Arts

Reviving a timeless musical is not as simple as it might seem. In the case of “Annie Get Your Gun,” which will open next week, Sarna Lapine, the production’s director, consulted four different versions of the script.

What to make of “Cold Case Hammarskjold,” Mads Brugger’s idiosyncratic odyssey into the vile heart of African colonialism and the conspiracy theories surrounding it to this day?

Jakob Dylan is capping off a busy year with a visit to the South Fork. His film “Echo in the Canyon,” about the Laurel Canyon music scene in Los Angeles during the 1960s, was released in late May, and he is on tour with his band the Wallflowers this summer.

Growing up, Rebecca Knox, who just wrapped the final season of “Orange Is the New Black,” never acted in school. In fact, she never raised her hand in class, because she knew she would turn bright red and feel like throwing up. “I hated an audience,” she said at her family’s house in East Hampton. Next week she has a short, “Cavity,” screening at Guild Hall.

Amagansett’s Upstairs Art Fair, a small but well attended fair attracting innovative dealers from the East End and New York City, will return for its third iteration this weekend at its home on the top floor at the old Amagansett Applied Arts building at 11 Indian Wells Road.

The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival’s theme this summer is “Winds of Change,” which has a triple meaning: music for woodwind instruments, music by women composers, and, more broadly, musical and societal changes.

Donna Karan and Julian Schnabel to be honored at LongHouse, an outdoor “Bowie Show” in Southampton, and the Great American (Folk) Songbook in Bridgehampton.

“Art as Ecosystem 1,” the first of two talks at Guild Hall moderated by the artist Eric Fischl, will bring together art world luminaries to take the measure of the discipline’s health and vitality. The venue will also present a doo-wop concert, and the American Modern Opera Company.

Entre nous, times seem a bit tight at Chatsworth House in England, the Duke of Devonshire’s baroque jewel in the Derbyshire countryside, about 160 miles north of London. Peregrine (Stoker) Cavendish, the 12th duke in the Devonshire dynasty, which began in 1640, was onstage recently to tell a packed John Drew Theater all about noble poverty and his leaky ancestral home.

New shows at Rental, Firestone, Lehr, Ille, White Room, and elsewhere.

The fifth year of the Southampton Jewish Film Festival is now underway with weekly screenings on Tuesday evenings through August at the Southampton Arts Center.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons and the South Fork Chamber Orchestra recently performed some of Mozart’s lesser-known choral works, composed before he was 24 years old. The ensemble, under the spirited direction of its music director, Mark Mangini, performed with professionalism and enthusiasm.