Arts

Classes in playwriting and improv at Guild Hall, "Les Miserables" brings the French classic up to date via HamptonsFilm, and stand-up comedy returns to Bay Street

Certain figures in history are so avant-garde they often have to wait years and even decades for the world to catch up to them. The artist Louise Bourgeois is one of those visionaries. A film at the Parrish explores her legacy.

Joshua Harmon's “Admissions,” an examination of white privilege, white power, white anxiety, and white guilt, will begin a three-week run by the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue Thursday. It is directed by Andrew Botsford.

Edward Albee's “A Delicate Balance” has neither the savage extravagance of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” nor the psychodramatic ingenuity of “Three Tall Women.” But the production at the Southampton Cultural Center is a commendable one.

New shows at Drawing Room in East Hampton, White Room in Bridgehampton, an Artists Alliance show at Ashawagh Hall, and more

In the bleak and short days of winter, there can still be some color and interest in the garden to sustain us until spring. Holger Winenga, the horticulturalist at LongHouse Reserve, shared what he enjoys planting and seeing in the winter garden.

The East Hampton Library's film series, which begins on Sunday, will feature a varied group of classics and recent releases from Israel, France, Spain, and Italy.

Nishan Kazazian has been making art for more than 50 years and practicing architecture for almost as long. The two enterprises are distinct enough that he maintains websites devoted to each.

Bay Street offers new performance classes, Southampton Arts Center addresses the environment through a daylong festival, more film screenings, and the return of The Met opera screenings at Guild Hall.

“A Delicate Balance” will open a three-week engagement at the cultural center Friday at 7 p.m. Joan Lyons will direct.

Nightingale opens new group show, art and the environment meet at the Parrish, and Hiroyuki Hamada in N.Y.C.

More winter film screenings, Guild Hall announces this year's honorees, and more.

Alastair Gordon shares memories of Doug Thompson, a longtime friend and noted architect who died in November.

The Amagansett streetscape will soon suffer a significant loss with the closing of Ille Arts, which has been a vital source of culture and visual art in that hamlet at two different locations since March 2012.

A Southold artist's film seeks to preserve a Buddhist holy site.

“Viewpoints,” the Watermill Center’s conversation series devoted to creative themes, begins Wednesday with a talk by Andrina Wekontash Smith, a member of the Shinnecock Nation.

Sag Harbor Cinema will reopen in March as a community center as well as a three-screen movie theater for mainstream, independent, and classic films.

Saturday night D.J. and live music in Southampton and Sag Harbor

The Lee Freeman show at Rental Gallery in East Hampton is essentially just a few light-up sculptures in the window and entrance of the gallery, but that is by design.

Starting on Sunday, the Montauk Library will host “Twist and Shout: The Beatles on Film,” featuring all five of the Fab Four’s cinematic triumphs — and missteps — plus the director Ron Howard’s loving 2016 tribute to the band’s hundreds of live performances.

“I don’t know if I would have been a decent architect,” the film composer Carter Burwell recently mused, sitting in his private studio on the Atlantic Ocean, east of Amagansett. But his interests all come together in architecture.

"A Gilbert and Sullivan Christmas Carol" and East Hampton's Big Karma in Sag Harbor

Ric Burns’s fascinating new documentary opens in Sacks’s Greenwich Village apartment on Feb. 9, 2015, a month after he received a diagnosis of terminal cancer and not quite eight months before his death at 82.

Often a Christmas choral concert contains certain standards: the Vivaldi Gloria, the biblical narratives of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, a few nostalgic English carols, and in conclusion an “all stand” for Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus. This was something different.

A recent Saul Steinberg Foundation gift to the Parrish Art Museum is a collection of 49 works by the artist over four decades touching on most aspects of his creative practice.

Keyes Art stays home and travels, Hanukkah at Ezra Gallery, and Lee Freeman at Rental Gallery

Open studio and rehearsal day at Watermill Center on Saturday and swinging into Christmas with the vocal group Duchess at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.

Gene Casey will appear for a rare free showcase at the East Hampton Library on Saturday, playing original tunes and classic country and rock covers.

Dianne Blell photographs beauty: the beauty of ideal love, the beauty of the broken and ruined, and the beauty of art history.

The Sag Harbor Cinema’s final pre-opening film series pays tribute to moviegoing as a collective experience, and to the theaters where cinematic adventures unfold.