Arts

"Death of a Salesman" is the next production of Literature LIve! at Bay Street Theater.

The 80th birthday of Tom Paxton, the folk icon and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner, who lived for many years in East Hampton, was celebrated on Sunday with a concert at the Schimmel Center at Pace University in New York City.

“Heart of Darkness" at Jeff Lincoln and Kaapcke at Artist Study in Southampton; "Starbridges" in Amagansett; artist submissions wanted at Ille and White Room

Hugh Patrick Brown, a retired photojournalist, has been to Northern Ireland, China, and Cambodia, but at his East Hampton residence he recalled his first assignment for People magazine.

Auditions for both high school students and adults for a production of “Romeo and Juliet” will be held at Guild Hall on Friday, Nov. 3, from 6 to 9 p.m., and Nov. 4 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Rehearsals will take place evenings and weekends in January, February, and March, and performances are scheduled for March 14 through March 25. Josh Gladstone will direct.

“Bach, Before and Beyond,” a concert series directed by Walter Klauss, will launch its new season on Sunday afternoon at 3 at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor. Mary Hubbell, a soprano, will perform “Bach to Broadway,” a program of music by Bach, Fauré, and Mozart, as well as show tunes by Gershwin, Lerner and Lowe, and Rodgers and Hammerstein.

The East End Special Players are celebrating their 30th year with a performance of their first completely original play. “Trouble in Jamaica: A Stinking Dirty Musical,” a farce set in a downbeat apartment building somewhere in Jamaica, Queens, will be presented on Saturday at Guild Hall.

Neil Simon once said, “The simplest aspect of farce is you need a lot of doors. And you need people to go running in and out of them, just missing each other.” Check, and check.

A concert by Niccolo Ronchi will conclude the fall Salon Series at the Parrish Art Museum tomorrow with a program loosely inspired by Halloween.

Five at Ashawagh; Haim Mizrahi at the art gallery at the Center for Jewish Life; "Hidden Desires" at White Room; Cheng & Weil at Ille Arts, and two new shows at Halsey Mckay

“Clever Little Lies,” Joe DiPietro’s comedy, will open the Hampton Theatre Company’s 2017-18 season today in Quogue.

At the centenary of Syd Solomon’s birth, it is time to celebrate the artist for his unique contributions to painting.

Ashawagh Hall in Springs will host an exhibition of work by Veronica Mahoney, Bo Parsons, and Charles Newman Antiques on Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. A reception will take place Saturday from 5 to 7. Guild Hall has announced that it is accepting applications to the 2018 Guild House Artist-in-Residence program through Nov. 10. Open to early career artists in the visual, literary, and performing arts, it is not a studio-based program but rather an opportunity for reflection and the development of supportive and collaborative relationships.

The Art of Song concert series will present Steve Washington, a jazz and blues vocalist, on Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Session House of the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.

Nancy Atlas and Joseph Vecsey, two mainstays of Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, will perform this weekend, with the Nancy Atlas Project set to rock the venue tomorrow at 8 p.m. and a new All Star Comedy show lined up for Saturday night at 8.

How exactly did “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” come to be such a tradition, and is there anything behind the surface meaning?

Michael Disher reflects on a long career in theater and the past 10 years at the Southampton Cultural Center.

The Gloriosa Piano Trio, experienced chamber musicians who often work with living composers, will perform in the Salon Series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m.

An encore screening of Vincenzo Bellini’s opera “Norma,” which opened the new season of the Met: Live in HD two weeks ago, will take place at Guild Hall on Saturday at 1 p.m. The new production of the bel canto tragedy is conducted by Carlo Rizzi and directed by David McVicar. It stars Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role, which the soprano Renata Scotto has called “the Everest of opera.”

Three new exhibitions — “Recollection: Selections From the Permanent Collection,” “Yektai,” and “Pamela Top­­ham” — will open on Saturday at Guild Hall and remain on view through Dec. 31.

There’s more than immediately meets the eye in the work of Michele Dragonetti. In a year like this, it is particularly true, as more and more of her work has met more and more sets of eyes in a round robin of perpetual exhibition on the South Fork.

In an unusual move, Christie's auction house is including a recently rediscovered masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci along with Andy Warhol's "Sixty Last Suppers" in its Post-War and Contemporary Art sales this year.

“Syd Solomon: Time and Tide,” a centenary exhibition of paintings by the influential Abstract Expressionist, will open tonight at 6 with a reception at the Berry Campbell Gallery in Chelsea. It will run through Nov. 11. “Elemental Forces,” an exhibition of three-dimensional monochrome canvases and colorful oil paintings by Thomas Buhler, will open at Art Space 98 in East Hampton with a reception on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. and continue through Nov. 12.

Sotheby’s November sales of modern and contemporary art will be enlivened and enriched by the inclusion of a significant collection of works on paper owned by Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and Carl Spielvogel, who have long had a house in Southampton.

“A lot of movie stars are movie stars because they basically play themselves all the time,” Bob Balaban said to Annette Bening. "You become other people."

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present a performance tomorrow by Mike Marshall, a mandolinist, and Darol Anger, who plays violin, and an evening of cabaret on Saturday with Judy Carmichael, a Grammy-nominated pianist, singer, and songwriter. Both shows will begin at 8 p.m.

The Met: Live in HD will bring its new season to Guild Hall on Saturday at 1 p.m. with Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute).” James Levine, the Met’s music director emeritus, will conduct the full-length version of the magical fable, with Golda Schultz, Kathryn Lewek, Charles Castronovo, Markus Werba, and Christian Van Horn among the cast members. Tickets are $22, $20 for museum members, and $15 for students.

All of Marianna Levine's worlds will come together Tuesday night at the reading of her play "A Night in Manoa" at Guild Hall.

The Salon Series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will feature Arianna Korting and Robin Giesbrecht in a recital of works for piano four hands and solo piano tomorrow evening at 6. “Piano four hands” refers to a duet played side by side on a single piano, as opposed to works composed for two pianos.

In partnership with the Jam Session, the Southampton Arts Center will present a concert by the South African All-Stars on Saturday at 7 p.m.