Drama From London
National Theatre Live will return to Guild Hall on Saturday evening at 7 with “The Fifth Step,” which The Guardian called “a two-hander bristling with playwright David Ireland’s signature style of knotty provocation and ribald comedy.”
The play, which premiered in Edinburgh in 2024 and moved to London a year later, stars Martin Freeman (“The Hobbit,” “The Responder”) as James, a veteran of the 12-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous who becomes a sponsor to Luka, a newcomer played by Jack Lowden (“Slow Horses,” “Dunkirk”), an Oliver Award winner. The two trade stories and build a fragile relationship, but as Luka approaches step five, the moment of confession, dangerous truths emerge.
Directed by Finn den Hertog, the production was filmed live from @sohoplace in London’s West End. Tickets are $20, $18 for members.
Roots Rock in Sag
Gene Casey and the Lone Sharks will bring their blend of rock, country, and Americana to Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater on Saturday at 8 p.m. A fixture on the Long Island music scene for decades, Mr. Casey received the Long Island Sound Award from the Long Island Music Hall of Fame for his contributions to the region’s live music landscape.
Playing venues from Manhattan to Montauk, the band has shared the stage with Wanda Jackson, the Band, Bo Diddley, Sleepy LaBeef, NRBQ, and the Ventures.
Tickets are $44 to $56. The doors will open at 7, when patrons can avail themselves of the lobby’s full bar.
Art Collective
Gelitin, an Austrian art collective based in Vienna and composed of Wolfgang Gantner, Ali Janka, Florian Reither, and Tobias Urban, will be at the Watermill Center for a free lecture-performance on Sunday at 2 p.m. Formed in 1993, the group is known for its humor, spontaneity, childlike naiveté, and blatant sexuality.
Their performances explore the boundaries between art and life, playing with audience participation and collaboration as a central aspect. Viewers are invited to join in, defying routine behavior while experiencing art from a new perspective.
Internationally known, Gelitin represented Austria with a pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011, and a show of their work opens today at Perrotin, an art gallery on the Lower East Side.
Music at the Temple
The Masonic Temple in Sag Harbor will host “An Evening of Gypsy Jazz,” a fund-raiser for Hope and Resilience Long Island Friday evening at 7. HARLI is a nonprofit supporting survivors of domestic violence, sexual abuse, and human trafficking on eastern Long Island.
The concert will feature Sanda Weigl, a vocalist known for her interpretations of Romanian folk and Roma songs, Shoko Nagai, a pianist, accordionist, and composer who has performed with John Zorn and Marc Ribot, and Jameson Ellis, an artist and bassist who recently played with Jake Lear and the Kings. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door.
Also at the temple, Hopefully Forgiven, a band with changing members and songs drawing from traditional folk, country, rock, reggae, and blues, will perform on Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20.
Jazz Duo
The Winter Jazz Series of Hamptons JazzFest will alight at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton on Saturday at 3 p.m. with a free concert by William Hill III, a pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, and Noa Chait, a singer and bandleader.
Mr. Hill has performed at the Detroit Jazz Festival, Jazz Congress, the Unity Jazz and Winter Jazz Festivals, Dizzy’s Club, Smalls Jazz Club, the Kennedy Center, Blue Note Tokyo, and many others. Ms. Chait has taken the stage at such New York City jazz venues as Mezzrow, the Django, the Jazz Room at Casa Cipriani, the Club Room, and Melody’s Piano Bar.
Sticks and Stones
The Sticks and Stones Comedy Club will return to the Southampton Cultural Center on Saturday at 8 p.m. with a lineup of comedians headlined by Irene Bremis.
Ms. Bremis’s credits include her comedy series “Plan B,” her album “Unladylike,” her comedy special “Sweetie,” and the film “Black Magic for White Boys,” which is now streaming on a variety of platforms.
The other comics include Sag Harbor’s own Ruby Jackson, Keith Fairfax, Aimee Denaro, and Tina Marie Realmuto.
Doors will open at 7:30 for snacks, drinks, and live music in the art gallery. Tickets are $35 for general admission, $50 for reserved seating, and $70 for top-tier seats.
Jazz Sing-Along
Sing-Along Jazz, the next program in East End Jazz’s East Meets West Jazz Jam series, will feature Ludmilla Benevides and Vanessa Trouble on Sunday at 2 at the Southampton Cultural Center.
The afternoon will kick off with a 35-minute performance of the American Songbook, and the audience is invited to join in. Lyrics will be provided for such hits as “Summertime” and “Fly Me to the Moon,” with accompaniment by a live band. The free show promises “no judgment, just fun!”
Garden Round Table
The next round-table discussion of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons, set for Saturday morning at 10 at the Bridgehampton Community House, will be devoted to “Welcome Spreaders and Self-Seeders or Unwelcome Invasives?” The program is free for all.
The discussion will cover annuals that will return next season by self-seeding, perennials that increase by self-seeding or other means, plants that are considered invasive, which plants are welcome spreaders and which not so welcome, and which seedlings or plants are easy to remove or difficult. The program will begin with a slide show, and a list of common self-seeders, spreaders, and invasives will be distributed.
