Nell Shaw Cohen, a composer, librettist, and multimedia artist who grew up in Sag Harbor and San Francisco, will present “The Coming of Spring,” a one-act operatic monodrama for tenor and chamber ensemble, at the Provincetown Playhouse on MacDougal Street in Manhattan on Tuesday. The performance, which begins at 8:30 p.m., is free and open to the public.

    Ms. Cohen, who is now based in Brooklyn, is the 2013-14 composer-in-residence with the New York University Symphony. Her work frequently explores the intersections of music, nature, and visual art.

    Her libretto for “The Coming of Spring” is an original adaptation of texts from the journals of Charles E. Burchfield, an American watercolorist. The title is that of a 1943 painting in which he sought to convey the transition from winter to spring in a single image.

      David Rosenmeyer, an advocate for opera and new music with companies and orchestras both here and abroad (notably as associate conductor of the Oratorio Society of New York), will conduct the performance, which will be staged by Herschel Garfein, a Grammy Award-winning composer, writer, and stage director. It will include appearances by Tyler Lee, a tenor, in the role of Mr. Burchfield; the Chelsea Quintet chamber ensemble, and Alice Hargrove, a pianist, along with a video projection incorporating images of Burchfield’s paintings, designed by Ms. Cohen.

    The composer’s wind quintet “Watercolors,” also inspired by Burchfield’s paintings, was performed in November 2012 at the opening of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill.

    Tuesday’s program will also feature screenings of other multimedia works by Ms. Cohen, including the short film “Horizon: New York.” Early last month, the N.Y.U. Symphony commissioned and premiered her “Point Reyes from Chimney Rock” at the university’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. 

    A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Arts Award, Ms. Cohen will receive a master’s degree in music from N.Y.U. next month. Information about her work can be found at nellshawcohen.com and beyondthenotes.org; a preview of the upcoming performance is online at thecomingofspring.com.   

    The Hamptons Independent Theatre Festival will hold auditions for “The Tempest,” its second outdoor Shakespeare production, on May 8, 15, and 22 from 7 to 10 p.m., and May 11 and 18 from 2 to 5 p.m., at the Bridgehampton Community House. All roles are available. HIT Fest organizers are seeking “eager performers with a strong vocal presence who enjoy the outdoors.”

    Rehearsals will begin July 8, with performances from Aug. 7 through 24. Equity contracts are available, and all positions will be paid. More information is available from Josh Perl, by email at [email protected] or by phone at 725-5205.

    The Met: Live in HD will return to Guild Hall on Saturday at 1 p.m. with Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte.” A two-act opera buffa, or comic opera, “Cosi Fan Tutte” is set in Naples in the 18th century. Don Alfonso wagers two young soldiers that their sweethearts will prove unfaithful if given the chance. The men accept the bet and tell their sweethearts, who are sisters, that they have been called to the front and must leave Naples. Switched identities and comic confusion follow.

    The cast includes Susanna Phillips and Isabel Leonard as the sisters and Mat­­thew Polenzani and Rodion Pogossov as their lovers, with Danielle de Niese as Despina. Tickets are $22, $20 for members, and $15 for students.

    The John Drew Theater Lab will present “Voyeur,” a new dance-theater piece by Kate Mueth and the Neo-Political Cowgirls, on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. The cowgirls are a not-for-profit company dedicated to creating innovative dance theater that explores the female voice. A work-in-progress, “Voyeur” will have its debut this summer. Admission to all theater lab programs is free.

    Speaking of the Neo-Political Cowgirls, the group will present a weekend improvisation workshop, led by Johnna Scrabis of New York City’s Upright Citizens Brigade, on May 3 and 4 at the Springs Presbyterian Church. The $80 fee includes a post-class party on May 3. More information is available at [email protected].

    Valerie diLorenzo, a New York singer and actress, will perform “Broadway Baby,” a musical revue, at the Southampton Cultural Center on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. She will be accompanied by Barry Levitt, a music director and pianist, and Anthony Santelmo Jr., an actor and cabaret singer.

    Ms. diLorenzo has performed one-woman shows in New York at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, the Metropolitan Room, the Triad, Judy’s, Tatou, Don’t Tell Mama’s, the Duplex, and the Tunnel, among others. She has also appeared in numerous plays, including “Motherhood: Out Loud,” “Gypsy,” “The Comedy of Errors,” and “A Chorus Line,” at venues around the country.

    Tickets are $15, $10 for senior citizens and students.

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.

Mr. Giacopuzzi has won 14 competitions, including the International Piano Competition San Dona’ di Piave, near Venice, the Premio Crescendo in Florence, the International Liszt Competition in Los Angeles, and the Beverly Hills National Auditions.

    WPPB 88.3 has added three new programs to its schedule. “TED Radio Hour,” based on talks given on the TED stage and hosted by Guy Raz, will be broadcast every Sunday from noon to 1 p.m. Each show is centered on a common theme — the source of happiness, crowd-sourcing innovation, power shifts, inexplicable connections — and injects soundscapes and conversations that bring these ideas to life.

    “Travel With Rick Steves,” a guidebook author and travel television host, is a talk show with guest experts and questions from travelers. In recent months, Germany, Cuba, West Africa, Turkey, Peru, and Scotland were among the many locales featured on the program. It airs Sundays from 10 to 11 a.m.

    “Bookworm,” hosted by Michael Silverblatt, showcases writers of fiction and poetry, both established and emerging, who are interviewed “with insight and precision.” The goal of the program, which airs Sunday mornings from 9 to 9:30, is to illuminate what makes a writer a writer and to inform listeners about literary culture.

    Bay Street Theatre will present its second annual Steinbeck Festival from next Thursday through May 4, in conjunction with the annual celebration held by the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, Calif. Three days of films, a waterfront cocktail party, and a “Travels with Charley” dog walk are among the activities that will honor John Steinbeck’s contributions to Sag Harbor, where he lived from 1955 until his death in 1968.

    Jill Rappaport, a longtime correspondent for the “Today” show and an animal advocate who has a horse farm in Water Mill, will host both the cocktail party, to take place at a private waterfront estate on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m., and the Sunday morning dog walk, from which 10 percent of the proceeds will benefit the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation.

    The festival will begin next Thursday at 8 p.m. with a screening of “Tortilla Flat,” a 1942 film starring Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr, at Bay Street. John Ford’s 1940 film “The Grapes of Wrath,” starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, will conclude the film festival on May 3 at 8 p.m. “Cannery Row,” “The Red Pony,” “The Moon is Down,” “Lifeboat,” “Of Mice and Men,” and “East of Eden” will also be screened.

    An all-weekend pass, which includes the cocktail party, films, and dog walk, is available from the Bay Street box office for $150. A film pass costs $30, and participation in the dog walk is $35. More information and the complete film schedule are available at baystreet.org.

    On Wednesday, the jazz musicians Gil Gutierrez, a guitarist, Bob Stern, a violinist, and Peter Martin Weiss, a bassist, will hold an “open rehearsal” or casual performance of jazz in the Montauk Library.

    The free concert, presented at 7:30 p.m., will include pieces by Piazzolla, Villa Lobos, Vincente Amigo, Jobim, Reinhardt & Grappelli, and original compositions by Mr. Gutierrez, who is a Oaxaca-born guitarist and composer now living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, an expat retiree haven for many American artists and artistic types.

    The Parrish Art Museum’s Salon series will continue tomorrow at 6 p.m. with the pianist Tanya Gabrielian, a veteran of New York’s Carnegie and Alice Tully Halls, London’s Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore Halls, the Sydney Opera House, and the Salle Cortot in Paris. Her program is called “Dedications.” 

    According to the pianist, “each of the four pieces is dedicated to different sources of inspiration—legacy, location, love, and admiration.” 

    On Friday, April 25, Ching-Yun Hu, who is from Taiwan, will play an all-Chopin program. Tickets for all concerts in the series are $20, $10 for members of the museum.

    Just as spring buds bloom into summer flowers, Scott Schwartz, Bay Street Theatre’s artistic director, intends to nurture fledgling plays into potential main-stage productions. In the works is a series of staged readings of new plays, to be held at the Sag Harbor theater every spring, with the first three kicking off the series next weekend.

    On Saturday, his day off from the theater, he was going to the theater — the Broadway theater — to see a matinee performance of the musical “If/Then,” followed by an evening performance of the revival of John Steinbeck’s classic “Of Mice and Men.”

     The Bay Street readings begin at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 25, with “Fight Call,” a comedy by Jess Brickman that follows two feuding actors who are playing father and son in a production of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” — which itself is about a father-son conflict. Daniel Goldstein will direct.

    Mr. Schwartz’s directorial choices lean toward the play within the play, a theatrical device honed by Shakespeare, who used it repeatedly both in comedies (“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”) and in his darkest tragedies (“Hamlet”). Another example will turn up in June in Bay Street’s main-stage revival of Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties,” which will star Richard Kind.

    “The Orchard Play” by P. Seth Bauer, directed by Will Pomerantz, is the second reading in next week’s “New Works” series, on April 26 at 8. A retelling of Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard,” it is now set on a Pennsylvania farm. “Even though this is a modern play,” Mr. Schwartz said, “it harkens to Bay Street’s commitment to the classics.”

    At 2 p.m. on April 27, the reading will be of Molly Smith Metzler’s “The May Queen,” directed by Vivienne Benesch. Mr. Schwartz called the play a “dramedy,” with  “a very serious heart.” It centers on the return home of a former high school prom queen, examining youthful relationships and suggesting that idols may have feet of clay.

    One important aspect of both the readings and the stage season ahead, said Mr. Schwartz, is the number of women playwrights and directors. His goal, he said, is to create a more inclusive theater environment on the East End. Besides the two women whose works will be read next weekend, and Ms. Benesch, the director, the summer will bring the premiere of Carey Crim’s “Conviction,” which opens the season on May 27, and also the premiere of “My Life Is a Musical,” to be directed by Marlo Hunter. “We want to make Bay Street reflective of all the voices in our community,” Mr. Schwartz said.

    Before each of next weekend’s readings there will be a 4 p.m. panel discussion, during which the audience and the three authors can explore the world of the contemporary playwright. John Weid­man, a former president of the Dramatists Guild whose credits include the book for Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures,” “Assassins,” and “Road Show,”will be the moderator. Also on the panel is the co-producer, with Mr. Schwartz, of the readings, Emily Simoness, the executive director of SPACE on Ryder Farm in Brewster, N.Y., a writers-in-residence working farm.

    Admission to the readings is free, but Mr. Schwartz has strongly suggested advance reservations. It is hoped that those attending the panel discussions and a cocktail reception to be held on April 26 will make a $20 donation.