Arts

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.

The Hampton Theatre Company will present “The Boys Next Door,” Tom Griffin’s 1988 comedy about four men with mental disabilities who live in a group home, from next Thursday through April 8 at the Quogue Community Hall.

The Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center will screen “Do the Right Thing,” on Sunday at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor.

The Parrish Art Museum's building inspired Therese Lichtenstein to create "Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture," a new show opening this weekend at the museum.

‘I think you’re going to hear a lot of space in this record,” Inda Eaton, the roots-rock, Americana artist said last about her new album "Shelter in Place."

The annual LongHouse Reserve winter benefit will honor Axel Vervoordt on March 28 at Hearst Tower in Manhattan with dinner to follow.

A formidable and groundbreaking curator at the Museum of Modern Art spent much of his downtime in our backyard. His friends from here and the city remember him.

Terry Sullivan, who performed with Pete Seeger for 24 years, brings his social justice songbook to Canio's and the Eastville Community Historical Society this weekend.

Next Thursday, Sydney Albertini will take Japan with an exhibition of her fiber works at Julien David’s Jingumae Shop through May 31.

Margaux Ogden at Rental; Small Works at Folioeast; Straus at Grenning, and more

Ten years before winning the best director Oscar for “The French Connection,” William Friedkin, made "The People vs. Paul Crump."

Like a lion, the Hamptons International Film Festival is coming in strong this month with rock documentaries, a master class on “Romeo and Juliet” in film, and animated family fare.

The pianist Misuzu Tanaka will perform a free concert of classical works by Bach, Beethoven, Janacek, and Rachmaninoff at the Montauk Library on Sunday.

“Bach, Before and Beyond,” a music series directed by Walter Klauss, will present a concert at the Old Whalers Church on Sunday.

Christopher LaGuardia will deiliver Madoo's last winter lecture, “Our Waterways," on Sunday at noon in the conservancy's 1740 barn.

The Stowaways deliver improvisational comedy that is three parts extreme sporting event and two parts theater, a tribute to the mental and verbal agility of the group.

The Southampton Arts Center's Hip-La-Jaz Night will offer a mix of hip-hop, jazz, and Latin music on Saturday.

Sotheby's will open an exhibition of Gerson and Judith Leiber's collection of Chinese ceramics in advance of an auction on March 20.

Corinne Erni never planned to leave New York City until the Parrish Art Museum and the East End landscape beckoned.