Mark Segal

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The Reflections in Music series, which brings classical music to new audiences and inspires new ways for experienced music lovers to engage with the classical experience, will return to The Church in Sag Harbor with “Turning Points” Friday night at 6. Each work in the program represents a pivotal moment — personal, artistic, or historical — that changed the course of music and of the composer who created the piece.

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“Mister Halston,” which traces the well-known fashion designer’s rise, fame, and ultimate fall, will kick off the Bay Street Theater’s 11th annual Title Wave Festival on Monday at 7 p.m. Three more works, selected from several hundred submissions, will follow in June; one about a middle-aged widow in the dating pool, another set in 1953 Iran during the C.I.A. coup that put the Shah on the throne, and the last about a journalist fired for racist comments.

1 week ago | easthamptonstar.com | Mark Segal

The Met: Live in HD will send a live transmission of Rossini’s comedy “The Barber of Seville” to Guild Hall on Saturday at 1 p.m. Premiered in Rome in 1816, “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” survived a disastrous opening night to become one of the world’s most popular comic operas. Count Almaviva, disguised as a student, falls in love with Rosina, a young woman under the care of Dr. Bartolo.

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“Smorgasbord” at Firestone“Smorgasbord,” a show of work by more than 20 artists that celebrates variety and difference, both within the individual artworks and in the show at large, is on view at Eric Firestone Gallery in East Hampton through June 22. The artists in this cross-generational exhibition, according to the gallery, are unafraid to mix and collide referents, mediums, materials, inspirations, and motifs, creating densely layered artworks reflecting a diversity of experiences.

1 week ago | easthamptonstar.com | Mark Segal

Open CallThe Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue will hold non-equity auditions for “The Thanksgiving Play” by Larissa FastHorse on Sunday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. and Monday from 5:30 to 8 at the Quogue Community Hall. Ms. FastHorse became the first known Native American female playwright to have work produced on Broadway when “The Thanksgiving Play” opened at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater in 2023.