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Opinion: Farce Comes to the Moors

“The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a strict detective story. “Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery," the 35th season opener of Quogue’s Hampton Theatre Company," ventures into broad comedy, brought to a frenzied pitch as directed by Diana Marbury.

Oct 31, 2019
The Art Scene: 10.31.19

Fellow surfers hang art at Ashawagh, a weaving workshop, four painters at Ezra in Sag Harbor, and more

Oct 31, 2019
Rider of the Storms: Eric Meola’s Western Adventures

Eric Meola is a storm chaser. For the past several years, he has loaded his camera equipment and traveled west from Sagaponack to the Great Plains and “Tornado Alley” to follow and capture the dramatic spring and early summer storms.

Oct 29, 2019
Bits and Pieces: 10.24.19

Cultural offerings this week include classical and popular music concerts, and Errol Morris doc on Steve Bannon, "All About Eve," and more

Oct 24, 2019
Guild Hall's AbEx Treasures

Guild Hall’s two fall exhibitions, “Abstract Expressionism Revisited: Selections From the Permanent Collection” and “Joyce Kubat: My People,” will open on Saturday and continue through Dec. 30.

Oct 24, 2019
Hellhound of the Baskervilles

The Hampton Theatre Company will launch its season with “Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery" on Thursday. The play weaves elements of farce with theatrical ingenuity and a touch of drama.

Oct 24, 2019
New Season of Met Opera at Guild Hall

A new season of The Met: Live in HD, with performances of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” and “Tosca,” Philip Glass’s “Akhnaten,” Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman,” and Handel’s “Agrippina,” among others, kicked off Saturday at Guild Hall with Puccini’s opera “Turandot.”

Oct 24, 2019
Opinion: The Camera Obscura or Not

MM Fine Art in Southampton has a refreshing show of photography up through the weekend. Composed of many East End artists, the exhibition is a brew of thoughtful vistas and beach scenes, figure studies that often have a twist, interiors, and some experimental or more conceptual works.

Oct 24, 2019
The Art Scene: 10.24.19

This week's art happenings include a benefit exhibition for the Sag Cinema, a Ross School faculty show, Michael Light's immersive photographs at the Drawing Room, and much more

Oct 24, 2019
Big Winners at Film Festival

Awards for the 27th Hamptons International Film Festival were presented on Monday morning in East Hampton.

Oct 17, 2019
Bits and Pieces: 10.17.19

Lots of drama at Guild Hall this week, classical and contemporary music in art spaces, a Watermill Center In Process afternoon, and more

Oct 17, 2019
Brian De Palma on a Remarkable Directing Career

The director Brian De Palma was in East Hampton to receive the Hamptons International Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award and spend an hour lobbing anecdotes, opinions, and snippets of film industry gossip back and forth with Alec Baldwin on Saturday afternoon at a packed Guild Hall.

Oct 17, 2019
Familiar Faces Will Read ‘Love, Loss . . . ’ in Southampton

A reading of “Love, Loss, and What I Wore” by Nora and Delia Ephron will be performed at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m. in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and National Mammogram Day.

Oct 17, 2019
The Art Scene: 10.17.19

New shows at Halsey McKay and Ashawagh Hall, plus a new Grenning Gallery venture.

Oct 17, 2019
Vija Celmins: Looking and Looking Again

Vija Celmins is a visual seductress. From her early treatment of everyday objects to the water and sky images that have become her trademark, she has fashioned an art that skirts the line between representation and abstraction in a way that is mesmerizing.

Oct 17, 2019
‘Fat Chance’ and ‘Raisin’ in Sag

Audiences at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor can look forward to two nights of laughter and an afternoon of drama this weekend with a visit from Lisa Lampanelli, a new all-star comedy show, and a screening of the 1961 film “A Raisin in the Sun.”

Oct 17, 2019
Bits and Pieces: 10.10.19

An immersive theatrical experience devoted to "Hysteria," a concert with a clarinet and piano and one with four cellos, and more

Oct 10, 2019
Festival Previews: On Love and Loss, Cinema, Scandal Mongering, and a Warming Planet

The Hamptons International Film Festival, which happens today through Monday, offers scores of films in every category — narrative and documentary, features and shorts, foreign and domestic, and now even virtual reality. Each year The Star’s writers and editors preview a handful of selections for the curious who may want a bit more information before committing to a ticket or a rush line.

Oct 10, 2019
Jane Rosenthal: A Triumphant ‘Irishman’ and More

The producing partnership of Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro is as storied as it is long. Brought in to co-found and lead Tribeca Productions in 1989, Ms. Rosenthal has been key to expanding their empire to Tribeca Enterprises, Tribeca Institute, and the Tribeca Film Festival.

Oct 10, 2019
Mermaid Spied in Southampton

“The Little Mermaid” will swim ashore at the Southampton Cultural Center tomorrow for the first of 11 performances of the Disney classic musical.

Oct 10, 2019
New Brand, Logo, and Films

The Hamptons International Film Festival has announced it has a new parent company and logo and some additional films to round out its screening schedule for its main event beginning today.

Oct 10, 2019
The Art Scene: 10.10.19

Matthew King at Harper's, abstract group show at Ashawagh, Folioeast back at Malia Mills with painting show, and more

Oct 10, 2019
Tom Dolby's Return to the Hamptons

It was easy to walk into a film called “The Artist’s Wife” with a number of assumptions and delightful to come out with each one of them negated. Tom Dolby's sensitivity to his characters and setting positions it well above even the typical independent offering.

Oct 10, 2019
3 Days, 2 Nights, and Decades in the Making

The story of the Godfrey family explored in “3 Days, 2 Nights” is a natural for film or print. A tragic plane accident leaves two brothers — Andy, 8, and Mark, 11 — parentless and fighting for their lives on a stormy mountainside in Colorado. They survived to tell the tale, and yet, for decades, they didn't.

Oct 8, 2019
An Artist’s ‘Reverence For What’s Around Us’

For Laurie Lambrecht, a Bridgehampton native, it was natural to choose the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack as the site for her Parrish Road Show exhibition.

Oct 3, 2019
Bits and Pieces: 10.03.19

Music at Bay Street from Carmichael to Bon Jovi covers, survivalist saga screening from Hamptons Film, Strauss at Salon Series, and more

Oct 3, 2019
Capote: Other Voices, Other Tapes

Although it is tempting to believe that everything that ever could have been said about Truman Capote has been, “The Capote Tapes” proves nothing is further from the truth.

Oct 3, 2019
Drama Times Two at Guild Hall

“The Lehman Trilogy,” a National Theatre Live presentation of the five-time Olivier Award-nominated play, will have an encore screening at Guild Hall Friday at 7 p.m. A new playwriting class will also start soon with Bill Burford.

Oct 3, 2019
Portrait of Pakula Premieres Here

A montage during the first 60 seconds of the documentary “Alan Pakula: Going for Truth” includes clips from “Sophie’s Choice,” “Klute,” “All the President’s Men,” “Presumed Innocent,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and many more "first-class productions."

Oct 3, 2019
The Art Scene: 10.03.19

"Movie Night" at Ille, a watercolor show in Springs, new art lecture series at Stony Brook Southampton, Tripoli pops up at Gabimode on Main Street, and much more

Oct 3, 2019