Arts

At The Church in Sag Harbor, Sabina Streeter will discuss her portraits inspired by the films of Douglas Sirk, and Michael A. Butler will talk about his “narrative folk” paintings and the history of that village.

Strong stories by four female playwrights will have staged readings in Bay Street Theater’s New Works Festival.

The Ranch in Montauk to feature sculpture by Lena Henke, documentary on the artist Nathan Slate Joseph in Southampton, Anahi DeCanio goes solo in Montauk, and a group show in Gansett Square.

The Art Center at Duck Creek will open with geometric wooden abstract paintings by Don Christensen, and ritualistic sculptural groupings by Brianna L. Hernandez.

Tennessee Walt to channel Hank Williams, Judy Carmichael at the American Hotel, weaving recyclables at LongHouse, open studios at Watermill Center, blues and jazz in Sag, and rock in Riverhead.

"The Dreamer," a new Off Broadway production from the Neo-Political Cowgirls, reimagines Shakespeare’s comedy "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" through the eyes of a young girl.

The 'Gather" series devoted to Indigenous and Black voices will feature Joshua Whitehead, an Indigenous writer from Canada, who will talk about his new nonfiction book.

Bay Street Theater will host Pachanga, OLA of Eastern Long Island's dance party; the Moondogs' concert tribute to John Lennon, and a talk and workshop devoted to adapting literature for the stage.

A surge of interest in the painter Joan Mitchell is reflected in two important exhibitions abroad, “Monet-Mitchell” in Paris, and “Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970” in London.

The Parrish Art Museum has invited 41 artists with deep ties to the East End to pair their work with objects from the museum’s permanent collection in a series of three exhibitions.

The Sag Harbor Cinema will celebrate the Venice Film Festival’s grant program for emerging filmmakers with a screening of "The Cathedral," a local director’s feature.

A celebration of quilts will open the Arts Center at Duck Creek, Ashawagh Hall plans a groovy weekend, abstraction is the subject of a panel discussion at The Church.

The Church is hitting the books this weekend with a talk by the art critic Jerry Saltz, a sale and signing of artists' books, a book binding workshop, and a reading by the venue's writer-in-residence, Drew Zeiba.

"Return to a Place by the Sea" at The Church showcases four Black abstract artists with ties to the village’s Eastville/SANS enclave and to each other.

Richard Horwich, a Shakespeare scholar, has written a memoir about family, friends, academia, and his many years, and encounters, on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Ken Dorph, a Middle Eastern scholar, will discuss Arab diversity in two lectures at Bay Street Theater.

It’s abstraction vs. representation and artist vs. canvas in the exhibition “Showdown” at Sara Nightingale Gallery.

Tickets remain for Guild Hall’s Awards Dinner, musical offerings across the East End include West African songs, jazz, classical, rock, and reggae, Choral Society announces auditions, Montauk Library to host talk on film and television adaptations.

The Hamptons Comedy Festival will bring four seasoned comedians to Bay Street Theater for an evening of laughs.

Botanical painting workshops at LongHouse, Amy Zerner tapestries and paradoxical paintings at MM Fine Art, surrealists at the Lucore Gallery, Dan Welden demonstration in Riverhead, Brooklyn outpost for Halsey McKay.

The Docs Equinox film festival features three documentaries, panel discussions, receptions, and an information hub, all devoted to protecting and preserving our water.

Street dance workshop at The Church, Native American films at the Southampton Cultural Center, solo guitar and 70s music at the Suffolk Theater.

LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton celebrates spring with new sculpture by Maren Hassinger and Wyatt Kahn, a call for Easter bonnets, and gardens in full bloom.

The Drawing Room in East Hampton is showing five decades of work by Saul Steinberg, including drawings, paintings, prints, and objects, and Pace Gallery is giving Steinberg his first exhibition in Seoul, South Korea.

Paul Davis goes solo at Keyes Art, works on paper by 22 local artists at Ashawagh Hall, late night open studio at The Church, nature on canvas at Grenning Gallery, Scott Bluedorn at Watermill Center, Michael Halsband in Paris.

An upcoming production of Edward Albee's "The Zoo Story," a two-character play about strangers who meet at the Central Park Zoo, stars two East End actors who are real-life friends with a lot in common.

"Binge or Bomb," a new podcast by two South Fork film and television aficionados, turns to global television for binge-worthy content that has eluded many Americans' radar.

Hamptons Whodunit, a four-day festival devoted to mystery and true crime, will take place in East Hampton Village from April 13 through 16 at various venues and feature dozens of authors, escape room-style challenges, a real-life crime scene bus tour, and even a "Who Killed the Mayor?" game.

Creative healing, opera and theater screenings, classical piano, feminine fire, and multiple tribute bands, this week.

The HamptonsFilm Screenwriters Lab will return to East Hampton from April 14 to 16 with three screenplays to be polished by three mentors.