Arts

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.

OLA of Eastern Long Island will present Pachanga 2018: Viva La Mujer! — an evening of live music and dancing celebrating OLA’s founders — Friday at 7 at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

James Casebere and new Saturday classes at the Parrish Art Museum; Folioeast to show “Sky, Sea, Land,” and Art Groove at Ashawagh Hall

In Process @ the Watermill Center will feature presentations by three current residents on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. A tour of the center begins at 1.

Although the cardboard she adopted as a primary medium a few years ago is still present in the Anita Rogers Gallery in SoHo, Virva Hinnemo’s focus has lately shifted back to paper and, ultimately, to canvas.

The fourth iteration of “East End Collected,” the annual Southampton Arts Center exhibition organized by the artist Paton Miller, is a testament to the breadth and vitality of the East End art community. The 30 artists included in this year’s show, which will open on Saturday with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m., bring to almost 200 the number of those who have participated in the exhibitions.

This week, Guild Hall has The Met: Live in HD's simulcast of Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte” and auditions for a new play "The Summit" to be presented in August.

Title Wave at Bay Street: The Fifth Annual New Works Festival will take place at the Sag Harbor theater from May 4 through May 6. It will include four new plays and musicals in development.

“The 7th Circle” at the Southampton Cultural Center; Seven at Ashawagh; Wednesday Group at Amagansett Library

As part of the celebration of its 25th anniversary, the Watermill Center is holding a pre-summer party at Spring Place in TriBeCa next Thursday from 7 p.m. until 1 a.m.

In a time when tolerance, compassion, and human dignity seem in short supply, theatergoers can enjoy a major dose of all three at the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue, where Tom Griffin’s “The Boys Next Door” is running now through April 8.

Directed by Josh Gladstone, the theater’s artistic director, Guild Hall's "Romeo and Juliet" revival stays true to the original text while the staging turns the world’s greatest love story into a big, participatory party that is fun for younger audiences.

The Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue is holding an open audition for the role of George in its spring production of Marc Camoletti’s bedroom farce “Don’t Dress for Dinner.”

For more than 80 years, the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church’s organ has added its voice to innumerable services, weddings, funerals, and concerts. But recently it has started to show its age.

The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival will present two programs on Monday as part of its ongoing FilmArts + Forums series.

This year, there is a new harbinger of spring on the South Fork, the Hamptons Arts Weekend Festival, a full weekend of events sponsored by the newly formed Hamptons Arts Network.

“Spring Forward,,” a group show at Drawing Room; "No Longer Supported" at Nightingale; three at Ashawagh, and "Premium Blend" at White Room

Some art exhibitions are smart and some are more aesthetically inviting, featuring objects that draw one in from across a room. “A Radical Voice: 23 Women” is both.

"All docs all year" is the new mantra for The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival, joining the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center, the Hamptons International Film Festival, the Southampton Arts Center, Guild Hall, the Parrish Art Museum, and area libraries, in showcasing film.