Arts

When asked what inspired her to produce “The Miracle Worker,” Bonnie Grice had a one-word answer: “Bancroft.”

Performances of “The Vagina Monologues,” Eve Ensler’s Obie Award-winning play, will take place on Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m. at the Southampton Arts Center.

In a plush boudoir designed by Miriam Buether, Glenda Jackson delivers a powerhouse performance in “Three Tall Women,” Edward Albee’s most personal play.

The Perlman Music Program will present music by Brahms, Schubert, and Schumann performed by Cong Wu, a violist, on Saturday at 5 p.m.

Judy Carmichael will host the launch of “Swinger! A Jazz Girl’s Adventures From Hollywood to Harlem” on Sunday in Sag Harbor.

Bay Street Theater's Title Wave, its fifth annual New Works Festival, will feature the staged readings of three plays and one musical, all in development. The curtain rises on May 4.

Comedy and rock ’n’ roll are on tap at Bay Street Theater this weekend, with Joseph Vecsey's All Star Comedy and Tusk, a Fleetwood Mac tribute band.

“Flattened Space,” a discussion centered on architectural photography, will take place at the Parrish Art Museum at 6 p.m.

Klyph Black and John Sparrow, an acoustic duo, will perform at the Masonic Temple in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 8 p.m.

The Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett will host Rock the Retreat, a benefit featuring Booga Sugar for the nonprofit agency, Thursday at 7.

The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival will celebrate Earth Day with a double feature on Sunday.

Jeff Muh's sculpture "Callipyge" took home Top Honors and the chance to have his own solo show at Guild Hall during the 80th annual Artist Members Exhibition on Saturday.

The Neo-Political Cowgirls will hold auditions for “Baubo,” a new production that will have its premiere in Montauk this summer, on April 29 between noon and 2:30 in East Hampton.

The Drawing Room gallery in East Hampton is celebrating the vernal equinox with a show of works loosely or directly related to the season.

Earth Day at Ashawagh; 'Virtuosity' at Grenning, a new art class at Bridge Gardens

Peter Hujar’s current moment in the city has a direct tie to Dianne Benson, an East Hampton resident whose groundbreaking store, Dianne B., set fashion trends in Manhattan during the ’70s and ’80s.

“Human Flow,” a powerful visual expression of the forced migration of more than 65 million people, will be shown at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill Friday at 6 p.m.

A classical recital featuring Allison Bourquin O’Reilly on flute and Daniel Koontz on piano will take place on Sunday afternoon at 2 at Christ Episcopal Church in Sag Harbor.

The annual Guild Hall Artist Members exhibition will celebrate its 80th anniversary when it opens on Saturday with a reception for members from 5 to 7 p.m.

Why would a highly successful composer who hadn’t written any music in over 30 years decide to write a piece in a genre he had never before attempted? The audience at Sunday’s performance by the Choral Society of the Hamptons was left with both a mystery to ponder and music to savor.

The handbell choirs from the Bridgehampton and Southampton Presbyterian Churches and the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor will combine for the annual Spring Ring, a food pantry benefit concert on Saturday at 5 p.m. at the Southampton church.

Claire Watson at Ille; "Double Play" at Halsey McKay; Cameron Welch at Rental, and more

Mary Nimmo Moran's life and career will be the subject of a talk at Clinton Academy on April 21, tied to the opening of the newly restored Moran Studio this summer.

The Met: Live in HD will present a simulcast of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Luisa Miller” on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at Guild Hall with Placido Domingo as Miller, the title character's father.

For its spring concert the Choral Society of the Hamptons will perform Gioachino Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle” on Sunday at 5 p.m. at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.

The Martin Fabricius Group, featuring a Danish vibraphonist, is the latest guest of Claes Brondal and his Live From Southampton Arts Center series on Saturday at 7 p.m.

Guild Hall’s latest artists-in-residence moved into Guild House on Monday for a month-long stay, focused on using that building as a site for collaborative works and culminating in a presentation at the end of their stay.

Kiss the Sky: The Jimi Hendrix Re-Experience will take the stage at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 8 p.m.

This year's mentor for the Hamptons International Film Festival’s Screenwriters Lab open master class is James V. Hart, inventor of the Hart Chart, a story mapping tool.

Niccolo Ronchi will give a concert of works by Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, and Liszt on Saturday as part of the Cultural Center’s Rising Stars piano series.