Strictly Watercolors

“Water+Color+Works,” an exhibition of work by nine South Fork artists who share a fondness for the watercolor medium, will be on view at Ashawagh Hall in Springs tomorrow through Sunday. A reception will be held on Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

While most of the artists have cited nature as an inspiration, their paintings range from pure abstraction to more recognizable imagery, but in all cases color and shape take precedence over strict realism.

The participating artists are Kirsten Benfield, Johanna Caleca, Barbara DiLorenzo, Lesley Obrock, Kate Rabinowitz, Janet Rojas, Gerry Sacks, Jerry Schwabe, and Carol Craig Sigler. The gallery will be open Friday from 4 to 7 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday from 11 to 4.

New at Ille Arts

Ille Arts in Amagansett is presenting “Out of the Box,” a two-person exhibition of work by Deborah Buck and John Monti, from today through June 20. A reception will take place on May 27 from 5 to 8 p.m.

Ms. Buck, who lives in Sagaponack and New York City, will show 25 paintings from the past year. She has begun to combine Japanese Sumi ink with her layered compositions of acrylic, pastel, chalk, and glitter.

Mr. Monti will exhibit five sculptures from his “Flower Series,” which can be seen, in his words, “as fetishes born of nature and finish. These sculptures represent dense amalgams of vegetation. Twisting vines and floral forms of invention are cast in resin and coated with a high-gloss finish.”

Group Show at RJD

“No Boundaries,” a group exhibition at RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton, will open on Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through June 20.

Among the participating artists are Rich Garland, who creates dramatically lit images of vast, derelict industrial spaces; Jesse Lane, whose intense figures emerge from darkness into light, and Pamela Wilson, whose isolated characters seem enmeshed in mysterious narratives.

The show will also include work by Jack Gerber, Jules Arthur, Yana Movchan, Armando Valero, and Gabriel Moreno.

Two Realists at Grenning

Paintings by two classically trained realists, Carl Bretzke and John Morfis, are on view through June 4 at the Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor. Despite a large portfolio of landscapes and cityscapes, Mr. Bretske develops his work in the studio as well as outdoors. His nighttime landscapes, usually unpeopled, have a lonely, melancholy quality that recalls the work of Edward Hopper.

Much of Mr. Morfis’s work focuses with trompe l’oeil accuracy on single objects, among them fishing lures, tools, horseshoes, a gardening trowel, and oarlocks. His subjects reflect his growing up in a family of talented Long Island tradespeople.

The Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue will present “Alarms and Excursions,” Michael Frayn’s 1998 comedy, in a three-week run beginning next Thursday evening at 7.

The play actually consists of eight comic sketches that are linked by the mayhem and embarrassment caused by various forms of technology. In the opening sketch, for example, a dinner party is wrecked by faulty smoke alarms, buzzing timers, and a corkscrew so complex that it sends its user to the hospital. Answering machines, burglar alarms, and airline safety announcements are also skewered for laughs.

The production stars Andrew Botsford, Rosemary Cline, George A. Loizides, and Jane Lowe. Diane Marbury directs. Performances will take place Thursdays and Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays, May 27 and June 10, at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2:30. Tickets are $30 for adults, $25 for senior citizens (except Saturday evenings), $15 for those under 35, and $10 for students. An HTC benefit performance will happen on June 3 at 6:30 p.m.

The Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor will present the season’s final concert in the Bach, Before and Beyond series on Sunday at 3 p.m. Walter Klauss, artistic director of the series, has commissioned a concerto composed specifically for the church’s historic 19th-century organ. The work is scored for organ, string quartet, and percussion.

The program will also include two Baroque cantatas for mezzo-soprano, strings, and harpsichord, sung by Barbara Fusco, and Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet in F, which will be performed by Poetica Ensemble. Tickets are $20 at the door and can also be purchased at the Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor.

The Salon Series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will continue tomorrow at 6 p.m. with a performance by Tanya Bannister, an internationally acclaimed classical pianist who has performed in Amsterdam, Paris, London, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.

Ms. Bannister’s program includes Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, and Massiaen. A reception with the artist will follow. Tickets are $20, $10 for members.

The Rising Stars Piano Series at the Southampton Cultural Center, which features performances by participants and alumni of Pianofest of the Hamptons, will present a concert by the piano duo Arianna Korting and Robin Giesbrecht on Saturday evening at 7.

The duo will perform works by Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Borodin, and Milhaud. Tickets are $20.

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.

Ms. Grodin has shared the stage with Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, Rosanne Barr, and Robin Williams, among others. Her fellow performers will be Angelo Lozada (NBC’s “Showtime at the Apollo” and BET’s “Comic View”) and Brad Trackman (“The Late Late Show” and “Comics Unleashed”). Tickets are $30 in advance, $40 the day of the show.

FM: A Steely Dan Tribute, a 12-piece band that has been performing the Steely Dan songbook for almost 20 years, will return to Bay Street on Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30, $35 the day of the show.

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.

The evening will feature East End and New York talent performing a mix of material from Broadway, Pop, and the Great American Songbook. Peter Pece will accompany the performers on piano.

“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.

Ms. Balducci, who is the program director at the Montauk Library, has written novels, poetry, nonfiction, plays, articles, and reviews. Ms. Spektor, who has a house in East Hampton, is also a lyricist and poet with many chamber operas and musicals to her credit. The play’s projections are by Bank Street Films, which was co-founded by Gabriel Spektor, her grandson. 

Tickets are $18, $10 for children. More information is available from the theater’s website.

Mixed Media in Sag

The Eastville Community Historical Society of Sag Harbor is presenting “Maxine’s World,” a solo show of work by the artist Maxine Townsend-Broderick. The exhibition, which includes quilts, stained glass, sand art, paintings, etchings, drawings, and ceramics, will be on view until June 17.              

Ms. Townsend-Broderick has work­ed in oils, watercolor, mixed media, fabric and sand painting, mural painting, printmaking, etching, collages, photography, encaustics, sculpture, jewelry making, doll making, quilt making, web design, and stained glass. She is a member of the Long Island Black Artists’ Association, as well as the Long Island Quilters’ Society.

The exhibition is open Saturdays from 1 to 4 p.m. and Wednesdays from 1 to 5.

Benjamin Keating at Tripoli

“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.

Mr. Keating, who has a metal-casting facility in Jersey City, N.J., will show some of his most recent works, all of which are unique and hand-cast in aluminum and bronze. 

Included are small wood chairs that are broken, reassembled with frames and supports to hold them together, then frozen by hot metals. 

The artist had a studio in Bridgehampton from 1998 to 2000.

Beth O’Donnell in Manhattan

Beth O’Donnell, who lives off Swamp Road in East Hampton, will have an exhibition of mixed-media works at the Heiberg Cummings Gallery on Washington Street in Manhattan from Wednesday through Aug. 17. A reception will be held Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m.

The show will include 42 6-by-6-inch photographs that are mounted on birch panel and covered with layers of encaustic wax and paint. All the photos were shot on the East End.

Cuba Book Campaign 

Tria Giovan, a part-time resident of Sag Harbor, spent part of the 1990s in Cuba on a series of monthlong trips. A professional and art photographer, she has gathered the images she took there for a book to be published in September called “The Cuba Archive: Photography From 1990s Cuba.”

The book, designed by Yolanda Cuomo, includes 120 photographs with an essay by Silvana Paternostro, a Colombian-born journalist. To raise money for the production, Ms. Giovan has an Indiegogo online campaign with several perks for supporters, including a signed book at the lower end and signed limited edition prints of the photographs for larger contributions. The campaign will continue through Monday.

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.

The concert will include Mozart’s Piano Quartet in G minor; Debussy’s “La Fille aux Cheveux du Lin,” performed in an arrangement for a string quartet; Francis Poulenc’s “Fiancailles Pour Rire,” and Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Quintet in D minor. The program will conclude with Bellini’s “Qui la voce Sua Soave” from “I Puritani,” which will be performed by the entire Music for Montauk ensemble.

The musicians will include Annaliesa Place (violin), Diego Garcia (cello), and Mr. Repicky (piano). They will be joined by Joanna Maurer (violin) from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Angela Pickett (viola) of Sybarite 5. Emily Pogorelc, a soprano, will provide “eloquent lyricism and requisite vocal fireworks for the program,” according to the festival.

A post-concert Spring Awakening party will be held from 5:30 to 7 at Gosman’s restaurant. Reception tickets are $35 in advance, $40 at the door.

The festival’s summer series will take place from Aug. 20 through Aug. 27 with concerts at Third House (Montauk County Park), Fort Pond House, and the Art Barge, a new venue that will feature the Pedro Giraudo Trio performing “Mozart for Montauk” and a sunset salon of new works.

The season will conclude on Oct. 29 with a staged version of Hugo Wolf’s “Italienisches Liederbuch” under the leadership of the pianist Mikael Eliasen of the Curtis Institute.