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Margot Robbie played Tonya Harding in the film "I, Tonya." Below, a scene from the film “In the Fade,” starring Diane Kruger. Both films, along with "Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri," had their United States premieres at the Hamptons International Film Festival. Did Last Year's HIFF Films Predict This Cultural Moment?

Several films shown in October at the Hamptons International Film Festival, most of which are up for Oscars on Sunday, depicted women having their say in nuanced or quite vocal ways.

Feb 27, 2018
Cash and Comedy at Bay Street This Weekend

A tribute concert to the music of Johnny Cash will be performed by Philip Bauer at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor tomorrow at 8 p.m. The Stowaways return on Saturday.

Feb 27, 2018
Last Chance for Guild Hall's Academy Dinner Tickets

It’s not too late to secure a ticket to Guild Hall’s annual Academy of the Arts dinner, which will take place Monday evening from 6 to 10 at the Rainbow Room in Manhattan.

Feb 27, 2018
“That Summer,” a film pieced together from recently discovered footage by Peter Beard of Big and Little Edie Beale and their niece and cousin Lee Radziwill, was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it was picked up for distribution this spring by Sundance Selects. Beales Reels Revealed

Alfred and David Maysles made Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith Bouvier Beale, affectionately known as Big and Little Edie, famous, but they weren’t the first to film at Grey Gardens, the mother and daughter’s ramshackle Georgica estate.

Feb 27, 2018
Act two of "La Boheme" 'La Boheme’ Simulcast on Saturday in East Hampton

The Met: Live in HD will present a simulcast of Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production of Puccini’s “La Boheme” on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at Guild Hall. Alicia Longwell, the chief curator of the Parrish Art Museum, will introduce the program.

Feb 20, 2018
Comedy Will Help Usher in HarborFrost Weekend

To kick off Sag Harbor’s HarborFrost weekend, Bay Street Theater will present a new All Star Standup Comedy program tomorrow evening at 8.

Feb 20, 2018
Jourdain Jongwon Lee's "Golem" will be at Iron Gate East gallery's pop up at Southampton Social Club beginning Saturday. The Art Scene: 02.22.18

Grenning Gallery celebrates HarborFrost; Newcomer Iron Gate East pops up in Southampton; Haweeli at St. Luke's

Feb 20, 2018
Some of the many readers of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday. ‘Vagina Monologues’

Readings of Eve Ensler’s Obie Award-winning play “The Vagina Monologues” will take place at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m.

Feb 20, 2018
The Oscar-nominated live action short “Watu Wote/All of Us” dramatizes a terrorist bus attack in Kenya in which Muslim passengers protect Christians. Oscar Noms on the Big Screen Before the Awards

Area theaters and venues are offering a chance to see Oscar nominated short films and features before the awards are announced on March 4.

Feb 20, 2018
A wall piece by Alice Hope, above, that resembles a coil of rope is actually constructed from dyed soda can tabs and tubing. The black-and-white organic forms in Hiroyuki Hamada’s large-scale prints, below, are similar to those found in his three-dimensional work. Hamada, Hope, and Hunt Take Guild Hall

Guild Hall will open three shows this weekend, including solo shows of Hiroyuki Hamada and Alice Hope, and a permanent collection show chosen by Bryan Hunt.

Feb 20, 2018
Almond Zigmund has been using an automatic drawing technique with collage to explore new ideas in her artwork. Some of these will inform the installation she plans for “A Radical Voice: 23 Women” at the Southampton Arts Center. Women’s Work, Radical Voices, 23 Artists

Long before time was up or people were saying “me too,” women in creative fields spent decades and even centuries fighting to have their voices heard and their output seen.

Feb 13, 2018
Water and Landscape, a Talk at Madoo

The Madoo Conservancy’s winter lecture series will feature a talk by Beka Sturges, an associate principal of Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architects, on Sunday at noon in Sagaponack.

Feb 13, 2018
Kline Does Coward at Guild Hall

Guild Hall will present an HD screening of the 2017 Broadway revival of Noel Coward’s “Present Laughter” on Saturday at 7 p.m.

Feb 13, 2018
A scene from "Dina," part of the Southampton Arts Center's new year-round film series Southampton Arts Center’s Commitment to Film

The Southampton Arts Center has announced a significant upgrade to its theater, including a new screen, surround sound system, state-of-the-art projector, and new seating, as well as a commitment to presenting critically acclaimed, independent films every Friday evening throughout the year.

Feb 13, 2018
The Art Scene: 02.15.18

Janet Lehr's “Valentine," four photographers at Tulla Booth, Virva Himmemo in NYC, and Southampton Artists Association members at the cultural center

Feb 13, 2018
A scene from "The Insult" HIFF Adds Sag Harbor Screenings to Winter Film Series

The Hamptons International Film Festival and Bay Street Theater are teaming up for four film screenings during February and March.

Feb 13, 2018
David Kennedy Cutler shares the space at the Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton with four mannequins who are generalized versions of himself. David Kennedy Cutler’s Quadrophenia on Newtown Lane

Staring into the front picture window or tuning into the live feed on the website of Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton, the current downstairs exhibition, “Off Season,” often looks like a tableau, static and formal, multiple mannequins posed just so to make an overall balanced composition.

Feb 13, 2018
Pretty Yende as Adina in “L’Elisir d’Amore,” the Met: Live in HD presentation at Guild Hall on Saturday Comic Opera

The Met: Live in HD will present a simulcast of Bartlett Sher’s new production of Donizetti’s comic opera “L’Elisir d’Amore” on Saturday at noon at Guild Hall. One of the most consistently popular operatic comedies since its premiere in Milan in 1832, the story centers on Nemorino, played by Matthew Polenzani, who is in love with Adina (Pretty Yende), who torments him with her indifference. Nemorino hopes a traveling quack’s love potion — the elixir of love — will answer his prayers.

Feb 6, 2018
Four-Hand Piano

Ellen Johansen and Marlene Markard will give a free four-hand piano concert on Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton. The East End pianists will perform a program of works written for piano duos, including Camille Saint-Saens’s “The Carnival of the Animals,” a Francis Poulenc sonata, and John Corigliano’s “Gazebo Dances.”

Feb 6, 2018
Robert Dash’s untitled oil-on-linen landscape is the first painting he felt “successfully showed layers of water bodies in the distance,” according to Alejandro Saralegui, the director of Madoo. Dash’s interest in the area’s waterways inspired this year’s winter lecture series. Focus on Waterways at Madoo

The Madoo Conservancy’s winter lecture series will feature three landscape architects who will discuss current and past projects with a focus on their effects on the waterways of the East End, starting Sunday.

Feb 6, 2018
For George Harrison

To celebrate what would have been George Harrison’s 75th birthday, Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will have two Beatles tribute nights tomorrow and Saturday at 8.

Feb 6, 2018
All About ‘Chicago’

Rob Marshall and John DeLuca will screen and discuss their film adaptation of the Broadway musical “Chicago” on Sunday in the Senior Lecture Hall at the Ross School in East Hampton as part of the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center’s American Values film series.

Feb 6, 2018
Audrey Flack, with one of her sculptures, is the 2018 Guild Hall Academy of the Arts recipient of a lifetime achievement award in visual art. And the Guild Hall 2018 Honorees Are . . .

Audrey Flack, Gail Sheehy, and Harris Yulin will be honored by the Guild Hall Academy of the Arts in New York City on March 5.

Feb 6, 2018
Music for Valentines

“A Musical Valentine,” a selection of love songs from the Great American Songbook performed by Karen Jolicoeur and Lars Woodul, will be presented on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the Montauk Library. William Lewis will accompany the vocalists on piano.

Feb 6, 2018
RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton is observing Black History Month with an exhibition titled “A Brief History,”with work such as “Orchids and Scorpions” by Alain Vaes. The Art Scene: 02.08.18

Romany Kramoris, who has operated her glass studio in Sag Harbor for the past 43 years, has received a scholarship from Urban Glass in Brooklyn, one of the leading glass art facilities in the country, to study advanced painted and stained-glass assemblage. “A Brief History,” an exhibition organized by Dexter Wimberly in celebration of Black History Month, will open with a reception on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. at RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton and remain on view through March 18.

Feb 6, 2018
Choral Society Auditions for Rossini Mass

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will hold auditions for an April 8 performance of Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle” during the evening of Feb. 12 at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.

Jan 30, 2018
“The Other Side of Hope” by Aki Kaurismaki will be screened at Bay Street Theater on Sunday as part of the Hamptons International Film Festival’s winter series. HIFF 'Now Showing' at Bay Street and More

The Hamptons International Film Festival will continue its Now Showing series in February with five screenings at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor and Guild Hall in East Hampton.

Jan 30, 2018
Latin Dance Classes in Southampton

The Southampton Cultural Center will continue its monthly celebrations of Latin dance on Saturday evening from 7 to 11.

Jan 30, 2018
The Art Scene: 02.01.18

Karen Mannix Contemporary's “Love and Passion” exhibition at Markel; the Drawing Room Gallery shows sculpture, painting, drawing, photographs, and prints, Ladd Bros on Shields at Parrish

Jan 30, 2018
A scene from "Indecent," which will be screened at Guild Hall on Saturday 'Indecent' and JDT Lab at Guild Hall This Week

Guild Hall will present BroadwayHD’s encore screening of “Indecent” on Saturday at 7 p.m. and the JDT Lab will present "Small Among the Infinite Stars" on Tuesday.

Jan 30, 2018