Arts

An ability to visualize in space, which he said came from his dyslexia, is what Bob Schwarz credits for his 40-year career as a television director of shows such as "The Ed Sullivan Show," "Sesame Street," and "As the World Turns."

The Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor will present “Home for Christmas,” its annual free candlelight concert, on Saturday at 5 p.m.

The Ellen Johansen and Marlene Markard Piano Duo will perform free holiday sing-along concerts on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Montauk Library and on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Guild Hall.

St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in Bridgehampton will host three programs of dramatic readings of holiday stories offset by interludes of seasonal music tomorrow and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 2.

The Southampton Cultural Center will offer an escape from winter’s doldrums with five monthly celebrations of Latin dance beginning Saturday evening from 7 to 11. Presented by Jaime Ruiz with support from OLA of Eastern Long Island, the programs will be geared to both beginners and those with advanced Latin dance skills.

This weekend, Bay Street Theater presents a new All Star Comedy show on Friday and the HooDoo Loungers with Joe Delia and Thieves on Saturday for a Rockin' Holiday Dance.

Tracy Jamar at Amagansett Library; Photographers at Malia Mills; Group Shows at Drawing Room and Ashawagh Hall, and more

In Process @ the Watermill Center will present Dylan Neely and Alex Nathanson, and Brian O’Mahoney on Saturday afternoon.

The Southampton Cultural Center will hold open auditions for its spring production of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” on Monday and Tuesday at 6 p.m. in its theater on Pond Lane.

Jeff Lincoln's Southampton gallery feels more Meatpacking District warehouse than Bridgehampton potato barn.

The Neave Trio, a chamber ensemble, will return for its second performance in the Music at St. Luke’s series on Saturday at 5 p.m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton.

The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film festival, which opens today at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, is celebrating 10 years and exponential growth in five packed days of film screenings and talks.

Our Fabulous Variety Show will have four different shows this weekend at Guild Hall, starting tomorrow at 7:30 p.m.

"Woven" art at Rental Gallery, Wednesday Group at East Hampton Library, Ille Arts gift show, and more

A photo archive of rock stars, such as Neil Young, Deborah Harry, Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, and Sting, has become the basis for a new artistic path for Steve Joester.

Center Stage at the Southampton Cultural Center seems to have cornered the market on the live radio play, which has become a holiday tradition there since 2014.

If the pieces on view in Guild Hall’s “Recollections” exhibition look distantly familiar, it may be because they have been on the road for much of the past decade.

“Ladies of Liberty: A Musical Revue,” a free cabaret created and performed by Valerie diLorenzo to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New York State, will take place Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the Montauk Library.

Last fall, Alfredo Merat, performed “Brel by Alfredo,” where he sang and spoke about Jacques Brel’s life. He is now working on a theatrical event based on the experience.

Collaboration across artistic disciplines is a tricky endeavor. How does an artist paint a sound, or a musician play a color?

Grain Surfboards NY Gallery in Amagansett will hold its second annual Art Is Good for You holiday market on Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. The Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor will present its “Small Artworks Holiday Invitational” from tomorrow through Jan. 14. A reception will be held Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will present “Dances, Carols, and Lullabies,” which will include compositions familiar and obscure, and caroling on Dec. 3 in Bridgehampton.

A new opera by Victoria Bond celebrates an early radical feminist whose story has ties to East Hampton through Henry Ward Beecher, the son of Lyman Beecher.

Alexander Dashnaw, a professor emeritus of music at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University, will conduct a choral workshop for singers and directors on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.

The Springs Community Theater is moving in new directions this weekend with “A Night of Vaudeville” tomorrow and Saturday at 230 Elm in Southampton, 17 miles west of its usual home at the Springs Presbyterian Church.

It is not too much of a stretch to see Emily Cheng’s “Immensity of Particles,” and Marianne Weil’s “After Argos” at Ille Arts in Amagansett as evocative of the interior of a church or cathedral.

“Liberty Ladies — A Musical Revue,” a program created and performed by Valerie diLorenzo to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New York State, will take place Sunday afternoon at 3 at the Southampton Arts Center.

Films based on operas are not uncommon. Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” for example, was adapted for the screen by both Ingmar Bergman, in 1975, and Kenneth Branagh, in 2006. Next up in The Met: Live in HD series is a rarity, an opera based on a film, the source in this case Luis Bunuel’s 1962 “The Exterminating Angel,” the story of a group of upper-class friends who are invited to a mansion for dinner and are inexplicably unable to leave.

“What the Hell?” at the White Room Gallery; “Off the Wall” at Christy’s Art Center; Halband at Southampton Arts Center; Perrottet at Art Space 98; Holiday Show at Grenning

The Rising Stars Piano Series at the Southampton Cultural Center will present a concert by Jacopo Giacopuzzi on Saturday evening at 7. The program will include compositions by Scriabin, Liszt, Kapustin, and Rachmaninoff.