Arts

“Love Letters,” the A.R. Gurney play in which two characters, Melissa and Andrew, sit side by side reading letters, notes, and cards that span nearly 50 years of their separated lives, will be performed by Andrew Botsford and Jane Baldwin on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Southampton Inn.

The Southampton Arts Center will present “Beneath the Underdog: The Music of Charles Mingus” on Saturday at 7 p.m. Selections from Mr. Mingus’s music will be performed by Claes Brondal on drums, Bob Hovey on trombone, Santi Debriano on bass, Eric Schugren on saxophone, and Bill Smith on piano.

Iris Smyles, the literary editor of The Star’s East magazine, will host “An Evening of Love and Other Horrors” to celebrate Valentine’s Day at the Malia Mills shop on Main Street in East Hampton. Starting at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, the event will feature readings by Patricia Marx, a humorist and staff writer at The New Yorker, Frederic Tuten, whose books include “Tintin in the New World,” and Ms. Smyles herself.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor and the Hamptons International Film Festival will present the 2017 Academy Award nominees for Best Live Action Short Film and Best Animated Short Film in two programs on Saturday at Bay Street, two weeks before the Oscar telecast.

The Wamponamon Masonic Lodge No. 437, which was established in Sag Harbor in 1858, has been off limits to nonmembers for as long as anyone can remember, save for a single open house last June when the public was invited to see the painted Masonic symbols and celestial imagery on the inner sanctum’s walls and the domed ceiling by John Capello, an artist and member of the Masonic Brotherhood.

The local action of the 2017 campaign of One Billion Rising, a mass international demonstration launched five years ago to end violence against women, will be presented in Guild Hall’s JDTLab series on Sunday at 2 p.m.

The Montauk Library will present “Yvette Sings Ronstadt: Rock and Roll, Country, Big Band, and Mexico,” a free concert by Yvette Malavet-Blum, on Sunday afternoon at 3:30.

Chris Bauer, an actor from Sag Harbor, is co-starring with Lawrence Gillard Jr., Jordan Lage, and Rebecca Pidgeon in “The Penitent,” a new play by David Mamet that premiered yesterday at the Atlantic Theater Company in Manhattan and will run through March 19.

“I Am Jane Doe,” a documentary about sex trafficking of under-age girls on Backpage.com, directed by Mary Mazzio and co-produced by Ms. Mazzio and Alec Sokolow, a screenwriter who lives in Sagaponack, will premiere tomorrow in Manhattan and in five other cities.

ArtUnprimed, the pop-up gallery that occupies the Addo Women’s Clothing Collective on Sag Harbor’s Main Street, will open “Women,” its second exhibition, with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. The East End Winter Salon, an artists’ collaborative, will present its first exhibition, “What We Love About the East End,” from Saturday through April 2 at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Bridgehampton.

The Chickpeas, an East End all-female vocal ensemble, will perform a free concert at the Montauk Community Church Coffeehouse tomorrow at 7 p.m.

Karyn Mannix Contemporary and the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton will present the “12th Annual Love and Passion: The Dirty Dozen Art Show” tomorrow through Sunday at the gallery, with a wine reception to be held Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

A recent symposium in Manhattan brought together scholars from around the country and across the Atlantic to study “Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper.” One of the more interesting and revealing presentations came from Helen Harrison, the director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs, which was a co-presenter of the program with the Clyfford Still Museum and Stony Brook University.

Libraries used to be repositories of books and collections that were held close, in some cases available only to preapproved researchers by appointment. The East Hampton Library is embracing a more contemporary model, wherein its collection is accessible to researchers in their homes and offices.

The Hamptons International Film Festival has announced that films presented during the 2016 festival have received 45 Oscar nominations.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will hold tribute concerts at 8 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album.

A number of South Fork cultural and arts organizations are among 1,230 recipients of some $41 million in state support for visual, performing, literary, and media arts, according to an announcement from Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. of Sag Harbor.

Two decades ago, Neil LaBute emerged on the scene with “In the Company of Men,” a movie taken from his earlier play, with a plot featuring the callous seduction of a deaf woman. The film received a number of awards and distinctions, and it launched him as an enfant terrible who went out of his way to say the heretofore unsayable.

The 2017 LongHouse Winter Benefit will take place Feb. 15 in the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center. The architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, who designed the atrium, will be the evening’s honorees.

“Madoo in Manhattan: The Fourth Annual Robert Dash Garden Design Lecture” will take place Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Cosmopolitan Club in Manhattan. The guest speaker will be Jinny Blom, an award-winning British garden designer, whose subject will be “Changing Nature: Towards a New Landscape.”

The Montauk Library will present “Salty Songs and Sailor Slang,” a program of authentic sea chanteys and nautical ballads performed by Scuttlebutt Stu and Blood Red Robin, on Sunday at 5:30 p.m.

The Art Gallery at the Quogue Library is presenting “50 Shades of White,” a juried photography show that celebrates the beauty of white in all its permutations. On view through Feb. 26, the photographs, by 23 East End photographers, will be judged by Neil Watson, director of the Long Island Museum and formerly director of the Katonah Museum of Art in Westchester County. “Supernature,” an exhibition of paintings by Jeff Muhs, will open today at the Lyons Wier Gallery in Chelsea and continue through Feb. 25. A reception will be held tonight from 6 to 8.

The Met: Live in HD will present an encore screening of Verdi’s “Nabucco,” with Placido Domingo in the title role, at Guild Hall on Saturday at 1 p.m.

“Steel Magnolias,” Robert Harling’s 1987 comedy-drama that became widely known thanks to the star-studded 1989 film, has over the years been met by critics with praise, derision, and everything in between. While one critic said, “The writing is filled with clever, country-fried witticisms and hilarious one-liners,” another wrote, “The script is formulaic and not as funny as it ought to be.”

Tomorrow at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, Joseph Vecsey will return as host for an All Star Comedy show at 8 p.m. His guests will be Harris Stanton (Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend” and “Comics Unleashed”), Max May (winner of the 2016 Winter Laugh’s Comedy Competition), and Mike Cannon (Comedy Central’s “The Nightly Show” and MTV). Tickets are $30.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill is holding a 2017 People’s State of the Union Story Circle tomorrow at 6 p.m. The free event, one of hundreds taking place nationwide, will bring together members of the East End community age 15 and older to share their experiences and thoughts on the condition of the nation.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will hold auditions for its spring concert at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church on Jan. 30, by appointment only. Those interested have been asked to visit choralsocietyofthehamptons.org or to call 631-204-9402.

The United States Consulate in Hong Kong is currently exhibiting two paintings by Eric Dever, who has a house in Bridgehampton. “NSIBTW-40” is an oil on canvas measuring 72 inches square; “NSIBTW-22” is an oil on linen of the same dimensions.

Guild Hall has announced the recipients of the 32nd Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Awards, which will be presented at a benefit dinner on March 13 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Rainbow Room in Manhattan. Eric Fischl, the academy’s president, will host the event with Marty Cohen, chairman of the Guild Hall board, and Andrea Grover, executive director.

What Sotheby’s called “the Schellinger-Hendrickson Very Fine and Rare Clock,” a tall-case beauty made by the East Hampton craftsman Nathaniel Dominy IV in 1780, was sold Saturday afternoon at the auction house’s Manhattan headquarters for $24,000 to an unknown buyer bidding by telephone.