Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre plans to take the puppetry to the people -- here and all over Long Island -- this fall as it develops and raises money for a new puppet truck and mobile stage. According to Liz Joyce, founder of the company, the truck's conception sprang from one question: "How can we bring puppets to people that don't get them?"

After Sunday's ceremony for the 2021 Teeny Awards, given by East End Arts to artistically talented high schoolers, two South Fork students walked out of the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center with awards for dramatic performances of note. 

From an outdoor concert to puppet shows, live reptiles, story times, and crafts, there's a lot for kids of all ages to do this week.

Robert Zecher, a real estate developer and the new owner of the building that is home to Mary's Marvelous in East Hampton Village, has a vision to transform that section of the village into an extension of the commercial core with more storefronts and apartments. 

These are unfinished, previously unpublished works of a prolific poet who was known for being “obscure,” but what they offer, thanks to Emily Skillings, the volume’s editor, is a far deeper understanding of John Ashbery’s process and what mattered to him as a writer.

The site plan for a 50-unit affordable housing complex the East Hampton Housing Authority will build off Three Mile Harbor Road received a positive initial review from the East Hampton Town Planning Board.

The South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center is flipping the script on the typical shark tournament this month. Instead of catching sharks, the idea is to collect discarded balloons from local waters to protect them and compete for prizes throughout July.

Five equestrians who have competed in the Hampton Classic's Grand Prix -- McLain Ward, Kent Farrington, Laura Kraut, Jessica Springsteen, and Lucy Deslauriers, as an alternate -- have been picked to represent the United States in the coming Tokyo Olympics' team show jumping competition.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will present a conversation on Sunday about “The Black Woman Project,” a collection of Gwen Smith’s portraits of renowned Black women.

Name a centuries-old monument here, or windmill, or house, and the odds are that Robert Hefner had a hand (often a hands-on hand) in helping to save it from destruction or reincarnating it, sometimes phoenix-like from its very ashes.

"Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks," is a meditation on the power and peril of the sea, with paintings crossing the boundaries of realism and hellscape.
 

Kate Mueth and the Neo-Political Cowgirls will perform "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged" starting Thursday at Herrick Park in downtown East Hampton.

“Beyond the Streets on Paper,” a show of some 500 works by 75 international artists, will open at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday with a free barbecue on the center’s West Lawn.     

The East Hampton Historical Society's Antiques and Design Show returns this weekend with its covetous preview cocktail party and a design symposium.

Guild Hall is celebrating its Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award-winners with a conversation between Laurie Anderson and Julian Schnabel and a night of wit and insights from the writer Tom Wolfe.     

Community Day at the Water Mill Center will feature a dance rehearsal, hand-drumming workshops, outdoor artwork, a scavenger hunt, and more.

Small-scale Warhols, a new venue in East Hampton, sculpture at Duck Creek, painting at Ashawagh, linoleum collages, and more

Morris Goldman and SafroJazz at the Parrish, Max Blagg reading at Duck Creek

Hamptons Jazz Fest on the move, Trouble at Wolffer, G.E. Smith at the Talkhouse, Sublime's punk-ska at the Clubhouse, and more

The New York State Senate Long Island Republican Delegation wants to recognize people who have bettered their communities during the difficulties of the Covid-19 pandemic.