Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present “A Divine Evening With Charles Busch,” who will be accompanied by Tom Judson, on Saturday at 8 p.m. Mr. Busch, an actor, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director, and drag legend, is the author and star of such plays at “The Divine Sister,” “Vampire Lesbians of Sodom,” and “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife,” which ran on Broadway for almost two years and received a Tony Award nomination for best play.

In 2003, Mr. Busch received a special Drama Desk Award for career achievement as both performer and playwright. The subject of an acclaimed documentary film, “The Lady in Question Is Charles Busch,” he has performed his cabaret act in cities throughout the United States.

Tickets are $75, $65 for side seats. V.I.P. tickets, priced at $125, include prime seats and an after-party with Mr. Busch. Tickets are available at the box office and baystreet.org.

LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will present “Opera Al Fresco,” a program directed by Eve Queler, an internationally acclaimed conductor, on Friday, Aug. 1. The evening will begin with a reception at 6, followed by the performance at 7 and, for patrons, benefactors, and sponsors, supper at 8:30.

Ms. Queler has conducted over 100 operas at Carnegie Hall, as well as engagements at the Kirov Opera in St. Petersburg, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the Hamburg and Frankfurt Operas in Germany, the Australian Opera in Sydney, and the Liceu in Barcelona. Anthony Kalil, a tenor, and Steven LaBrie, a baritone, will perform her selections.

Tickets for the reception and performance are $100; $75 for LongHouse members. With supper included, the tariff ranges from $300 to $1,000. Tickets are available at LongHouse.com, and proceeds will benefit the reserve.

“Voyeur,” a production of the Neo-Political Cowgirls, will take place on five evenings beginning next Thursday at 7, at the Parsons Blacksmith Shop in Springs, across from Ashawagh Hall. Founded and directed by Kate Mueth, the company is dedicated to creating innovative dance theater that explores the female voice.

“Voyeur” is the story of a young girl, told through a series of short vignettes. Ms. Mueth calls the program an “inside-out” theater-art installation, as the action is watched through windows while the audience walks around the outside of the open theater.

Audience members pass through in small groups every 20 minutes; the last group sets off at 8:20. Tickets are $15, and picnics on the grounds are encouraged. The other performances are on Friday, Aug. 1, and on Aug. 2, 7, and 9.

The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-Os will perform Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Montauk Library as part of its summer music series. Band members, professional musicians from Brooklyn, perform a full range of Irish music, from traditional to contemporary, as well as American folk music, bluegrass, and country.

Performers include Jordan Shapiro, guitar, accordion, and vocals, Sarah Alden, fiddle and vocals, and Tim Kiah, bass and vocals. The library’s concerts are free and open to the public.

Walter Klauss, founder and conductor of the Musica Viva concert series in New York City and an organist who has performed internationally, will give a free recital at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor on Sunday at 3 p.m.

The program will include Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, which Mr. Klauss will play on the church’s 1845 Erben organ, the oldest church organ on Long Island. Mr. Klauss has traveled widely as a recitalist, most recently to perform with the Zurich Symphony Orchestra.

A reception will follow the recital.

Opera of the Hamptons will present “Christina Fontanelli and Her Fabulous Friends: From Opera to Broadway, a Puccini Night” on Saturday at 7 at Duck Walk Vineyards North in Southold.

Ms. Fontanelli has performed with the Palm Beach Opera, the Cairo Opera, the Opera of Hong Kong, the New York Grand Opera, and the New Jersey State Opera, and has toured extensively. She will be joined by Benjamin Michael Sloman, a tenor from Australia; Gustavo Ahualli, a baritone from Argentina, and Ryan Kieran, a young baritone from New York City.

Tickets are $45 in advance, $55 at the door, and may be reserved by calling Opera of the Hamptons at 728-8804.

Peter and Will Anderson, saxophonists who began touring at the age of 15, will perform at Guild Hall Monday at 7:30 p.m. The twin brothers, who will be accompanied on guitar by Alex Wintz, will play hits from the American Songbook, New Orleans jazz, and classical adaptations.

The Andersons have played with Wynton Marsalis, Jimmy Heath, the Village Vanguard Orchestra, and Wycliffe Gordon, and have headlined at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Blues Alley in Washington, D.C., the New Orleans Jazz Fest, and Iowa’s Bix Beiderbecke Festival, among many others.

Advance tickets, available at ovationtix.com/trs/pe/9922843, are $40 for prime orchestra, $25 for rear orchestra, and $15 for balcony seats. The cost at the door will be $50, $35, and $25.

“Clever Little Lies,” the new play by Joe DiPietro, is described as a “new comedy” on the cover of the playbill, which is accurate to an extent. But this play has a dramatic spine that takes the audience on an unexpected journey, one that had the house silent, on the edge of their seats, at the end on opening night. That is, until the final blackout, and the bravos rang out.

Mr. DiPietro titillates us into his story, giving the flash of a frothy sex comedy, but this is anything but.

The play starts with Bill Sr. (Greg Mullavey) and Bill Jr. (Jim Stanek), sitting in a locker room after playing tennis. Senior has beaten Junior, an unusual occurrence. We learn that Junior is having an affair, despite the fact that his wife has just given birth to their first baby. That is as much about the plot as you’re going to get here.

Marlo Thomas, who plays Alice, the mother, is the star on the playbill, the name that draws, and is a star in every sense of the word. She is also a superb actress. She has a droll style, and an intuitive stage sense, with great timing.

The cast around her is superb. Mr. Mullavey, Alice’s husband, is a great talent. Besides his incredible résumé, he teaches the Meisner technique at Michael Howard’s Studio in New York and is reminiscent of Sandy Meisner, who developed the technique in response to method acting to emphasize instead the “reality of doing.”

Mr. Stanek as Billy created the part in the first incarnation of this play, as did the rest of the cast, at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick last fall. David Saint, the director, was wise to keep him on board. He gives us a young man who is at turns callow, then loving, then simply torn as to where to turn.

Kate Wetherhead is so beautiful as Jane, the wife on whom Billy is cheating. She plays the role with vulnerability yet strength. And what a voice. When she sings to her baby, it is the sound of a perfect silver bell. I hope she has a place to stay in New York. She is going to be there quite a while.

Let’s talk about David Saint’s direction. Wow.

A director is a complex player in theater. He or she chooses a play to work on, casts it, puts together a creative team, and takes the piece from reading to full production. Mr. Saint has been the artistic director of the George Street Playhouse for 15 years. If this is any sign of what George Street is doing these days, we should all take a detour to New Jersey to see what else he has up his sleeve.

The choice by Josh Gladstone, the John Drew Theater’s artistic director, to bring in a new work that is being fine-tuned is a good one, what with the paucity of rehearsal time under the union contract. The audience is, in a sense, getting the best of both worlds: a new work with a creative team that has been through the process with the play once before.

The design team Mr. Saint put together is brilliant. Yoshi Tanokura’s set, with its moving parts and integration of film, blends perfectly with Christopher J. Bailey’s lighting design. Scott Killian’s original music and sound design are equally strong in blending and moving the piece, and Esther Arroyo’s costume design perfectly captures the characters Mr. DiPietro has created.

So, you can pay Broadway prices when this show opens there — and that looks like where it’s bound, given that the packed house included Jordan Roth of Jujamcyn Theaters fame and other Broadway producers — or you can pay the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall’s very generous prices, if you are lucky enough to get a ticket. The choice is yours, and that is not a clever little lie.

“Clever Little Lies” runs a snappy hour and a half with no intermission. It plays Tuesdays through Sundays until Aug. 3, with evening performances at 8 and matinee performances Sundays at 3 p.m. There is no evening performance tomorrow or on Aug. 3.

“My Life Is a Musical,” a musical comedy by Adam Overett, will have its world premiere with a five-week run at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor from Tuesday through Aug. 31.

The play’s protagonist is Parker, a shy accountant with one particular quirk: When he leaves his apartment every morning, he hears people singing and sees them dancing, to the accompaniment of an invisible orchestra. Nobody else knows this is happening. His life is a musical — and he hates musicals.

When his boss sends him on the road as a tour manager for a singer-songwriter named Zach, Parker at first worries his condition will be discovered. Instead, he gives Zach the songs from his own musical life, the tunes become hits, and Zach becomes a superstar.

The story takes another turn when J.T., Zach’s attractive manager, becomes enamored of Zach and his newfound artistry at the same time as Parker finds himself falling for J.T. As the tour arrives on a national stage, a nosy blogger is curious about Zach’s sudden popularity, while Parker must decide whether to keep his secret or declare himself to J.T.

“My Life Is a Musical” is the third Mainstage production chosen for the theater by Scott Schwartz, who became artistic director last fall. In December, Mr. Overett invited Mr. Schwartz to a developmental lab performance of the piece, but he was unable to attend. Word of mouth from colleagues who had seen it convinced Mr. Schwartz to read the script, and he was captivated by its humor and emotional resonance.

Mr. Overett, who is an actor as well as a writer, is responsible for the book, music, and lyrics, while Marlo Hunter will direct and choreograph the production. Last year, Ms. Hunter won the Joe A. Callaway Award for choreography from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation. Both Mr. Overett and Ms. Hunter, who are in their mid-30s, have worked extensively on Broadway, Off Broadway, and in regional theater.

The cast features Howie Michael Smith as Parker, Justin Matthew Sargent as Zach, Kathleen Elizabeth Monteleone as J.T., and Robert Cuccioli as Randy, the blogger, with an ensemble featuring Wendi Bergamini, Adam Daveline, Danyel Fulton, and Brian Sills.

Lady Gaga Portraits

“Portraits of Lady Gaga,” an exhibition of high-definition video portraits by Robert Wilson, will have its United States premiere on Saturday at the Watermill Center’s summer benefit and will remain on view through Sept. 14.

Mr. Wilson’s video portraits incorporate lighting, costume, makeup, choreography, gesture, text, voice, set design, and narrative. An ongoing series, which has previously featured Brad Pitt, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Sean Penn, Jeanne Moreau, and Isabella Rossellini, among others, the portraits draw on painting, design, dance, theater, photography, television, and history.

The Lady Gaga portraits have been primarily influenced by master paintings from the collection of the Louvre, but one is more contemporary in nature, rooted in the Japanese art of rope bondage. They were shot in London in October and exhibited at the Louvre the following month.

One Thousand Nights and One Night, this year’s fund-raiser, will take place Saturday starting at 6 p.m. The center’s benefit auction, featuring artwork by more than 50 artists, will conclude Saturday at 11:30 p.m. More information is at watermillcenter.org.

New at Fireplace Project

“Contact,” an exhibition of work by Alisa Baremboym and Gregory Edwards, will open at the Fireplace Project in Springs with a reception tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m. and remain on view through Aug. 18.

Ms. Baremboym uses such materials as silk, ceramic, plastic, steel, and gels to create sculptures that blur the distinctions between the organic and the industrial, suggesting machines whose functionality is questionable.

Mr. Edwards’s abstract paintings incorporate letters, question marks, and other recognizable graphic elements. Tim Gentles, writing for Art Observed, suggested that some of Mr. Edwards’s paintings “recall the increasingly vintage aesthetic of MS PowerPoint Slideshows and WordArt.”

Recently married, the artists live in New York City.

Mexican Murals

The Amagansett Library will present two talks on Mexican murals by Jane Weissman, a writer, arts administrator, and a muralist with Artmakers, Inc., a community mural organization in New York City. Next Thursday at 6:30 p.m., Ms. Weissman will discuss “Mexico From Independence Through Revolution: The Murals of Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jose Clemente Orozco. The second talk, “Jose Clemente Orozco: Man of Fire,” will take place Aug. 7 at 6:30.

Nature at Ashawagh

“Natural Elements,” an exhibition of work by 11 artists inspired by nature, will take place tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday at Ashawagh Hall in Springs. The show will include abstract work by Barbara Groot and Rosario Varela; figurative and impressionistic paintings by Kirsten Benfield, Susan Burr Carlo, Judy Clifford, Anne Holton, Mary Laspia, and Richard Udice; constructions by Katherine Crone; fish prints by Annie Sessler, and ceramics by Lisa West­on and Ms. Valera.

A reception will be held Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

Gornik Book Signing

April Gornik will be at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill on Saturday at 11 a.m. for an outdoor reception and book signing in celebration of the newly published “April Gornik: Drawings.” The book brings together charcoal drawings from 1984 to the present and includes essays by Steve Martin and Archie Rand, an interview with Ms. Gornik by Lawrence Weschler, and a CD of a work for piano and cello composed by Bruce Wolosoff, inspired by one of Ms. Gornik’s drawings.

Complimentary coffee and breakfast pastries will be served at the event, which is included with the museum’s admission fee of $10.

“A Light in Harlem”

“A Light in Harlem,” an exhibition of paintings by Kadir Nelson, will be on view at the Richard Demato Gallery in Sag Harbor from Saturday through Aug. 22, with a reception scheduled for Saturday from 6:30 to 9 p.m.

Mr. Nelson, a graduate of Pratt Institute who lives in Los Angeles, is an artist, author, and illustrator whose work is rooted in African-American culture. The Sag Harbor exhibition focuses on the period of the Harlem Renaissance, a time of growth and experimentation for New York City’s black residents.

Mr. Nelson has exhibited in galleries throughout the United States and is represented in several public collections. He has also illustrated children’s books, 28 of which are in print.

Jonathan Cramer Solo

More than 60 paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Jonathan Cramer will be on view at the Southampton Arts Center from tomorrow through Aug. 17. Mr. Cramer, who has family on the East End and has visited the area all his life, creates colorful abstract paintings and sculptures whose swirling, geometric elements suggest helixes gone awry.

Organized by Allison Read Smith, the exhibition is the largest public showing of the artist’s work in more than 10 years. A reception for Mr. Cramer will be held tomorrow at 6 p.m.

New at Crazy Monkey

Paintings by Barbara Bilotta, Richard Mothes, and Mark E. Zimmerman will be featured at the Crazy Monkey Gallery in Amagansett from today through Aug. 11. A reception will take place Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Ms. Bilotta’s goal is to bring out the interplay of light and shadow in her colorful abstract paintings, while Mr. Mothes paints the daily activities of people living on the East End. Mr. Zimmerman’s abstract paintings contain hard-edged, graphic elements, sometimes combined with splashes of looser brushwork.

Drawings by Dimon

“Artifacts II,” an exhibition of digital drawings by Roz Dimon, is on view at the Shelter Island Historical Society through Tuesday. A reception will be held Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m.

    Ms. Dimon, who divides her time between New York City and Shelter Island, where she has her studio, will be showing work from a new series of black-and-white drawings of iconic, everyday tools made with a digital brush. She took her first digital course in 1984, when her computer had only four colors.

Monoprints in Gansett

“Transitions,” a new series of work by Susan Kaufmann, a painter and printmaker who lives in New York City, is on view at Sylvester & Co. at Home in Amagansett through Aug. 14.

The series consists of black-and-white hand-wiped monoprints, some of which suggest emotional states, such as “Anxiety,” whose frazzled black edges poke uneasily into white space, or physical phenomena, such as “Rift,” in which a white fissure divides the black mass. Among other transitions, the series probes that between positive and negative space.

Knigen Estate Sale

An estate sale will be held from next Thursday through Aug. 3 at the East Hampton residence of Michael Knigen, an artist who died in 2011. Knigen was a painter and printmaker who, late in his career, turned to the computer for the production of digital photographic collages. His work was exhibited and collected widely during his 45-year career, during which he worked with such noted artists as Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and Robert Indiana.

The sale will include original artworks by Knigen and many of his contemporaries as well as the contents of his house, which include scuba equipment, kayaks, sterling and gold, lamps, bedroom sets, living room sets, china stemware, first editions and rare books, rugs, electronics, printers, a camera collection, clocks, pottery, collectibles, tools, and picture frames.

Information about the sale, including the address, will be available at 2muchstuff4me.com and estatesales.net 48 hours prior to the event.