Arts

A sly, perceptive, and timely comedy at Hampton Theatre Company tackles race, class, and a "border wall" with a deft touch.

After more than 21 years at Guild Hall and leading its stage program through its 90th anniversary, Josh Gladstone, has announced his retirement from the institution at the end of 2021 to pursue other opportunities.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music will launch its new BCM Autumn series with two Beethoven concerts of music for piano and wind instruments on Nov. 6 and Nov. 13.

A piano concert at St. Luke's will honor the life and career of Redjeb Jordania on Sunday, Watermill Center presents Paula Aros Gho "In Process," and the Masonic Temple in Sag Harbor keeps the music coming

Guild Hall will finish out its 90th anniversary year with two exhibitions that reflect its commitment to both the history of the East End’s art community and its contemporary vitality.

"Paul Thek: Interior / Landscape," an exhibition now on view at the Watermill Center, is an event much in the way that all of the center's visual arts presentations are.

M. Louise Stanley brought her distinctive sensibility to East Hampton in August for a 10-week residency at the Elaine de Kooning House, and a group exhibition of satirical paintings and imagined narrative scenes at the Ranch in Montauk.

Folioeast will present an exhibition at Ashawagh Hall, "Land Claim" focus of a community panel, a new show at Sara Nightingale, "Clearing the Air tour, and more

A "Surreal . . . weird" Picasso play from 1941 will have a rare performance in East Hampton.

New opera from the Met, Pennebaker documentary on Sondheim's "Company," Motown, rock 'n' roll, classical music, and poetry and drama

In a new documentary, the actress Selma Blair faces multiple sclerosis with courage, honesty, and humor.

What was Roy Lichtenstein thinking about before Pop? A Parrish exhibition offers a new examination of his early work.

Mercedes and Herbert Matter at Mark Borghi, plein-air painters at Gardiner Mill Cottage, photographs at a new gallery on Shelter Island, and more

Documentary film and panel on art's healing power, and a talk-workshop on finding art materials in the natural world

The Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center announced on Tuesday that its acting director, Genevieve Villaflor, will become its executive director.

Less than a year after Jack Lenor Larsen's passing, there have been shakeups and bad feelings between board members and some of the donors and staff of the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton, which Larsen founded and intended to be his legacy.

New doc about Attica prison uprising, music from the Complete Unknowns, Winston Irie, and Fred Raimondo, and a wine and roses benefit

"Murina" and "Ascension" won feature film awards at the Hamptons International Film Festival, "Masquerade" and "In Flow of Words" were the top shorts.

"Native Gardens," set to open the Hampton Theatre Company's new season, takes on racism, privilege, and generational conflict, but with humor.

Kelcey Edwards's two careers, filmmaker and art curator, come together in "The Art of Making It," her new documentary about artists struggling to find success.

The Met: Live in HD returns to Guild Hall, starting with an encore screening of "Boris Godunov" on Saturday.

A fall group show at Eric Firestone, Nivola and Steinberg at the Drawing Room, Aatchim at Harper's, Franklin Engel at Kramoris, an architecture talk, and more

A new director at LongHouse, Jeremy Dennis on a Shinnecock arts center, a virtual writing workshop from Bay Street, and a new home for OFVS.

The John and Alice Coltrane Home will be celebrated with a jazz concert featuring Ravi and Michelle Coltrane and a talk about the Coltranes' legacy.

A new documentary charts Jacques Cousteau's evolution from inventive and fearless adventurer to farsighted and renowned environmentalist.

The "Storm Lake" documentary celebrates a small-town, family-owned newspaper struggling to keep its community informed about issues large and small.

Solo shows at Colm Rowan, Tripoli, Ashawagh Hall, and the Watermill Center, plus a Road Show talk and an Afrofuturism panel.

Short films by Long Island filmmakers at the Hamptons Film Festival focus on sea level rise, farming, class struggles, family, and political activism.

Bay Street will offer a double dose of Isaac Mizrahi next weekend with a live performance of his music and musings, and a screening of the documentary "Unzipped."

Bruce Wolosoff at The Church, which also celebrates an "Un-Gala" with Sag Harbor Cinema, live opera, and the return of PechaKucha