Arts

Over the last several months, the guitarist G.E. Smith has brought a number of unique performances to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. In October, he, Jim Weider, and Larry Campbell presented “Masters of the Telecaster,” an ensemble performance in which each played his favored electric guitar, the Fender Telecaster.

“Chuck Close,” a documentary by Marion Cajori, will be screened Friday, June 19, at 6 p.m., at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, where an exhibition of the artist’s photographs is on view.

“Best of Enemies,” a documentary by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville about the 1968 television debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr., will inaugurate the Hampton International Film Festival’s SummerDocs series on July 11.

The Watermill Center will present an open rehearsal of “Flying Point,” a multimedia portrait of the contemporary Shinnecock community and the tribe’s history, on Saturday.

Many new shows open with new materials and interesting installations.

The Perlman Music Program will present “Classical Collaborations” concerts at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons on Saturday and at the Southampton Cultural Center on Sunday.

“All My Sons,” starring Alec Baldwin and Laurie Metcalf in Arthur Miller’s 1947 play based on a true story of industrial corruption during World War II, will open Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Guild Hall and run through June 28. Stephen Hamilton will direct.

During the run of its mainstage production “The New Sincerity,” Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor is filling the few empty slots on its calendar with new programs.

Innovative technologies are used in new cutting edge shows on the East End. The siren call of nautical themes is heard as maritime exhibits open this weekend.

The Parrish Art Museum’s Sounds of Summer music series will take a new turn tomorrow at 6 p.m. when Dave Harvey, a professional caller and founder of New York City Barn Dance, and Dunegrass, an East End bluegrass group, will lead an evening of traditional American contra dance on the museum’s outdoor terrace.

Lovers of classical music have a lot to choose from this season, starting on June 7 with a kick-off chamber music workshop concert at the Perlman Music Program’s Clark Arts Center on Shelter Island.

The John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor will present a three-part Chinese film festival organized by Ou Wang, a Mandarin teacher at the Ross School, beginning next Thursday at 6 p.m. with a screening of “To Live,” a film by Yimou Zhang about a family’s struggles to live in China from the 1940s to the 1970s Cultural Revolution.

The Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue finishes off its 30th season with “Hay Fever,” the Noel Coward comedy of English mores.

What's happening on the arts scene this week.

The East Hampton Historical Society has arranged a tour of Box Hill, the historic private Stanford White compound in St. James, on May 30.

If the name Geoffrey Drummond is not familiar, it should be. For years, the East Hampton-based producer and director has provided armchair epicureans the vicarious thrill of watching others perform miraculous feats in the kitchen.

Our Fabulous Variety Show, a troupe of actors devoted to refining their craft while raising funds and awareness for both local and national nonprofits, will hold open auditions for a future production.

With the unofficial start of summer upon us, music is about to fill the air, indoors and out, in the golden sunlight and late into the starry night.

The Rising Stars Piano Series at the Southampton Cultural Center will conclude its spring series with a recital by Orion Weiss on Saturday at 7 p.m. His program will include works by Beethoven and American composers in celebration of Memorial Day.

The next iteration of Saturdays @ WMC, the Watermill Center’s free programs of activities for families, will take place Saturday.

Sounds of Summer will return to the covered terrace of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill this summer, kicking off tomorrow at 6 p.m. with the HooDoo Loungers, the nine-piece New Orleans party band whose repertoire incorporates traditional New Orleans jazz, brass band standards, classic R&B, and funk.

Remember 1975? Those alive that year would have witnessed the fall of Saigon, two assassination attempts on President Gerald R. Ford, the conviction and sentencing of three key Nixon administration officials due to Watergate, and the premiere of “Saturday Night Live.”

The Memorial Day weekend kicks off the summer season with a flood of art openings. Don't miss “A Whale of a Show,” at The Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum with artwork selected by Dan Rizzie and Peter Marcelle.

It’s time to get out the calendars and save the dates for the South Fork’s annual round of summer benefits. Beginning with Planned Parenthood on Sunday and finishing up with the Box Art Auction for East End Hospice at a yet to be determined date in September, the season is full of opportunities to socialize and help out good causes.

Guild Hall will present “The Thirteen Clocks,” a theatrical piece inspired by James Thurber’s novel and adapted by Strangemen & Co., on Saturday at 7 p.m. The free performance will conclude the group’s weeklong residency at the John Drew Theater. A reception with the performers will follow in the Minikes Garden.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor is breaking out the big guns during the coming week with Paula Poundstone, the Emmy Award-winning comedian, bringing her stand-up act to the theater on Saturday evening at 8, and the world premiere of “The New Sincerity,” a comedy written by Alena Smith and directed by Bob Balaban, opening on Tuesday and running through June 14.

“Magical Jews: The Life and Times of Great Jewish Magicians,” a free talk by Allan Zola Kronzek about the enormous contribution of Jews to magic from the 1840s through the 1930s, will take place next Thursday at Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor.

Robert Harms makes paintings you want to inhale, lie beside, wallow in. In a little cottage on Little Fresh Pond in Southampton, he bides the time, season by season, absorbing his surroundings through eyes that transmute the air and landscape into a distillation of time and place.

The sixth annual Montauk Music Festival, featuring artists old and new, homegrown and hailing from as far as Texas, begins tonight with an opening party at Gurney’s Inn. From tonight until the festival’s conclusion on Sunday, Montauk will rock to more than 300 performances by some 80 acts at over 30 venues.

“Hay Fever,” Noel Coward’s comedy of bad English manners, will conclude the 30th anniversary season of the Hampton Theatre Company with a run from next Thursday through June 7 at the Quogue Community Hall.