Arts

Ten years before winning the best director Oscar for “The French Connection,” William Friedkin, made "The People vs. Paul Crump."

Like a lion, the Hamptons International Film Festival is coming in strong this month with rock documentaries, a master class on “Romeo and Juliet” in film, and animated family fare.

The pianist Misuzu Tanaka will perform a free concert of classical works by Bach, Beethoven, Janacek, and Rachmaninoff at the Montauk Library on Sunday.

“Bach, Before and Beyond,” a music series directed by Walter Klauss, will present a concert at the Old Whalers Church on Sunday.

Christopher LaGuardia will deiliver Madoo's last winter lecture, “Our Waterways," on Sunday at noon in the conservancy's 1740 barn.

The Stowaways deliver improvisational comedy that is three parts extreme sporting event and two parts theater, a tribute to the mental and verbal agility of the group.

The Southampton Arts Center's Hip-La-Jaz Night will offer a mix of hip-hop, jazz, and Latin music on Saturday.

Sotheby's will open an exhibition of Gerson and Judith Leiber's collection of Chinese ceramics in advance of an auction on March 20.

Corinne Erni never planned to leave New York City until the Parrish Art Museum and the East End landscape beckoned.

The Ludmilla Brazil Quartet will play bossa nova’s fusion of samba and jazz at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m.

Next up in The Met: Live in HD series is Rossini’s “Semiramide,” an opera based on Voltaire’s 1748 tragedy about the murderous Assyrian queen on Saturday.

The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival’s spring series will kick off on Saturday, offering the high caliber of talent and artistry audiences have come to expect from the series.

Robert Wilson's “Power and Beauty in China’s Last Dynasty” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art; Photographers East at Ashawagh Hall

The Southampton Cultural Center's production of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” will open Friday and continue through March 25.

Alfred and David Maysles made Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith Bouvier Beale, affectionately known as Big and Little Edie, famous, but they weren’t the first to film at Grey Gardens, the mother and daughter’s ramshackle Georgica estate.

A tribute concert to the music of Johnny Cash will be performed by Philip Bauer at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor tomorrow at 8 p.m. The Stowaways return on Saturday.

Several films shown in October at the Hamptons International Film Festival, most of which are up for Oscars on Sunday, depicted women having their say in nuanced or quite vocal ways.

In Process @ the Watermill Center will feature presentations by artists working in four different disciplines on Saturday afternoon between 2 and 4, with a tour offered between 1 and 2.

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, a British landscape architect, will present the fifth annual Madoo in Manhattan lecture on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Cosmopolitan Club.

It’s not too late to secure a ticket to Guild Hall’s annual Academy of the Arts dinner, which will take place Monday evening from 6 to 10 at the Rainbow Room in Manhattan.

Sure, the brightly hued wall sculptures and paintings of Mary Heilmann looked more fitting at Dia’s Dan Flavin Art Institute during the summer, but the shot of infectious cheerful color is just what we need on these gray days.

Those crazy kids Romeo and Juliet are coming to Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater in a contemporary, post-punk production.

“In Dog We Trust,” at Ille Arts; Miles Partington at Tripoli Gallery; Folioeast's "Abstraction and Realism" at Markel, and more

“The Americanization of Emily,” the next film in the Sag Harbor Partnership’s American Values series is already has a wait list.

The Met: Live in HD will present a simulcast of Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production of Puccini’s “La Boheme” on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at Guild Hall. Alicia Longwell, the chief curator of the Parrish Art Museum, will introduce the program.

To kick off Sag Harbor’s HarborFrost weekend, Bay Street Theater will present a new All Star Standup Comedy program tomorrow evening at 8.

Guild Hall will open three shows this weekend, including solo shows of Hiroyuki Hamada and Alice Hope, and a permanent collection show chosen by Bryan Hunt.

Area theaters and venues are offering a chance to see Oscar nominated short films and features before the awards are announced on March 4.

Grenning Gallery celebrates HarborFrost; Newcomer Iron Gate East pops up in Southampton; Haweeli at St. Luke's

Readings of Eve Ensler’s Obie Award-winning play “The Vagina Monologues” will take place at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m.