Arts

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.

Although no domestic release date has been set, “Good Posture,” a film by Dolly Wells starring her friend Emily Mortimer of Amagansett, will open in the United Kingdom on Friday, Oct. 4.

Ted Hartley at Keyes Art, an invitation to "play" at Crush Curatorial, and some art classes at the Parrish

Explaining how the East End Special Players developed their newest production, Jacqui Leader, the group’s artistic director, said, “We try to work with the actors about what their real feelings are about their lives and what their dreams are.”

A festival of short films, a salute to Toni Morrison, and a classical music concert.

LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will host a Landscape Awards lunch on Saturday honoring Amy Goldman Fowler, Charles and Kathleen Marder, Lynden Miller, and Thomas Woltz.

Rental Gallery in East Hampton has once again given itself over to Kenny Schachter, a dealer, artist, curator, and writer. Instead of a solo exhibition, however, “Summer Rental” is a group show revolving around his central sun.

Ugo Rondinone, a Swiss artist who has an exhibition on view at Guild Hall and a house in Mattituck, will sponsor a multi-lot benefit auction during Sotheby’s Contemporary Curated sale next Thursday.

A new generation of art critics sit down for a chat, Folioeast pops up at Ashawagh, a Paraskevas retrospective in Southampton, and more.

Strong-Cuevas’s studio is like a museum. Large-scale sculpture surrounds her house and a vast two-level indoor studio showcases more than five decades of work.

The Hamptons International Film Festival released its full schedule this week online and in a printed guide (available as an insert in this week's Star). Announcements about the program have been trickling out slowly, so some of this information may sound familiar, but it is worth repeating before individual tickets go on sale.

A young, naked woman with a cast on her left hand sits inside a bathtub filled with bubbles. This is a Guild Hall show but she isn’t onstage in the theater. She’s in a real, functioning bathroom inside an East Hampton house with the audience around her.

The actor, philanthropist, podcaster, game show host, and all-round South Fork gadfly will be the subject of the sass and barbs of Robert De Niro, Caitlyn Jenner, Joel McHale, Debra Messing, and others on Comedy Central Sunday.

A tribute to the composer Jule Styne at Guild Hall, and “Othello” at Bay Street.

Eric Fischl has produced a powerful piece of artwork that represents “the madness of the moment,” he said, referring to the immigration crisis at the southern border.

On Saturday, the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs will open “Slack Tide,” a group exhibition featuring seven artists who work in a variety of mediums. The term “slack tide” describes a state when little to no tidal movement is detectable.

The Hamptons International Film Festival will screen Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” as its Friday Centerpiece film on Oct. 11, and the festival has announced several other titles that will be featured during its main event over Columbus Day weekend.

What can we learn from the third iteration of Eric Firestone Gallery’s copious exhibition “Montauk Highway,” now on view in East Hampton? Quite a lot, it turns out.

Steinberg Returns

“Saul Steinberg: Drawings, Watercolors, and Objects” will open Friday at the Drawing Room in East Hampton and remain on view through Oct. 21. Organized in collaboration with the Saul Steinberg Foundation, the exhibition will highlight Steinberg’s original use of materials, iconic imagery, and wit.