Kelly B. Darr at Woodbine

 The Woodbine Collection in Montauk will open “Epic Presence,” an exhibition of mixed-media artworks by the Montauk artist Kelly B. Darr, with a reception tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will continue through Jan. 8.

Ms. Darr combines painting and drawing with her use of a thermal plate to impress micrometals into the piece. The results can be incandescent, iridescent, or shiny. Ms. Darr has described her work as “a process of postmodernist Rococo, which happens to be very Baroque.”

“Oil Works” in Amagansett

“Oil Works” will open today at the Amagansett Library and remain on view through Dec. 31. A reception will be held tomorrow afternoon from 4 to 6. Participating artists are Kirsten Benfield, Johanna Caleca, Marilyn Goldstein, Kathie Hayden, and Peggy Sherrill.

Our Fabulous Variety Show will present a double-barreled sendup of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” this weekend at Guild Hall, starting tomorrow evening at 7:30 with the first of three performances of “The New Christmas Carol.” 

Written by Anita Boyer and Kasia Klimiuk, the founders and artistic directors of the Southampton theatrical troupe, “The New Christmas Carol” is the story of Neeza Scrooge, the daughter of Ebenezer, of whom Dickens was apparently unaware. A student at Dickens High School, where her father is the principal, Neeza is torn between staying true to herself or trying to fit in with the more popular students.

The production visits Neeza’s past, present, and future, with appearances by Jacob Marley McFly, the Ghost of ’80s Past, the Cratchit children, Scrooge’s sister Fan, and others. A typical O.F.V.S. mash-up, “The New Christmas Carol” includes cheerleaders, carolers, a slumber party, an appearance by Lady Gaga (Ms. Klimiuk), and plenty of dancing. Other performances will take place Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 2.

A second piece, “How Scrooge Stole Christmas,” inspired by Dr. Seuss’s “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” will play on Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday evening at 6. Anthony D’Alessio portrays the miser in both plays. According to the troupe’s website, their 16th production is a “hilarious and thrilling cabaret-style adventure to destroy Christmas” that asks the question, “How deep will Scrooge sink?” Tickets to each show range from $20 to $50.

A third O.F.V.S. production, “Holidays With Raffa,” forsakes Christmas and Dickens for a performance by Danny Ximo of DEOX RAFFA on Saturday at 9 p.m. The show will consist of Broadway show tunes, slam poetry, and Mr. Ximo impersonating Liza Minelli, Tina Turner, Raffaella Carrera, and other well-known divas. Several local musicians, actors, and dancers round out the program, which pays homage to the traditional vaudeville variety show. Tickets are $20.

“Songwriters in the Round,” a concert hosted by Caroline Doctorow and featuring three other singer-songwriters, will take place Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett. Hugh Prestwood, Mary Ann Rossoni, and Mike Laureanno will share the stage with Ms. Doctorow for an evening of music rooted in folk, blues, and country. 

A member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame who was discovered in 1978 by Judy Collins, Mr. Prestwood has written hits for Randy Travis, Trisha Yearwood, Michael Johnson, Shenandoah, and Crystal Gayle. 

Ms. Rossoni is noted for her narrative songwriting style and her comfortable onstage delivery. Her songs, many of which tell of life in New England, blend storytelling with country, blues, and folk.

Mr. Laureanno is a 2016 Kerrville New Folk finalist and a 2016 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival songwriting contest winner. He is also a recording engineer, producer, and veteran sideman.

A mainstay of the East End music scene, Ms. Doctorow has recently released a new album, “Dreaming in Vinyl,” which has climbed to number two on the folk radio airplay chart. She has released 11 solo albums, and her work appears on dozens of albums by other singer-songwriters, and on several film and television sound tracks.

Tickets are $15.

The Watermill Center will open its doors to the public Saturday afternoon with a tour of the building and grounds at 1, an open studio featuring the work of Zach Eugene Salinger-Simonson at 2, and an open rehearsal at 3 by the performance group Undisciplined Body. All events are free but require advance reservations.

Mr. Salinger-Simonson is a product designer whose primary focus is lighting but whose practice extends to furniture and jewelry. During his residence at the center he will explore the inherent meaning found in rings, collars, necklaces, and bracelets. By fracturing, shattering, and repairing these pieces he aims to give new life to their traditional forms.

Ebana Garin and Camila Karl founded Undisciplined Body in 2012, with a focus on the conditioning imposed by theatrical discipline on the scene and the performers’ bodies. At the center, the group is working on a new project, “The Factory,” guided by Foucault’s biopolitical theory and concentrating primarily on corporal discipline. 

The guided tour at 1 p.m. will include the building, grounds, gardens, study library, and art collection, which has over 8,000 objects and artworks dating from the Stone Age to the present.

An off-site program, Viewpoints @ 29th Street, will present a talk by Jonah Bokaer on Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. at the New York City studio of Robert Wilson, the center’s founder and artistic director. Mr. Bokaer, whose Platform project is on view at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill through Jan. 16, has developed a new form of choreography whose structure relies on visual art and design. Reservations are required.

The East Hampton Historical Society’s 2016 House and Garden tour offers an opportunity to burn a few holiday calories while visiting five houses that run the gamut from an 1840s Greek Revival to a contemporary waterfront at Lazy Point. The annual Thanksgiving weekend event will take place Saturday from 1 to 4:30 p.m.

The beachfront house on Gardiner’s Bay is approached through a landscape of prairies and dense forest and sits amid sand, pine trees, and beach grasses. The firm of Thierry Pfister Architecture & Design renovated an existing house with a modern vocabulary that integrates the house with its beach environment. The redesigned interior creates flowing spaces between the entry hall, kitchen, dining, and living rooms, and oversized sliding glass doors provide water views from every vantage point.

The oldest house on the tour, near the intersection of Springs-Fireplace Road and North Main Street in East Hampton, was built on a 1750 foundation. That structure was bought by the Sherrill family in 1792 and torn down, except for the kitchen wing, in the 1850s. It was replaced by a Greek Revival house that is on the National Register of Historic Places. The current owners have retained the proportions and detailing of the old farmhouse, from its newel post to the fireplace mantels to the classical door surround. Antique furnishings complement the classically proportioned rooms.

The mansions of Amagansett’s Dev­on Colony, fleetingly glimpsed from Cranberry Hole Road, have a distinctive look that sets them apart from the area’s typical shingled cottages. Richmond Levering, a wealthy businessman from Cincinnati, built the house at 18 Cranberry Lane for his mother in 1910. Though shingled, its look is more formal than the typical cottage, with pitched gables and accents reminiscent of the Italianate style. The interior rooms are filled with original details: decorative columns in the living room, four fireplaces, and an unusual number of windows, which create a light and airy ambience.

Two of the houses on the tour, both in East Hampton Village, have been built within the last four years. Working with a design-conscious couple, the architect John Laffey completed a shingle-style revival near Further Lane that reflects its 19th-century heritage without neglecting modern amenities. There are formal areas for entertaining, casual spaces where the family’s dogs can run free, and an unusually capacious kitchen. The owners’ art collection includes works by Childe Hassam, Charles Warren Easton, Edward Moran, and other 19th and early-20th-century artists.

Another shingle-style revival was designed by Francis Fleetwood on Egypt Close to retain the classic proportions of the 19th-century cottages while respecting the clients’ desire for a house that was “beach casual.” The seamless flow from room to room takes its cues from Stanford White. The interior designers, Tom Samet and Nathan Wold, chose a color palette with hints of driftwood, sunset, and sand, with natural fibers and abundant texture to create pattern and shadow.

An opening night cocktail party, a benefit for the historical society, will be held tomorrow evening from 6 to 8:30 at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton Village. Tickets, which also include the Saturday tour, are $200. Tickets to the self-guided tour are $65 in advance, $75 the day of the tour, and can be purchased at easthamptonhistory.org or at Clinton Academy, 151 Main Street, tomorrow and Saturday between 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

In what has become a holiday tradition, the Southampton Cultural Center will present “It’s a Wonderful Life, a Live Radio Play,” Joe Landry’s twist on Frank Capra’s iconic holiday film, tomorrow at 7 p.m. and Sunday afternoon at 2 and 5.

Another adaptation by Mr. Landry of a classic, “A Christmas Carol, a Live Radio Play,” will be presented next weekend. Michael Disher, director of the venue’s Center Stage series, will direct both productions.

For both plays, the audience becomes transported to a radio studio in the 1940s, where the heart of each story is conveyed by a troupe of actors using their vocal skills to read the script. The actors are not characters in the stories; they are actors who have come to the station to perform in a play.

Each production begins with their arrival, the setting up of the studio, and the greeting of the audience.

Speaking about “It’s a Wonderful Life,” which was first performed at the center two years ago, Mr. Disher said, “The sound effects are visible onstage. You see the entire production happening. All the actors will wear period cositumes. I want it to reek of the 1940s.”

Tickets to both productions are $20, $10 for students under 21, and can be purchased at scc-arts.org.

The Southampton Arts Center is throwing a party for a good cause tomorrow night from 8 until 10. Billed as “The Harvest Night Out,” the evening, featuring dancing to D.J. Twilo, will celebrate local nonprofits, farms, and small businesses. “Think barn-raising party, without the tedious barn-raising part,” said Amy Kirwin, the center’s director of programs.

Tickets are $10, and a portion of proceeds will benefit a local nonprofit selected from a list by the guests, who have also been encouraged to bring jackets, sweaters, blankets, and canned goods for local homeless shelters.

Cracked Actor NY, a David Bowie tribute band based in Amagansett, will perform at the center on Saturday at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10.

A holiday market, sponsored by the Pierson Parent Teacher Student Association, is planned for Saturday from 9 to 3 p.m. in the gymnasium of Pierson High School.

Vendors will include the Southampton Soap Company, Rooster Fin toys, Origami Owl jewelry, Stella and Dot, Jacqueline Clint jewelry, Sweet Melissa Dips and marinades, and Bambeeno cashmere children’s clothing. There will also be Ecuadorian artisanal art and several other gift options.

Light snacks, soup, and sandwiches will be sold. All proceeds will benefit the Pierson Parent Teacher Student Association and the John Jermain Memorial Library.

LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will hold a holiday gathering on Saturday afternoon from 2 to 4, rain or shine. The event offers an opportunity to see the gardens and toast the season before LongHouse closes for the winter.

Admission is $10, free for members. 

It is clear early on in the Guild Hall exhibition “Connie Fox and William King: An Artist Couple” that there is fun to be had there. A sense of play and the absurd is introduced from the very beginning both by the artists and the exhibition’s curator, Gail Levin.

Dr. Levin, who has been a professor at the City University of New York for years in addition to being a curator and prolific writer on art and artists, decided to take the élan of her subjects as an overt and covert theme of the show.

Dr. Levin knew the couple socially, and there is a more intimate approach to the artists that registers with viewers. With works such as Ms. Fox’s “Dog Jazz” and Mr. King’s “Jazz Quartet,” along with his red vinyl sculpture and her take on it in a painting, it feels as though you might have stumbled into one of their conversations.

Mr. King was a curious artist, choosing unorthodox materials and working both with and against them to arrive at his forms. Red vinyl was a recurrent medium as was found wood, plaster, cast and cut metals with some dabbling in paint and drawings. Although there are some ceramic plates of Ms. Fox’s on view, she is represented almost entirely by acrylic paintings on canvas with a few drawings from the early days of her career. That she would paint one of Mr. King’s vinyl figures as opposed to recreating it in other ways, is a kind of cross-pollination or subsuming of his work, resulting in a creative offspring of sorts.

The couple met once, briefly, decades before they found themselves both playing fiddles in a bluegrass band formed by Audrey Flack, another artist and part of their circle. In a tour of the exhibition during its installation, Dr. Levin said Ms. Fox was classically trained on the violin, whereas Mr. King was self-taught.

In addition to their love of music, Dr. Levin said their interest in and reverence for early Modernism was a unifying theme. Ms. Fox was an admirer of Paul Klee, Vasily Kandinsky, and Robert and Sonia Delaunay. Mr. King took Pablo Picasso, Elie Nadelman, and Constantin Brancusi as influences.

Although Ms. Fox adopted Abstract Expressionism for a time, under the mentorship of Elaine de Kooning, who became a friend when both artists were in Albuquerque in 1957, she did not work in that manner for long. She liked the freedom, but the lack of content led her elsewhere.

The earliest works of hers in the show reference things, flowers in particular. Drawn around 1955 and 1967, “Self Portrait as a Flower” and “The Flower Lifts (Self as Flower),” seem more tuned in to Georgia O’Keeffe. But the later drawing has more bite. It is too abstracted to be Surreal in the usual sense, but the “self” in the center of the petals is depicted literally as a cloud of being, with a stern face scribbled in the middle. Even though it seems playful, she’s no longer playing, at least at being an artist. Her voice has formed.

Mr. King gave some early drawings here to Ms. Fox as part of their courtship in 1983. One was a self-portrait in pastel and charcoal. He looks sharp and blurry at the same time. Known for assuming the character of others in his work, it is one of his few straightforward depictions of himself. That he dedicated the drawing to her, almost a decade after its execution, seems meaningful.

Other works in the show highlight their mutual admiration for Marcel Duchamp. Ms. Fox has a painting titled “Marcel’s Star: You don’t have to be a star baby to be in my show” from 1993 that includes a black star at the center of a receding frame. Its reference is the star Duchamp shaved into his hair that was photographed by Man Ray.

Mr. King’s self-portraits take on Duchampian guises such as Ancient 9Egyptian queens, earlier Modernists like the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, who died in 1975, and Cindy Sherman, a contemporary artist and neighbor in Springs. While enjoying cross-dressing in his art, he also went cross-species, as in his “Bill-Dogg Hampton” sculpture from 1983, in which a smiling dog head is set atop a white-suited male’s body.

They were one in a long line of artistic couples who settled on the South Fork, and the show includes works that touch on that theme. There are photos and renderings they did of themselves as well as portraits of other couples such as Joan Semmel and John Hardy and April Gornik and Eric Fischl.

Place is also a recurrent theme: Ms. Fox’s paintings inspired by Sammy’s Beach, a subject to which she has dedicated much of her recent art, are included. They remind us how much the landscape continues to attract and inspire artists who come here to work and sometimes even fall in love.

The exhibition, shown concurrently with “Michael Knigen: The Holocaust and Anne Frank” and “William S. Heppenheimer,” will remain on view through Dec. 31.