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Randy Brecker, a trumpeter who lives in East Hampton, will celebrate his 70th birthday on Nov. 27 with a gig at B.B. King Blues Club and Grill in Manhattan. Randy Brecker's Blood, Sweat, and Trumpet

The 2015 release “RandyPOP!” is a live recording that is both a summation of a half-century-and-counting professional career and a birthday present to the artist who was an integral component to the selections within. Arrangements of songs by James Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Donald Fagen, Todd Rundgren, and others, delivered by a first-rate ensemble, exemplify the jazz-rock fusion that developed in the fertile musical ground of the late 1960s and ’70s.

Nov 12, 2015
Rising Stars

The Rising Stars Piano Series will present Hunter Noack, a classical pianist, on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Southampton Cultural Center. A Pianofest alumnus, he will present his themed program “Boyhood,” which includes works by Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Janacek, and John Cage.

Nov 12, 2015
Greg Gropper Springs Youth on Midtown Stage

The 16th annual Midtown International Theater Festival, which runs through Nov. 22 at the Workshop Theater’s Jewel Box Theater in Manhattan, features dramatic, comedic, and musical performances in a celebration of the finest off-off-Broadway talent. On Sunday, a young man with roots on the South Fork will be part of the offerings.

Nov 12, 2015
The Art Scene 11.12.15

Anne Seelbach will teach private watercolor classes at the Victor and Mabel D’Amico house in Lazy Point, Amagansett, starting Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to noon. The Sara Nightingale Gallery in Water Mill will open concurrent solo exhibitions of work by Cara Enteles and Stephanie Brody-Lederman with a reception on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Nov 12, 2015
Aino Ihanainen performed in the woods outside the Watermill Center while Alexander Weibel played a haunting violin. Watermill Center Presented The Circus You Didn't Grow up With

The circus came to the Watermill Center on Saturday. There were acrobatics, juggling, and feats of strength and balance, all of which left the audience awestruck. But because Sweden’s Cirkus Cirkor is a contemporary circus with roots in experimental dance, theater, film, music, and visual art, the group’s open rehearsal of a work in progress was a mesmerizing, haunting, and entertaining evening quite unlike the circus most of us grew up with.

Nov 12, 2015
Those looking for a crawl that’s easy on the liver can tour and listen to several organs in Bridgehampton this weekend. Bridgehampton Organ Crawl

Following on the interest generated by the pipe organ that was recently installed in Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Bridgehampton, there will be an Organ Crawl to four pipe organs in that hamlet on Saturday.

An organ crawl is something like a pub crawl, but in this case participants will hop from one pipe organ to another after spending a bit of time at each. It is also an opportunity to “crawl” through or at least look into the pipe rooms and inner workings of some organs.

Nov 5, 2015
Dance Workshop, Show

DanceFusion @ Southampton Cultural Center, a series of performances and interactive events, will present a workshop and performance with Jason Samuels Smith and Jazz Roots Dance Company on Saturday before his performance at the center.

Nov 5, 2015
Ethan Hawke, who is known as an actor, director, and writer, is also a musician and will play with G.E. Smith on Saturday. Ethan Hawke Joins G.E. Smith at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor

G.E. Smith, a guitar virtuoso and former musical director of “Saturday Night Live,” will conclude his “Portraits” series at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 8 p.m. with Ethan Hawke, who, in addition to acting, is, “a good musician,” according to Mr. Smith.

Nov 5, 2015
Rock and Jazz at The Southampton Cultural Center

Nancy Atlas, the Montauk rocker whose motto is “Live Large and Play Hard,” will perform with her band, the Nancy Atlas Project, tomorrow at 7 p.m. at the Southampton Cultural Center.

Nov 5, 2015
The Art Scene 11.05.15

On Saturday afternoon at 3, at Guild Hall, Christina Strassfield will interview Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas on the occasion of the publication by Abrams Books of “Strong-Cuevas Sculpture: Premonitions in Retrospect.” The Peter Marcelle Gallery in Southampton will show the work of Jim Gemake beginning Saturday, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.

Nov 5, 2015
Preston Truman Boyd and Terry Brockbank ‘Mice and Men’ for Kids and Adults

“Of Mice and Men” will be presented this month at the Bay Street Theater as part of its educational program called Literature Live, though adults need not fear that they will be seeing a school production.

Nov 5, 2015
Accolades for Jack Lenor Larsen

Jack Lenor Larsen, the internationally acclaimed textile designer, collector, and founder of LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton, has two more honors to add to his extensive resume.

Oct 29, 2015
Autumnal Cabaret

The Southampton Cultural Center will present “Songs of Spheres and Other Autumnal Wonders,” an evening of cabaret with Karen Oberlin, on Saturday at 7 p.m.

Oct 29, 2015
Walter Klauss Bach to Broadway and Beyond in Sag Harbor

The Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor will present a new concert series on Sunday, “Bach, Before and Beyond.” Michael Maliakel, a baritone, will sing music from Bach to Broadway, accompanied by Walter Klauss, the artistic director of the series.

Oct 29, 2015
Pat DeRosa Pat DeRosa Plays The Paramount

When The Star wrote about Pat DeRosa last year as he was approaching his 93rd birthday, the musician said that just one item remained on his bucket list: “to perform with Long Island’s most popular piano player, Billy Joel.”

Oct 29, 2015
Edward A. Brennan, Daren Kelly, and Amanda Griemsmann Shadows in the Drawing Room at the Hampton Theatre Company

Written by one of Great Britain’s foremost men of letters, J.B. Priestley, “An Inspector Calls” is the Hampton Theatre Company’s first production of its 31st season, and a good choice it is. Full of profundity and more twists than a Bimini knot, the play is a riveting revival of an all-time classic.

Oct 29, 2015
The Art Scene 10.29.15

The Drawing Room in East Hampton will present “Perspectives on Land, Sea, and Sky,” an exhibition of work by Robert Dash, Jane Freilicher, Fairfield Porter, and Jane Wilson, from tomorrow through Dec. 7. The Accabonac Protection Committee will present a show at Ashawagh Hall this weekend called “Images of Accabonac”. The show will celebrate the beauty of Accabonac Harbor and its Springs surroundings.

Oct 29, 2015
Voodoo and HooDoo

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will throw a Halloween costume ball featuring the HooDoo Loungers and some special friends on Saturday at 8 p.m. Voodoo will be in the air, according to the theater, and the dance floor will be jumping to the music of the nine-piece New Orleans party band.

Oct 29, 2015
‘Tannhauser’ Live

The Met: Live in HD will present Wagner’s “Tannhauser” in its first return to the Metropolitan Opera stage in more than a decade, on Saturday at noon at Guild Hall. The opera, which premiered in 1845 in Dresden, centers on the struggle between sacred and profane love, and redemption through love.

Oct 29, 2015
Benedict Cumberbatch's ‘Hamlet’ to Screen at Guild Hall on Saturday

Guild Hall will present an encore screening of the National Theatre Live production of “Hamlet” on Saturday at 7 p.m.

Oct 22, 2015
Susan Galardi, Edward A. Brennan, and Amanda Griemsmann in a scene from the Hampton Theatre Company pro- duction of “An Inspector Calls.” Hampton Theater Company Probes Universal Themes in ‘Inspector’

In a review of a recent BBC adaption of “An Inspector Calls,” The Guardian observed that if, in the play’s final speech, you replace the name of its deceased character Eva with the name of the 3-year old Syrian boy whose body washed up recently on a beach in Greece, the play’s universal themes become even more relevant to the world as we know it today.

Oct 22, 2015
Latin Classical Music Will Be Focus of Montauk Library Concert

Donald Alfano, a classical pianist, will present “Spanish and Latin American Composers,” a free concert, at the Montauk Library on Sunday at 3:30 p.m.

Oct 22, 2015
Stars Rise at The Southampton Cultural Center

Tomer Gewirtzman, a 2013-2014 Pianofest Distinguished Artist, will make his third appearance at the Southampton Cultural Center as part of its Rising Stars piano series on Saturday at 7 p.m.

Oct 22, 2015
An image of Calvin Klein taken during an opening for a Ross Bleckner show at Guild Hall in 1993 will be part of four exhibitions opening at Guild Hall this weekend. The Art Scene 10.22.15

Ashawagh Hall in Springs will feature the work of the employees of VJS Studio with a reception from 6 to 10 this Saturday. Mark Borghi Fine Art’s Manhattan will host a group exhibition to benefit Broadway Barks. Broadway Barks provides a safe haven and seeks homes for abandoned animals.

Oct 22, 2015
The Parrish's Salon Series Concludes With Classical Piano

The Parrish Art Museum’s Salon Series will conclude its fall program with a concert by Inna Faliks tomorrow at 6 p.m.

Oct 22, 2015
David Nugent, HIFF’s artistic director, looked on as Michele Mitchell gave an emotional thank-you on Monday. “The Uncondemned,” which she co-directed with Nick Louvel, won two awards at the festival. And the Hamptons Film Fest Winners Were . . .

For Anne Chaisson and David Nugent, the executive director and artistic director, respectively, of the Hamptons International Film Festival, this year’s program of more than 140 films seemed to have a common theme — they were thought-provoking and encouraged hard questions.

Oct 15, 2015
British Thriller

“An Inspector Calls,” J.B. Priestley’s classic British thriller, will kick off the Hampton Theatre Company’s 31st season next Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Quogue Community Hall. The show will run through Nov. 8.

Oct 15, 2015
Cuban Jazz

Funky Guajiro will perform Cuban jazz at the Montauk Library on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. in a tribute to Suzanne Koch Gosman, a co-founder of the library and a former member of its board who died in 2008.

Oct 15, 2015
The filmmakers Vibeke Bryld, Ilinea Calugareanu, David Shapiro, and Jon Fox Filmmakers Talk Character-Driven Docs

Four filmmakers whose works were in the Hamptons International Film Festival’s documentary competition gathered at Rowdy Hall in East Hampton on Saturday morning as part of the Winick Talks series. The directors are linked by their obsessions with specific individuals whose personalities and circumstances not only drove the filmmakers to make their films but also in large part determined how those films evolved.

Oct 15, 2015
Hall’s Busy Weekend

Guild Hall’s JDTLab will have a free staged reading of “Ashes and Ink,” a play by Martha Pichey, a writer and ed- itor, tomorrow at 8 p.m. The play focus- es on the complicated relationship be- tween Molly and her son, Quinn, who descends into addiction after the sudden death of his father. Topaz Adizes, an Emmy Award-winner, will direct.

Oct 15, 2015