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Classical Piano by a Figure-Skating Champion

The Southampton Cultural Center’s Rising Stars piano series will present a concert by the prize-winning Pianofest artist Vincent Ip on Saturday at 7 p.m.

May 25, 2017
Mambo Loco Gets the Party Started at Exhibition Closing

The closing party for the Southampton Art Center’s exhibition “East End Collected 3,” set for Saturday evening at 7, will feature the music of Mambo Loco.

May 25, 2017
Roots Music and Rock in Water Mill

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will present tomorrow at 6 p.m. a performance by Hopefully Forgiven, whose musical styles, ranging from bluegrass to rock, are familiar to East End music fans.

May 25, 2017
Brett Gray, left, and Ryan Fielding Garrett rehearsing for “The Man in the Ceiling.” Schwartz Helms His ‘Most Exciting Season Yet’ at Bay Street

Scott Schwartz speaks in superlatives — “greatest,” “magnificent,” “world-class,” “thrilling,” “unparalleled,” and that is just in one sentence. Well, not really, but it is tempting to go “over the top” after spending an hour with his infectious enthusiasm.

May 25, 2017
Philip Galanes, in his East Hampton residence, will moderate a panel that includes Candace Bushnell, Erica Jong, and Gail Sheehy on Sunday. Steven Gaines Takes on Fridays at Five in Bridgehampton

With a fresh outlook and a new lineup chock-full of luminaries, the Fridays at Five series of author talks at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton will have a new look and feel this year.

May 25, 2017
The Art Scene: 05.25.17

Art Space 98 in East Hampton will reopen tomorrow for the summer season with “In Between,” a show of paintings on glass by the East Hampton artist Gabriele T. Raacke. The exhibition will run through July 3, with a reception on Friday, June 2, from 5 to 7 p.m. The Drawing Room in East Hampton is showing alabaster sculpture by Aya Miyatake and selected prints by Vija Celmins from tomorrow through June 26.

May 25, 2017
Hubbard Latham Fordham’s “Crowning of Mercy,” called a “splendid example of high Victorian idealization,” was found in an attic closet at the Sag Harbor Historical Society. The woman who served as the model for the painting (left) was Emily Fairchild Fordham Keese. A Fordham Painting, Long Lost, Is Found Again in Sag Harbor

A Hubbard Latham Fordham painting, described in a newspaper article from 1869, was recently found in the attic of the Sag Harbor Historical Society.

May 18, 2017
Comic Sketches

The Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue will present “Alarms and Excursions,” Michael Frayn’s 1998 comedy, in a three-week run beginning next Thursday evening at 7.

May 18, 2017
Concert at Old Whalers

The Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor will present the season’s final concert in the Bach, Before and Beyond series on Sunday at 3 p.m.

May 18, 2017
The four actors in “Angry Young Man” portray the same character, Youssef, as well as all the other characters in the play. Kneeling, left to right: Christopher Daftsios, Max Samuels, and Rami Margron. Standing: Nazli Sarpkaya. Four Actors in Search Of a Character at Guild Hall

In Ben Woolf’s play “Angry Young Man,” which will have its American premiere Wednesday at Guild Hall, four actors, two women and two men, play the same character, Youssef, often within the same scene. Those four actors also take turns playing the other 11 characters, who range from an elderly woman with an Irish brogue to a towering thug named Bruno to a young refugee named Gjerg.

May 18, 2017
Baba Israel, a rapper, producer, and educator Hip-Hop Meets Jazz in Southampton

The next installment of the off-season series of concerts at the Southampton Arts Center promises to be one of its most musically adventurous.

May 18, 2017
Jazz and Latin Music

Gil Gutierrez, a guitar virtuoso on tour from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, will perform a program of jazz, Latin, and cinema music on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church. The concert, part of the Art of Song series, is presented in collaboration with OLA, the Organizacion Latino-Americana.

May 18, 2017
Live From London

National Theatre Live from London will present an encore screening of “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,” the Tony Award-winning play that made Tom Stoppard an overnight success, on Saturday evening at 7 at Guild Hall.

May 18, 2017
Montauk Music Fest

From Atlantic Terrace to Zum Schneider, there will be music all over “The End” today through Sunday as the Montauk Music Festival returns for its eighth edition. The four-day festival, a financial windfall for the hamlet’s many hotels, restaurants, and bars, brings more than 100 up-and-coming independent artists to venues across town.

May 18, 2017
Music of Tom Waits

Marissa Mulder, a cabaret singer from New York City, will showcase the music of the singer-songwriter Tom Waits on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Southampton Cultural Center’s Levitas Center for the Arts.

May 18, 2017
Aneta Panek Residents Reveal Their Process at Watermill Center

The Watermill Center will present works in progress by four recently arrived resident artists on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. as part of its ongoing “In Process” series. A tour of the building and grounds will take place Saturday from 1 to 2 and Wednesday from 2 to 4.

May 18, 2017
Few people know that Roy Lichtenstein designed a boat for one of the teams in the 1995 America’s Cup sailing competition. The spinnaker, on the boat above, was raised once before disappearing. The artist, below, nicknamed the mermaid he placed on the prow Dorothy. Roy Lichtenstein’s Mermaid Resurfaces in Film and Exhibition

The boat hull and spinnaker Roy Lichtenstein designed for the 1995 America's Cup races will be the subject of an exhibition opening at the Middlebury College Museum of Art on May 26.

May 18, 2017
The Art Scene: 05.18.17

“No Boundaries,” a group exhibition at RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton, will open on Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through June 20. “Water+Color+Works,” an exhibition of work by nine South Fork artists who share a fondness for the watercolor medium, will be on view at Ashawagh Hall in Springs tomorrow through Sunday. A reception will be held on Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

May 18, 2017
Nicholas King Will Play Classical Piano in Last of Salon Series

The Salon Series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will conclude its current season tomorrow at 6 p.m. with a concert by the pianist Nicholas King, who has performed in concert halls throughout the United States, Canada, Ireland, Spain, Hungary, Austria, France, and Poland.

May 16, 2017
Amateur East End Singers Find Their Spotlight in Southampton

Valerie diLorenzo, a singer and actor who has performed frequently in New York City, on the East End, and throughout the United States, will host the East End Singers Showcase at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday at 7 p.m.

May 11, 2017
Bay Street Theater Will Offer Comedy, Rock ’n’ Roll

Marion Grodin, a frequent headliner at New York City’s top comedy clubs, will host a new All Star Comedy Show at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor tomorrow at 8 p.m.

May 11, 2017
Classical Piano in Water Mill

The Salon Series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will continue tomorrow at 6 p.m. with a performance by Tanya Bannister.

May 11, 2017
Spektrum Ensemble, performing tomorrow at the Southampton Cultural Center, wants to take the stuffiness out of classical music, said Trudy Craney, third from left. Ensemble Promises Classical Music Without the Stuffiness

Those of us who missed out on the debut of Bach’s secular cantatas at the Cafe Zimmermann in Leipzig or Edith Piaf at Parisian cabarets can capture that essence at a concert in Southampton.

May 11, 2017
Folk Opera With Local Roots in the Manhattan

“Giovanni the Fearless,” a new commedia dell’arte folk opera about actors, young lovers, and ghosts, with music by Mira J. Spektor and book and lyrics by Carolyn Balducci, will have its premiere at the Theater for the New City in Manhattan with an eight-performance run beginning tomorrow at 8 p.m.

May 11, 2017
Elina Garanca as Octavian and Renee Fleming as the Marschallin in "Der Rosenkavalier" Guild Hall Visits Vienna and Detroit in This Week's Events

Victoria Bond will speak before a broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera's "Der Rosenkavalier" and the JDT Lab will present a reading of "Detroit" this week.

May 11, 2017
Mark Webber’s work in progress, seen here in his woodworking studio in Wainscott, is the largest of his signature “portals.” Mark Webber: Rectangles at His Roots

After a 30-year hiatus as a cabinetmaker, Mark Webber, a Sag Harbor resident, returned to sculpture.

May 11, 2017
Joanna Maurer and Annaliesa Place performing at an outdoor concert last year Music for Montauk’s Spring Fling Opens the Season

Milos Repicky, who, with his wife, Lilah Gosman, directs the Montauk Music Festival, promises “everything from the most intimate song to a Mozart symphony this season,” and, judging from the program of the festival’s Spring Prelude, he plans to make good on that promise. The prelude, a free concert on Saturday afternoon at 4 at the Montauk School auditorium, will launch the festival’s 2017 season.

May 11, 2017
New Choral Society Director

The Choral Society of the Hamptons has named a new administrative director, Elizabeth Zung, who has extensive experience recruiting and managing volunteer groups for fund-raising events for nonprofit organizations. She succeeds David Brandenburg, who has held the position for four years.

May 11, 2017
Rising Stars Piano Duo

The Rising Stars Piano Series at the Southampton Cultural Center, which features performances by participants and alumni of Pianofest of the Hamptons, will present a concert by the piano duo Arianna Korting and Robin Giesbrecht on Saturday evening at 7.

May 11, 2017
A quilt by Maxine Townsend-Broderick on view at the Eastville Community Historical Society through June 17. The Art Scene: 05.11.17

“On View,” a solo exhibition of work by Benjamin Keating, will be on view at the Tripoli Gallery in Southampton from tomorrow through June 11. A reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. The Eastville Community Historical Society of Sag Harbor is presenting “Maxine’s World,” a solo show of work by the artist Maxine Townsend-Broderick.

May 11, 2017