Arts

A.R. Gurney's play "Sylvia" mostly succeeds as a funny, insightful look at modern relationships, driven by fine actors, even if it runs a bit long.

Hamptons Jazz Fest 2021 will span July, August, and September from Montauk to Southampton, featuring some of jazz's most distinguished players from around the world in more than 50 concerts, most of which will be free.

Live and in-person performances are returning to the Bay Street Theater, both in the theater itself and in its outdoor courtyard, which will be transformed into an immersive video performance space.

An Art Apart repeat coming soon, new exhibitons at galleries such as Drawing Room, Harper's, Studio 11, and Grenning, plus art-related film, talks, and more.

The Lone Sharks take over the Talkhouse, Kate Usher and the Sturdy Souls at the Surf Lodge, checking out the Clubhouse, and the Jam Session Radio Hour

In addition to brand-new blockbusters, silent films, retrospectives, documentaries, Hollywood classics, family matinees, and tributes to Black and Latino film, the weekend will see the opening of the third floor and its Green Room, a members’ lounge and outdoor terrace with panoramic views over Sag Harbor.

Kevin McCann is channeling his friendship with Peter Beard in a documentary in progress, tentatively titled "Montauk: A Playground at the Very Limit of Creation." The film finds its center through the windmill Beard brought to his property in 1973.

One major addition to the Herrick Park summer schedule is a series of free outdoor movie screenings from Hamptons Film.

"Down and Dirty" is a two-artist show of sculptures made for the floor. The two artists, Bonnie Rychlak and Jeanne Silverthorne, were not brought together randomly, but rather as a direct result of their friendship and similar aesthetic and material affinities.

Chris Kelly, an East Hampton native who recently returned to live here full time after many years in Brooklyn, will show abstract paintings created during the last year and a half with oil paint and pencil on canvas. 

Guild Hall's 90th summer season, launching this weekend, is a bounty of plays, readings, comedy, music, dance, conversations, and film screenings, all of which will take place outdoors.

An explosion of new exhibitions to greet the summer from museums, galleries. and pop-ups spanning the South Fork.

Salon series of concerts to be livestreamed on Friday and a film on plastic pollution in Southampton.

Guild Hall is celebrating the spirit of hope for a new season with a virtual reading of poems of rebirth and creativity by a star-studded roster of actors, and an outdoor concert of romantic boleros, jazz, funk, and Latin chill.

A new show at Madoo, East End Photographers at Ashawagh, Enoc Perez shows and tells, and more

Upcoming shows at the Talkhouse, music and comedy at the Clubhouse, and more

More than a year after it was first scheduled to open, A.R. Gurney’s play “Sylvia,” a comedy about the impact of an adopted stray dog on an empty-nest marriage, will open next Thursday at the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue.

Fearlessness and self-confidence have informed Toby Molenaar's long career as a photojournalist, filmmaker, and writer whose work took her to India, Brazil, Afghanistan, the western Sahara, Lapland, Kenya, Mongolia, and Uzbekistan, among dozens of other far-flung locations. “I was involved in many situations where people said, ‘No, you can’t do that.’ I thought, who says I can’t?"

Through her art making, Yto Barrada offers a unique lens in which to see the world. The Moroccan-French artist has recent work on view at Pace Gallery in East Hampton that is emblematic of the creative endeavors and concerns that have occupied her for some two decades.

The Art Barge and the D’Amico Studio and Archive will reopen this spring, after remaining closed for the 2020 season. The 2021 class and workshop schedule was issued on Friday, and registration is open. Classes include painting, orientation to creativity. Workshops include collage, pastel, and watercolor painting. There are also classes for children.

The music scene, return of classical piano at the Parrish, an intro to acting, and more

The Watermill Center’s spring Community Day, which provides the public an opportunity to experience the center’s grounds as a space to explore, unwind, and find inspiration, will take place in two parts on Saturday.

The antidote to the social-distancing doldrums may very well be social-dancing lessons, and for that, one needs to look no further than Friday night country line-dancing classes at the Southampton Cultural Center.

New shows at Tripoli, Borghi, Ashawagh, White Room, and Grenning, along with a new gallery in Montauk, a talk at Guild Hall, and more

A "42nd Street" musical revival now available for streaming through Guild Hall and lessons in auditioning on camera through Bay Street.

Allen O'Reilly spent more than four decades as an actor and education director before taking on the position of director of education and community outreach at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

New art shows all over the region, a salute to Vito Sisti, the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum reopens, Mary Abbott is the focus for the Pollock-Krasner House's first seasonal exhibition, and more

Alfredo Merat and more at Baron's Cove, Hot Lava and the Groove Kings at the Talkhouse, and upcoming broadcasts of the Jam Session on the radio

Bay Street Theater's plans to build a new theater complex and develop other properties near the Sag Harbor waterfront received mostly harsh critiques from village residents at a public forum on Saturday. 

On Friday, Bay Street Theater, in partnership with the Rock Project, will present “Reflections of ‘Who’s Next," a concert celebration of the 50th anniversary of the album.