Arts

Staring into the front picture window or tuning into the live feed on the website of Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton, the current downstairs exhibition, “Off Season,” often looks like a tableau, static and formal, multiple mannequins posed just so to make an overall balanced composition.

The Hamptons International Film Festival and Bay Street Theater are teaming up for four film screenings during February and March.

Guild Hall will present an HD screening of the 2017 Broadway revival of Noel Coward’s “Present Laughter” on Saturday at 7 p.m.

The Southampton Arts Center has announced a significant upgrade to its theater, including a new screen, surround sound system, state-of-the-art projector, and new seating, as well as a commitment to presenting critically acclaimed, independent films every Friday evening throughout the year.

Janet Lehr's “Valentine," four photographers at Tulla Booth, Virva Himmemo in NYC, and Southampton Artists Association members at the cultural center

The Madoo Conservancy’s winter lecture series will feature a talk by Beka Sturges, an associate principal of Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architects, on Sunday at noon in Sagaponack.

Long before time was up or people were saying “me too,” women in creative fields spent decades and even centuries fighting to have their voices heard and their output seen.

Rob Marshall and John DeLuca will screen and discuss their film adaptation of the Broadway musical “Chicago” on Sunday in the Senior Lecture Hall at the Ross School in East Hampton as part of the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center’s American Values film series.

Audrey Flack, Gail Sheehy, and Harris Yulin will be honored by the Guild Hall Academy of the Arts in New York City on March 5.

The Met: Live in HD will present a simulcast of Bartlett Sher’s new production of Donizetti’s comic opera “L’Elisir d’Amore” on Saturday at noon at Guild Hall. One of the most consistently popular operatic comedies since its premiere in Milan in 1832, the story centers on Nemorino, played by Matthew Polenzani, who is in love with Adina (Pretty Yende), who torments him with her indifference. Nemorino hopes a traveling quack’s love potion — the elixir of love — will answer his prayers.

The Madoo Conservancy’s winter lecture series will feature three landscape architects who will discuss current and past projects with a focus on their effects on the waterways of the East End, starting Sunday.

To celebrate what would have been George Harrison’s 75th birthday, Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will have two Beatles tribute nights tomorrow and Saturday at 8.

Ellen Johansen and Marlene Markard will give a free four-hand piano concert on Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton. The East End pianists will perform a program of works written for piano duos, including Camille Saint-Saens’s “The Carnival of the Animals,” a Francis Poulenc sonata, and John Corigliano’s “Gazebo Dances.”

“A Musical Valentine,” a selection of love songs from the Great American Songbook performed by Karen Jolicoeur and Lars Woodul, will be presented on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the Montauk Library. William Lewis will accompany the vocalists on piano.

Romany Kramoris, who has operated her glass studio in Sag Harbor for the past 43 years, has received a scholarship from Urban Glass in Brooklyn, one of the leading glass art facilities in the country, to study advanced painted and stained-glass assemblage. “A Brief History,” an exhibition organized by Dexter Wimberly in celebration of Black History Month, will open with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. at RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton and remain on view through March 18.

Guild Hall will present BroadwayHD’s encore screening of “Indecent” on Saturday at 7 p.m. and the JDT Lab will present "Small Among the Infinite Stars" on Tuesday.

Improvisational comedy, the cornerstone of American comedy, is coming to Bay Street for four one-day shows beginning Saturday and continuing on Feb. 17 and March 3 and 17.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will hold auditions for an April 8 performance of Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle” during the evening of Feb. 12 at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.

The Hamptons International Film Festival will continue its Now Showing series in February with five screenings at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor and Guild Hall in East Hampton.

Inda Eaton will play a concert Friday in Bridgehampton at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse as a benefit for Project Most.

The Southampton Cultural Center will continue its monthly celebrations of Latin dance on Saturday evening from 7 to 11.

The Southampton Arts Center and the Jam Session will kick off the 2018 season with “Keeping Live Jazz Alive,” a concert to benefit the Jazz Foundation of America’s Keyed Up! program, on Saturday.

The Bridgehampton Museum will present a concert by the Poetica Ensemble on Saturday afternoon at 3 at its archives building.

Karen Mannix Contemporary's “Love and Passion” exhibition at Markel; the Drawing Room Gallery shows sculpture, painting, drawing, photographs, and prints, Ladd Bros on Shields at Parrish

For hardy theatergoers and others seeking a novel way to spend a winter afternoon, the Neo-Political Cowgirls will present their current production “Zima!” on Saturday at Montauk County Park.

Welcome to the epic emotional universe of the sisters Magrath, also known as Beth Henley’s 1978 kitchen sink tragicomedy, “Crimes of the Heart,” playing at Center Stage Theatre at the Southampton Cultural Center through Sunday.

"Flow" group show at White Room Gallery; Three artists, including students from the Hayground School, will be part of Watermill Center's "In Process" event; this month’s featured artist at the Golden Eagle is Kirsten Benfield.

This weekend at Guild Hall, the screen will be alive with opera and classic and international films.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill is bringing back last year’s Story Circle and People’s State of the Union tomorrow at 6 p.m.

Three films fostered at the Hamptons International Film Festival Screenwriters Lab are being screened at the Sundance Film Festival this week and next.