LongHouse in N.Y.C.
The Larsen Salon Series, presentations by designers, architects, and artists organized by LongHouse Reserve in honor of its founder, Jack Lenor Larsen, will bring Liz Collins, a textile designer, to 180 the Store on Duane Street in TriBeCa next Thursday at 6 p.m.
Ms. Collins, who has had installations at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Tang Museum in New York, works across art and design with a broad range of textile techniques and materials to make paintings, drawings, and fiberworks that vary in scale and form.
Tickets for the reception and presentation are $75. With a post-lecture dinner at the nearby home of a LongHouse trustee, the cost is $200. Advance purchase is required.
A Martian Invasion
Perhaps even more famous, or infamous, than H.G. Wells's science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds," is the 1938 radio broadcast by Orson Welles describing a Martian invasion of New Jersey, which caused nationwide hysteria.
Joe Landry's "War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast, a Live Radio Play" will touch down at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2.
Directed by Michael Disher, the radio play takes us through the day leading up to the Halloween broadcast and its unpredictable aftermath. Set in a 1930s radio studio, complete with period props and sound effects, the Center Stage production stars Richard Adler, Daniel Becker, Richard Browning, Susan Cincotta, Joey Giovingo, Vincenzo Harty, Jenifer Maxson, Matthew O’Connor, Franco Pistritto, and Michael Lyn Schepps.
Tickets are $20, $15 for arts center members.
Cowgirls Dreaming
The Neo-Political Cowgirls' production of "The Dreamer," a reimagining of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" that had a two-week Off Broadway run earlier this year, is coming to LTV Studios in Wainscott with public performances Wednesday, next Thursday, and Friday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m.
In addition, thanks to grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Arts Midwest, the play will be performed at local schools starting on Monday, and a workshop to deepen young people's experience of Shakespeare will be taught by members of the Cowgirls' company.
Tickets for the LTV shows are $32, $25 for those under 18. A V.I.P. table for four costs $300.
Long Island Modern
The second wave of post-war modernist architecture on the East End will be the subject of the third Long Island Modern lecture at LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton on Sunday at 3 p.m.
Moderated by Alastair Gordon, an architectural critic, writer, and historian, the program will focus on the innovative, neo-Corbusian works of Charles Gwathmey, Richard Meier, Barbara and Julian Neski, and others. The presentation will conclude with consideration of the work of Norman Jaffe, his untimely death in 1993, and the rise of a reactionary period of neo-traditional architecture.
Lee Skolnick will introduce the talk. Tickets are $40, $30 for members.
African Drumming
M'bemba Bangoura, a master drummer from Guinea, West Africa, will lead workshops in African drumming and African dance at the Masonic Temple in Sag Harbor on Sunday afternoon. In West Africa, the djembe drum is used to bring people together to communicate, celebrate, and motivate.
The drum class will take place from 1 to 3; the dance class from 3 to 5. Each class is $20; drum rental is $10.
Gershwin Recital
Alexander Wu, a composer, pianist, electronic producer, and improviser, will present "George Gershwin: An American Original" at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton on Sunday afternoon at 3.
An eclectic performer of classical and jazz piano music, Mr. Wu, the winner of a Berklee World Tour Scholarship and Performance Division Piano Award, has appeared at such venues as the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
His recital, for which reservations are required, will include "Rhapsody in Blue," "An American in Paris," and a piano medley arrangement of "Porgy and Bess."
