Arts

Bay Street Theater’s production of “The Crucible,” Arthur Miller’s still-timely drama, features nearly flawless performances and swiftly paced direction, in what The Star’s reviewer calls a “searing new production.”

A new film explores the “male gaze” and the objectification of women by recreating British colonial postcards with contemporary women of color as models.

Bay Street Theater will be one of the outlets sharing The Met: Live in HD's simulcast of “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” a 1986 opera having its premiere at the the Metropolitan Opera this season.

Mary Boochever decided early on that her art would be motivated by her interest in color, a preoccupation that has been informed by her deep research into such sources as theosophy, alchemy, Kabbalah, feng shui, and Chinese medicine, all of which view color as a dynamic principle.

Ned Smyth and John Torreano to talk at the Parrish, advanced printmaking workshop at The Church, glass art and oil paintings at Halsey McKay, solo shows for Billy Sullivan and Joyce Raimondo, group shows in Springs and Noyac.

HamptonsFilm accepting Screenwriters Lab applications, Guild Hall workshop on Indigenous culture, Black Film Fest focus on Haiti, Shinnecock History talk in Springs, music three ways in Sag, benefit at Southampton Cultural Center, Native plants lecture.

East Hampton had a presence at the Art Dealers Association of America's “Art Show” in Manhattan with a series of paintings by East Hampton’s Joel Mesler, and a selection of work by Black artists from East Hampton shown by Eric Firestone Gallery.

Sag Harbor Cinema’s Festival of Preservation will feature everything from an animated short that began as a collaboration between Salvador Dali and Walt Disney, to classics like Hitchcock’s “Spellbound,” Mervyn LeRoy’s “:Little Caesar,” a Vincent Price horror film, a Senegalese masterpiece, and more.

Joy Jan Jones and her quintet will perform a program of jazz standards at St. Luke's Church in East Hampton.

Rashid Johnson’s sculptural installation, a massive shelving unit holding books, ceramics, lights, plants, and much more, will connect the Whitney Museum’s new Frenchette Bakery with the museum’s lobby and the community outside.

Roy Lichtenstein’s centenary was marked the launch of the artists’s catalogue raisonne, a postage stamp, the declaration of Roy Lichtenstein Day in New York City, and the completion of the renovation of his former Manhattan studio into the home of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program.

The Reflections in Music series will bring "Sound & Spirit(s)," a concert conceived to bring solace during these trying times, to The Church in Sag Harbor.

Isao Yoshimura learned how to cook and prepare sushi with one of the first sushi masters to come to America and is now a private chef on the East End.

Photography workshop with Jeremy Dennis, Audrey Flack in person and on film, open studio at The Church, Charlotte Park in Chelsea, Sabina Streeter in Greenport, group shows at Willoughby and Keyes, art as a gift in Southampton, gallery talk at Guild Hall.

Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible,” which used the Salem witch trials as an allegory targeting McCarthyism, is next up in Bay Street Theater’s Literature Live! series with two and a half weeks of public performances and daytime shows for school groups.

“Shot in the Arm,” a new film by Scott Hamilton Kennedy, looks at the fear, uncertainly, and politicization surrounding vaccinations and takes dead aim at the unproven arguments of the anti-vaxxers.

Hamptons Doc Fest tickets on sale, Carl Safina plays jazz, Steve Taub talks television, and four comedians in a Southampton showcase in Bits.

Claire Watson took the top honors prize in Guild Hall’s Artist Members Exhibition, with honorable mentions going to Chris Siefert, Philippe Cheng, Michael Butler, Isla T. Hansen, and Mary Martha Lambert.

Richard Rutkowski, a former assistant to and longtime friend of Robert Wilson of the Watermill Center, chronicles his trip to Japan to see Mr. Wilson, and four other notables, receive the Praemium Imperiale, often described as the Nobel Prize of the arts.

A classically trained Russian artist brings her complex surrealistic paintings to a Montauk gallery.

Solo shows for Jeremy Dennis, Pat Lipsky, and David Slater, quilting workshop at The Church in Sag Harbor, White Room Gallery moves to East Hampton.

The Church has a talk by the founders of a local Spanish-language media organization and an evening of music and dance by local Latinx artists this weekend.

Dante Nero is a trained martial artist and Mike King is a pediatric dentist, but both will bring their comic chops to Bay Street Theater.

Opening at Guild Hall are its 84th Artist Members Exhibition and a solo show of work by Mary Boochever, who took top honors in the exhibition’s 2019 iteration.

While it has a clever plot device, “Rose and Walsh,” Neil Simon’s last play, now at the Hampton Theatre Company, has its flaws, according to The Star’s drama critic, but Rosemary Cline’s superb performance as Rose turns it into an enjoyable evening.

For “Artists Choose Artists III,” Richard Aldrich, Joanne Greenbaum, Virginia Jaramillo, Rashid Johnson, KAWS, Mel Kendrick, David Salle, Sean Scully, and Amy Sillman have selected works from the museum’s collection to pair with their own.

Stand-up and Dr. K’s Motown Revue at Bay Street, wilding and seed bombs at the Leiber Collection, open call from Hampton Theatre Company, Monster Smash benefit at The Church, silent disco in Southampton, the Dead rise for Halloween in Sag Harbor.

Monica Ramirez-Montagut took over the Parrish Art Museum at a time of flux, but she has reinvigorated it by bringing East End artists firmly into its orbit, highlighting its collection, showing Latinx artists with purpose and conviction, and expanding the exhibition program to include architecture and design.

Sheridan Lord and Racelle Strick, who moved to the South Fork in the 1960s and are now showing at the Drawing Room, were inspired by their surroundings but took very different approaches, Lord with restrained realism, Strick with exuberant abstractions.

Robert Dash paintings at Madoo, Philippe Cheng’s insights at The Church, solo shows for Elise Asher and Linda K. Alpern, portrait sittings with a celebrity photographer at MM Fine Art, collectors’ talk in Southampton, group show in Springs.