Arts

The exhibition title “Go Figure” at the Eric Firestone Gallery in East Hampton has multiple meanings, which suits an exhibition that exuberantly presents a plethora of ways to address the genre of figurative art.

New shows at Harper's Books, Studio 11, Ashawagh Hall, Grain Surfboards, and other venues

When he was 23 and just out of New York University’s musical theater program, Walker Vreeland took a job as a lead singer for Norwegian Cruise Lines, never suspecting that the voyage would last a decade and include a stopover at John Hopkins Hospital’s Mood Disorder Psychiatric Ward.

Andromeda, as the classical Greek myth goes, was the victim of the hubris of her mother, Cassiopeia, and the god Poseidon’s rage, and in the end was saved from a sea monster by the hero-god Perseus. But along the way, one never really hears from Andromeda herself.

And that always bothered Kate Mueth, the founder and artistic director of the Neo-Political Cowgirls, whose recent theatrical portrayals of “Andromeda” have flipped the script on the myth in such a way that the protagonist has a say in her own story.

When the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed by the United States Congress, abolitionists nicknamed it the “Bloodhound Law” for the dogs that were used by bounty hunters to track down runaway slaves. Not only were runaways pursued, but the law also resulted in the kidnapping and conscription of free blacks into slavery.

Levain Bakery’s chocolate chip walnut cookies should probably come with a warning label: These cookies are known by the State of New York to be highly addictive. Huge and gooey and packed with chocolate chips just this side of melting, they have been named to just about every best cookie list in New York, which helps to explain the famously long lines outside of Levain’s 74th Street and Amsterdam Avenue locations.

We are accustomed to seeing “small works” shows in the winter around the holidays, when people are thinking about gifts. The high season is typically known for larger, even colossal works, both in size and spirit.

A new comedy-drama called “The Prompter” is getting its world premiere now through June 16 at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. The play might be what one calls a “grower” — that is, a work that is slow to build but keeps gaining momentum until, almost before you realize it, you find yourself in the emotional grip of its two-person cast.  

“Younger,” Darren Star’s delightful indulgence of a series that started off slowly on TV Land but has built its audience steadily year after year, primarily by word of mouth, is back for its sixth season, beginning Wednesday night.

The director John Landis is best known for his comedies, among them “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” “Trading Places,” “Three Amigos,” and “The Blues Brothers.” But that’s not why Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan turned to him to select the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center’s next film series.

“Framing John DeLorean” will be screened by the Hamptons International Film Festival on June 8 at Guild Hall. Distributed by Sundance Selects, it will open in limited release in theaters and video on demand on Friday, June 7.

HIFF focuses on caddies, Montauk Library celebrates female composers, Brazilian jazz at SAC, chamber music at Perlman

The Victor D’Amico Institute of Art, affectionately known as the Art Barge, has announced its summer classes, which will begin Monday with studio painting.

Noel Coward’s 1930 play "Private Lives" is a tricky one. Written in three feverish days in a Shanghai hotel while Coward was bedridden with the flu, it has a sparky energy that’s laced with cruelty.

A distillation of Tony Oursler's "Tear of the Cloud" projections at Riverside Park in October will soon manifest itself at Guild Hall. "Water Memory" will be a museumwide exhibition devoted to the theme of water and how it has functioned as a vehicle for magical thinking throughout history.

“Picturing Old East Hampton: The Beginnings of an Art Colony” will open the Gardiner Mill Cottage Gallery on June 7.

Solo shows at Duck Creek and Drawing Room, new gallery in Amagansett, big show in Sag Harbor church, Frank Wimberley in Chelsea, much more

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will continue its tradition of opening up the South Fork high season with a benefit cocktail party and sale Saturday at its Thrift and Treasure Shop in Sagaponack.

This summer Bay Street Theater will mount three world premiere plays, beginning Tuesday with previews for "The Prompter."

A preview screening of "Late Night" with Emma Thompson, a Pete Seeger sing-along, and LongHouse on the lawn

It’s fitting that Guild Hall will kick off a summer full of music, plays, and comedy with “Call Her Barbra!” and a free workshop production of “Ball of Redemption,” a new dark family comedy by the actress Ellen Dolan.

Group shows galore, tea at the Leiber Collection, tracing art history in Springs, a new Southampton gallery, and more

The Drawing Room Gallery is celebrating its new Main Street second floor gallery with a show of three photographers.

Open gardens, tap dancing, and music, music, music

The recent weavings of Candace Hill Montgomery will launch this year's Parrish Art Museum Road Show at the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum on Friday.

The Hampton Theatre Company will open a production of Noel Coward's 1930 comedy, "Private Lives," written in three days while he convalesced from influenza during his travels abroad.

Group show at Ashawagh, McGuinness at Harper's, glass artists at D'Amico, Crandell and Elliot at Studio 11, and more

The Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons will hold its 33rd annual Garden Fair at the Bridgehampton Community House this weekend.

Opera at Guild Hall, standup at Bay Street, classical music at Parrish, open studios in Water Mill, and private gardens

On Saturday, when the Madoo Conservancy opens for the 2019 season, it will also celebrate 25 years as a public garden in Sagaponack with “Madoo: A History in Photographs.”