Arts

Michael Wolfe, director, writer, star, and co-producer of “Maybe Tomorrow,” an independent dramatic film that has just been released on DVD, began his film career with humble ambitions. As teenagers growing up on Long Island in the early 1990s, he and his friends made skits using his father’s video camera and showed them at parties.

Guild Hall is offering an eight-session Shakespeare workshop for actors and actors-in-training beginning today at 6 p.m. and continuing through Feb. 5. Students age 16 and up will work on sonnets, monologues, mask work, scene work, and more, culminating in a performance on the stage of the John Drew Theater on Feb. 11 at 7 p.m.

During a two-day auction held last week in Easton, Md., in conjunction with the annual Maryland Waterfowl Festival, six shorebird decoys carved by Eugene Cuffee, a Shinnecock Indian who has been dead for 73 years, sold for a total of $12,550.

Paton Miller at Horowitz

“Paton Miller: The Edge of the World,” an exhibition of recent and older works that reflect the Southampton artist’s longstanding exploration of the interface between land and sea, will open Saturday at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in East Hampton and remain on view through Dec. 31. A reception will take place Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

The Public Theater in New York City has installed “Posters for Papp,” an ongoing exhibition of Paul Davis’s artwork for the theater company and its founder, Joseph Papp.

Between 1975 and 1991, Mr. Davis, who lives in Sag Harbor and New York, created 51 posters for productions at the theater’s Astor Place home, the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, and the theater’s residencies at Lincoln Center and on Broadway.

El Colegio del Cuerpo, a performance and dance group from Colombia currently in residence at the Watermill Center, is offering a free workshop there for all ages on Saturday at 11 a.m. Participants will be taken through a movement class and will learn excerpts from the company’s repertoire. A walking tour of the center’s grounds, building, and collection will follow the workshop, and the group will hold an open rehearsal at 3 p.m.

Gesture Jam, a theatrical figure-drawing class led by Andrea Cote, an artist and educator who lives in Flanders, will take place at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m. Rather than a traditional life-drawing class, Gesture Jam has models posed dramatically in various scenarios.

In “Loop Holes,” Louise Eastman’s homespun weavings and cast bricks look perfectly at home in the barn that houses the Silas Marder Gallery exhibition space in Bridgehampton. Yet they would look equally at home in some of the South Fork’s remaining untouched classic midcentury ranches, complete with linoleum floors and Formica countertops.

Jeff Muhs’s New Paintings

“Slipstream,” a new series of abstract paintings by Jeff Muhs, will open this evening at Lyons Wier Gallery in Chelsea with a reception from 6 to 8 and will remain on view through Dec. 20.

A slipstream is an area of reduced air pressure and forward suction created behind a rapidly moving vehicle. In Mr. Muhs’s paintings, the slipstream is made visually by foreground elements that leave a swirling area of turbulence in their wake.

The Southampton Cultural Center’s Rising Stars Piano Series will present a concert by Jiayan Sun, a Pianofest artist, on Saturday at 7 p.m. Mr. Sun has won prizes at piano competitions in Toronto, Beijing, Cleveland, and Leeds, England. He will perform Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Sonata No. 1 and Frederic Chopin’s 24 Preludes Op. 28.

Admission is $15, free for students under 21.v

“Every other line is famous,” whispered an audience member in astonishment to her friend during a performance of the Round Table Theatre Company’s “Hamlet” at Guild Hall on Sunday.

That is true. It’s hard not to smile at lines like “To thine own self be true,” or “Frailty‚ thy name is woman‚” and a dozen other familiar phrases. Round Table has provided a program filled with welcome “fun facts” and timelines about both “Hamlet” and the life of the playwright, which should help Shakespeare virgins to feel more at ease.

The John Drew Theater Lab will stage the premiere of “Wild Horses,” an original theater piece written by Andrea Goldman, with music by Dani Campos, Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. The free program is a project of the Box Collective, a New York City-based company of artists who develop and present interdisciplinary live performances.

“Celebrating Architecture,” a program of A.I.A. Peconic, will take place Saturday from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Southampton Arts Center in the old Parrish Art Museum building on Job’s Lane.

The evening will offer an opportunity to see three exhibits — “Art by Architects,” “Firm Exhibits,” and “Design Award Entries.” The 2014 Daniel J. Rowen Memorial Design Award winners will be announced.

Tickets are $55 and entitle guests to hors d’oeuvres and cocktails.

Mary Black, a dominant presence in Irish music both at home and abroad for 25 years, will perform at the Basilica Parish of the Sacred Heart Jesus and Mary Catholic Church in Southampton tomorrow at 7 p.m. as part of her international “Last Call Tour.”

Oenophiles, rejoice! This year has been another excellent one for the Long Island wine industry. “It was a dream,” said Roman Roth, a partner and winemaker at Wolffer Estate Vineyard in Sagaponack. “It was a summer without humidity, just an amazing start and middle of the growing season. As a result, we have completely healthy fruit, no disease pressure, and that translates into pure fruit flavors and aromas and flavorful wines.”

The Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale is presenting “No One Remembers Alone: Memory, Migration, and the Making of an American Family,” an exhibition organized by Patricia Klindienst, through Feb. 1.

Ms. Klindienst, a summer resident of Amagansett, has created a visual biography of a family of Russian Jews who immigrated to the New World at the turn of the 20th century. Drawing on six years of archival and genealogical research and dozens of interviews, she illuminates a turning point in history, telling a story that could belong to millions of American Jews.

In honor of Veterans Day and the centennial of the outbreak of World War I, the Montauk Library will present “Over There: Songs of World War I,” a free concert, on Sunday at 3:30 p.m.

Linda Russell, balladeer for the National Park Service at Federal Hall National Memorial in New York City for 16 years, will interpret the Great War through the music of the battlefield and the home front.

The John Drew Theater Lab will present “Songs of Life and Love,” a free performance by Paul Alexander, Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Guild Hall. Mr. Alexander, an ASCAP award-winner and East End resident, has performed at many venues, New York City cabaret clubs and theaters among them. The program will include an eclectic mix of pop songs, standards, country, and a few originals. Dan Koontz will accompany Mr. Alexander.

Carone at Washburn

The Washburn Gallery in New York City will present “Nicolas Carone: Paintings From the 1950s” today through Jan. 17, with a reception tonight from 6 to 8.

Although Mr. Carone continued to paint until his death in 2010 at 93, it was during the ’50s that he was a central figure in the New York School. He bought a house in Springs in 1954 and split his time afterward between the city and the South Fork.

Building on their strong production of “Macbeth” two years ago, Morgan and Tristan Vaughan and their Roundtable Theatre Company will now tackle “Hamlet‚” beginning tomorrow at Guild Hall.

Although one of Ms. Vaughan’s goals is to make the play more accessible to the audience, she will not abandon the classic. “We are taking out text that is not relevant, not adding text. The actors will still be fighting with swords, not guns,” she said during a break in a recent rehearsal. Ms. Vaughan is directing Mr. Vaughan, her husband, in the title role.

It can be a Herculean task to clear out a business after 33 years, but that is what Bebe and Warren Johnson did last week as they said goodbye to the Race Lane storefront of Pritam & Eames to begin a semi-retirement based online and in a new showroom on Mount Desert Island, Me.

“The Only Real Game,” a documentary by Mirra Bank about the popularity of baseball in the isolated state of Manipur in India, will be screened at Quad Cinema in New York City tomorrow through next Thursday.

Ms. Bank, who lives in East Hampton, presents a portrait of the past and present in a complex society that hosts two envoy coaches from Major League Baseball. Images of instructional clinics are intercut with archival material that fills in the history of Manipur, including its ongoing 50 years of martial law.

Michael Disher will offer a three-week acting class at the Southampton Cultural Center from Tuesday through Nov. 19.

“The Vocal and Physical Monologue” will meet on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Class size will be limited to 16 actors, who will gain an understanding of the range of their vocal skills and physicality using monologues.

The $175 course is open to actors over the age of 16. Those interested can contact Mr. Disher at mbentondisher@ gmail.com to request a brief informational form and further instructions.

For early-bird snowbirds, Lynn University in Boca Raton will present a one-night reading of  “East Hampton, Last Summer,” a new comedy with music by Tony Finstrom,  at 7:30 p.m. on Monday. A retired opera star and her playwright companion compete for social status in the bygone days of 1960. Tickets for the reading are $10 and available through lynn.edu/tickets.

Guild Hall will present the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD’s “Carmen” on Saturday at 1 p.m. Bizet’s melodrama features Anita Rachvelishvili in the title role and Aleksandrs Antonenko as her lover Don Jose. Ildar Abdrazakov completes the triangle as Escamillo, the bullfighter who comes between them. Pablo Heras-Casado conducts. Tickets are $22, $20 for members, and $15 for students.

On Saturday at 5 p.m., the Watermill Center will present an open rehearsal of Lydian Junction. The group, which creates live art that incorporates performance, video, installation, music, and dance, has been in residency at the center since Oct. 14. They will complete it on Wednesday.

Members of Lydian Junction are Sarah Cameron Sunde, Dages Juvelier Keates, Christopher Berg, Oliver Burns, and Karla Carballar, each of whom has a specialty, whether in dance, performance, video art, or other disciplines.

Tomorrow at 6 p.m., Sandro Russo will perform the final concert of the Parrish Art Museum’s fall Salon Series. The Sicilian-born pianist will play works by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and Lowell Liebermann, a contemporary American composer.

Mr. Russo graduated summa cum laude from the Vincenzo Bellini Conservatory in 1995 and earned the pianoforte performing diploma from the Royal College of Music in London. He has performed at numerous concert halls and received many awards. In 2008, he performed at the Music Festival of the Hamptons opening night.

“To Kill a Mockingbird” will return as Bay Street’s Literature Live! production in November. Public performances of the play will begin on Friday, Nov. 7, and will continue through the next three weekends on Fridays and Saturdays. In addition, some tickets for weekday performances, reserved for schools, will be offered based on availability.

New Shows at Halsey Mckay

Halsey Mckay has opened two new shows at its East Hampton gallery space. One, “Inversion Spectrum,” is a solo show of works by Corey Escoto, who uses both analog and digital processes in photography to tease the viewer into figuring out which is which, where the origin of each image lies, and how photography has adapted to contain all of the available technology.

Guild Hall will present two new exhibitions, “Mary Ellen Bartley: Leaning Above the Page” and “New Additions to the Guild Hall Museum Permanent Collection, 2010-2014,” from Saturday through Jan. 4. An opening reception will be held Saturday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.