The stars will be shining at Guild Hall this week, beginning tonight at 8 with a staged reading of “Sharpies,” a new comedy by Eugene Pack, an Emmy Award-nominated writer. The play, which follows a group of iconic celebrities at an autograph-signing convention weekend in Milwaukee, will feature Matthew Broderick, Blythe Danner, Carol Kane, Marsha Mason, Dayle Reyfel, Sawyer Spielberg, Vanessa Williams, and other luminaries to be announced.

Tickets are $30, $28 for members, or $75 and $70 with a post-show V.I.P. reception. A portion of the evening’s proceeds will benefit the Felix Organization, whose mission is to enrich the lives of children growing up in the foster care system.

Mr. Pack will take the stage tomorrow evening along with Christie Brinkley, Debbie Harry, Susan Lucci, Ralph Macchio, Brooke Shields (9:30 only), Alan Zweibel, and Mr. Reyfel in “Celebrity Autobiography,” in which actual celebrity memoirs are acted out live by the cast.

Created and developed by Mr. Pack and Mr. Reyfel, the show has been aired on Bravo TV, performed at venues around the country, and enjoyed a three-year run off Broadway, for which it won a Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience. Tickets range from $40, $38 for members, to $75 and $70.

Comedy will be king again on Saturday evening, when J.B. Smoove will perform at 8. An actor, writer, and comedian, he began his career on “Def Comedy Jam” in the early 1990s, spent three years as a writer and performer on “Saturday Night Live,” and went on to a recurring role in “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” among many other television and film credits. Tickets start at $45, $43 for members, and rise to $100 and $95.

Laughter of a different kind will fill the house Sunday at 5 p.m. when the Big Apple Circus’s “Red Nose Review” brings a cavalcade of hospital “clown doctors” to the theater. Mayhem and merrymaking will share the stage with acts of astonishing skill, all directed by Karen McCarthy, creative director of the Clown Care program. Tickets are $50, $48 for members. A V.I.P. reception at a Main Street residence will boost the cost to $125 and $120.

On a more serious note, a National Theatre Live telecast of “Everyman,” the late-15th-century morality play, will take place Wednesday evening at 8. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Academy Award-nominee for “12 Years a Slave,” plays Everyman in this new adaptation by Carol Ann Duffy, which transforms the original into an indictment of the materialism of the modern world, with Everyman a wealthy hedonist who is confronted by a shopping bag-bearing Death. Tickets are $18, $16 for members.

Next Thursday at 8 p.m., Bill Boggs will host “Memories of Sinatra,” which will include stories, film clips, and highlights from Mr. Boggs’s television interview with Ol’ Blue Eyes.

“You Made Me Love You: Celebrating 100 Years of the Great American Songbook,” starring Jennifer Sheehan, will take place at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday at 8 p.m. as part of Guild Hall’s Songbook Salon Series.

Ms. Sheehan, who has performed at concert halls, festivals, and nightclubs throughout the country, has won many awards, including the Julie Wilson Award for outstanding interpretation of the Great American Songbook and the National Glenn Miller Vocal Competition.

“You Made Me Love You” includes songs by Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Barry Manilow, Johnny Mercer, the Gershwin brothers, and many more. The concert is produced by Patricia Watt; James Followell is the musical director. Tickets are $60, $58 for Guild Hall members, and $85 with a post-show V.I.P. reception.

A benefit concert by Maxfield and Leo Panish for the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork will be held Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the congregation’s home, 977 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike.

Maxfield, who attends the Manhattan School of Music, has performed with the school’s Philharmonia and Symphony Orchestra and in recitals throughout the metropolitan area. Leo, his brother, was the concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestra at the school’s Precollege. The Panish brothers are from East Hampton.

The concert will include works by Bach, Prokofiev, Viotti, Ysaye, and an original work by Maxfield Panish. A $20 donation, 10 percent of which will benefit local food pantries, has been suggested.

The Montauk Library will present “Man of Fire: José Clemente Orozco,” a free, illustrated lecture by Jane Weissman, on Wednesday evening at 7. Orozco’s murals are filled with vivid images that reflect Mexico’s complex history and culture.

Ms. Weissman is a longtime member of the Brooklyn-based Artmakers Inc., a community mural organization that creates high-quality public art relevant to the lives and concerns of people in their neighborhoods.

Music Fridays will return to Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton tomorrow at 6 p.m. with Joe Hampton and the Kingpins. A veteran musician who started playing at such iconic New York clubs as CBGB and the Mudd Club in the late 1970s, Mr. Hampton formed the Kingpins in 1992, and the group has been playing all over Long Island ever since.

Bringing along picnics and chairs or blankets will complete a relaxing evening. The event is free for garden members, $15 for nonmembers.

Rock ’n’ roll, ballet, cabaret, and Dr. Oz will take turns entertaining and informing audiences at Guild Hall in East Hampton Village this week, with “Bjork: Biophilia Live,” a film that captures the artist’s 2013 multimedia concert in London, set to conclude the Rock Cinema series tonight at 8. Tickets are $12, $10 for members.

Balletomanes will no doubt be disappointed that Friday’s appearance by the New York City Ballet is sold out, but fans of R & B, gospel, and rock ’n’ roll should hasten to the Guild Hall box office before Mavis Staples’s Saturday night appearance suffers the same fate.

From the family group she is so identified with, the Staple Singers, to the 2013 gospel album “One True Vine,” her second collaboration with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, Ms. Staples has been a force in American music for six decades. She is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a winner of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and a National Heritage Fellowship recipient. Tickets to the performance, which will happen Saturday at 8 p.m., range from $55, $53 for members, to $100 and $95.

Another show business icon, Linda Lavin, will bring her repertoire of Broadway favorites, standards, and jazz to Guild Hall on Sunday evening at 8. A veteran of the cabaret stage, she began her career playing such New York City nightspots as the Showplace in Greenwich Village and Midtown’s Downstairs at the Upstairs.

Ms. Lavin received her first Tony nomination for “Last of the Red Hot Lovers” in 1970 and worked in television and film before returning to Broadway in 1987, when she won a Tony Award for “Broadway Bound.” Other theater credits include “Gypsy,” “The Sisters Rosensweig,” and “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Tickets to Sunday’s show start at $40, $38 for members, and peak at $95 and $90.

Though neither has won an Emmy Award as of yet, Dr. Oz and his wife, Lisa, are familiar to followers of “The Dr. Oz Show” on television and “The Lisa Oz Show” on Oprah radio for their advice on everything from nutrition and diet to alternative medicine to relationships. On Sunday morning at 11, Florence Fabricant, food writer for The New York Times and author of 11 books, will interview the couple as part of the series “Stirring the Pot: Conversations With Culinary Celebrities.” Tickets are $15, $13 for members. A pre-talk V.I.P. reception at 10 a.m., including a continental breakfast, raises the tariff to $75 and $50.

Looking ahead to next Thursday, Matthew Broderick, Carol Kane, Marsha Mason, Vanessa Williams, and others to be announced will star in a staged reading of “Sharpies,” a new play by Eugene Peck, at 8 p.m.

For those who like their iambic pentameter served alfresco while seated on lawn chairs or picnic blankets, this weekend should be a cause for celebration, with two free productions of Shakespeare plays to choose from and a new partnership that could offer more in the future.

In Sag Harbor, Bay Street Theater will present a reading of “Twelfth Night, or What You Will” at Mashashimuet Park tomorrow and Saturday. The staged reading will be a co-production of Bay Street’s Shakespeare Initiative and the Hamptons Shakespeare Festival. A benefit performance will take place at a private waterfront estate on Sunday.

In Southampton Village, Agawam Park will be the setting for “The Merchant of Venice” tomorrow and “The Merry Wives of Windsor” on Saturday, both presented by the Hip to Hip Theatre Company.

Scott Schwartz, the artistic director of Bay Street, will direct the reading of  “Twelfth Night,” a play based on mistaken identity and disguise. David Brandenburg, the Hamptons Shakespeare Festival artistic director, will contribute original music and sound design.

“ ‘Twelfth Night’ is my favorite Shakespeare play,” Mr. Schwartz said. “It’s complicated, with themes of mistaken identity, gender identity, love both requited and unrequited. It’s a really funny romantic comedy.”

The Hamptons Shakespeare Festival produced plays from Montauk to Southampton from 1996 to 2005, and for Mr. Brandenburg, “Twelfth Night” marks a return to stage production after several years of educational initiatives, including his annual Camp Shakespeare. “There’s no better theatrical experience than the natural beauty of Shakespeare presented outdoors,” he said. He is tying his own fund-raising effort to the readings, hoping that his supporters are excited by the program and the possibility of future endeavors.

The original and reworked music Mr. Brandenburg is providing for the reading has always been a priority for him, as has the overall sound design. “Just as the lighting can’t compete with the sunset and the scenic design shouldn’t compete with the tree line in a full production, the sound has to meld with the outdoors,” he said.

The play will be presented in an interior corner of the park, insulated from the noise of nearby roads, “but I’m told crickets and cicadas will be in the scene,” Mr. Brandenburg said. “And I welcome them.”

Piper Perabo, a television, film, and stage actress who recently finished five seasons of the TV series “Covert Affairs,” will play the shipwrecked Viola, who becomes the center of a bizarre love triangle. Others featured in the production include Julia Motyka as Olivia, Josh Gladstone as Sir Toby Belch, and Kate Mueth as Maria.

The readings at Mashashimuet Park begin at 7 p.m. Seating in the bleachers will be available, but people are welcome to bring blankets, picnics, and beach chairs. Sunday night’s benefit will include cocktails at 6:30 before the reading at 7. Tickets begin at $250; information can be found on the Bay Street website.

To the west, the Hip to Hip Theatre Company’s performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. A children’s program  called “Kids & the Classics,” to be offered at 7, will introduce children to Shakespearean style and language through games. Here, too, audiences may bring beach chairs, blankets, and picnics. In case of rain, the performances will move to the Southampton Cultural Center, next door to the park.

The mini-series opens with “The Merchant of Venice,” one of the bard’s darker plays, directed by David Mold, the company’s artistic director. It concludes the next night with “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” one of his broadest farces, directed by Murray McGibbon, who has taught and directed for many years in places as varied as Indiana University and South Africa. Both are family-friendly productions, meant for both the seasoned aficionado and the neophyte.

Hip to Hip’s actors include Evangelia Kingsley, William Oliver Watkins, Doug Hendel, James Harter, Chaunice Chapman, Kurt Kingsley, Lawryn LaCroix, Jason Marr, Joy Marr, Guy Ventoliere, Nestor Garland, Katie Kerr, and Erica Nichole Walker. All seating for performances is first come, first served, and early arrival has been recommended.

“Green Afternoon III,” a garden dance performance by Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre, will take place Saturday at 5 p.m. at the home of Marcia Previti and Peter Gumpel, 230 Old Stone Highway in Springs.

The evening will begin with cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and several outdoor performance installations featuring dancers in tree houses, on outdoor sculptures, in and around the swimming pool, and in the woods. The formal performance will begin at 5:50 and be followed by a reception. Tickets are $85, $150 for patron tickets, and can be purchased at eventbrite.com.

Angel Reda, a vocalist, actress, and dancer who is currently starring on Broadway as Roxie Hart in “Chicago,” will perform a program of Frank Sinatra’s hits at the American Hotel in Sag Harbor on Monday at 7:30 p.m. Russ Kassoff, Sinatra’s longtime pianist, will accompany her.

The show is the centerpiece of an evening that will also feature a four-course dinner accompanied by cocktails and wines from the hotel’s noted cellar. The cost is $150, and prepaid reservations can be made by calling 725-3535.

William Quigley, a painter who lives in New York and Los Angeles, will host an art exhibition and fashion runway on Saturday at 6 p.m. on the back lot of Schenck Fuels, 62 Newtown Lane in East Hampton. Conceived in support of wounded veterans, the event will benefit American Patriot Support Foundation, Soldier Ride, and Survivable Services International. Artworks by Ben Moon, Gabriela Pires, and Mr. Quigley will be available for purchase.