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Rupert Boyd, an Australian classical guitarist, and Laura Metcalf, an American cellist, of Boyd Meets Girl A Focus on Dance and Music This Week at Guild Hall

Guild Hall has a lively week ahead, with performances by the internationally acclaimed Pilobolus Dance Theater, the Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress and vocalist Bebe Neuwirth, the classical musicians Boyd Meets Girl, and a talk by Misty Copeland, a principal dancer of the American Ballet Theater.

Jul 11, 2017
Murder and Mayhem in the '39 Steps'

Via Brooklyn will present "The 39 Steps," which spoofs Hitchcock’s murder mystery with a cast of four playing more than 50 characters, along with fast changes, shadow puppets, fog machines, projections, questionable accents, and moustaches.

Jul 11, 2017
All That Jazz

The Montauk Library will present “What’s All That Jazz About?” on Wednesday evening at 7:30.

Jul 6, 2017
Betty Buckley in Sag

Bay Street Theater will introduce the concert series “Music Mondays” on July 10 at 8 p.m. with a performance by the Tony Award-winner Betty Buckley, whose many credits include “Cats,” “Sunset Boulevard,” and the Bay Street production of “Grey Gardens.”

Jul 6, 2017
While installing her paintings at Ille Arts in Amagansett, Deborah Buck took a break in the gallery’s sunlit garden. Deborah Buck: Like Nature on Steroids

Strange, almost surreal forms are central to Deborah Buck's paintings, so they aren’t resolutely abstract. But, with a few exceptions, they are not figurative either--except perhaps in her head, where magic is the norm.

Jul 6, 2017
Design and Antiques

The Bridgehampton Antiques and Modern Design Show will take place at the Bridgehampton Community House through Sunday.

Jul 6, 2017
“Big Sonia” is a documentary about Sonia Warshawski, a 4-foot-8 Holocaust survivor who is one of the few willing to speak publicly about her wartime experiences. From Delis to Wagner In Jewish Film Fest

The third annual Southampton Jewish Film Festival offers an opportunity to explore a wide span of Jewish history and culture, with films ranging from a documentary about American delicatessens to a narrative feature that eerily foreshadows the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris.

Jul 6, 2017
Mamalee at Parrish

As part of its “Music on the Terrace” series, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will host Mamalee Rose and Friends, a popular East End band that has mixed blues, gospel, and lively vocals for more than 20 years.

Jul 6, 2017
Media Under Siege

The Hamptons International Film Festival’s SummerDocs series will kick off its 2017 season with “Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press” on Saturday at 7 p.m. at Guild Hall in East Hampton. Alec Baldwin will host the screening.

Jul 6, 2017
Julie Motyka and Kelly McCreary in "Intimate Apparel" Nottage's Play Before The Pulitzer: ‘Intimate Apparel’ at Bay Street

“Intimate Apparel,” an early play by Lynn Nottage at Bay Street Theater, takes audiences back in time to 1905 New York, where Esther Mills, an African-American seamstress, has a successful business.

Jul 6, 2017
Georg Baselitz’s “Still Life #2” and a glazed ceramic low table by Hun Chung Lee, above, are some of the many treasures of contemporary art and design at Jeff Lincoln Art and Design in Southampton. Southampton Show Celebrates The ‘Organic Impulse’ in Art And Design

In an old Southampton power station, Jeff Lincoln's “The Organic Impulse in Contemporary Art and Design” celebrates how artists and designers look to nature and organic shapes and motifs to inform their work.

Jul 6, 2017
"String" by Christopher Engel is part of a show at Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor. The Art Scene: 07.06.17

Paintings and works on paper by the East Hampton artist Susan Vecsey are on view at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor though Sept. 4. The White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton will present “Out of Bounds,” a group exhibition, from Monday through July 31, with a reception set for July 15 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Jul 6, 2017
The Southampton Arts Center and several other venues have a full calendar of outdoor screenings this summer. Films Alfresco: Warm Summer Nights and Classic Celluloid

Outdoor film screenings will take place this summer from Montauk to Southampton and beyond.

Jun 29, 2017
Folk and Roots Music

In connection with its exhibition of American landscape paintings by Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver, and Casey Chalem Anderson, Ille Arts in Amagansett will present a performance of folk and roots music by the Fairlane Family on Saturday night from 7 to 10.

Jun 29, 2017
Grooving in the Park and at the Beach in Southampton

The Southampton Cultural Center will kick off its annual Concerts in the Park series with a performance by Nancy Atlas on Monday at 6:30 p.m. at Agawam Park.

Jun 29, 2017
Jazz Returns to Parrish

Jazz on the Terrace, an annual summer series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, will open this year with “The Music of Burt Bacharach and Michael Jackson,” a performance by The Iris Ornig Group, tomorrow at 6 p.m.

Jun 29, 2017
Jonathan Baker and Jenny Ljungberg got ready for a bicycle ride with Maddie, their daughter, outside the Maidstone Hotel in East Hampton, which they own. Jonathan Baker: Making a Film Against All Odds

“Inconceivable,” Jonathan Baker's first feature film as director, which stars Nicholas Cage, Gina Gershon, and Faye Dunaway, will be released nationally tomorrow. The culmination of his career so far, it did not come to fruition easily.

Jun 29, 2017
Plays Made Into Films in Amagansett

The Amagansett Library will present “Stage to Film,” a series of six movies adapted from plays, starting Wednesday at 7 p.m. with “Fences,” the Oscar-nominated film adapted by August Wilson from his own play.

Jun 29, 2017
Surf Films Catch a Wave to Southampton Arts Center

What better way to welcome summer in the Hamptons than with “Surf Movie Night,” a free program of short, noncommercial surf movies that will be shown under the stars at the Southampton Arts Center tomorrow at 8:30.

Jun 29, 2017
Terry Wallace greeted visitors at the opening reception on Friday for “Caught on Canvas: Views of Eastern Long Island Landscapes From the Wallace Collection, 1850-1935,” a show of a portion of his holdings through July 23 at the Clinton Academy. The Art Scene: 06.29.17

“American Masters” is opening Saturday at Mark Borghi in Bridgehampton with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. It will be on view through mid-August. Grain Surfboards Gallery in Amagansett will present “Salty Drawers,” drawings, paintings, and scrimshaw by Paton Miller and Peter Spacek, two inveterate surfers, from Saturday through July 16. A reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. and an artist chat will happen on July 8 at 7 p.m.

Jun 29, 2017
Mona Golabek will offer an evening of music and storytelling about her mother, a concert pianist who barely made it out of Nazi Germany, at Guild Hall on Sunday. Theater in Film and Music at Guild Hall

Two dramatic presentations and two evenings of lively music kick off at Guild Hall tonight at 8.

Jun 29, 2017
Elaine and Willem de Kooning looked like newlyweds in this intimate photo taken by Tony Vaccaro in 1953. Vaccaro's 1953 Visit to Springs at Pollock-Krasner

Several of Tony Vaccaro's photographs from a visit to Springs in 1953 had been lost for decades, but they recently resurfaced and are being shown at the Pollock-Krasner House.

Jun 29, 2017
Edward Albee and Jack Lenor Larsen at LongHouse A Portrait of Jack Larsen and the World He Made

Guild Hall will hold a premiere screening of “Larsenworld: LongHouse in East Hampton” tomorrow night at 8. The 23-minute film chronicles the many facets of the career and dreams of Jack Lenor Larsen, the noted textile designer and collector who established the LongHouse Foundation, now LongHouse Reserve, in 1991.

Jun 22, 2017
Cracked Actor Returns to Amagansett

Cracked Actor, a band that has performed the music of David Bowie since the shape-shifting musician’s death in January 2016, will reassemble on Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett. The group, which has featured musicians from various South Fork bands as well as the film composer Carter Burwell, plans to perform Bowie’s 1970 album “The Man Who Sold the World” in its entirety, along with several of his best-known songs.

Jun 22, 2017
The exterior of the old Amagansett Applied Arts building, which will host the Upstairs Art Fair in July Goodbye, Big Art Fairs, Hello, Cool New Venue

Taking place from July 14 to 16, the Upstairs Art Fair will have a salon feeling and include galleries from here or downtown New York City.

Jun 22, 2017
Jazz Alfresco: Kora on the Steps in Southampton

Jazz on the Steps will return to the Southampton Arts Center on Sunday at noon with a performance by Yacouba Sissoko, one of the world’s foremost players of the kora, a 21-string lute-bridge-harp used extensively in West Africa.

Jun 22, 2017
Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld Not Guilty, and Released Thanks to Them

On Sunday afternoon at 3, Guild Hall will host a panel discussion featuring Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, the founders of the Innocence Project, and several of the people who have been found not guilty and freed.

Jun 22, 2017
Open Call for ‘Kate’

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will hold auditions for an August production of “Kiss Me Kate” on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the theater. The director, Will Pomerantz, and the associate producer, John Sullivan, are looking for male and female actors of all ethnic and racial backgrounds for 10 roles.

Jun 22, 2017
Two of last summer’s Pianofest students performed a duet at Stony Brook Southampton’s Avram Theater. Pianofest: An Injured Hand Spawns a Mighty Oak

Thirty years ago, Paul Schenly, an acclaimed classical pianist, injured a hand. From that acorn, the oak of Pianofest of the Hamptons grew. While Mr. Schenly was undergoing physical therapy in New York City, a friend suggested he escape its steamy summers and continue his recovery in the Hamptons.

Jun 22, 2017
Hulk Hogan was the plaintiff in litigation that brought down the media gossip site Gawker last year. The trial is featured in “Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press.” Sating the Appetite: SummerDocs, Part 9

The Hamptons International Film Festival will continue its celebration of its 25th year with an expanded SummerDocs program this season, featuring five titles that will be presented in East Hampton, Montauk, and Southampton.

Jun 22, 2017