Arts

    The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival will present the East Coast premiere of “Penny & Red: The Life of Secretariat’s Owner” on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor. The film, directed by John Tweedy and narrated by Diane Lane, tells the story of Penny Chenery and Secretariat, her champion thoroughbred, also known as Big Red, who won racing’s Triple Crown in 1973.

    “The play’s the thing, wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king,” Hamlet tells us in the ultimate Shakespearean tragedy. And players for the play are wanted, according to Morgan Vaughan, who will direct the Round Table Theater Company’s production of “Hamlet” at Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater in East Hampton this fall.

    All parts are open, with the exception of the title character, which will be played by Tristan Vaughan, and Gertrude, to be played by Dianne Benson.

New at Halsey Mckay

    The Halsey Mckay gallery in East Hampton will open a show of paintings by two artists, Ann Pibal and Nathlie Provosty, and a solo exhibition of paintings by Steven Cox on Saturday.

    Both Ms. Pibal and Ms. Provosty, who have homes in Brooklyn, use line, form, and sumptuously worked surfaces to create distinct visual languages.

    Mr. Cox, a Scottish artist having his first solo show in the United States, uses horizontal and vertical repetition of color, pattern, and layering to explore the possibilities of the linear stripe.

    Guild Hall will present an encore screening of the National Theatre Live’s new production of Shakespeare’s “King Lear” on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The London production, which will be captured on film at its opening today, is directed by Sam Mendes, Academy Award-winning director of “American Beauty,” and stars Simon Russell Beale, England’s “greatest stage actor,” according to Charles Spencer of The Telegraph, in the title role.

    Tickets are $18, $16 for members, and free student rush tickets are available.

    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.

    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.

    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.”

    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.

Koichiro Kurita at Ille

    Koichiro Kurita, a photographer who lives in Southold, will have a solo show at Ille Arts in Amagansett from Saturday through May 10. Mr. Kurita, who was a commercial photographer in Japan, had a life-changing experience when he visited Walden Pond in 1985. “I was inspired by the freedom of the spirit and pursued fine art photography,” he has said.

    The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill unveiled a monumental sculpture by Roy Lichtenstein on its front lawn on Friday and is about to open the first major museum survey of work by Jennifer Bartlett, whose stylistic and thematic innovations have established her as one of the most important artists of her generation.

    The Hamptons International Film Festival is known primarily for its annual four-day showcase event held in October. Yet for many years, the festival has spread out its calendar to include summer screenings of documentaries and narrative films, projects in the local schools, and a springtime screenwriters lab. The latter brings established professionals to East Hampton to work with writers early in their careers and bring scripts to fruition, with four in recent years making it to production and, in some cases, winning awards.

    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.

    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.

    If you look up Sammy’s Beach on the Internet, you are given maps, a lot of real estate listings, and a few photographs of a bay beach, typically with a lot of tire ruts. On Instagram it’s different: arty shots of windblown waves on a rocky shore, abstract amalgamations of jingle shells and seaweed, dramatic sunsets and the like.

    After 60 years of making and exhibiting art, Jack Youngerman shows no sign of slowing down. On a recent wintry morning he led a visitor briskly across hard-packed, slippery snow from his house on Scuttlehole Road in Bridgehampton, where he has lived since 1968, to his studio.

    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.

    Guild Hall will present a recorded concert from the Lucerne Festival, featuring Claudio Abbado conducting Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection) in C minor, on Saturday night. Mr. Abbado, who died this year, was one of the foremost conductors of Mahler.

    This composition is considered one of Mahler’s most emotionally powerful works. It will be preceded by a lecture by Gilbert Kaplan, given in the John Drew theater at 6:45, with the screening at 8.

    The paintings of Matt Vega, on view at Ille Arts in Amagansett, mark a bit of a homecoming for the artist, who received an M.F.A. from Yale in photography, but began his studies in painting at Boston University.

    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.

    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.” 

New at Dodds and Eder

    Dodds and Eder Home in Sag Harbor, now under new ownership and focused on the work of local artists, is presenting “Memories of Place: Land/Water/Sky,” now through May 10.

    Participating artists are Maria Schon, an abstract painter from Sagaponack; James DeMartis, an East Hampton-based sculptor and metalworker; Casey Dalene, from East Hampton, who creates designs on textiles and fabrics, and John Cino, a wood sculptor from Patchogue.

    A reception will take place on April 26 from 4 to 6 p.m.

    The LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will open its 2014 season on Saturday from 2 to 5 p.m. with “Rites of Spring,” featuring work by Steve Miller, Fitzhugh Karol, and the installation of “Heroic Man,” a monumental sculpture by Gaston Lachaise.

    The Parrish Art Museum’s third installment of Architectural Sessions, an ongoing series co-presented with A.I.A. Peconic and moderated by the architect Maziar Behrooz, will take place in Water Mill Saturday at noon.

    The program, “Five Minutes Max,” loosely borrows its format from the museum’s popular PechaKucha Night series. Each of 12 East End architects will give a five-minute presentation of 15 images, each of which will remain on the screen for 20 seconds.

    The exhibition of John Chamberlain’s metal paintings from the mid-1960s at the Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton has not exactly set the world on fire, but it is the kind of focused, well-considered presentation complementing the Flavin installation upstairs that the Dia Art Foundation, which owns the institute, turns out annually.

    Soyeon Kate Lee and Ran Dank will perform as a piano duo at the Levitas Center for the Arts at the Southampton Cultural Center on Saturday at 7 p.m., as part of the Rising Stars piano series. Ms. Lee, a Korean-American pianist, won first prize in the 2010 Naumburg International piano competition. A Pianofest distinguished artist, she has performed internationally as a guest soloist.

    Cynthia Carr, a New York City-based writer and cultural critic, will deliver a lecture at the Watermill Center today at 6:30 p.m. Titled “My Golden Age in Hell: Covering the ’80s East Village,” the talk will examine the performance art scene at artist-run clubs such as 8BC, WOW, and the Pyramid.

    Ms. Carr will also discuss two pieces of “ordeal art” from the ’80s, Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh’s year spent tied together by an eight-foot rope, and Marina Abramovic and Ulay’s walk across the Great Wall of China.

    With “Suffering Fools,” his second CD, the singer-songwriter Michael Weiskopf returns with a nine-song collection liberally sprinkled with meditations on topical issues, including mass shootings and a hero of the Tea Party movement.

    As with his first release, 2012’s “Insomnia,” Mr. Weiskopf turned to Cynthia Daniels and her MonkMusic Studios in East Hampton for recording and mixing. “She’s great to work with,” he said of Ms. Daniels, who co-produced both releases. “She gives you the right environment, encourages you to take the risks.”

    Patricia C. Wright, professor of anthropology at Stony Brook University and one of the world’s foremost experts on lemurs, will be honored at the university’s Stars of Stony Brook benefit on Wednesday at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan. She is being recognized for her important contributions to the biology, ecology, conservation, and behavior of living primates.

    Ross Bleckner has lived and worked part time on the Sagaponack property that was once Truman Capote’s writer’s retreat since 1990 and has been showing regularly since the 1970s. Yet, it has been four years since his last solo show in New York City at Mary Boone, his gallery for almost four decades. It makes the exhibition of works he has made in the past year now on view an event, a chance to reflect on the direction he has taken familiar themes and some new directions in style and subject.

    The Hamptons International Film Festival’s Screenwriters Lab, now in its 13th year, will take place this weekend at the c/o The Maidstone Hotel in East Hampton.

    Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the workshop pairs established screenwriters, directors, and producers with those still emerging in the field for individualized mentoring sessions.