Arts

From “Wall Street” to “Boiler Room” to “The Big Short,” the world of finance, high and low, continues to provide an endless source of material for filmmakers. The realm of real estate seems neglected by comparison, with the exception of a few films, among them “99 Homes,” about greed at the low end of the market.

The next production of the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue is “An Act of the Imagination,” a mystery by Bernard Slade, which will open next Thursday and run through April 9. The suspenseful play’s protagonist is Arthur Putnam, the writer of 27 mystery novels, who has created his first romance.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will celebrate spring with “Across the Centuries,” a concert of music spanning 300 years, on March 26 at 5 p.m. at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.

Canio’s Cultural Cafe’s Irish history film series will present “Jimmy’s Hall,” a film directed by Ken Loach about Jimmy Gralton, a leader of the Irish Revolutionary Workers Group who decides to reopen a dance hall after his return to Ireland in the 1930s after a 10-year absence.

“The Art of Elegance,” the second program in the Madoo Conservancy’s “Madoo Talks: House and Garden” lecture series, will take place Sunday at noon in the conservancy’s winter house studio.

The Shelter Island Presbyterian Church will be alive with the sound of music this weekend. Katie McNally, a fiddler, and Neil Pearlman, a pianist, will perform a concert steeped in the musical traditions of Scotland and Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia tomorrow evening from 7:30 to 9:30.

“Tide + AL,” an exhibition featuring the nautical-inspired artwork of Scott Bluedorn and Cindy Pease Roe, will open Saturday with a reception from 6 to 9:30 p.m. at the art gallery of the Greenport Harbor Brewing Company on Carpenter Street in Greenport. The Artists Alliance of East Hampton will hold its first members show of 2017 from Saturday through March 26 at Ashawagh Hall in Springs, on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and weekdays from 11 to 5.

The long winter will finally be over on Tuesday, recent weather conditions notwithstanding. Regardless of the outdoor temperature on Tuesday night, those seeking a respite from winter’s bleakness and the attendant cabin fever are advised to visit Pierre’s in Bridgehampton.

Looking for a cure for the winter blues? Need a break from gray afternoons, bitter temperatures, cataclysmic nor’easters? From now until March 19, you can try Guild Hall’s production of “A Steady Rain,” a play about two police officers who morally collapse after inadvertently allowing a teenage boy to fall into the hands of a human cannibal.

In a delightful trend, the South Fork’s wintertime shop vacancies have given way to vibrant art spaces run by dealers previously found only on the web. That this may continue into the spring and encourage more of the same next year is a hopeful sign as we stare down another summer of impossibly high rents, dinner checks, and farmstand tomato prices.

The Southampton Arts Center, in partnership with Telluride Mountainfilm, will show “Sonita,” a documentary by Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami, an Iranian filmmaker, tomorrow evening at 7. An 18-year-old Afghan refugee living in a shelter in Iran, Sonita is in many ways a typical teenage girl, but, in the tradition of forced marriage endemic to Afghan culture, her mother wants to sell her as a bride to a much older man.

The Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will be a busy venue this week, with four days of films, music, and dancing, starting today at 6 p.m. with a screening of “The Winter Guest,” a drama directed by Alan Rickman about a widow determined to leave Scotland who gets an unexpected visit from her aging mother. Starring Phyllida Law and Emma Thompson, it was shown in 1997 at the Hamptons International Film Festival. Tickets are $10.

The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival’s spring series is back for a third season. It appears that this springtime addition to the festival’s longstanding summer series has earned itself a permanent place on the East End’s classical music scene, increasing from two concerts originally to three last year, and this year adding a premiere performance to the lineup. And, no surprise, it looks like an exciting and harmonious mix of the new and well known in both repertoire and performers.

If all goes well for Lucia Davis, a refurbished school bus will depart from Greenport this summer, but not with schoolchildren aboard. Instead it will be a traveling showcase of art and artists that will hold collaborative events at each stop along the Eastern Seaboard.

Hector Martignon, a two-time Grammy-nominated composer, producer, orchestrator, and pianist, will return to the Friday Night Jazz series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill with his Foreign Affair quartet tomorrow at 6 p.m. The evening of Afro-Cuban and South American jazz will be performed in a candlelight cabaret setting with table service of drinks and light refreshments available for purchase from the Golden Pear Cafe.

Verdi’s “La Traviata,” the next offering from The Met: Live in HD, will be shown at Guild Hall on Saturday at 1 p.m. Sonya Yoncheva will sing the role of Violetta, the tragic courtesan, opposite Michael Fabiano as her lover, Alfredo, and Thomas Hampton as his father, Germont. Tickets are $22, $20 for members, and $15 for students.

The Perlman Music Program will present a solo violin recital by Francesca Anderegg, an alumna of the program, on Saturday afternoon at 5 at the Clark Arts Center on Shelter Island. Ms. Anderegg, who will be accompanied on piano by John Root, will perform classic and contemporary works by Mozart, Hannah Lash, Clint Needham, Manuel de Falla, and Maurice Ravel. Tickets are $25, free for students.

The pop-up gallery for ArtUnprimed in the Addo shop in Sag Harbor is now showing “Terra,” a group exhibition inspired by nature. “Art That Speaks to You,” a group show featuring work by Mark E. Zimmerman and Kat O’Neill, will open tomorrow at the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton and continue through April 3. A reception will take place Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

“Promises, Promises,” a 1968 musical based on “The Apartment,” a 1960 film about a company man whose pied-a-terre on the Upper East Side is a love shack for his bosses, will open at the Southampton Cultural Center next Thursday and run through March 26. It will be staged as a concert.

“Inter-Sections: The Architect in Conversation,” a new series exploring architecture in multiple contexts, will launch tomorrow at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill with “The Art of Architecture,” featuring Preston Scott Cohen in conversation with Terrie Sultan, the museum’s director.

The Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor will host ACCORD, a professional women’s choir from New York, as part of its Bach, Before, and Beyond series on Sunday at 3 p.m.

Guild Hall’s weekend will include two screenings of substantial film and theater offerings. It begins tomorrow with the Hamptons International Film Festival’s 25th anniversary screening of “I Am Not Your Negro,” from October’s festival. The film is a meditation on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript “Remember This House,” which explored the lives and murders of his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.

It has certainly been a busy winter. Although some art galleries have closed or cut back hours, others are popping up like expensive boutiques in the summer.

The faculty musicians of International Music Sessions, a bicoastal music education program that encourages multicultural interaction through the arts, will have a concert at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton on Saturday at 5 p.m.

Nimbus Productions will present “A Steady Rain,” a play starring Edward Kassar and Joe Pallister, beginning next Thursday and running through March 19 at Guild Hall. Jenna Mate is directing.

Works by John Ashbery, Rudy Burckhardt, and Larry Rivers, three artists with long associations with the South Fork, are included in a group show at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in Manhattan. Erica-Lynn Huberty will display an installation of her artwork and read from her Sag Harbor-based novella, “Watchwork: A Tale in Time,” tonight at 6 in the Malia Mills pop-up gallery space in East Hampton.

On Saturday afternoon, the Watermill Center will present the latest open-rehearsal performance of its resident artist group Bruno Guida and P.L.U.T.O., an ensemble of stage directors, actors, and writers formed in 2015 at Lincoln Center’s Directors Lab. The performance, “Black Box,” examines the group’s various backgrounds and cultures.

Montauk will be the site on Saturday of this year’s ZIMA!, a theatrical scavenger hunt. For several years Kate Mueth and the Neo-Political Cowgirls have used different sites on the South Fork to mount a midwinter interactive theatrical journey to collect clues and solve a riddle

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