Arts

If the complaint that there are not enough meaty roles in the theater for women sounds familiar, it may be because more women are doing something about it, even if they have to take matters into their own hands. Two actresses felt so strongly about appearing in “This Wide Night,” a play by the British playwright Chloe Moss, that they decided to produce it as well, and it will be staged at Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater beginning next Thursday.

Music in a lower key, figuratively speaking, will be offered at the Montauk Library on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. with a free concert by Francisco Roldan, a classical guitarist. The program will include works by Mauro Giuliani (Italy), Barrios (Paraguay), Joaquin Rodrigo (Spain), Charlie Byrd (United States), and Phillip Houghton (Australia).

Three distinct shows, “Connie Fox: Self As . . .,” “Brian Gaman: Vanishing Point,” and “Lindsay Morris: You Are You,” will open on Sunday and remain on view through April 24.

There are tiny cabinets, hand-made with care. Bathtubs are repurposed soap dishes, and hand-cut curtains adorn the windows. Much of the furniture is fashioned by hand, with the exception of chairs — chairs are too time-consuming and tough for her hands to handle, seasoned as those hands may be.

After a three-month hiatus, Ille Arts will reopen at a new Amagansett location on Saturday at 171 Main Street with an exhibition of paintings by Fulvio Massi and sculpture by Marianne Weil. A reception will take place on March 19 from 5 to 7 p.m., and the show will remain on view through April 4.

Keyes Art Consulting and Mark Borghi Fine Arts will hold a reading and book signing of “Out of Line: The Art of Jules Feiffer” at the gallery’s location on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will kick off the weekend tomorrow night at 8 with “Caliente! Latin Night” and shift into 1970s jazz-rock on Saturday with FM: A Steely Dan Tribute, also at 8 p.m.

“Rising,” an exhibition of works by members of the Bonac Tonic art collective, will be on view Saturday and Sunday at Ashawagh Hall in Springs, with an opening reception set for Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m.

The John Drew Theater Lab at Guild Hall will present a free staged reading of “I Married the Icepick Killer,” a new play by Carol Muske-Dukes, tomorrow at 7:30 p.m.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will welcome spring with two popular choral classics, on March 20 at 5 p.m. at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church. The program will feature Bach’s Cantata No. 4, “Christ Lay in Death’s Bonds,” and Fauré’s Requiem.

One year, ago, when The Star wrote about Glenn Feit’s “Fingerpicking Second Act,” the semiretired attorney was five years into a resumed study of the guitar after a false start four decades earlier. His renewed interest, he said, had coincided with his 80th birthday, and after honing his chops on stages across the South Fork he felt ready to take that second act into the studio.

“The Safety of Objects,” A.M. Homes’s 1990 story collection, arrived like an open-handed smack to the bourgeois reader’s face.

“Long Island Grown III: Food and Beverage Artisans at Work,” a four-lecture series organized by the Peconic Land Trust at Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton, will open on Sunday at 2 p.m. with “The Cocktail Party,” a discussion featuring Vaughan Cutillo of the Montauk Brewing Company, Michael Kontokosta of Kontokosta Vineyard, and Noah Schwartz, executive chef of Noah’s in Greenport.

Music of a different sort will happen Friday and Saturday nights at 8 when “What a Long Strange Trip,” a two-night Grateful Dead tribute concert, comes to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. Each performance will highlight different songs from the band’s long history, which began in 1965 and ran until the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995.

Canio’s Cultural Cafe will host a screening of the Academy Award-winning film “Spotlight” at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton tonight at 6:15. The film will be followed by a discussion with Bob Keeler, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and Richard Lawless, a theologian.

The Bridgehampton Museum’s Art of Song/Parlor Jazz series will present “Secret Love,” a tribute to the music of Doris Day by Karen Oberlin, on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the museum’s archive building.

The Met: Live in HD will present a new production of Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Guild Hall. A lecture on the opera by Victoria Bond will precede the screening at noon.

After almost a year of planning, Guild Hall has selected the first participants in its Artist in Residence program, who will be ensconced in Guild House, around the corner from the cultural center on Dunemere Lane, through April 30

East Hampton’s LongHouse Reserve will open its jubilee year with Design for Living, a winter benefit to be held at National Sawdust in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on March 15.

For classic musicophiles, the Montauk Library will present a free concert by Kathleen Tagg of works composed by virtuoso pianists Sunday afternoon at 3:30. The program will include compositions by Mozart, Ravel, Liszt, Schubert, Medtner, Debussy, and Gershwin.

Karyn Mannix, an East Hampton artist and gallerist, will open the Mannix Studio of Art on Friday, March 12, at 38 Gingerbread Lane in East Hampton. The school will conduct classes taught by classically trained instructors for students of all ages.

“Madoo Talks,” a series of three horticulture-related lectures, will kick off Sunday at noon at the Madoo Conservancy, the two-acre garden established in 1967 in Sagaponack by the late artist, gardener, and writer Robert Dash.

See some modern Cyanotype photographs by Laurie Lambrecht at the Drawing Room in East Hampton. Cyanotype is a photographic process discovered in the mid-19th century that produces a Prussian-blue print. The show will remain on view through April 10. Barbara Groot, an artist who lives and works in East Hampton, will show her paintings at the art gallery of the Quogue Library through March 30.

Center Stage of the Southampton Cultural Center will present a concert adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” from next Thursday through March 20.

Lindsay Morris became obsessed with both photography and travel at the age of 10, when her grandfather gave her a subscription to National Geographic magazine. “My parents didn’t have the means to take us on any big trips, so that was how I found my adventure,” she said during a recent conversation in the Sag Harbor house she shares with her husband, Stephen Munshin, and their sons Milo, 15, and Cecil, 11.

The Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor has announced its full slate of 2016 Mainstage summer productions. The season will begin with the world premiere of “The Forgotten Woman,” a new play by Jonathan Tolins that will be directed by Noah Himmelstein and run from May 31 through June 19.

“Listen to My Heart,” a free musical tribute to the cabaret legend Nancy LaMott, will take place at the Montauk Library on Sunday afternoon at 3:30. Rusty Kransky and Dee Martin, actor-singers who live on the North Fork, will be accompanied on piano by Jeff Wentz, minister of music at the First Congregational Church in Riverhead.

Thanks to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, residents of the South Fork have had plenty of remedies for a long winter’s inevitable cabin fever. This off-season has seen a multitude of musical events that have warmed the cold nights, many of them paying tribute to rock ’n’ roll’s classic era and the artists who made it so.

The John Drew Theater Lab will present a free concert staging of “Eco,” a new musical by Jenna Mate and Bethie Fowler, on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

Since its founding 32 seasons ago, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival has continually found ways to expand and vary its summertime programs, including different venues, themes, and formats. Last year, Long Island’s longest-running classical music series added BCMF Spring, with two concerts. The new venture had such a strong audience response that a third concert is on tap for 2016.