The Watermill Center has invited the East End community to a new program initiative, Saturdays @ WMC, focusing on unique ways to interact with the Watermill Center grounds, collection, studios, and kitchen. On Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. the center will host local artists to lead workshops inspired by everything the center has to offer.

    A free hourlong tour of the Watermill Center building and collection happens at noon. Reservations are not required. From 12:30 to 3 p.m. in the dining room, children of all ages can make colorful translucent vessels inspired by pieces in Robert Wilson’s collection. Materials are limited, so reserving a spot in advance at saturdayswmcandreacote.eventbrite. com is a good idea.

    From 1 to 2 p.m. in the large studio space, Geoffrey Nimmer, an Ashtanga yoga teacher, will offer a free yoga class for students of all levels and ages. Attendees have been asked to take their own yoga mat, towel, and water and reserve a spot at saturdayswmcgeoffreyimmer.eventbrite.com. Also from 1 to 2 in the industrial-size kitchen, Pasquale Langella, executive chef at the Red Horse Market in East Hampton, will demonstrate the art of making mozzarella cheese as his family has done for hundreds of years in Naples, Italy.

    The Watermill Center grounds will be open and available for sketching throughout the event, with materials supplied. More information is with Kirs­tin Kapustik at 726-4628 or [email protected].

    AcquAria, a duo composed of Michela Musolino, vocalist, and Vincenzo Castellana, drums, will give a free concert, “Sempri amMari (Always the Sea) — Folk Songs of Sicily,” on Sunday from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Suzanne Koch Gosman Room at the Montauk Library.

    The two promise a dynamic program of music dedicated to the sea, including maritime songs, fishermen’s chanteys, legends, and love songs that illustrate the bond between Sicily’s people and the sea that surrounds their island. The performance will be in Sicilian and include a discussion in English.

   Bruce Wolosoff, a composer and pianist who lives on Shelter Island, will give a benefit recital for the German Diez Scholarship Fund at the Renee Weiler Concert Hall of the Greenwich House Music School at 46 Barrow Street in Manhattan tonight at 8. Tickets cost $20 and are available at the door. Additional donations have been requested.

Expressionism Part II

    The Pollock-Krasner House in Springs will have a discussion called “Expressionism in the 21st Century: Part 2” on Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. Participants will include Sally Egbert, Connie Fox, Colin Goldberg, Carol Hunt, and Haim Mizrahi. Linda Hatofsky, the widow of Julius Hatofsky, a West Coast Expressionist, will discuss her late husband’s work.

    Contributions from the audience will be welcomed. Admission is free and no reservations are required.

And the Winners Are . . .

    Guild Hall will present a panel of winners of its annual members exhibition on Saturday at noon at the museum. Those participating will include the top-honors awardee, Stephanie Brody-Lederman, in addition to Mary H. Mulholland, William S. Heppenheimer, Dianne Balducci, Jean Truskty Stiles, Sue Ferguson Gussow, Goran Petmil, Jason Poremba, Stephanie Reit, and Jackie Black.

    The awards judge was Elisabeth Sussman, a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Admission is free.

Raymond in Southampton

    Anne Raymond, who lives in East Hampton, will have a show of her recent paintings at 4 North Main Gallery in Southampton beginning today. A reception will be held Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

    Titled “Moments,” the show is about “attention to the visual moments in life that inform all others,” according to the artist. “They reference atmospheric and gestural moments in time.” Ms. Raymond has shown previously at the Islip Art Museum, Guild Hall in East Hampton, and galleries in such cities as New York, Chicago, Phoenix, and Dallas. Her work is also in the collections of museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

    The show will remain on view until May 28.

Flowers for Spring

    Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor will have its second annual spring flower show opening today with a reception on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. The show is a mixed-media presentation of paintings, photographs, pottery, and blown glass.

    Among the artists with work on view are Muriel Hanson Falborn, Pingree Louchheim, Arianne Emmerich, Laura Rozenberg, Roxanne Panero, Maria Orlova, Sue Wawryk, Coco Pekelis, Mary Milne, and Joan Tripp.

Vito Schnabel in N.Y.C.

    Vito Schnabel, who has long ties to the South Fork through his parents, who live in Montauk and Bridgehampton, is presenting a show, “DSM-V,” organized by David Rimanelli at the old post office across from Penn Station in Manhattan.

    The show’s theme is taken from the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which will have a fifth revision released this month. The show is set in a part of the building that housed jail cells and an infirmary. The entire structure is being renovated to become an extension of the train station.

    Participating artists with South Fork connections include David Salle, Dash Snow, Andy Warhol, and Julian Schna­bel, the dealer’s father. The show will be on view through June 4 and is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Chrysalis to Show Davide

    Andrea Davide, a sculptor and aviation archeologist, will show work at Chrysalis Gallery in Southampton beginning Saturday.

    The gallery describes her group of “RoundTimers” as “both sculptural and mechanical: assemblages of finely wrought mechanism, gleaming brass, antique gears, glass, and stone, reflecting time, its passage, and its effects on us through works that resemble timekeepers but are not, since time cannot be captured or kept.”

    Ms. Davide will also show “TimePieces” that incorporate found objects and recovered artifacts, including “Eternity of Fate.” The piece is a result of an invitation to join the Air Force Art Program as an honorary colonel. She participated in an expedition to the Philippine Islands to excavate the crash site of Maj. Thomas McGuire Jr., a decorated World War II combat ace. “Eternity of Fate” incorporates two bullets excavated from the site.

Nature at Dodds and Eder

    The Dodds and Eder landscape store in Sag Harbor is showing “At Home in the Natural World,” work by Plein Air Peconic, which is devoted to painting from nature outside, often using land preserved by the Peconic Land Trust as its subject matter. A number of photographs are also in the exhibition.

    The artists include Casey Chalem Anderson, Susan D’Alessio, Aubrey Grainger, Anita Kusick, Michele Margit, Gordon Matheson, Joanne Rosko, Tom Steele, and Kathryn Szoka. A reception for the show will be held on Saturday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Yektai at Tripoli

    The Tripoli Gallery in Southampton will show “Darius Yektai: On Country Ground” beginning with a reception next Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m.

    Mr. Yektai brings global subject matter to his canvases but flavors them with a South Fork eye. He was born in Southampton and returned to the area 12 years ago as a full-time resident. In his landscapes and figurative works he incorporates various mediums into the traditional oil and canvas and plays with the tension between formalism and illusionism.

    He attended Occidental College and received a bachelor’s degree in art history at the American University in Paris. The show will remain on view through June 20.

Group of Three at Ashawagh

    A show of paintings and sculpture will take over Ashawagh Hall in Springs this weekend. Dennis Lawrence, Michael Cain, and Paul Pavia will show their work.

    Mr. Lawrence is an abstract painter who began as a figurative sculptor in wood and marble but shifted from realistic to abstract. Mr. Cain and Mr. Pavia are sculptors. The show will open Saturday at noon with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. It will remain up on Sunday until 5 p.m.

Massi and Sciulli at Ross

    The Ross School’s seventh-grade class has organized a show of Fulvio Massi and Christine Sciulli’s work for the school’s gallery in East Hampton. It opens tomorrow with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m.

    Jon Mulhern, an instructor at the school, served as an adviser for the students along with Carol Crane and Jennifer Cross. Ms. Sciulli, an installation artist, is artist in residence at the South Fork Natural History Museum. Mr. Massi is an abstract painter.

    The show, which is up through June 12, includes paintings by Mr. Massi as well as artwork the students created, inspired by his work. Students will collaborate with Ms. Sciulli on building an installation that will make use of their own video projections.

Alice Aycock to Speak

    Alice Aycock will give an illustrated talk tomorrow at 6 p.m. in the theater of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill. The exhibition “Alice Aycock Drawings: Some Stories Are Worth Repeating” is on view at the museum and at the Grey Art Gallery at New York University.

    Ms. Aycock was educated at Douglass College and Hunter College and was part of a group of artists who exhibited at 112 Green Street in the 1970s, others being Gordon Matta-Clark, George Trakas, Jene Highstein, and Richard Nonas. She is known for her large-scale, site-specific sculptures, typically in wood.

    Tickets to the talk are $10, free for members, students, and children. Re­ser­vations have been recommended.

Big Show at Marders

    Silas Marder will bring his annual “Big Show” of small works back to his Bridgehampton gallery on Saturday with a reception from 5 to 9 p.m.

    The gallery asked 55 artists to use 8-by-10-inch canvases to make up to three paintings. Participating artists include John Alexander, Roisin Bateman, Ross Bleckner, Marilyn Church, Sally Egbert, Alice Hope, Jane Martin, Fulvio Massi, and Steve Miller. The show will remain on view through June 18.

   Much like a chrysalis, the stage of Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater is undergoing a living transformation as the company of actors put together by director Stephen Hamilton embody their roles in the Martin McDonagh play “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” which opens for a very limited run on Wednesday.

    “The Cripple of Inishmaan” is set on the island of Inishmaan off of Ireland in 1934. To call it a dark comedy is putting it mildly. There is no political correctness or politeness on Inishmaan. There is, instead, constant cruelty and occasional compassion, both of which are directed at the title character, Cripple Billy, played by Christopher Imbrosciano.

    While this might not sound funny, in the hands of a brilliant writer like Mr. McDonagh it is hilarious.

    “They’re cruel, yes,” Mr. Hamilton said on Sunday, just before he went into rehearsal. “There is also a deep love and affection. Cruelty and violence run through McDonagh’s work, the essence of black comedy, the heights or the depths,” he said.

    On Saturday, 11 days into the rehearsal process, Mr. Hamilton gave the actors a goal: find the key words in the other characters’ lines that compelled their character to speak or act.

    He told the actors that he didn’t want them to worry about pacing or speed at that rehearsal. “Start to feel the real music and the cadence that is built into this play. You may find new colors. There may be a lot of surprises,” he told the cast.

    At the top of the show, a shopkeeper, Eileen, played by Kristen Lowman, is stocking the barren shelves of a grocery store, as her sister Kate, played by Janet Sarno, enters.

    “Is Billy not yet home?” Kate asks.

    “Not yet is Billy home,” Eileen answers. The same five words, slightly rearranged.

    Right from the start, Mr. McDonagh has transported the players, and the audience, to an austere yet lyrical and poetic world.

    As the actors prepare, the stage itself will undergo a metamorphosis from a traditional proscenium theater stage into a theater within a theater, a black box, with the audience seated around the playing area, upon the stage itself.

    Mr. Hamilton also utilized the black box concept last year at the John Drew in Anton Chekov’s “Uncle Vanya.” “No stars, no names,” he said. “Bringing the audience onstage, so close, breathing the same breath” as the players.

    The black box setting, as constructed at the John Drew, puts the audience into an intimate space with the players sometimes an arms-length away.

    It offers another unique advantage to such a production: by restricting the number of potential seats per performance, it allows the company to cast members of Actors’ Equity Association, the professional actors union, at an affordable scale through an agreement with the union.

    The borders of the playing area during rehearsal were lined with spike mark tape, quarter inch thick strips of red tape that show the actors the shape of their playing space before it is actually constructed.

    Keeping the props in place and the set properly set during rehearsal is the job of the production’s stage manager, Morgan Vaughan, and assistant director, Dominick DeGaetano.

    Ms. Vaughan, who recently appeared as Lady Macbeth at LTV Theater, takes on the role of stage manager with gusto, part of a theatrical tradition in which actors know both the onstage and offstage functions in theater.

    It is the stage manager’s responsibility to keep the show moving, to call the light and sound cues, and, of course, to say those words that have a magical effect on theater folk, “Places, please, for the start of act one.”

    The decision to choose this particular play of Mr. McDonagh’s as opposed to another, “The Beauty Queen of Leenane,” was a tough one for Mr. Hamilton and the play’s producer, Ellen Meyers.

    Ms. Meyers was a student of Mr. Hamilton’s and took on the challenging role of producer for last year’s production of “Uncle Vanya.”

    “In the end, Steve really wanted to do it,” she said on Saturday of “The Cripple of Inishmaan.”

    Ironically, Ms. Meyers is very familiar with the island of Inishmaan, having taken a three-week writer’s course there. “It is the wildest part of Ireland,” she said, adding that the residents still speak Celtic amongst themselves. It was the only time the worldly Ms. Meyers has ever been in a place where, despite English being the spoken language, she frequently could not understand what people around her were saying, as they would go back and forth between thickly accented English and Celt.

    Once the decision was made to do “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” the process of casting the show began.

    There were some actors whose work was familiar to Mr. Hamilton, whom he felt would fit specific parts very well.

    Tuck Milligan, a seasoned actor both on camera and onstage, is one such actor.

    Even before rehearsal began on Saturday, it was clear that Mr. Milligan had fully embraced the language.

    “He’s as ugly as a brick of baked shite,” he says, laughing before rehearsal. It is his character’s description of a Hollywood actor coming with a movie crew to a neighboring island.

    Mr. Milligan first worked with Mr. Hamilton when both were appearing at the John Drew Theater in Guild Hall’s 2010 production of Peter Shaffer’s “Equus.”

    Ms. Sarno appeared in the Guild Hall production of “Uncle Vanya” last year. “That experience was special,” she said. “Steve called me and asked me if I’d be in this production,” Ms. Sarno said on Saturday.

    But not every part could be filled with actors whose work Mr. Hamilton knew.

    Cripple Billy was such a part.

    In this case, life was mimicking art.

    In the play, Billy finds himself in Hollywood, being considered for the part of a handicapped boy in a motion picture. The Hollywood studio producers have to make a decision: do they cast Cripple Billy to play the part or do they use an actor who is not handicapped?

    “My concern was that I would have to make that [same] choice. I didn’t want to be put in that position. Then Chris showed up. Chris came in and blew my socks off. In essence, what I was afraid of never happened.  The choice was made for me,” Mr. Hamilton said on Sunday.

    Christopher Imbrosciano had wanted to play the part ever since he first read the play.

    “My friend told me ‘They’re doing it in East Hampton. You need to be seen,’ ”  Mr. Imbrosciano said Saturday, taking a brief break from rehearsal. After hearing about the casting call, he made the trip to East Hampton and eventually got the part.

    The play has always had a special meaning to Mr. Imbrosciano. “I have cerebral palsy,” he said matter-of-factly, sitting in the hallway outside the greenroom at the John Drew. He has needed over 25 surgeries in order to simply walk.

    “Steve is fantastic. I trust him wholeheartedly. He loves this play as much as I do. His passion is palpable,” Mr. Imbrosciano said.

    He discussed how the company has come together. “We had our first read-through. Then we all started to connect. You luck out when you work with such talented people,” he said.

    This is probably the smallest black box I’ve worked in. You don’t realize how close they are until they are there. They are along for the ride. The audience is the final collaboration. After all, who else are you doing it for?”

    Also in the cast are Joe Pallister, Georgia Warner, Tom Gustin, Margaret Dawson, and Evan Daves.

    It will run from Wednesday through June 9, playing Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays at 7:30 p.m. and Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.

   It may appear that it’s solely the new building that’s giving the Parrish Art Museum its current buzz and vigor, and it is certainly part of the equation. But the energy emanating from Water Mill also comes from within, particularly as the Parrish gears up for its first summer season.

    Visitors see it immediately, from the structure’s startlingly long footprint, noticeable from the highway, to its imposing front doors, even in the new admission badges, with a likeness of the building prominently displayed. After years of dealing with the peculiarities of the old Florentine Renaissance revival structure in Southampton Village, the soaring galleries are still disconcerting in their serious and singular purpose.

    But much of the dynamism comes from a place relatively hidden in the open-plan construction: the administrative offices in the building’s eastern wing.

    After the museum’s November opening, its trustees and director, Terrie Sultan, wasted little time in naming Frederic M. Seegal its new chairman. The Parrish has been adding board members over the past few years to help it close the gap in its capital campaign, which Ms. Sultan said is 99 percent satisfied, and expand its small endowment into a significant instrument of long-term financial health.

    During a conversation with Mr. Seegal and Ms. Sultan on a recent Sunday afternoon, the new chairman, a part-time Wainscott resident who has donated $1 million to the capital campaign, made it clear that he would not be simply a bank for the museum. He has balanced decades of Wall Street media deal-making with participation on a number of boards of cultural institutions.

    His current involvements include the City Center in Manhattan, the San Francisco Symphony, and the James Beard Foundation. He has also served on the boards of the American Ballet Theater, the San Francisco Opera, the Neuberger Museum, Southampton Hospital, and Guild Hall.

    He has been on the Parrish’s board for two years and was on the committee of the museum’s big summer benefit last year, the last one ever under the giant tents off Job’s Lane. Apparently the partygoers, who were treated to cloud projections and other happenings that played up the surroundings, are ready for something new.  This year’s event will not take place until mid-July and sales of tickets and tables are already brisk.

    The museum’s new location, within the South Fork’s more eastern sector past an imaginary line beginning at the Princess Diner, brings it front and center into the minds of all who drive by. “We like to say that by moving to Water Mill, we’ve moved to the Switzerland of the Hamptons,” Ms. Sultan said. “It’s neutral territory between Southampton and East Hampton.”

     According to Mr. Seegal, integration of the museum’s programs will be the focus of his tenure. “We have a great indoor and outdoor space. There are a lot of people who are interested in things other than art,” he said. His involvement with dance and music organizations has already brought programs to the Parrish that push the envelope of its traditional focus. For example, Mr. Seegal and Ms. Sultan are working together to find musicians and choreographers in residence, who will work with visual artists to create interactive pieces.

    Mr. Seegal, who is an art collector, said that many of his favorite artists have backgrounds related to dance, whether, like Alex Katz and Henri Matisse, they designed and painted sets, or, like Degas, painted the dancers themselves.

    “One of the reasons we are excited about Fred being our new chair is that we always wanted the Parrish to be a real center of cultural engagement on the East End,” said Ms. Sultan. The museum has been filled with weekend events since it opened, and it will add jazz music and dance to the mix as the season progresses. “We believe visual arts don’t exist in a vacuum,” said the director.

    Mr. Seegal is setting a high bar for these offerings. He cited the Guggenheim’s musical programs in its rotunda and the Museum of Modern Art’s film series. MoMA has also hosted music and poetry performances lately, while the Metropolitan Museum of Art has held chamber music concerts for years. “It’s a great way to enhance the brand,” said Mr. Seegal.

    If that sounds like corporate speak, it is. Mr. Seegal has worked at some of the most well-known firms on Wall Street, including Lehman Brothers, Wasserstein Perella, and Salomon Brothers. He had his own firm for a few years and was recently named vice chairman of Peter J. Solomon after joining the firm in 2009. His specialty is media; he was a longtime adviser to Mel Karmazin, known for radio and television empire-building, and a consultant to Time Inc. in the Time Warner merger.

    His contacts in the worlds of finance and media will certainly be helpful in building support for the Parrish, said Mr. Seegal, but he was clear that his business and cultural activities are unrelated. “This is a passion for me, it’s not related to anything in my business career. But having lived out here, I know a lot of people in the finance and media business. Hopefully they’ll give us a good look.”

    His goals are long-term, and may not be realized for a few years. “I don’t expect that in the next 18 months that we will have a cascade of people who have never been involved with the Parrish to show up and write checks and give us wonderful art. It’s going to take at least three to five years for people to get comfortable.”

    Mr. Seegal, who opened his grounds for the museum’s annual Landscapes Pleasures garden tour a decade ago, said he’s realized through his board membership that the museum’s core supporters have primarily been Southampton Village residents. “We live among the world’s most extraordinary collectors, and a relatively small percentage have had involvement in the old Parrish,” he said. “I hope to open avenues to the whole community.”

    Mr. Seegal said he was inspired by such institutions as MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., and the Palm Springs Museum in California, “recent examples where, by sheer force of personality and unique architecture, they became destinations.”

    Admissions and interest are at all-time highs, according to both Ms. Sultan and Mr. Seegal. Since the opening, the museum has attracted 35,000 visitors, said the director. “The idea is, if you’ve missed something we’ve done here, you really feel like you’ve missed something, and you will make the effort to come here, because you’re not going to see it anywhere else.”

   Free performances are on tap from 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturday in Amagansett. Innersleeve Records and Crossroads Music, both in Amagansett Square, will feature free performances by artists including Jewlee Trudden and InCircles as well as Mamalee Rose and Friends. Liz Joyce of Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre will give a free puppet performance from 6 to 6:30 in the square. In the event of rain, that performance will be held at the Stephen Talkhouse.

   At 7:45, the party moves to the Talkhouse with Jettykoon, followed at 8:30 by Nancy Atlas and the Uncle Suzie Band, featuring sit-ins by Caroline Doctorow, Inda Eaton, Joe Delia, Klyph Black, Mamalee Rose, Dan Bailey, Matty Liot, and more. The cover is $10.

   An estimated 10,000 people came to the Montauk Music Festival last year to enjoy free, live, original music, a combined effort by organizers and businesses that they said resulted in a win-win-win situation for music lovers, musicians, restaurants, bars, and motels.

    From tonight through Sunday, twice the amount of businesses will welcome 100 musical acts for 250 performances with the only paid event being the $35 opening night party tonight at Gurney’s Inn, which includes passed hors d’oeuvres and a three-hour open bar.

    “Montauk can handle it,” the festival’s founder, Ken Giustino, said on Sunday. The indoor and outdoor music venues are spread out from the harbor area to Main Street as well as at the Lighthouse.

    There will be diverse music for all tastes, including rock, blues, country, jazz, and rhythm and blues, with most performances ranging from 20 to 50 minutes. “About 35 of the 100 selected acts are from the local area,” Mr. Giustino said, and the rest will bring themselves, friends, and family from the tristate area, both coasts, and even other countries.

    Created as a boost for the hamlet’s economy, the festival is a boon to motel owners, many of whom donate rooms for out-of-town bands. In the previously quiet pre-Memorial Day weekend, occupancy has jumped from 20 percent to 100 percent, Mr. Giustino said. Restaurant owners who provide performance space also benefit, he said.

    The Montauk Chamber of Commerce approached Mr. Giustino, known for his work with band promotion, years ago about starting an off-season festival. It took a while, he said, but three years ago, things came together with the help of Lawrence Cooley, an “old dear friend and musician” with a “great ear,” Mr. Giustino said.

    Put in charge of the talent search, Mr. Cooley had the enormous task of choosing 100 bands from 4,000 applicants this year, up from about 600 last year. “I listen to them all,” he said on the phone from Florida on Sunday night, after exiting the stage from a gig of his own. “When I am not playing,” he said, “I spend every day listening.” The bands applied primarily through ReverbNation, a Web site founded by Lou Plaia, who lent his expertise at last year’s festival during a workshop that offered free advice to musicians.

    “A wide spectrum is what we’re looking for,” said Mr. Cooley, “but I pick what I really think is special . . . the bottom line is quality.” Mr. Cooley has a history with a handful of the bands that he’s asked to join the festival, and about 30 to 40 acts return every year. His own four-piece group, the Lawrence Cooley Band, is currently ranked in 11th place in the nation on ReverbNation, he said, after recently releasing a single that he wrote titled “Challenge You.”

    Acts that Mr. Cooley considers “very special” include Trevon, a 15-year-old from Virginia, who will play a few shows on his own and also be featured at the end of Mr. Cooley’s set. He was also really impressed with Bennett, a band from Michigan, with a song titled “Friend” that Mr. Cooley thinks should be “out there in the mainstream. . . . I want to see them blow up,” he said.

    The festival brings new blood to Montauk, Brian Kenny of the Memory Motel said on Sunday. Last year, he had his wedding during the festival, so he could show his family and friends “how special Montauk is.” As a result, many returned other times of the year, he said. The music at the Memory this weekend will include “anything and everything,” he said.

    With a “totally different vibe than a holiday weekend” it is a more appropriate start to the season, said Arden Garbell of 668 Gig Shack. The restaurant he manages has a “core theme of community embracing live music,” he said, and this celebration not only brings a “huge influx of business” but does so at a time when locals can enjoy it. The live music at his restaurant will continue past this weekend, he said, with the Montauk Project scheduled to perform a free show next Friday night.

    In addition to showcasing original music by artists from near and far, the festival will also provide something for local kids such as free musical instruction, an act booked just for the young ones, and student performances that will include the East Hampton High School Jazz Band and Far East Fiddle Club.

    Whether on the green, in a restaurant, or on the water, “wherever you go, you won’t lose out,” said Mr. Cooley. In addition to the full schedule of events, links to the bands are posted on the festival’s Web site, montaukmusicfestival.com.

    With the first two years of the festival requiring a dip into his own pockets, this year, thanks to sponsors, Mr. Giustino expects to break even. “All of the motels on the ocean sold out last year,” he said, but “there are still rooms left, and the weather is looking good.”

   Before Saturday’s performance of “In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)” by Sarah Ruhl, the Hamptons Independent Theatre Festival, also known as HITFest, will hold a benefit at the Bridgehampton Community House for its summer outdoor performance of William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.”

    The event, from 5 to 7 p.m., will offer a tasting menu paired with wines from the Wolffer Estate Vineyard. Cast members of “In the Next Room” will be featured guests. Tickets cost $50 if purchased by today or $65 at the door. Tickets for the 8 p.m. performance of “In the Next Room” cost $25 and can be purchased in advance at event.pingg.com/HITFest-Fundraiser.

    The play continues tonight through Sunday afternoon and next weekend.

   Hamptons Take 2 will present an evening with the documentary filmmaker Roger Sherman tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, at which the half-hour film “Zapruder & Stolley: Witness to an Assassination” will be shown, its first showing in New York State.

    The evening also includes a screening of “Alexander Calder,” a 60-minute film on the life and work of the American kinetic sculptor.

    “Zapruder & Stolley” focuses on one of the most studied films ever made by an amateur photographer, Abraham Zapruder, as President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, telling the story of Richard Stolley, then the Dallas bureau chief for Life magazine, who raced to the scene and obtained the rights to reprint the stills.

    “Alexander Calder,” narrated by Tony Roberts, had its world premiere at the Whitney Museum of American Art and won an Emmy Award as part of the PBS “American Masters” series. It shows Calder at work in his Connecticut studio and features archival footage of films, photos, and many of the artist’s mobiles in dynamic motion.

    Tickets are $15 at the door. More information can be found at HT2FF.com or baystreet.org.

    Question-and-answer sessions with Mr. Sherman, who has a house in East Moriches, will follow each film.