvish, will be shown at Bay Street Theater on Sunday at 2 p.m.

Honoring Edward Albee, a longtime friend of the LongHouse Reserve and its founder, Jack Lenor Larsen, with a dedication of its amphitheater.

Our Fabulous Variety Show will perform “Tap: An Evening of Rhythm” in five programs at Guild Hall, beginning on Saturday at 8 p.m.

The Salon Series of classical music concerts at the Parrish Art Museum will launch its sixth season with a performance by the Dorian Wind Quintet on Friday at 6 p.m.