Comic Drama
The Accabonac Theater Project, which launched in January with three short plays at Hoie Hall at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton, is returning to the stage, this time at the Bridgehampton Museum’s Tractor Barn at the Corwith House, for six performances starting Friday at 7 p.m.
The company was founded by Jonathan Shoemaker, with Nick Weber and Tracey Toomey McQuade, when he pivoted from feature films and episodic television following his move to Springs. The new production, “Signs (This Land Is My Land),” is an original play written and directed by Shoemaker and featuring Nick Gregory, Loudon Wainwright III, and McQuade. Set in Springs, the comic drama follows next-door neighbors with conflicting politics and differing ideals breaking bread together on the eve of the 2024 presidential election.
The nonprofit itinerant theater company is dedicated to producing original work rooted in the community and culture of the East End. Subsequent performances will take place on Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 6. Tickets are $35, $20 for students and first responders.
Devon Gates Jazz
Music will return to the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs next Thursday at 6 p.m. with a performance by Devon Gates and a large ensemble. Gates is a bassist, vocalist, and composer whose work blends jazz, chamber music, and social storytelling. She has performed at venues such as the Kennedy Center, the SF Jazz Center, Dizzy’s Club, and the London Jazz Festival.
She will be accompanied by Lee Fish on drums, Marta Sanchez on keyboards, Matt Greenwood on electric guitar, and the Formas Quartet, a string ensemble out of Boston.
The rain date is Friday, July 31.
Watermill Festival
Limitless Time, the Watermill Center’s 2026 summer festival, will celebrate Robert Wilson, its late founder, on Saturday from 6 to 11 p.m., highlighting established collaborators who have both influenced and been inspired by Wilson, along with emerging artists from diverse fields.
The festival will feature installations, cocktails, dinner, dancing, and the performance of works by Laurie Anderson and Shane Weeks, Pina Bausch, Lou Reed, Isabelle Huppert, Lucinda Childs, Ruth Childs, EYE, Madeline Hollander, and Christopher Knowles.
Tickets are $600, $500 for those 40 and under.
Sherrod Small Leads
Sticks and Stones Comedy will return to the Southampton Cultural Center on Saturday at 8 p.m. with a show headlined by Sherrod Small. A comedian, writer, producer, actor, and radio host, Small has been seen on VH1, ABC, NBC, Fox, and CNN. He has been heard on Opie Radio on SiriusXM and is co-host of a weekly podcast, “Race Wars.”
General admission tickets are $35, reserved seats are $70, and the best seats are $100. Doors open at 7:30.
Screenwriting Class
Jerome Gary, an Academy Award and Emmy-nominated filmmaker, will conduct “The Art of Storytelling,” a three-hour workshop, on Sunday at 4 p.m. at LTV Studios in Wainscott.
Participants will explore the forms stories take, models of structure, beginnings and endings, scenes as the building blocks of stories, and the dynamics of character. A variety of film clips will illuminate those concepts, and conversation will be encouraged. Gary’s film credits include “Pumping Iron,” “Stripper,” and “Traxx,” and the television series “American Caravan,” “On the Road in America,” and “Trading Places.”
Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door.
Humans and Horses
The Southampton Arts Center will screen the first hour of “Rescued Hearts,” a documentary by Dana Croschere and Krisanna Sexton that explores the deep connection between humans and horses, on Sunday at 5:30 p.m. It won best documentary at the Tryon International Film Festival.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with equine therapists, trainers, and healers, and a reception in the sculpture garden. Tickets are $25, $20 for members.
Edsel Gomez Quartet
The Edsel Gomez Quartet is next up in the music series at Sag Harbor’s Masonic Temple, in collaboration with Hamptons JazzFest, on Saturday at 7 p.m.
A Puerto Rican pianist, composer, arranger, and music director, Gomez has worked with performers including Dee Dee Bridgewater, Don Byron, Jack DeJohnette, David Sanchez, Eddie Palmieri, and Janis Siegel. His music combines jazz improvisation with Afro-Caribbean and Brazilian rhythmic traditions.
Tickets are $25, and doors will open at 6:30.
