Music for Montauk will kick off its summer music series on Tuesday with a Cuban-style dance band, Funky Guajiro, performing at Solé East beginning at 8 p.m. Concerts on Wednesday, next Thursday, and Aug. 22 will feature works inspired by Shakespeare and pieces by Aaron Copland and Franz Schubert. A benefit on Aug. 20 will have food and wine with music that evokes the four elements. Details can be found in today’s arts section.

Tuesday’s concert costs $20. The concerts on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at Fort Pond House and Aug. 20 and 22 at 6:30 at Montauk County Park are free.

A benefit concert and dinner will be held on Aug. 20 at a private residence, with $150 tickets available at musicformontauk.org.

Daria Rabotkina, a Russian-born pianist who won the 2007 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, will perform tomorrow at 6 p.m. with the Verona Quartet in the Salon Series at the Parrish Art Museum.

For those unable to make it to Water Mill, Ms. Rabotkina and the quartet will perform again on Saturday afternoon at 4 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton.

The winner of competitions in the Czech Republic, Georgia, Japan, Montreal, and Cincinnati, among others, Ms. Rabotkina has made solo appearances with the San Francisco and New World Symphonies under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas, and with the Kirov Orchestra in a four-concert North American tour.

Tickets to each concert are $20; the Parrish performance is $10 for members.

Guild Hall has extended its footprint, annexing a lot to its south to provide housing for performers and, potentially, artist residencies.

The house, on Dunemere Lane in East Hampton Village, provided lodging for many of the headliners and supporting players from last summer’s lineup. This year, the cultural center anticipates that it will house such performers as Linda Lavin, Carol Kane, Mavis Staples, and the Spin Doctors, as well as the wardrobe and stage management team from the June production of “All My Sons.” Several KidsFest performers and members of the Big Apple Circus will use the space as well as the season goes by.

The five-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath residence, now christened Guild House, was purchased last year from David and Kate Epstein, who raised their family in the house and were ready to sell it after 30 years. Buying it “seemed like a no-brainer, something so obvious you just have to go for it, an investment in the future,” said Ruth Appelhof, Guild Hall’s executive director, over lunch at the house’s farm table on Friday.

Marty Cohen had just taken the chairman’s seat on the Guild Hall board. In a statement, he called the opportunity, “once in a lifetime‚” and a compelling purchase. He was not the only one. The house, with its $2.7 million asking price, ended up, Ms. Appelhof said, with “resounding approval from the board. We’re all thrilled to have it.”

While the immediate benefits are the savings on rent for performers who need a place to stay, a more exciting future use is envisioned as a home to artists-in-residence. According to Ms. Appelhof, it was Jon Robin Baitz, best known for his plays but also a screenwriter, producer, actor, and professor at Stony Brook Southampton, who introduced the idea. During his acceptance speech for the Guild Hall Academy of the Arts lifetime achievement award a few years back, he told those assembled that it was their responsibility to attract younger people back to the community and continue the art colony that had brought them here in the first place.

“He spoke so eloquently,” said Ms. Appelhof. “I began to see this effort as an extension of his words, to bring young people out, for the run of a play in the summer or a full winter residency.” Since then and after purchasing the house, Guild Hall has been investigating the options, working with programs in the United States and abroad to develop something that would best suit the institution and the area.

Research showed that each residency has something that sets it apart from the others. “The thing we have here is the wonderful pool of talent in East Hampton and the area surrounding it, the writers, painters, musicians, and actors, who would make great mentors,” Ms. Appelhof said.

The building, which is in a residential district, can only accommodate four unrelated people at a time under the zoning code. (Guild Hall is adhering strictly to the code, leaving one bedroom empty.) Plans so far include a room for a program administrator, who would live in the house during the length of the residencies, and three rooms for artists working in the very disciplines Guild Hall recognizes in its Academy of the Arts awards: visual, literary, and performance. Such a dynamic, said Ms. Appelhof, should encourage cross-discipline approaches and could be further developed with mentors.

Mr. Baitz, demonstrating his own commitment, is now a member of a committee working on the program’s development. Other members include the composer and conductor Victoria Bond and the visual artist Eric Fischl, who is a recent addition to the Guild Hall board.

Of course, there is an issue of money. The property was purchased under a mortgage and the board is still raising money to defray those expenses. Board members have donated “gently used” furniture and household items, and Peter-Tolin Baker, a designer of event and retail spaces who has done set design locally, has volunteered his services to put it all together.

Already, there is a baby grand piano in the living room, where Ms. Bond gave an impromptu concert at a recent committee meeting, an opportune meeting of environment and event. “Can’t you see a drawing class taking place outside on the lawn or actors running their lines on the front porch?” asked Ms. Appelhof during a tour of the house.

And you can, very much indeed.

The Hampton Independent Theatre Festival (HITFest) is partnering with Non Disposable Productions (NDP), a new troupe of New York City actors, to present “Shakespeare on Wine,” a one-hour program of wine-related scenes from the Bard’s oeuvre, on May 16 at the Bridgehampton Community House. Doors will open at 7 p.m.; the show will begin at 8.

HITFest evolved from the Naked Stage, which was founded in 2000 by Joshua Perl to establish an environment for theater artists to collaborate and develop their talents. In 2003 it moved to Guild Hall, where it offered dramatic readings for more than 10 years, before moving to Bridgehampton.

The organization, which adopted the name HITFest in order to procure sponsors and work within schools, has performed plays by Tennessee Williams, Terence McNally, Sarah Ruhl, and William Mastrosimone. The company has also performed outdoor productions of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Twelfth Night,” and “The Tempest,” the latter staged last summer at Mulford Farm in East Hampton.

The upcoming program is what Mr. Perl called a “low key” fund-raiser for the East Hampton Historical Society, HITFest, and NDP. Tickets will be $20. “There’ll be a raffle, stuff like that, but it’s mostly to get NDP a chance to be seen. I remember when I was trying to get momentum for what I was doing, and how it’s really helpful if somebody who has been there and done that invites you to their space. So I’m giving back, as much as anything else.”

Derek Straat, who founded NDP last summer with Malini Singh McDonald and Nick Radu, explained that the group’s aim is to create theater opportunities while sustaining communities, “one show at a time. In the process of doing that, we connected with Josh, so coming out to the Hamptons is a brand-new venture for us. This will be our fourth benefit performance, but we’re still in the process of branding ourselves.”

Last summer the company did a Shakespeare event in New York City that also consisted of individual scenes. That program benefited UNICEF. “In a way, the quality of the show was unexpected,” he said. “People came to support UNICEF, but they wound up getting a really good show.”

“Shakespeare on Wine” has been developed and will be directed by Lupe Gehrenbeck, a Venezuelan actress, playwright, and director whose work has been performed worldwide. “When I visited the Hamptons,” she said, “I thought, ‘This is about wine and sun!’ I developed a concept for choosing each scene with that spirit in mind. The result is that the staging somehow has the Hamptons in it.”

The words in the scenes are strictly Shakespeare, but the lines can be placed in a different order. Puck and Oberon from “Midsummer Night’s Dream” link the scenes, appearing between each one. Borachio from “Much Ado About Nothing” is also included. “I added him because he is going to be drinking throughout the play, with occasional comments,” Ms. Gehrenbeck said.

The evening will also include scenes from “Romeo and Juliet,” “The Taming of the Shrew,” and “Othello,” among others. “We included Iago and Cassio from ‘Othello’ because, in his last monologue, Cassio assumed he was responsible for the tragedy because he was drunk. It’s a beautiful monologue about feeling guilty because of his drinking.”

Looking ahead to August, Mr. Perl said that, instead of doing a complete play outdoors at Mulford Farm, HITFest will present a collection of scenes from Shakespeare inspired by the first line from “Twelfth Night” — “If music be the food of love, play on.”

“We’re going to bring musicians and actors who are in love with their craft. We’ll have some food and wine, although people generally bring their own. We’ll minimize the sets and costumes, and it’ll be all about the scenes and putting together an evening of really high energy and a frothy kind of fun.”

Mr. Perl explained that a full production of one of Shakespeare’s plays would require more time than he can spare. “To coordinate 17 actors and the rest of the creative team and getting rehearsal venues and housing aren’t things I can do right now. I’m looking forward to acting in something, too. I haven’t done that in a long time due to the pressures of producing. I think it’s going to take us back to our roots.”

Dates for the HITFest production have not yet been finalized, but Mr. Perl said it would probably take place during the latter half of August.

It has been almost a year since the publication of “Unstill Life: A Daughter’s Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction,” Gabrielle Selz’s book about her parents and the art world in which they held such a prominent place.

Indeed, her father, Peter Selz, is still active at 96, having recently organized exhibitions at the de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University and the Pasadena Museum of California Art.

“He’s slowing down physically,” Ms. Selz said during a recent visit to the Southampton house she shares with her son, Theo, a senior at Southampton High School. “But he’s still working, and he goes out a lot, to the movies, to dinner. He has been to many of my readings in the Bay Area. When I did City Lights, there was a whole row of his old girlfriends in the front row.” Her father and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the proprietor of the legendary San Francisco bookstore, are both in their 90s and have the same birthday, so they celebrate each milestone together.

The past year has been a busy one for Ms. Selz, and it will culminate next Thursday at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, where she will receive the American Society of Journalists and Authors award for the best memoir or biography of 2015.

Though she has written for The New Yorker, More magazine, The New York Times, and Huffington Post, among many others, “Unstill Life” is her first book. “Touring was exhausting,” she said, “in part because I was trying to coordinate my book tour with looking at colleges with my son, but it didn’t work out.”

One reading at the Norton Museum in Palm Beach, Fla., drew 300 people. At another, three people showed up — “and one was homeless. I learned it’s best to go someplace where there’s a built-in audience, such as a book festival, or someplace where you know people.”

Ms. Selz was born in Claremont, Calif. Both her parents, Peter and Thalia Selz, were teaching at Pomona College there, and her father was running an art gallery. Immediately after her birth, he was appointed chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, and a move to Central Park West soon followed.

“Unstill Life” chronicles Mr. Selz’s career, which led in 1965, seven years after taking the MoMA position, to Berkeley, Calif., where he was founder and director of the University Art Museum. It details his connections with the most important artists of his time and plumbs his relationship with the author’s mother, which persisted for more than 40 years after their divorce and all through his four subsequent marriages.

“My father loved the book,” Ms. Selz said. “It reveals a lot, but nothing he never really talked about. He had been badgering me to let him read it, but I only gave in when it was about to go to galleys.” He came to Southampton and sat at her dining room table with a yellow legal pad and pencil while reading the manuscript.

“I was upstairs waiting, and I was really nervous. Would he hate me? Would he never speak to me again? He came up with tears in his eyes and said it made him cry.”

He suggested only a few art-historical corrections.

Ms. Selz majored in art history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and earned an M.F.A. in writing from City College of New York. For a time she worked in commercial television and on the political campaigns of Michael Dukakis and Paul Tsongas. Speaking of her 20s, she said, “I did a lot of floundering. I even tried making art. It wasn’t until my early 30s that I knew I wanted to write.”

At that time, she completed a draft for a novel and found an agent, who sent the manuscript to five people before giving up on it. “I put the novel aside. But by writing the novel I did learn how to go into the maze of writing a book, and find a way out.”

But it was a difficult chapter in her life. Her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and she herself was in the middle of a divorce. She began to write personal essays and became involved with live storytelling. “The first time I did an event at the Moth,” a prominent approach to storytelling with venues coast to coast, “I was the first person up and there were 300 people in the audience. I was so terrified.” She eventually won a Moth story slam.

She also wrote a short piece for More magazine about her father coming east to say goodbye to her mother. While going through her mother’s art collection together, they found audiotapes and journals in her attic; her mother had intended to write a memoir about the art world.

“That opened the window and led to writing the book. It was really powerful to hear them talking about their life, because they hadn’t been together since I was a little child and I hadn’t had access to them as a unit. I also felt like my mom hadn’t been able to do this, so it was bequeathed to me. The whole process of writing the book and talking with my father opened up so much for me.”

Among the artworks she inherited from her mother is a 16th-century pen-and-ink drawing of the Madonna and Child by Annibale Carracci. “My dad bought it for my mother when she got pregnant, so it’s very special.” Another work hanging in her dining room is “Le Mariee,” a 1934 aquatint that was a collaboration between Marcel Duchamp and Jacques Villon, his brother. Villon made the print of Duchamp’s bride, and Duchamp painted it.

At the moment Ms. Selz is writing short pieces while getting her son ready for college, but she has several ideas for books she might undertake once he is settled in September at the University of Redlands in Southern California. “I have an idea for a biography of an artist, whom I don’t want to name, and I have several ideas for novels. I think I’m a storyteller at heart.”

She is a bit apprehensive about starting another novel. “I’m terrified of it, which is probably why I should do it. When you write a memoir, you know the plot. You still have to find the arc of the story, but it’s not the same as a totally blank canvas.”

Ms. Selz has lived in Southampton for 18 years, but she will be moving to Berkeley in August. “I’m going to miss the art community out here,” she said. “It’s small enough that when you go to an opening or event, you see everybody you know. But my dad’s out there, my stepsisters — and this batch I really like — and I want to spend the few years he has left with him. There’s a lot of stuff to untangle. And Theo and I will at least be in the same state.”

The John Drew Theater Lab will present a free, fully staged performance by Tandy Cronyn of Simon Bent’s play “The Tall Boy” on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. The play, which won best adaptation at the United Solo Theatre Festival last year, was adapted from a short story by Kay Boyle.

At the center of the play is Annie, the American matron of a Bavarian displaced persons camp for children after World War II, enacting the stories of three teenage boys from the camp who had become mascots of American Army units during the war’s last years.

Ms. Cronyn not only plays Annie, but also the three young men, whose longing to go to America is thwarted. The actress sometimes speaks in the characters’ voices, at other times narrates the short story’s descriptive prose.

The one-woman play developed as a collaboration involving Ms. Cronyn, Mr. Bent, and David Hammond, a theater director. The actress, the daughter of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, has said, “This story got into my DNA and I knew I had to give it life. I’ve been happy to see all stages of its development.”

Members Show Returns

The 77th annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition will open Saturday with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. and remain on view through June 6. The oldest non-juried museum show on Long Island, it features work in a variety of mediums from more than 400 member artists.

Marla Prather, a curator in the department of modern and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be the awards juror. The artist whose work is chosen best in show will be given a solo exhibition in the museum’s Spiga Gallery. Other award categories are abstract painting, representational painting, sculpture, works on paper, mixed media, and photography. Winners will be announced at the opening reception.

Two at Drawing Room

The Drawing Room in East Hampton will present concurrent solo shows by Robert Harms and Raja Ram Sharma from tomorrow through June 1.

Mr. Harms’s new abstract paintings explore the atmospheric and seasonal changes visible from his studio on Little Fresh Pond in Southampton. The works incorporate broad gestural brushstrokes over transparent veils of color and calligraphic line while preserving the white surface on all sides of the central field.

Mr. Sharma is a master miniature and temple painter who lives in Udaipur, India. Though trained in the tradition of Persian court painting, he has expanded his repertoire to include contemporary miniatures of the landscape and Mughal architecture of Rajasthan.

“Summertime” at Ille Arts

“Summertime,” a show of paintings by Mark Perry, will open on Saturday at Ille Arts in Amagansett with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. and will run through May 19.

A resident of East Hampton, Mr. Perry paints on canvas and wood panels with a palette that brings to mind landscape or nature. Some works are abstract, some explicitly representational, while others combine recognizable elements with swirling layers of paint, sometimes rubbed out.

In the new paintings, greens and blues prevail over the palette throughout. In the artist’s words, “summer speaks of full weighted color, growth, warmth, and love.”

Gornik in Venice

April Gornik will temporarily forsake North Haven for Venice for the opening on May 9 of “Frontiers Reimagined: Art That Connects Us” at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani.

Ms. Gornik will be among the 44 painters, sculptors, photographers, and installation artists from 25 countries who are exploring the notion of cultural boundaries at a time when globalization threatens to erase them.

On view through Nov. 22, the exhibition is a collateral event of the Venice Biennale.

Dan Rizzie Book Signing

Dan Rizzie, a Sag Harbor artist with Texas roots, will be at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill on Sunday at 11 a.m. to speak briefly and sign copies of “Dan Rizzie,” the first monograph on his work, just published by the University of Texas Press.

A fixture on the East End art scene for 25 years, Mr. Rizzie draws inspiration for his paintings, collages, and prints from 20th-century modernism, the geometry of Cubism and Minimalism, 19th-century English botanical illustrations, and the floral and geometric forms of traditional Indian and Egyptian art.

Tickets are $10, free for members, students, and children.

Two Painters at Vered

“Art Through the Looking Glass of Desire,” an exhibition of work by Hunt Slonem and Haim Mizrahi, will open Saturday at the Vered Gallery in East Hampton and remain on view through May 28. A reception with live music will happen Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m.

Mr. Slonem is known for his Neo-Expressionist paintings of birds, butterflies, and rabbits, and is represented in more than 100 public and private collections. In the new works, he combines diamond dust with oil paint to produce shiny surfaces.

Mr. Mizrahi titles many of his abstract canvases “music sheets,” for he is also a musician and poet, and rhythm, mood, and beat lie at the core of his paintings.

Jon Mulhern at Marcelle

“Impulses,” an exhibition of recent paintings by Jon Mulhern, will open Saturday at Peter Marcelle Project in Southampton with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. It will run through May 10.

Mr. Mulhern’s abstract paintings reflect on natural movements of wind, land, and water, referring to nature and its swirling atmosphere of color and texture without depicting it. His passion for the natural world, which was dormant while he lived in Brooklyn, was rekindled by his move to the East End, where he has taught art at the Ross School for the past five years.

Spring Flowers

Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor will open its fourth annual “Spring Flower Show” today. A reception will take place on Saturday from 5 to 6:30 p.m., and the exhibition will remain on view through May 21.

The show will feature floral-inspired paintings, pottery, garden sculpture, and blown glass by Muriel Hanson Falborn, Ghelia Lipman-Wulf, Eleanora Kupencow, Pingree Louchheim, Arianne Emmerich, Thomas Condon, Roxanne Panero, Richard Udice, Gayle Tudisco, Maria Orlova, Coco Pekelis, Joyce Brian, Mary Milne, and Joan Tripp.

Celebrating Southampton

“Time and Again,” a show of paintings by Dinah Maxwell Smith, will kick off the 2015 exhibition season at the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum tomorrow and remain on view through May 18. A reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Ms. Smith, who lives in Southampton, is enamored of its history, landscape, beaches, and the ocean, all of which are reflected in her art. “My work is about gesture, stance, happenstance,” she has written.

The exhibition is the first of a two-part series celebrating the 375th anniversary of Southampton.

The Dia Art Foundation will open “Dan Flavin: Icons” at the Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton today. The works, created from 1961 to 1964, are the artist’s earliest experiments with light. Dia will present five of the eight works he made in the series.

Their titles are dedicated to friends in the way he would later title his mature fluorescent works with humor, irony, and tragedy. The “Icons” will be up through April 2017.

The third annual Steinbeck Festival, held in honor of the celebrated author who lived in Sag Harbor from 1955 until his death in 1968, will take place Saturday and Sunday, with events at several venues in the village.

The festival will kick off Saturday at 5 p.m. with a V.I.P. reception at Harbor’s Edge. The event will include a boat tour of the Steinbeck property, which overlooks Sag Harbor Cove. Tickets are $125.

Bay Street Theater, organizer of the festival, will be the starting point for the weekend’s signature event, the “Travels With Charley” dog walk, which will begin Sunday at 11 a.m., wind through the village, and conclude with bagels and bones at the theater.

Sag Harbor was the departure point for Steinbeck’s 11-week cross-country trip with Charley, his French poodle, which formed the basis for his book “Travels With Charley.” Jill Rappaport, a journalist and animal advocate, will again lead the walk. The cost is $25, $35 the day of the event. A pledge form for walkers who want to enlist sponsors can be downloaded from baystreet.org. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Athe Animal Rescue Fund, and a prize will be given to the walker who raises the most money.

The John Jermain Memorial Library will host “John Steinbeck and Sag Harbor: A Love Story” on Sunday at 2 p.m. Tom Clavin and Joe Pintauro, Sag Harbor writers, will discuss Steinbeck’s life in the village and provide a look at the private man behind the famous books. The event, which is limited to 18 participants, will include refreshments and a question-and-answer session. Preregistration has been suggested.

Canio’s Books is not to be left out of the celebration. The bookshop will host “Trucks and Dogs,” photographs by Kathryn Szoka of pooches with their trucks and, in some instances, their human companions, taken in Sag Harbor during the 1990s. The exhibition, on view from tomorrow through May 26, is a tribute to Steinbeck’s “Travels With Charley.”

On Saturday at 5 p.m., Canio’s Cultural Cafe will present a talk about Steinbeck’s ethical philosophy by Richard Hart, a Steinbeck scholar, professor of ethics and philosophy at Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, N.J., and vice president for academic relations for the International Society of Steinbeck Scholars. Mr. Hart will provide examples of the author’s moral philosophy in his works of fiction, including “Of Mice and Men,” “Cannery Row,” and “The Moon Is Down.”

The Sag Harbor festival has previously coincided with the National Steinbeck Center’s annual celebration in Salinas, Calif. This year, however, the center has canceled the festival, which would have been its 35th, electing instead to make it a biennial affair.

The Montauk Library will present a free performance of “Love, Loss, and What I Wore,” a play by Nora and Delia Ephron based on the book by Ilene Beckerman, on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

A series of monologues, the play, which ran Off Broadway for two and a half years, uses clothing, accessories, and the memories they trigger to tell funny and often poignant stories about such matters as the importance of an all-black wardrobe, the nightmare of dressing rooms, and the tyranny of purses, as well as other, more serious issues.

The production, directed by Terry Brockbank, will feature five East End actresses: Linda Betjeman, Kathy Brockbank, Susan Cincotta, Jenifer Maxson, and Sara Mundy.