New York premiere of 'Becky's New Car'

WHAT "Becky's New Car" -- it looks like a pink Cadillac, also featured in the Rolling Stones song, "Dead Flowers" -- is a comedy by Steven Dietz about a woman who tries to drive away from her own life. The Hampton Theatre Company production is a New York area premiere.

WHEN | WHERE Thursday night at 7, Friday and Saturday nights at 8, Sunday at 2:30 p.m., Thursday at 7 p.m. through April 1, Quogue Community Hall, 125 Jessup Ave.

INFO $25, $23 seniors, $10 students except on Saturdays; hamptontheatre.org, 631-653-8955

PLUS: 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'

WHAT Center Stage presents Christopher Hampton's "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" (Dangerous Liaisons), based on the scandalous 1782 novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. The Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont are rivals who use sex for leverage. One target is married, another claims to be virtuous.

WHEN | WHERE Thursday-Saturday nights at 8, Sunday at 2:30 p.m., through April 1, Southampton Cultural Center, 25 Pond Lane

INFO $12-$22; scc-arts.org, 631-287-4377

MUSIC: Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

WHAT The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra -- not the original, of course -- brings its big-band sound to the Tilles stage for a matinee concert. Jimmy and brother Tommy introduced the world to a young singer named Frank Sinatra in the 1940s. The Dorsey band, now led by trombonist Bill Tole, accompanies some new voices, collectively known as the Pied Pipers, singing such wartime hits as "I'll Never Smile Again."

WHEN | WHERE 3 p.m. Sunday, Tilles Center, LIU Post, Brookville

INFO $32-$52; tillescenter.org, 516-299-3100

PLUS: Gatsby-era supper club show

WHAT Rebecca Luker, twice nominated for a Tony ("Show Boat" and "Music Man" revivals) joins composer Steven Lutvak and singers Michael McElvoy and Kathy Voytko in an evening of cabaret at Sands Point Preserve's Hempstead House -- transformed for the occasion into a Gatsby-era supper club.

WHEN | WHERE 7 p.m. Saturday, Hempstead House, Sands Point Preserve, Sands Point

INFO $100-$360, including buffet dinner, wine, champagne, Irish coffee, dessert; thesandspointpreserve.com, 516-571-7901

ART: 'Across Time & Place'

WHAT You still have time to catch "Across Time & Place: Treasures from the Permanent Collection" at the Heckscher Museum. The Huntington museum's limited, ever-revolving permanent collection space features 19th-century landscapes and figure paintings by European and American masters as well as Cubist and Abstract Expressionist works from the last century. But you can't miss, or shouldn't, Etienne Berne-Bellecour's monumental "Embarkation Maneuver." The painting documents the 1882 departure of an armored cavalry regiment at the end of the Franco-Prussian War.

WHEN | WHERE Through March 25, Heckscher Museum of Art, 2 Prime Ave., Huntington. Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends, 10 to 4 p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays

INFO $8, $6 seniors, $5 children, free for children younger than 10, discounts for Huntington residents; 631-351-3250, heckscher.org