Arts

Our Fabulous Variety Show, an East End troupe of actors whose theatrical performances help raise money for nonprofits here, will present its 11th production, “Our Adventures in Wonderland,” at Guild Hall in East Hampton starting tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. and continuing with two programs on Saturday and three next weekend.

“Instruments of the People,” a free concert by Francisco Roldan, a classical guitarist, and Danny Mallon, a percussionist, will take place at the Montauk Library on Sunday afternoon at 3:30.

The Rising Stars Piano Series will return to the Southampton Cultural Center for its 13th season with a two-piano program featuring Natalia Lavrova and Vassily Primakov on Saturday at 7 p.m.

The Amagansett Library will host a free concert by Jim Campagnola, a saxophonist, keyboardist, composer, and bandleader, today at 6:30 p.m.

This summer, Taylor Rose Berry finally finished “White Noise” by Don DeLillo. While not earth-shattering news to most, it will be of interest to her friends, patrons, and those who attended the PechaKucha night at the Parrish Art Museum in June. During her talk that evening, Ms. Berry detailed her struggles with that book and how it led to her first and only failing grade on a term paper.

The Southampton Culture Center, on Pond Lane in Southampton Village will have a group show of local artists selected by Christina Strassfield, the director and senior curator at Guild Hall’s museum. The Sara Nightingale Gallery in Water Mill will show “Danish Design Meets American Art”, an interesting match-up of Danish home furnishings and contemporary art.

oe Delia and Thieves will bring a repertoire of rock and blues to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor tomorrow evening at 8. A keyboardist, record producer, and writer, Mr. Delia has not only worked onstage with Keith Richards, Bruce Springsteen, and Stevie Wonder, he has also composed scores for feature films, documentaries, and television.

In the early 1990s, when she was in working toward her M.F.A. at Rutgers, Christina Schlesinger was feeling lost. “I asked myself, ‘When did I feel great?’ and I decided it was when I was a tomboy. I had all this energy and spunk.” She embarked on a series of works she calls “Tomboys.”

The Montauk Library will present a free performance of “The Past Is Still Ahead,” a play by Sophia Romma based on the life of Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, a Russian poet who died in 1941 while exiled in Siberia, on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

The All Star Comedy Show, hosted by Joseph Vecsey, will return to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor tomorrow at 8 p.m. Dante Nero, a Brooklyn-born actor and comedian will headline and Kate Wolff and Eric Neumann will also be featured.

Although the box office for the Hamptons International Film Festival doesn’t open until Sept. 26, its organizers are attracting early interest with intermittent announcements of its significant films.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will hold open auditions for its production of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” on Sept. 21 from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 to 6 p.m. The production, which will be directed by Joe Minutillo, will run from Nov. 9 through Nov. 29.

Stacy Sullivan, a vocalist with six CDs on her resumé, will perform “It’s a Good Day: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee,” her live show about the music and life of the late singer, at the Southampton Cultural Center on Saturday evening at 7.

Selections of short documentaries from Telluride Mountainfilm, one of the United States’ longest-running film festivals, will be presented Saturday and Sunday evenings at 7:30 at the Southampton Arts Center.

Antonio Asis and Costantino Nivola will be at The Drawing Room in East Hampton. Don't miss this chance to see works by two artists with a lifelong commitment to the study of light and form.

Uniphi Good, an East Hampton and Manhattan management, marketing, and media company that emphasizes selfless action and universally beneficial outcomes, will present its second annual East End Music and Arts Festival from next Thursday through Sept. 19.

Florence Fabricant, food writer for The New York Times and author of 11 (soon to be 12) cookbooks, remembers having lunch with her father when she was 8 years old at Le Cafe Chambord at La Cote Basque, one of the most elegant restaurants in Manhattan until it closed in 1964.

For the third consecutive Labor Day weekend, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will present an evening of bluegrass and barbecue with the Ebony Hillbillies, tomorrow from 5 to 8 p.m. on its covered terrace.

The 15th annual Box Art Auction benefiting East End Hospice will be held Sept. 12 from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at the Ross School Lower Campus Field House in Bridgehampton. For those who wish a sneak peek, the boxes are on view today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Hoie Hall at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton.

The vocalists Bobby Peterson and Joy Jones, joined by Jessica Harika, will perform a selection of piano solos, musical theater, opera, and spirituals tomorrow evening at 7 at Hoie Hall, the parish house of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton.

The Neo-Political Cowgirls’ “Eve,” a dance-theater performance during which the audience wanders at will through an 11-room set, will have its premiere from Sunday through Oct. 1 at The Gym at Judson, at 243 Thompson Street in Manhattan.

The Watermill Center has announced its roster of artists in residence for September through January. Each artist will spend two to six weeks at the center to create collaborative works that investigate and challenge the norms of performance.

Guild Hall will celebrate Labor Day weekend with George Bernard Shaw and rock ’n’ roll, though not on the same program. A concert staging of “Don Juan in Hell,” the third act dream sequence of Shaw’s play “Man and Superman,” will be presented tomorrow at 8 p.m.

The Conservative Synagogue of the Hamptons will present “Music Talks,” a concert and discussion by Elad Kabilio, an Israeli cellist, on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. at the social hall of Queen of Most Holy Rosary Church in Bridgehampton.

An online auction of artist-designed surfboards for the benefit of LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will culminate Saturday with a party at that venue from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The boards can be previewed and bids submitted at paddle8.com.

A noted rock ’n’ roll photographer, Steve Joester, will open Saturday at Lawrence Fine Art in East Hampton with “From London to Havana: Rock and the Rhythm,”. Mica Marder explores the East End’s coastal wildlife in a series of large-scale assemblages at the Silas Marder Gallery in Bridgehampton on Saturday.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will celebrate its 70th anniversary season with a dramatic selection of works suitable for such an event, including a work commissioned from Victoria Bond to be performed early next summer.

As a child in Santa Barbara, the first thing Celeste Gainey wanted to be when she grew up was a poet. That ambition was fully realized in March with the publication by Red Hen Press of her first book, “The Gaffer,” from which she will read selections at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton on Tuesday.

The Montauk Library will present a musical change of pace on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., with a free performance by the Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O’s Celtic band.

Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber were editing their film “Peace Officer,” a documentary about the militarization of America’s police forces, when, on Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown was killed by a policeman in Ferguson, Mo.