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Watermill’s Process

In Process @ the Watermill Center will present Dylan Neely and Alex Nathanson, and Brian O’Mahoney on Saturday afternoon.

Dec 5, 2017
An Open Call for ‘Beauties’ and 'Beasts'

The Southampton Cultural Center will hold open auditions for its spring production of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” on Monday and Tuesday at 6 p.m. in its theater on Pond Lane.

Nov 30, 2017
Conrad de Kwiatkowski’s small basalt objects are placed on a Joris Laarman bronze etagere, with the Aymara weavings he has collected over the years hanging behind them. Celebrating Darkness in a Season of Lights

Jeff Lincoln's Southampton gallery feels more Meatpacking District warehouse than Bridgehampton potato barn.

Nov 30, 2017
The Neave Trio Chamber Ensemble to Play Mixed Program at St. Luke's

The Neave Trio, a chamber ensemble, will return for its second performance in the Music at St. Luke’s series on Saturday at 5 p.m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton.

Nov 30, 2017
In East Hampton, Dr. Blake Kerr may be more known for brandishing a stethoscope than a light meter, but in “Eye of the Lammergeier” he directed a film about China’s military occupation of Tibet. Hamptons Take 2 Doc Fest Turns 10

The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film festival, which opens today at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, is celebrating 10 years and exponential growth in five packed days of film screenings and talks.

Nov 30, 2017
Our Fabulous Variety Show is celebrating its 20th show with a reprise of some of its most popular acts at Guild Hall starting tomorrow. Only the 'Best' in a Fabulous Variety Show

Our Fabulous Variety Show will have four different shows this weekend at Guild Hall, starting tomorrow at 7:30 p.m.

Nov 30, 2017
The Art Scene: 11.30.17

"Woven" art at Rental Gallery, Wednesday Group at East Hampton Library, Ille Arts gift show, and more

Nov 30, 2017
Steve Joester, in his Water Mill studio‚ found a new mode of artistic expression through mixing his old photographs from the 1970s and 1980s with silkscreen, street art, and his own expressionistic use of color. Steve Joester’s Library of Superstars

A photo archive of rock stars, such as Neil Young, Deborah Harry, Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, and Sting, has become the basis for a new artistic path for Steve Joester.

Nov 28, 2017
"A Christmas Carol," presented as a radio play will be part of the seasonal entertainment offerings on the South Fork. 'A Christmas Carol' Returns to Stage (and Radio)

Center Stage at the Southampton Cultural Center seems to have cornered the market on the live radio play, which has become a holiday tradition there since 2014.

Nov 22, 2017
Jane Wilson’s “Water Mill Fog” is from the painter’s transitional period between realism and abstraction. A Guild Hall Homecoming

If the pieces on view in Guild Hall’s “Recollections” exhibition look distantly familiar, it may be because they have been on the road for much of the past decade.

Nov 22, 2017
A Musical Revue Celebrating Suffrage in Montauk

“Ladies of Liberty: A Musical Revue,” a free cabaret created and performed by Valerie diLorenzo to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New York State, will take place Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the Montauk Library.

Nov 22, 2017
Alfredo Merat is creating a theatrical event based on the life of Jacques Brel, a Belgian singer, songwriter, and actor. Alfredo Merat Channels Jacques Brel at Lulu

Last fall, Alfredo Merat, performed “Brel by Alfredo,” where he sang and spoke about Jacques Brel’s life. He is now working on a theatrical event based on the experience.

Nov 22, 2017
Mirra Bank’s documentary “Last Dance” examines the collaboration between the modern dance company Pilobolus and Maurice Sendak to interpret and depict the Holocaust. Capturing the Sublime on Film

Collaboration across artistic disciplines is a tricky endeavor. How does an artist paint a sound, or a musician play a color?

Nov 22, 2017
The Art Scene: 11.23.17

Grain Surfboards NY Gallery in Amagansett will hold its second annual Art Is Good for You holiday market on Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. The Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor will present its “Small Artworks Holiday Invitational” from tomorrow through Jan. 14. A reception will be held Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m.

Nov 22, 2017
The Choral Society of the Hamptons at their 2014 winter concert Three Traditions at Choral Society Concert

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will present “Dances, Carols, and Lullabies,” which will include compositions familiar and obscure, and caroling on Dec. 3 in Bridgehampton.

Nov 22, 2017
Joy Hermalyn played Roxie Claflin, Victoria Woodhull’s mother, in the Anchorage Opera production of “Mrs. President.” Bond's Opera Celebrates Suffrage Pioneer

A new opera by Victoria Bond celebrates an early radical feminist whose story has ties to East Hampton through Henry Ward Beecher, the son of Lyman Beecher.

Nov 16, 2017
Choral Workshop

Alexander Dashnaw, a professor emeritus of music at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University, will conduct a choral workshop for singers and directors on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.

Nov 16, 2017
Jayne Freedman, who performs “Honey Bun” from “South Pacific” in “A Night of Vaudeville,” is also co-director of the production. Dinner and a Show in Southampton Via Springs

The Springs Community Theater is moving in new directions this weekend with “A Night of Vaudeville” tomorrow and Saturday at 230 Elm in Southampton, 17 miles west of its usual home at the Springs Presbyterian Church.

Nov 16, 2017
A sampling of Emily Cheng’s smaller paintings, part of her exhibition “The Immensity of Particles,” on view at Ille Arts in Amagansett. Ille Arts Show Evokes Meaningful Themes

It is not too much of a stretch to see Emily Cheng’s “Immensity of Particles,” and Marianne Weil’s “After Argos” at Ille Arts in Amagansett as evocative of the interior of a church or cathedral.

Nov 16, 2017
Liberty Ladies

“Liberty Ladies — A Musical Revue,” a program created and performed by Valerie diLorenzo to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New York State, will take place Sunday afternoon at 3 at the Southampton Arts Center.

Nov 16, 2017
Opera and Cabaret

Films based on operas are not uncommon. Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” for example, was adapted for the screen by both Ingmar Bergman, in 1975, and Kenneth Branagh, in 2006. Next up in The Met: Live in HD series is a rarity, an opera based on a film, the source in this case Luis Bunuel’s 1962 “The Exterminating Angel,” the story of a group of upper-class friends who are invited to a mansion for dinner and are inexplicably unable to leave.

Nov 16, 2017
The Art Scene: 11.16.17

“What the Hell?” at the White Room Gallery; “Off the Wall” at Christy’s Art Center; Halband at Southampton Arts Center; Perrottet at Art Space 98; Holiday Show at Grenning

Nov 16, 2017
Classical Piano

The Rising Stars Piano Series at the Southampton Cultural Center will present a concert by Jacopo Giacopuzzi on Saturday evening at 7. The program will include compositions by Scriabin, Liszt, Kapustin, and Rachmaninoff.

Nov 9, 2017
For Violin and Cello

The Kiffer-Kalayjian Duo will present a free concert of works for violin and cello on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Montauk Library. The program will include compositions by the 18th-century Italian cellist and composer Giovanni Battista Cirri, Polina Nazaykinskaya, a composer based at Yale University, and Armenian folk songs by Komitas.

Nov 9, 2017
"Portrait of the artist; Reflejo (2015)," site specific installation Meet the Resident Artists at the Watermill Center

“In Process” at the Watermill Center will feature the work of Carlos Bunga, Marianna Kavallieratos, and Dom Bouffard on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m.

Nov 9, 2017
Janice Carissa Music for Montauk's Fall Concert ‘Appassionata’ at Guild Hall

Music for Montauk will present a performance by Janice Carissa, an award-winning pianist, on Saturday afternoon at 2 at Guild Hall.

Nov 9, 2017
In the Ecuadorean film “Translucido,” Ruben (Roberto Manrique), who has been given three months to live, decides to take his own life before his cancer symptoms become evident. OLA Expands Film Fest Content and Geographic Reach

OLA, the Organizacion Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island, will screen a full slate of films in East Hampton, Southampton, and Riverhead next weekend.

Nov 9, 2017
Ned Smyth noticed that William Merritt Chase’s Shinnecock landscapes such as this one, painted around 1894, often feature evidence of Long Island’s formation as a glacial moraine. Parrish Marks Five Years in Water Mill

At year five, the Parrish Art Museum will celebrate with a community day of activities, a talk about the building's architecture, a benefit cocktail party, and a series of artists talks in the galleries.

Nov 9, 2017
Perlman Alumni Programs This Weekend

The Perlman Music Program will present two concerts and a family event this weekend at the Clark Arts Center on Shelter Island. The Stires-Stark Alumni Recital Series will present a performance by the violinist Max Tan on Saturday at 5 p.m.

Nov 9, 2017
Shepard and Albee Take the Stage and Screen at Guild Hall

Guild Hall audiences have become accustomed to seeing simulcasts of operas from the Met and encore screenings of recent performances from London’s National Theatre. BroadwayHD will join the venue’s entertainment menu on Friday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. with a screening of the New Group’s 2016 revival of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Buried Child.”

Nov 9, 2017