Award-Winning Drama
"Duet for One," which won the London Theatre Critics Award for best play of 1980, will have a directed reading at the Montauk Library on Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. Written by Tom Kempinski, the play was inspired by the life of the cellist Jacqueline du Pre, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at age 28, at the height of her career.
Zoey O'Toole, a member of Actors Equity with many Off Off Broadway credits, will appear as Stephanie Anderson, a world-famous violinist who grapples with a recent diagnosis of M.S. Rick Forstmann, a director and cinematographer as well as an actor, will play her psychotherapist, who is struggling with his own issues.
The play opened on Broadway in 1981 with Anne Bancroft and Max von Sydow.
Landscape Awards
LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will hold its 2022 Landscape Awards Luncheon, which celebrates the finest designers, thinkers, and doers in the field of horticulture, on Saturday morning, starting at 9:30 with a light breakfast.
Honorees are Edwina von Gal, founder of the Perfect Earth Project; Ngoc Minh Ngo, the author and photographer of "Bringing Nature Home" and "In Bloom," and Holger Winenga, LongHouse's horticulturalist.
Garden lectures by Ms. von Gal and Ms. Ngoc will take place at 10, and the awards luncheon will follow at noon.
Tickets are $125, $75 for members.
PechaKucha Is Back
PechaKucha Night Hamptons, Vol. 37, will bring seven creative East End residents to the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill for an evening of rapid-fire presentations on Friday at 6 p.m.
The presenters include Melanie Crader, the museum's deputy director, Kelcey Edwards, a filmmaker, Amanda Fairbanks, a writer, and four visual artists, Edwina Lucas, Glen Hansen, Mickey Paraskevas, and Chris Kelly.
Tickets are $12, $9 for senior citizens, free for members and students.
Inspired by 'Blue Boy'
"Django Unchained" is Quentin Tarantino's 2012 revisionist Western starring Jamie Foxx as a Black slave freed by a German dentist-turned-bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz in an Oscar-winning turn), in exchange for helping him track down three outlaws.
The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs will screen the film, which earned Mr. Tarantino an Oscar for best original screenplay, Friday at 7 p.m. as part of its "Art Goes to the Movies" series. Thomas Gainsborough's painting "The Blue Boy" was the inspiration for the blue velvet suit worn by Mr. Foxx's character.
The Opioid Crisis
The Southampton Arts Center, in collaboration with Blossom Sustainable Development, will hold a free screening of "The Crime of the Century," Alex Gibney's 2021 documentary that explores the origins, extent, and repercussions of the mass abuse of synthetic opiates, on Saturday at 6 p.m.
Blossom Sustainable Development, located in the Shinnecock Territory, is a team of counselors committed to providing hope, wellness, and healing to the community. A panel discussion exploring the issue will precede the screening.
For the Cinema
The Sag Harbor Cinema will hold Cinema Soiree 2022, its biggest fund-raiser of the year, on Saturday from 6:30 to 10. The evening will feature cocktails, dinner, dancing, and an auction that will include four tickets to see Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden, a holiday in San Miguel de Allende, a custom chocolate artwork by Vik Muniz, and a celebrity golf outing at the Bridge Golf Club.
Tickets are $2,500.
OFVS Benefit
Our Fabulous Variety Show, the nonprofit performance and arts education organization, has announced its fall benefit, the Guardians Gala, which will happen at LTV Studios in Wainscott on Saturday evening from 6:30 to 9.
The event will include music, dancing, food and drink, raffles, auctions, and pop-up performances. An online silent auction offering a golf outing, including lunch for four people, at the Sebonack Golf Club in Southampton, is now open for bidding on the troupe's website.
Benefit tickets are $75, $40 for those under 40.
Americana Fusion
Cold Chocolate, an Americana band from Boston featuring Ethan Robbins on guitar and Ariel Bernstein on percussion, will perform at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton on Friday at 6:30 p.m. A fusion of folk, funk, and bluegrass, their sound is distinguished by tight harmonies and skillful musicianship, with a focus on songwriting.
