Arts

The Met: Live in HD will present a new production of Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Guild Hall. A lecture on the opera by Victoria Bond will precede the screening at noon.

After almost a year of planning, Guild Hall has selected the first participants in its Artist in Residence program, who will be ensconced in Guild House, around the corner from the cultural center on Dunemere Lane, through April 30

East Hampton’s LongHouse Reserve will open its jubilee year with Design for Living, a winter benefit to be held at National Sawdust in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on March 15.

For classic musicophiles, the Montauk Library will present a free concert by Kathleen Tagg of works composed by virtuoso pianists Sunday afternoon at 3:30. The program will include compositions by Mozart, Ravel, Liszt, Schubert, Medtner, Debussy, and Gershwin.

Karyn Mannix, an East Hampton artist and gallerist, will open the Mannix Studio of Art on Friday, March 12, at 38 Gingerbread Lane in East Hampton. The school will conduct classes taught by classically trained instructors for students of all ages.

“Madoo Talks,” a series of three horticulture-related lectures, will kick off Sunday at noon at the Madoo Conservancy, the two-acre garden established in 1967 in Sagaponack by the late artist, gardener, and writer Robert Dash.

See some modern Cyanotype photographs by Laurie Lambrecht at the Drawing Room in East Hampton. Cyanotype is a photographic process discovered in the mid-19th century that produces a Prussian-blue print. The show will remain on view through April 10. Barbara Groot, an artist who lives and works in East Hampton, will show her paintings at the art gallery of the Quogue Library through March 30.

Center Stage of the Southampton Cultural Center will present a concert adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” from next Thursday through March 20.

Lindsay Morris became obsessed with both photography and travel at the age of 10, when her grandfather gave her a subscription to National Geographic magazine. “My parents didn’t have the means to take us on any big trips, so that was how I found my adventure,” she said during a recent conversation in the Sag Harbor house she shares with her husband, Stephen Munshin, and their sons Milo, 15, and Cecil, 11.

The Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor has announced its full slate of 2016 Mainstage summer productions. The season will begin with the world premiere of “The Forgotten Woman,” a new play by Jonathan Tolins that will be directed by Noah Himmelstein and run from May 31 through June 19.

“Listen to My Heart,” a free musical tribute to the cabaret legend Nancy LaMott, will take place at the Montauk Library on Sunday afternoon at 3:30. Rusty Kransky and Dee Martin, actor-singers who live on the North Fork, will be accompanied on piano by Jeff Wentz, minister of music at the First Congregational Church in Riverhead.

Thanks to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, residents of the South Fork have had plenty of remedies for a long winter’s inevitable cabin fever. This off-season has seen a multitude of musical events that have warmed the cold nights, many of them paying tribute to rock ’n’ roll’s classic era and the artists who made it so.

The John Drew Theater Lab will present a free concert staging of “Eco,” a new musical by Jenna Mate and Bethie Fowler, on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

Since its founding 32 seasons ago, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival has continually found ways to expand and vary its summertime programs, including different venues, themes, and formats. Last year, Long Island’s longest-running classical music series added BCMF Spring, with two concerts. The new venture had such a strong audience response that a third concert is on tap for 2016.

The vanishing East End landscape will be the theme of "Scenes and Structures: Here and Gone,” an exhibition of paintings by Eileen Dawn Skretch and photographs by Anthony Lombardo at the Southampton Cultural Center. The show will open on Tuesday and remain on view through April 10. A reception will be held March 12 from 4 to 6 p.m..

The Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will hold auditions for upcoming concerts on Feb. 27 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., by appointment. The theater is looking for female and male vocalists to sing “in the style of Grace Slick and Marty Balin,” for a 30-minute set of Jefferson Airplane’s greatest hits, to be backed by a full band. Vocalists have been asked to prepare to sing “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love.”

The Eastville Community Historical Society in Sag Harbor will commemorate Black History Month this weekend with a two-part exploration of African-American artifacts and memorials. On Saturday, an ongoing exhibition will open at the society’s home on Hampton Street, and on Sunday, a symposium and pop-up exhibition, presented in partnership with the Sylvester Manor Educational Farm, will take place at the Bay Street Theater.

Those of us on the South Fork who are decidedly not “morning” people can awaken to music and high spirits at 92.9 and 96.9 on the FM dial, where Anthony, host of “The Morning Show” on WEHM, reliably serves up an abundance of both.

The Watermill Center will offer a tour of its building and grounds on Saturday afternoon from 4 to 5:30, followed by open rehearsals by Sahra Motalebi from 6 to 7 and, from 7:30 to 8:30, by 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr. & Perf. Co.

The Guild Hall Artists Members Exhibition will open on April 23. The museum is now accepting entries and the judge will be Jia Jia Fei, who was recently named director of digital, the first to hold the title, at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan. The Southampton Artists Association is holding its annual winter art show at the Southampton Cultural Center from today through Feb. 28, with an opening reception on Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.

The East Hampton Library will present “Jazz: The First American Art Form,” a free lecture by Craig Boyd, on Saturday afternoon from 2 to 4. Mr. Boyd, a professor of music at Suffolk Community College and recipient of the New York State Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, will examine the history of jazz from its conception to the present.

For the past few months, Guild Hall has displayed an array of photographic portraits in the intimate space of its Wasserstein Gallery. The set of 15 predominantly black-and-white prints, the work of Walter Weissman, befit the room, and the room enhances them.

For those who think the Hamptons International Film Festival hibernates during February, think again. The festival that never sleeps will present, in partnership with Guild Hall, a screening of Robert Altman’s 1971 classic “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,” on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the John Drew Theater. Alec Baldwin, the festival’s co-chairman, and David Nugent, its artistic director, will host a discussion after the screening.

After lives spent mostly in cities, the actors Harris Yulin and Kristen Lowman have embraced the woods and ponds and fields of the Long Pond Greenbelt, and Mr. Yulin has become an enthusiastic birder. 

Guild Hall will present an encore screening of the Donmar Warehouse’s London production of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” as part of its National Theater Live series, on Saturday evening at 7. The play was adapted by Christopher Hampton from Choderlos de Laclos’s 1782 novel of sex, intrigue, and betrayal in pre-revolutionary France that scandalized the world.

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The band Great Caesar’s Ghost has released “Live at the Stephen Talkhouse,” documenting its Aug. 13, 2015, performance there with Butch Trucks, a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band.

Carlos Lama, a D.J., vinyl enthusiast, and audio engineer from Sag Harbor who has been a fixture on the East End music scene since moving here from Texas in 2010, will host the next Artists and Writers Night at Almond restaurant in Bridgehampton, on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

The Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will rock this weekend with “All the Hits: The Beatles and the Rolling Stones,” two tribute concerts set for tomorrow and Saturday at 8 p.m. Tomorrow’s concert will focus on the bands’ early years, 1960 to 1966; Saturday’s will highlight their music from 1967 and after.

Clifford Ross has a busy week ahead. On Saturday at 8 p.m., imagery from the multimedia artist’s abstract video “Harmonium Mountain” will accompany a performance by Julian Rachlin of Beethoven’s violin sonatas 1, 6, 9, and 10 in the Kaufmann Concert Hall at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y. Tickets are $35 and up, $25 for patrons under 35.