Arts

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.

What a perfect home Robert Harms’s recent paintings have found at Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present a new All Star Comedy Show tomorrow and Nancy Atlas's Fireside Sessions concert on Saturday is sold out.

The Hampton Theatre Company, coming off one of its greatest successes with this fall’s production of “Clever Little Lies,” now takes on edgier and more challenging material with “Venus in Fur,” which opened last Thursday in Quogue.

Guild Hall’s JDT Lab will veer into seldom-charted territory with “Andrew and Andrew Make a Deal With the Devil: Southern Gothic Songs and Stories” on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

A documentary about Elizabeth Murray at the Parrish and exhibitions by Henry Glavin and David Kennedy Cutler at Halsey McKay

Cracked Actor, musicians who come together every so often to pay tribute to a departed rock legend, will take on Lou Reed and his work with the Velvet Underground on Saturday at the Stephen Talkhouse.

Of the approximately 60 exhibitors in this year’s Outsider Art Fair, which will open at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea next Thursday, two, Norman Brosterman and Mark Wilson, are from East Hampton.

An Oscar-winning epic, a teenage odyssey, and a series of power struggles will play out on screen during this year’s East Hampton Library Winter Film Festival, beginning Sunday.

It is not easy to warm up a typical white box gallery space, let alone make it cozy and fuzzy, but that is what the show “Woven” has done to the Rental Gallery in East Hampton.