Arts

“Giovanni the Fearless,” a new commedia dell’arte folk opera about actors, young lovers, and ghosts, with music by Mira J. Spektor and book and lyrics by Carolyn Balducci, will have its premiere at the Theater for the New City in Manhattan with an eight-performance run beginning tomorrow at 8 p.m.

Those of us who missed out on the debut of Bach’s secular cantatas at the Cafe Zimmermann in Leipzig or Edith Piaf at Parisian cabarets can capture that essence at a concert in Southampton.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons has named a new administrative director, Elizabeth Zung, who has extensive experience recruiting and managing volunteer groups for fund-raising events for nonprofit organizations. She succeeds David Brandenburg, who has held the position for four years.

Marion Grodin, a frequent headliner at New York City’s top comedy clubs, will host a new All Star Comedy Show at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor tomorrow at 8 p.m.

“On View,” a solo exhibition of work by Benjamin Keating, will be on view at the Tripoli Gallery in Southampton from tomorrow through June 11. A reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. The Eastville Community Historical Society of Sag Harbor is presenting “Maxine’s World,” a solo show of work by the artist Maxine Townsend-Broderick.

Victoria Bond will speak before a broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera's "Der Rosenkavalier" and the JDT Lab will present a reading of "Detroit" this week.

The Salon Series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will continue tomorrow at 6 p.m. with a performance by Tanya Bannister.

Valerie diLorenzo, a singer and actor who has performed frequently in New York City, on the East End, and throughout the United States, will host the East End Singers Showcase at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday at 7 p.m.

Milos Repicky, who, with his wife, Lilah Gosman, directs the Montauk Music Festival, promises “everything from the most intimate song to a Mozart symphony this season,” and, judging from the program of the festival’s Spring Prelude, he plans to make good on that promise. The prelude, a free concert on Saturday afternoon at 4 at the Montauk School auditorium, will launch the festival’s 2017 season.

After a 30-year hiatus as a cabinetmaker, Mark Webber, a Sag Harbor resident, returned to sculpture.

“Abstract Anarchy,” an exhibition of paintings by Barbara Bilotta, Jessica Singer, Melissa Hin, and June Kaplan, will open tomorrow at the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton. A reception will take place Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. “Music Sheets,” a show of paintings by Haim Mizrahi, will be on view at Ashawagh Hall in Springs Saturday and Sunday. A reception will be held Saturday from 4 to 9 p.m., and a reading by local poets will take place Sunday afternoon at 3.

Bay Street Theater’s sixth annual Honors Benefit: Curtain Up! will take place on May 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in Manhattan.

Duchess, a vocal trio in the tradition of the Boswell Sisters, will perform at the Bridgehampton Museum’s archive building as part of Parlor Jazz/Art of Song series on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The group consists of Amy Cervini, Hilary Gardner, and Melissa Stylianou.

One writer's endurance trial in witnessing the full program of new play readings at Bay Street Theater

"Alt-Egos," organized by Scott Bluedorn, is being shown in a potato barn studio in Amagansett through May 26.

The Israel Chamber Project will perform at the Parrish Art Museum on Saturday in Water Mill.

The Perlman Music Program will present a violin recital by Kenneth Renshaw on Saturday afternoon followed by a reception for Virginia Khuri's photography show.

An encore screening of the National Theatre Live production of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” and the Oscar-nominated film "Hidden Figures" will be screened at Guild Hall this week.

Our Fabulous Variety Show will present its first 2017 production, “Tap: An Evening of Rhythm,” starting next Thursday and continuing on Friday, May 12, and May 13, at 7:30 p.m. at Guild Hall.

On Sunday the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will open “John Graham: Maverick Modernist,” the first retrospective of his work in 30 years.

The Verona Quartet, a winner of the 2015 Concert Artists Guild Competition, will perform at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton on Saturday afternoon at 5 p.m.

The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs will reopen next Thursday with “East End Art World, August 1953: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro.” The exhibition will continue through July 29. Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor is presenting its annual Spring Flower Show from today through May 25, with a reception scheduled for Saturday from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The exhibition features a variety of styles ranging from realism to impressionism.

Yoonah Kim belongs to that class of musician, who through natural ability, the hard work of mastering their instrument, or, most likely, a combination of the two, is destined for greatness.

Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater will present its annual New Works Festival this weekend with free readings of four plays in development, starting tomorrow evening at 7 with “Molly Sweeney: A New Musical,” which is based on the play by Brian Friel.

Leaves are budding. Daffodils are popping. Tulips are a-bloom. What would make this South Fork springtime scene more complete? “Rites of Spring,” the official opening event of LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton would.

“Sirens,” a new opera by the composer and conductor Victoria Bond, will have its world premiere on Monday at 7:30 p.m., at Symphony Space on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, part of that venue’s Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival, which was founded by Ms. Bond 20 years ago. The program will also include operas by William Anderson and Frank Brickle.

After a 12-year hiatus, Warren Strugatch is back with his salon-style series, “Out of the Question” to address the lost art of conversation in the digital age.

The Watermill Center’s “In Process” series has a specific mission. As she introduced Saturday’s program of works-in-progress by three current resident artists — Carrie Mae Weems, Lexy Ho-Tai, and Lotte Nielsen — Elka Rivkin, the center’s director, said, “We try to do something in the middle of each residency that gives an audience an opportunity for a window into what the creative process is, or could be, for different artists.”

Like a breath of fresh air, 11 young artists ranging in age from 18 to 29 have taken over Ille Arts, bringing about a kind of spring renewal in Amagansett.

Divaria Productions will present Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte” at the Bay Street Theater on Saturday evening at 8.