A show of work by Jane Freilicher will be presented this week by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery at the Art Dealers Association of America’s "Art Show" fair in New York City.

Ms. Freilicher, who died last year, was not only a “painterly realist‚” in the words of her gallery, but an inspiration for several poets of the era, including Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, who were also her friends. She was known for the still lifes that she often placed near her windows, showing the view outside her Water Mill studio.

The exhibition is part of New York’s Armory Week, which runs through the weekend and includes numerous fairs throughout the city. The Armory Show will take place at the piers; the dealers association's fair is at the Park Avenue Armory.

The folks who have brought Art Market Hamptons to Bridgehampton the past few Julys are offering a new fair this year, Art on Paper. That show will take place in downtown Manhattan on Pier 36, on the East River. Two East Hampton galleries, Eric Firestone and Birnam Wood, will be represented at the fair. Firestone will show Bast, Henry Chalfant, Albert Chamillard, Tseng Kwong Chi, and James Ulmer. Birnam Wood will bring work by Beauford Delaney, Sam Francis, Margaret Garrett, Susan Grossman, William John Ken­nedy, Robert Rauschenberg, Michael Rich, Katherine Ryan Roth, and Aurelia Wasser. The fair will be open daily through Sunday.

Harper’s Books has also been in the city this week. Its Rare Book Room, a  pop-up gallery, is at the Carlyle Hotel; it will continue Thursday from noon until 8 p.m. before closing. Featured are “unique artists’ interventions by Harmony Korine, Justin Adian, and Jordan Wolfson, alongside a selection of rare books, ephemera, and Japanese magazines from the 1970s.” There will also be art on view by Sadie Laska, Brad Phillips, Richard Prince, and Matthew King. Those attending need to ask at the Carlyle’s front desk for the Harper’s Books suite.

It may be the dead of a brutal winter, but the coming week will be a busy one at Guild Hall. A National Theatre Live screening of “Treasure Island,” suitable for ages 10 and up, will happen on Saturday at 8 p.m.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure story of murder, money, and mutiny has been brought to life in a new stage adaptation by Bryony Lavery, a British dramatist, broadcast live from the National Theatre in London. The Observer characterized the production as “astonishing. A remarkable take on Stevenson’s classic.” Tickets are $18, $16 for members.

The John Drew Theater Lab will present free staged readings of two plays on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. — “Night With Guests” by Peter Weiss and “Out at Sea” by Slawomir Mrozek.

Weiss, a German-born playwright and novelist who lived in Sweden from 1939 until his death in 1982, is best known for “Marat/Sade,” which premiered in West Berlin in 1964 and won several awards during its run in New York City, including both the Tony and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle awards for best play.

“Night With Guests” is a little-known one-act allegory that draws on Kabuki, Punch and Judy, and rigid, stylized performances to create a frightening fairy-tale atmosphere reminiscent of the Brothers Grimm. Guild Hall suggests leaving the children at home.

Mrozek was a Polish playwright and cartoonist whose most famous play, “Tango,” from 1965, was called “a modern-day ‘Hamlet’ ” by The Guardian. “Out at Sea” is a macabre comedy in which three men of different classes, who are adrift on a raft, struggle to decide which of them should be eaten first. Bill Burford will direct, with Josh Gladstone, Chloe Dirksen, and Jack Herholdt among the performers.

More free theater will take place next Thursday at 7 p.m., when students from Guild Hall’s Speaking Shakespeare workshop will perform onstage. The program is the culmination of a two-month class in which students ages 16 and up worked on sonnets and monologues and did mask work and scene work. Morgan and Tristan Vaughan, who hold master’s degrees from the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting at George Washington University, conducted the workshop.

Amateur theatrics on the East End will be the subject of the East Hampton Historical Society’s second free winter lecture at the Clinton Academy Museum on Friday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. Hugh King, the village historian, and Barbara Borsack, the village’s deputy mayor, will present “Stagestruck: We’ve Got a Barn, Let’s Put on a Show.”

The talk will transport the audience to the late 1800s in Amagansett, where amateur theater was performed at Pioneer Hall, Miankoma Hall, Scoville Hall, and the Amagansett School, culminating in the 1950s in East Hampton with the “Village Vanities.” Topics will include minstrel shows, variety shows, plays, and pageants.

Refreshments and cookies will be served at 6 p.m. The program will start at 7.

Southampton Town is celebrating its 375th birthday with a yearlong series of lectures, exhibitions, walking tours, parties, and dinners at locations throughout the town, beginning today at 3 p.m. with a screening of “The Manors of Long Island” at the Rogers Memorial Library. Next Thursday at 3 p.m., also at the library, Georgette Grier-Key, director and curator of the Eastville Community Historical Society, will discuss the influence of African-Americans locally and in the larger society.

Th­e birthday party will kick into high gear on March 7 with a 3 p.m. convocation at the Southampton Presbyterian Church, the opening of “If These Walls Could Talk,” an exhibition at the Rogers Mansion from 4 to 6, and dinner, with produce from the Halsey Farm, at the Southampton Inn at 7.

The convocation will celebrate the founding in 1640 of the towns of Southampton and Southold and their Presbyterian churches, with speakers, music, and poetry. Speakers at the free gathering will include Suffolk County Legislators Al Krupski, who represents Southold, and Jay Schneiderman, representing Southampton, as well as the Revs.  Peter Kelly and Richard Boyer, ministers of the Southold and Southampton churches.

Elizabeth Thunderbird Halle will represent the Shinnecock Nation, Mayor Mark Epley the Village of Southampton, John v.H. Halsey the Peconic Land Trust, and the Rev. Michael Smith, the Shinnecock Presbyterian Church. Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, Suffolk County poet laureate emeritus, will read her just-completed “Poem for Southampton’s 375th Anniversary.”

The Southampton Presbyterian Church choir, the South­ampton High School choir, and Showers of Blessings, the gospel choir from King’s Chapel Church of God in Christ in Southampton, will perform music for the occasion.

The exhibition “If These Walls Could Talk” will represent four different periods in the history of the Rogers Mansion. According to Tom Edmonds, executive director of the Southampton Historical Museum, “the Rogers family established the farm in 1648 and lived there until the 1880s.” The family will be represented by two rooms, one replicating the 1680s, the other a parlor from the 1860s.

An 1880s dining room will capture the spirit of the Nugent family, which purchased the property from the Rogers family. Samuel Parrish, its third owner, will be represented by a parlor from the turn of the century. Emma Ballou, the museum’s curator, will give a talk about the history of the mansion at 4:30, and refreshments will be served.

“We want to focus on who lived here,” said Mr. Edmonds. “We want to tell the stories about the families and their relationship to Southampton. They were significant people, not so much because of money but because of where they lived, which was right next to the meeting house, the center of local religion and government.” The exhibition will highlight not only the families, but also the role played by the mansion in the community.

Planning for the anniversary celebration began in the fall of 2013, when a member of the Howell family called Mr. Edmonds to ask what the museum was doing about the birthday. “That was a reality shock, and I said, ‘I’ll get back to you.’ We quickly formed a committee here in the village with 40 government, business, and cultural organizations. We started meeting and slowly put together a program.”

Dr. Ann Sandford, a historian, will deliver a lecture on “Sandford and Sons: Legacy of a Bridgehampton Family” on March 12 at the Rogers Mansion. Twelve generations of the Sandford/ Sanford family have figured prominently in the development of Bridgehampton.

Other lecture topics include “Historic Preservation Options,” “The Shinne­cock Indians: America’s First Whalers,” “John Gardiner and Captain Kidd’s Treasure,” and “Houses of the Hamptons: Postcards From the Gilded Age.”

The third annual Samuel L. Parrish lecture, given by Cynthia V.A. Schaff­ner and Lori Zabar, decorative-arts historians, will focus on William Merritt Chase, the Shinnecock Summer School of Art, and the Art Village in Shinnecock Hills. That talk will take place in the music room of Whitefield, a Hill Street mansion designed by Stanford White.

Tours will explore the Nathaniel Rogers House, Southampton’s houses of worship, Southampton’s first settlement, the Shinnecock Museum, and the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum. On June 14, the Southampton Trails Preservation Society will recreate the 1640 walk during which the Shinnecocks guided English pioneers from Conscience Point in North Sea to Southampton Village.

A lawn party will be held on July 11 at the Halsey House, Southampton’s oldest existing residence, and a New Year’s Eve Grand Finale bash will take place at the Port of Missing Men in North Sea, the last large private estate in Southampton, built by H.H. Rogers Jr., the heir to a Standard Oil fortune.

“Our local history is not something that’s on most people’s minds,” said Mr. Edmonds, who is the chairman of the anniversary committee, “but it’s the reason we live here. It’s a beautiful, charming place where buildings and land have been preserved. So the focus of all these events is to bring the heritage back, so the public can be aware of why they’re here.”

A complete listing of anniversary programs and events can be found at southamptonhistoricalmuseum.org.

Ralph Gibson on Film

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will screen “Ralph Gibson: Photographer/Book Artist,” a Checkerboard Film Foundation production, tomorrow at 6 p.m.

Known for his distinctive graphic style, Mr. Gibson, who was born in Los Angeles in 1939, studied photography in the Navy and at the San Francisco Art Institute before working as an assistant for Dorothea Lange, the noted Farm Security Administration photographer, and Robert Frank, a photographer and filmmaker best known for his 1958 book, “The Americans.”

In 1970, Mr. Gibson published “The Somnambulist,” the first of many books that was innovative not only for the singularity of his vision but also because it established the bound, printed page as a viable alternative to the gallery exhibition. He is known for his stark, fragmentary black-and-white photographs that blend elements of eroticism, surrealism, and narrative.

Among the admirers offering commentary in the film are Mary Ellen Mark, Larry Clark, Eric Fischl, April Gornik, and Bryan Hunt. As for Mr. Gibson, he is, in the words of the Checkerboard Films website, “very much the star of his own life” in the film, discussing his childhood as a Hollywood movie extra, his Navy years, the nature of his artistic process, and the arc of his career.

Tickets are $10, free for members, students, and children.

Solo Show at Ashawagh

Marietta Gavaris, an artist who lives in Springs and New York City, will have a solo exhibition of new works on Saturday and Sunday at Ashawagh Hall in Springs. A reception featuring live jazz by Peter Martin Weiss and John Ludlow will be held Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

The exhibition will include more than 20 abstract paintings that explore line, shape, and texture with a wide-ranging and bold color palette. Ms. Gavaris has said that her work, inspired by the dichotomy of living in both the city and the country, attempts to reconcile the beauty of nature with the chaos and energy of New York.

Bartley Open Studio

The Watermill Center will host an open studio for Mary Ellen Bartley, an artist known for photographs that explore the tactile and formal qualities of the printed book, on Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m.

Ms. Bartley, who lives and works in Wainscott, will present work influenced by and created during her residence at the center. She will make a set of photographs using books from the Watermill Study Library as subjects. The photographs will be used to create a book of books.

She is represented by the Drawing Room in East Hampton and Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York and has exhibited her work worldwide.

No curtain separates audience from stage in “Bluebirds,” a new play by Joe Brondo that opened last weekend at Guild Hall and will run through Sunday. The audience enters the theater to the sound of music and a brightly lit set of well-worn living room furniture placed downstage. A digital clock says it’s 12:01. After a few minutes, a man bursts through the door and runs full speed off stage left. He is followed by a woman, who turns off the theater lights with a switch on the living room wall and cuts the music with a remote aimed at the audience. A toilet flushes offstage.

We are in Sarah and Walt’s living room in a small cottage in the Hamptons, to which the couple has just returned from a surprise birthday party for Walt. After some brief, friendly bickering, she sends him outside for firewood. She locks the door after him, picks up his briefcase from the couch, and discovers inside a very old copy of “The Wonderful World of the Wizard of Oz.” Baffled, even shocked, she stuffs the book back in the briefcase before he returns.

We are bystanders in the couple’s living room while they flirt, argue, and, for 20 minutes, circle around the unacknowledged book. We know she knows he has a secret, and she thinks the secret is a present for her. While she keeps trying different strategies to get him to admit his “surprise,” he keeps trying to get her into bed.

“Bluebirds” is a fast-paced, nonstop, two-person roller-coaster ride that oscillates between humor, anger, affection, recrimination, and self-revelation. Both Sophie Vanier, who plays Sarah, and Mr. Brondo, as Walt, inhabit their characters completely. She’s the rational one, who insists that Walt take control of his life, while he’s a disappointed dreamer who feels his future is behind him.

The book is the fulcrum on which the play is balanced. Frustrated by his refusal to ante it up, she finally takes it from the briefcase and confronts him with it. When he tells her it is not only a first edition but is also signed by its author, L. Frank Baum, she asks how it came into his possession.

The answer needn’t be revealed here, but what is important is his confession that not only won’t he return the book to its owner; he has already initiated plans to sell it to a rare-book dealer in New York City for $100,000. For Walt, who makes house calls to repair computers, the book is his ticket out of a life that has grown stale and is getting worse. For Sarah, his attempt to conceal the truth from her is a betrayal, and his act is a crime that could land him in jail.

A pastry chef, Sarah took out loans to attend the Culinary Institute of America, despite the fact that her father was willing to pay for her education. Walt explains that the money from the sale of the book could be used to retire those loans — which, he reminds her, were taken out in his name as well as hers — with plenty left over.

Walt’s rationalizations for his actions, and his underlying passivity, infuriate Sarah, inflaming tensions that have obviously existed between them for some time. His belief that something — in this case, $100,000 — will lift him from his malaise, pay his debts, and make his life meaningful, is an affront to her respect for self-reliance.

While the fundamental conflict plays out through the last two-thirds of the play, the momentum never flags, in part because circumstances keep shifting. There are surprises and revelations that keep the play moving and on track. Both characters trade hilarious zingers and furious accusations, while the audience is carried along like passengers in a whitewater raft.

Mr. Brondo and Jennifer Brondo, his wife, co-direct the play with authority, keeping the emotional balls in the air without relying on contrivance. The absence of scene changes or blackouts confines the play tightly in time and space and works to its advantage.

The set, designed by Mr. Brondo, who is also credited with costume, prop, and sound design, is authentically detailed, from yard-sale furniture to Citarella shopping bags, and establishes the couple as aging Millennials just getting by. There are references to their parents and friends, but the world of the play is hermetically sealed inside the living room and, as the clock reminds us, plays out in real time.

This is not the first play about how a couple can proceed during the course of a long evening from routine bickering to fundamental conflicts that shake the foundations of their relationship. But it grounds its themes and ideas so solidly in the specificity of its two fully realized characters, and articulates them with such intelligence and wit, that it feels fresh.

The remaining performances will take place tomorrow and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 2. Tickets are $15, $13 for members.   

Peter Ngo knew from an early age that he wanted to be involved with fashion and art. Through a singular focus and hard work, that is where he is making his mark: at John Varvatos in East Hampton and at the various galleries and art spaces that have shown his photography and paintings.

As manager of the East Hampton Varvatos store, Mr. Ngo’s job description has expanded to stylist and part of the brand’s creative team, working with Mr. Varvatos in New York and at other locations throughout the country and world. “It’s cool. I get to style rock stars,” he said, while flying to Los Angeles, Milan, and Detroit to go to Varvatos-sponsored benefits, store openings, and launches of collections.

Music is a main inspiration for Mr. Varvatos, whose versatility lends itself not just to designing clothes, but cars, motorcycles, and guitars, as well as choosing the art that goes on the walls of his stores. With increasing responsibilities, however, Mr. Ngo said he is now trusted with the look of the East Hampton store.

He sees it as a “comfortable environment, not just a retail store.” He said people like its casualness and unassuming nature. With classic rock albums playing and masculine furniture that has a strong design element, the store makes customers want to talk about art, design, music, and sports, he said.

It’s the rare man who enters knowing exactly what he wants. According to Mr. Ngo, “Ninety percent of guys don’t know what to wear or when to wear it. That’s where I come into play.” He will put a couple of looks together and go from there. While celebrities tend to know what looks good on them through their constant exposure to stylists and pictures of themselves, “the business guys don’t know how to put a sport coat with a T-shirt and a pair of jeans and don’t know how to accessorize or layer.” Their casual fallback is always khakis and polo shirts. Different styles of fabrication, metal buttons, a slight ombre cast, or colorful stitching are some of the ways the brand breaks that mold, even when it works in a similar vein.

Born and raised here, Mr. Ngo attended East Hampton schools before going into the city to attend both the Fashion Institute of Technology and the School of Visual Arts. He stayed for a while and pursued fashion photography, a creative outlet that has continued to the present, but in more artistic ways. He then moved back here and has been at the Varvatos store for seven years.    

“John has been really cool in helping me out over the years,” he said. “The first three years were a blur, and then in the fourth year, I became more and more involved with everything.” It’s a seven-day job though, and while he loves painting, “studio time is a rarity.” On the day we spoke, the South Fork was in the midst of one of its recent blizzards — one of the few times the store was closed — and he was actually working on his art. “I cram in my creative side whenever I have a moment to paint or make photographs.”

He was in his teens when he had his first art show in Bridgehampton at the Elaine Benson Gallery, where Farrell Building Company now has its headquarters. He said he got to know her from going to all of her openings as a kid.

His painting style is surrealist. A straightforward landscape or seascape takes a turn with disembodied heads or other stylized creatures floating in or above it. “I’ve always loved surrealism and landscapes along with the ocean. I guess the strange characters are my creative outlet.”

Some of the artists who have inspired him include Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Frida Kahlo, Neo Rauch, and George Condo, whom he sees in East Hampton a lot, he said. From the usual trove of other locals he cited Eric Fischl and April Gornik as inspirations as well as Raphael Mazzucco, Peter Beard, and Larry Rivers, just off the top of his head.

One thing he shares in common with his boss is the inspiration he receives from music. He is grateful that his job brings him into contact with musicians and that many are now his friends. He said he is excited to see Eminem and Alice Cooper open the new Varvatos Detroit store at the end of March. Mr. Varvatos is from Detroit and has said that a lot of his influences came from the rock scene there.

Mr. Ngo is also looking forward to a benefit event that the New York store will participate in with Mike Peters of the Alarm over Memorial Day weekend. The East Hampton store used to have live musical events too, but he said the village shut them down a couple of years ago. Now the events here are more staid, such as book signings.

He may have drunk the brand’s Kool-Aid when he asserts that Varvatos is not just about art and music, but is a lifestyle. Still, he said it allows him to create looks for everyone who comes in the store, whether they are “in finance, the music industry, or a world traveler. We have all different outfits for them and can do all that.” He used himself as an example, as someone who has a lot of tattoos but can lose that part of himself in a tuxedo or suit. It’s inspired by music, but not exclusive to that world, he said.

Still, the list of people he has met or gotten to know through the East Hampton store or through company-related events is long and impressive, and many of them have long been idols of his. They include Bono and the Edge from U2, Jimmy Page, Perry Farrell, Duff McKagan, Tommy Stinson, John Tempesta, Jack White, Lou Reed, and Mick Jagger. Those who have visited the East Hampton store have included Paul McCartney, Thurston Moore, and Billy Squier. With Mr. Varvatos’s latest line feeling reminiscent of the early bohemian Bob Dylan, he is hopeful he will get to meet another idol soon.

Art Donovan, an artist and designer from Southampton, will discuss his book, “The Art of Steampunk,” now in its second edition, on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the East Hampton Library.

The aesthetic of Steampunk, which first found expression in science fiction and fantasy literature, draws from the technology of the Victorian era. Steampunk artists use gears, goggles, gauges, brass tubing, leather, watch parts, and, in some cases, steam power to create mechanical objects ranging from jewelry to lamps to motorcycles that are fanciful but often functional.

“The Art of Steampunk” originated as an exhibition, organized by Mr. Donovan, at the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford University and was accompanied by the first edition of the book. The second edition includes the work of artists not included in the exhibition as well as new Steampunk lighting fixtures by Mr. Donovan.

The more classically inclined might opt for “La Clarinette Francaise: An Evening in Paris,” a free concert of romantic works by Franck, Devienne, Messager, Poulenc, and Ravel, on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Montauk Library.

The guest artists will be Maksim Shtrykov on clarinet and Misuzu Tanaka on piano. Mr. Shtrykov has performed in numerous recitals and chamber concerts in Belarus, Poland, and New York City, and, as a member of the Juilliard Orchestra, at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Avery Fisher Hall. He won first prize in the International Johannes Brahms Chamber Music Competition in Poland and the Belarus National Woodwind Competition.

Ms. Tanaka has performed at Alice Tully Hall and at venues in Leipzig, Prague, and Pilsen. Her prizes include a first at the Poland Music Festival Competition and a second at the Joan and Daniel Rutenberg Chamber Music Competition.

“A Tale to Tell,” a workshop with Helene Patarot, a French actress in residence at the Watermill Center through March 7, will take place Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Students will combine acting, writing, and directing as they develop stories using elements from their own lives, such as family photographs, diaries and letters, clothes, and other items with personal meaning.

Ms. Patarot, who was born in Vietnam, is developing a theater piece exploring the story of her father, who was a child soldier in a French army school in Vietnam in 1939. Now a resident of London, she has acted extensively in film, theater, and television.

The workshop will include a lunch break and tour of the grounds and collection. Participants have been asked to bring lunch and three objects of personal importance, and to wear comfortable clothes. Registration, for which there is a $10 fee, is through watermillcenter.org.