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Long John Silver, with parrot, and his fellow pirates discover something astonishing in the National Theatre’s new production of “Treasure Island,” which will be simulcast at Guild Hall on Saturday. ‘Treasure Isle’ to ‘Out at Sea’ at Guild Hall This Week

It may be the dead of a brutal winter, but the coming week will be a busy one at Guild Hall. A National Theatre Live screening of “Treasure Island,” suitable for ages 10 and up, will happen on Saturday at 8 p.m.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure story of murder, money, and mutiny has been brought to life in a new stage adaptation by Bryony Lavery, a British dramatist, broadcast live from the National Theatre in London. The Observer characterized the production as “astonishing. A remarkable take on Stevenson’s classic.” Tickets are $18, $16 for members.

Mar 5, 2015
Back to 1923

“Our Hospitality,” a 1923 film starring Buster Keaton, will be screened at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church on Saturday at 7 p.m., with live accompaniment by Bernie Anderson on the church’s organ. The program has been rescheduled from an earlier date.

Feb 26, 2015
Theatrical Treasure Hunt

ZIMA! — a whimsical, theatrical treasure hunt performed by Kate Mueth and the Neo-Political Cowgirls in partnership with the Montauk Playhouse Community Center Foundation — will take place Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m. in Montauk.

Feb 26, 2015
Will Stoecker, an East Hampton High School junior, founded the East Hampton Film Society, a film series that he will host at Guild Hall. Youthful Eye on Classic Films

On Saturday, Will Stoecker, an East Hampton High School junior who plays center on the varsity basketball team, was fresh off a loss the night before in the county Class A semifinals but already looking forward to one of his next endeavors — a film series that the East Hampton Film Society, which he founded, is hosting at Guild Hall this month and next.

Feb 26, 2015
When Peter Ngo is not at the John Varvatos store on Newtown Lane, he might be jetting off to Los Angeles, Detroit, or Milan for a company event. His paintings mix moody landscapes and seascapes with surrealist imagery, as seen below. Ngo on the Go: Art, Fashion, Lifestyle

Peter Ngo knew from an early age that he wanted to be involved with fashion and art. Through a singular focus and hard work, that is where he is making his mark: at John Varvatos in East Hampton and at the various galleries and art spaces that have shown his photography and paintings.

Feb 24, 2015
“Freeflow,” a painting by Marietta Gavaris, will be included in her solo exhibition at Ashawagh Hall in Springs this weekend. The Art Scene: 02.26.15

Ralph Gibson on Film

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will screen “Ralph Gibson: Photographer/Book Artist,” a Checkerboard Film Foundation production, tomorrow at 6 p.m.

Known for his distinctive graphic style, Mr. Gibson, who was born in Los Angeles in 1939, studied photography in the Navy and at the San Francisco Art Institute before working as an assistant for Dorothea Lange, the noted Farm Security Administration photographer, and Robert Frank, a photographer and filmmaker best known for his 1958 book, “The Americans.”

Feb 24, 2015
Sarah (Sophie Vanier) taunts her husband, Walt (Joe Brondo), with the book whose provenance will put their marriage to the test. Theft, Lies, and Marital Conflict

No curtain separates audience from stage in “Bluebirds,” a new play by Joe Brondo that opened last weekend at Guild Hall and will run through Sunday. The audience enters the theater to the sound of music and a brightly lit set of well-worn living room furniture placed downstage. A digital clock says it’s 12:01. After a few minutes, a man bursts through the door and runs full speed off stage left. He is followed by a woman, who turns off the theater lights with a switch on the living room wall and cuts the music with a remote aimed at the audience. A toilet flushes offstage.

Feb 24, 2015
‘Art of Steampunk’

Art Donovan, an artist and designer from Southampton, will discuss his book, “The Art of Steampunk,” now in its second edition, on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the East Hampton Library.

The aesthetic of Steampunk, which first found expression in science fiction and fantasy literature, draws from the technology of the Victorian era. Steampunk artists use gears, goggles, gauges, brass tubing, leather, watch parts, and, in some cases, steam power to create mechanical objects ranging from jewelry to lamps to motorcycles that are fanciful but often functional.

Feb 24, 2015
African-American Read-In

For the seventh consecutive year, Canio’s Cultural Cafe and the John Jermain Memorial Library will co-host the African-American Read-In, sponsored by the Black Caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English, on Saturday at 5 p.m. at Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor.

Members of the public have been invited to read short excerpts from a favorite piece of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, oral history, or family history, though it is not necessary to read in order to attend. Light refreshments will be served.

Feb 17, 2015
Coming to Guild Hall

The John Drew Theater Lab will present a free staged reading of Roger Rueff’s 1992 play, “Hospitality Suite,” on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

Set in a small hotel room in Wichita during a business convention, the story focuses on two salesmen and a research scientist for a firm that manufactures industrial lubricants. While waiting for a meeting with a C.E.O. they hope will save their company, they air their conflicting ideas about character, salesmanship, honesty, religion, and love, with less than harmonious results.

Feb 17, 2015
Mardi Gras Party

For those unable to make it to the Big Easy this weekend, Gene Casey and the Lone Sharks and the HooDoo Loungers will headline a Mardi Gras party at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 8 p.m.

Since Mr. Casey formed the Lone Sharks after moving to the East End in 1988, the band’s roots-drenched rock has been a staple of the local music scene and beyond. The band did 150 shows last year, mostly on Long Island but also in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York City.

Feb 17, 2015
Romantic Music

The more classically inclined might opt for “La Clarinette Francaise: An Evening in Paris,” a free concert of romantic works by Franck, Devienne, Messager, Poulenc, and Ravel, on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Montauk Library.

Feb 17, 2015
The intersection of Main Street and Job’s Lane in Southampton, circa 1920 Southampton Is 375 Years Old

Southampton Town is celebrating its 375th birthday with a yearlong series of lectures, exhibitions, walking tours, parties, and dinners at locations throughout the town, beginning today at 3 p.m. with a screening of “The Manors of Long Island” at the Rogers Memorial Library. Next Thursday at 3 p.m., also at the library, Georgette Grier-Key, director and curator of the Eastville Community Historical Society, will discuss the influence of African-Americans locally and in the larger society.

Feb 17, 2015
Stagestruck

Amateur theatrics on the East End will be the subject of the East Hampton Historical Society’s second free winter lecture at the Clinton Academy Museum on Friday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. Hugh King, the village historian, and Barbara Borsack, the village’s deputy mayor, will present “Stagestruck: We’ve Got a Barn, Let’s Put on a Show.”

Feb 17, 2015
The Art Scene: 02.19.15

Searching for Janeway

Carol Janeway (1913-1989), a ceramicist whose work was widely exhibited and purchased by major museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper-Hewitt, is the subject of a monograph by Victoria Jenssen, a writer from Nova Scotia.

Feb 17, 2015
Watermill Workshop

“A Tale to Tell,” a workshop with Helene Patarot, a French actress in residence at the Watermill Center through March 7, will take place Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Students will combine acting, writing, and directing as they develop stories using elements from their own lives, such as family photographs, diaries and letters, clothes, and other items with personal meaning.

Feb 17, 2015
Gosta and Pat Peterson enjoyed a moment at the opening of his exhibition at the Turn Gallery in New York. Celebrating Gosta Peterson

“From the Archive,” an exhibition of photographs by Gosta Peterson, a renowned fashion photographer, is on view at the Turn Gallery in Manhattan through March 22. The show includes groundbreaking black-and-white photographs from 1960 through 1980, among them his New York Times photographs of Twiggy, the iconic English model, and his “Fashion of the Times” cover photo of Naomi Sims, the first African-American to appear on the cover of an American magazine.

Feb 10, 2015
One Billion Rising

The local action of the 2015 campaign of One Billion Rising, a mass demonstration launched three years ago to end violence against women, will take place tomorrow from 5 to 7 p.m. at Dodds and Eder Home in Sag Harbor.

Kate Mueth and the Neo-Political Cowgirls, an East End company of women dedicated to creating dance theater that explores the female voice, has organized the event, which will include a flash mob dance, poetic readings, and performances by Skylar Day, Lynn Blue, the East Hampton High School Key Club, and Escola de Samba BOOM.

Feb 10, 2015
Steve Miller, seen in his Sagaponack studio, is part of a team that is building a mobile phone app to make gallery-going in New York City easier. Putting Galleries in the Palm of Your Hand

It wasn’t all that long ago that the art world cognoscenti and mere tourists would walk the streets of SoHo, then Chelsea, and even more recently the Lower East Side, with “Gallery Guide” booklets clutched to their chests. Now, it’s more likely that they are looking at their phones, parsing the disparate information and endorsements available online for their favorite galleries and artists.

Feb 10, 2015
Snow Orchid’ in N.Y.C.

“Snow Orchid,” a play by Joe Pintauro, is enjoying a limited engagement at the Lion Theater in Manhattan through Feb. 28. A photographer and novelist as well as an acclaimed playwright, Mr. Pintauro lives in Sag Harbor.

Set in Brooklyn in 1964, the play stars Robert Cuccioli as Rocco Lazarra, who is returning home after having suffered a nervous breakdown. His wife, Filumena (Angelina Fiordellisi), refuses to leave their house and longs for her native Sicily.

Feb 10, 2015
On Saturday, Bogdan Renczyński, a protege of Tadeusz Kantor, will lead a workshop at the Watermill Center dedicated to the Polish visual artist and theater director, who died in 1990.. The Art Scene: 02.12.15

Pioneer at Watermill Center

The Watermill Center will present a special workshop introducing the work of Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990), a revolutionary Polish visual artist and theater director, on Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. An artistic pioneer and chief influence on Robert Wilson, Kantor gained international acclaim for defying theatrical convention in the 1960s and ’70s.

Feb 10, 2015
Joe Brondo and Sophie Vanier play a married couple whose relationship is tested in “Bluebirds.” ‘Bluebirds’ to Premiere at Guild Hall

Joe Brondo, author and co-star of “Bluebirds,” which will open a six-performance engagement at Guild Hall on Friday, Feb. 20, did not grow up dreaming of a life in the theater. An East Hampton native, he was obsessed with computers while in high school. “That was all I did, I was always hunched over my desk,” he recalled. “I was kind of a class clown, but on the weirder end of the spectrum. I wasn’t the super-popular goofball.”

Feb 10, 2015
Beatles vs. Stones

The rafters will start shaking at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 8 p.m. when local bands will duke it out with rotating sets of music by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

Organized by Joe Lauro, filmmaker, musician, and archivist, the performers will include the HooDoo Loungers, Black and Sparrow, Randall Hudson, Mama Lee and Rose, Joe Delia, Inda Eaton, and Sarah Conway, with other musicians expected to show up. Two bands will be onstage at all times, rotating sets of the best dance music by the Beatles and the Stones.

Feb 3, 2015
Drawing at SoFo

Christine Morro, a writer, photographer, and printmaker, will teach “Drawing With Natural Materials,” a class for adults and children age 8 and older, on Feb. 14 at 11 a.m. at the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton.

The class, which is for both beginning and experienced artists, will examine the direct nature of drawing, approaching it through an exploration of mark-making, using local grasses, stems, and branches as well as traditional brushes.

There is a $15 materials fee, and the class is limited to 10 participants.

 

Feb 3, 2015
The John Drew Theater Lab will present a free staged reading of “Honor Killing,” a new play by Sarah Bierstock, on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Guild Hall’s Busy Week

The Hamptons International Film Festival and Guild Hall will present a screening of “The Searchers,” John Ford’s 1956 western, on Saturday at 7 p.m. Alec Baldwin and David Nugent, the festival’s director, will host the program.

Although it got mixed reviews upon its release and received no Oscar nominations, “The Searchers” is now considered by many, including the American Film Institute, among the 10 best American films of all time.

Feb 3, 2015
The Art Scene: 02.05.15

Living Pictures

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will present “The Fish Juggler,” a free program of tableaux vivants, living pictures, created by the East End Special Players, a group of learning-disabled actors, on Saturday from 2:30 to 3 p.m. Tableau vivant is a style of theater initially popularized in the court of King Louis XIV.

Feb 3, 2015
In one of the more characteristic Drawing Room installations within the salon setting, three pieces in the hallway are given some breathing room. They are a 19th-century drawing of a pear, an Adam Bartos photograph, and Donald Sultan’s “Dead Bird” drawing. A Beautiful Visual Feast

The Drawing Room and its partners, Emily Goldstein and Victoria Munroe, celebrate a decade in East Hampton with a surprisingly cohesive salon-style show in its always pleasant but somewhat small gallery space.

Jan 28, 2015
The campus of the Women’s Opportunity Center in Kayonza, Rwanda, includes classrooms, offices, and a working farm. Architecture for Communities

As cookie-cutter mansions spread across the East End, the Architectural Sessions, a series of panels and presentations organized by the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill and A.I.A. Peconic, continues to provide fascinating perspectives on architecture’s many possibilities. Friday’s program, “Pro Bono: Architects Who Serve Humanity,” focused on two unique projects, one in Rwanda, the other in Brooklyn, that are, in different ways, about creating something of value for their communities.

Jan 28, 2015
Joseph Vecsey will bring the laughs to Bay Street Theater with his “All Star Comedy Show” Saturday night. Comedy on a Cold Night

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor has kept South Fork residents both warm and entertained through the winter of 2015 with an active calendar of musical events that will continue through the coldest and quietest months. On Saturday at 8 p.m., the venue will vary the entertainment being offered with the fifth All Star Comedy Show, hosted by Joseph Vecsey.

Jan 28, 2015
Heart Songs

Guild Hall will show the Met: Live in HD’s simulcast of “Les Contes d’Hoffmann,” an opera by Jacques Offenbach, on Saturday at 1 p.m. First performed in 1881, four months after Offenbach’s death, the opera is based on three short stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann, who is the opera’s protagonist.

The prologue shows Hoffman and his fellow students in Luther’s Inn at Nuremberg. He is persuaded to tell of his three love encounters, which form the three succeeding acts. The opera ends as it began, with an epilogue set in the tavern.

Jan 28, 2015