'Streetcar' on Bay Street
As a prelude to its Literature Live! production of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "A Streetcar Named Desire," Bay Street Theater will host a screening of Elia Kazan's 1951 film of the play on Saturday at 7 p.m.
Williams collaborated with Kazan and Oscar Saul on the adaptation of his play, which was also directed by Kazan. The film, which stars Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, and Kim Hunter, earned 12 Academy Award nominations, winning supporting actor awards for Malden and Hunter, and best adapted screenplay honors for Williams.
After the screening, Stephen Hamilton, who will direct the Literature Live! production when it opens to the public on Nov. 14, will discuss the play and film with Allen O'Reilly, Bay Street's director of education and community outreach.
Tickets are $10.
Jazz Concert
Arta Jekabsone, who was in residence at The Church in Sag Harbor in May, will return there next Thursday at 6 p.m. for the premiere of an original work she composed during her residency. The jazz singer-songwriter will be accompanied by Krists Sarzants, a crossover pianist-composer, for "Songs From the Sag Harbor Diaries."
Ms. Jekabsone has won the Montreux Shure Jazz Voice Competition, and in 2021 she took third prize at the Annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Voice Competition. Based in New York, her compositions are infused with the folk melodies of her homeland, Latvia.
Mr. Sarzants, who is also from Latvia, has performed there and in Estonia, Denmark, the United States, and other countries.
Tickets are $20, $15 for members.
Dead Tunes and Jazz
Halloween is a special holiday at the Masonic Temple in Sag Harbor. In addition to ghosts and "creepy decorations," Friday evening at 8 the temple will host the Roses Grove Band, which takes its inspiration from the rock and blues of the Grateful Dead. Tickets are $30.
Jazz Night at the temple, a presentation of the Jam Session, will feature Latin Jazz with Michael Cruse, trumpet; Bill O'Connell, piano; Essiet Okon Essiet, bass, and Claes Brondal, drums.
When doors open at 6:30, guests can buy South Indian vegetarian food from Tapovana Lunch Box to enjoy during the program. The cost of a box is $20; plastic utensils will be available.
Concert tickets are $20.
Winter Gardens
"November in the Garden" is the subject of the next Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons round-table discussion, which is set for Saturday from 10 to noon at the Bridgehampton Community House.
The event gives participants an opportunity to share ideas about the pros and cons of various approaches to preparing gardens for the winter months. Among the issues to be considered are what to bring inside, how to put fallen leaves to work in the garden, composting, fertilizing and mulching, pruning, and many others.
The event is free for nonmembers.
Silent Disco
The Southampton Arts Center will celebrate Halloween with a silent disco tomorrow at 7 p.m. Revelers will be provided with three-channel LED-style headphones that change color depending on which station has been selected.
Costumes have been encouraged, and prizes will be given for the winning outfits. According to the center, games, scary cocktails and "horror d'oeuvres" will be on offer.
Tickets are $15 for members, $20 for nonmembers, and $5 for those 12 and under.
