Arts

The Hamptons Comedy Festival will bring four seasoned comedians to Bay Street Theater for an evening of laughs.

Botanical painting workshops at LongHouse, Amy Zerner tapestries and paradoxical paintings at MM Fine Art, surrealists at the Lucore Gallery, Dan Welden demonstration in Riverhead, Brooklyn outpost for Halsey McKay.

The Docs Equinox film festival features three documentaries, panel discussions, receptions, and an information hub, all devoted to protecting and preserving our water.

Street dance workshop at The Church, Native American films at the Southampton Cultural Center, solo guitar and 70s music at the Suffolk Theater.

LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton celebrates spring with new sculpture by Maren Hassinger and Wyatt Kahn, a call for Easter bonnets, and gardens in full bloom.

The Drawing Room in East Hampton is showing five decades of work by Saul Steinberg, including drawings, paintings, prints, and objects, and Pace Gallery is giving Steinberg his first exhibition in Seoul, South Korea.

Paul Davis goes solo at Keyes Art, works on paper by 22 local artists at Ashawagh Hall, late night open studio at The Church, nature on canvas at Grenning Gallery, Scott Bluedorn at Watermill Center, Michael Halsband in Paris.

An upcoming production of Edward Albee's "The Zoo Story," a two-character play about strangers who meet at the Central Park Zoo, stars two East End actors who are real-life friends with a lot in common.

"Binge or Bomb," a new podcast by two South Fork film and television aficionados, turns to global television for binge-worthy content that has eluded many Americans' radar.

Hamptons Whodunit, a four-day festival devoted to mystery and true crime, will take place in East Hampton Village from April 13 through 16 at various venues and feature dozens of authors, escape room-style challenges, a real-life crime scene bus tour, and even a "Who Killed the Mayor?" game.

Creative healing, opera and theater screenings, classical piano, feminine fire, and multiple tribute bands, this week.

The HamptonsFilm Screenwriters Lab will return to East Hampton from April 14 to 16 with three screenplays to be polished by three mentors.

As part of a continuous program of pocket exhibitions focused on its collection, the Museum of Modern Art will open a gallery devoted to John Giorno's Dial-A-Poem project on Friday, April 7. 

A daylong conference on creativity at The Church on Saturday will bring several leaders in ideas and arts together for presentations and panels on Saturday. Plus, a poetry workshop and new resident artists there.

Floating pictures, a weekend "Sundown" at Madoo, Montauk artists, touring a collection of East End artists, and three North Fork painters in Sag Harbor.

Rebecca Edana and Amy Kirwin dish about their show “Two Jews Making Food” and how it went from Facebook Live to LTV Studios, survived a pandemic, and gained its first “super fan.”

Nanette Carter will discuss her artwork at The Church, and two painters-in-residence will open their studios there.

For former marketing executive Patrick J. Peters III, the silver lining of a traumatic struggle with long Covid was his life-changing discovery of salvation through painting.

Classical piano and a dance party at The Church, Hamptons Jazz Fest in Southampton, stand-up comedy at Bay Street, actors’ monologues in Montauk, garden talks at Marders, and musical variety in Riverhead.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will welcome spring with a program of whimsical music.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music's spring concerts will feature the New York Philharmonic String Quartet, a program of piano for four hands, and a concert highlighting two violas.

Miriam Schapiro in NoHo, paintings and ceramics at Harper’s, nature and migration at Halsey McKay, abstraction vs. figuration at White Room, Dan Welden as inspiration, Linda Stein far and near.

A new play at Hampton Theatre Company dramatizes a real-life conflict between accuracy in journalism and literary license.

The Jam Session brings top-tier musicians and enthusiastic crowds to Sag Harbor’s Masonic Temple every Tuesday night.

Concert at LTV, networking at East Hampton Library, open studios at Watermill Center, architecture film at SAC, brass band at the Presbyterian Church, music by female composers at Rogers Library, and tribute bands in Sag Harbor and Riverhead.

A new play at Hampton Theatre Company finds both tension and laughs in a true story about the clash between poetic license and “nothing but the facts.”

A concert of world music by Albino Mbie and a discussion about the importance of public space by Setha Low are coming to The Church.

Jose Campos’s woodcut figures, Charles Waller’s “Bridal Suite,” Joel Mesler’s “Rabbis,” Leo Villareal’s “Nebulae,” group shows at Harper’s, Oscar Molina, LTV, Southampton Cultural Center, and an artists’ panel in Southampton

A new Parrish Art Museum exhibition celebrates Latin migrant workers with colorful wooden figures, plus a talk about Frida Kahlo with the artist's grandniece and the museum's director.

An open rehearsal at The Church, Madoo talks pair landscape architects with architects, rock at the Suffolk Theater, blues from Jake Lear at the Masonic Temple, and Judy Carmichael strides at Lincoln Center.