Arts

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.

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 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.

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.

Art for Aid is the brainchild of Wendy Wachtel, who opened Walk Tall Gallery in East Hampton in 2007 while at the same time working in international high-end real estate.

The Parrish Art Museum’s Salon Series will continue tomorrow at 6 p.m. with a concert by Kimball Gallagher, an American pianist whose repertoire ranges from Baroque to modern.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present its second New Works Festival with free readings of plays in development, beginning tomorrow at 7 p.m. with “A Delicate Ship” by Anna Ziegler.

Temple Adas Israel and Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present “Tango, A Story With Jews,” a documentary about the events that brought Jews to Buenos Aires in the 19th century.

The Met: Live in HD will present Pietro Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci,” one of opera’s most enduring double bills, on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at Guild Hall.

The East End art scene springs to life with several exciting group shows and a studio class with a master printmaker.

The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival will present “Iris,” the last film by Albert Maysles, who died in March at the age of 88, on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at Bay Street Theater.

Working with shaped panels of pressed wood and squares or rectangles of aluminum, Mr. King creates objects that straddle painting and sculpture, abstraction and representation, the industrial and the handmade.

In the wake of Jason Alexander’s departure from Bay Street Theater’s “Other People’s Money” to replace Larry David in his Broadway show “Fish in the Dark,” the theater has had to do some tweaking of its summer season.

“Emmett, Down in My Heart,” a play by Clare Coss, who lives in Springs, will be performed at the Castillo Theatre in Manhattan from tomorrow through May 17.

The play interweaves text, music, and immersive staging to tell the story of the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in the Mississippi Delta. Performances will take place Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are available at castillo.org.

The Garden Club of Shelter Island will hold its 14th juried daffodil show and afternoon tea on Saturday from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Ram’s Head Inn. Accredited by the American Daffodil Society, the event will include assorted sweets and savories, design, horticulture, and youth exhibits, and vendors. Entries in horticulture can be submitted tomorrow from 2 to 6 p.m. at the inn. Admission to the show is $25. More information is available from Dianne at 749-7849.

The Art of Song Parlor Jazz Series will resume Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Museum’s archive build­ing with “Journeys,” a concert by Darcey, a North Fork-based singer, composer, arranger, and educator who has been performing for 35 years.

The programs are hosted by Jane Hastay, a pianist, and Peter Martin Weiss, a bassist, both of whom will accompany Darcey along with John Cataletto on drums and Morris Goldberg on saxophone. Tickets are $25, $15 for members. More information can be found at artofsong.org.

“The two bands complement each other. I really dig what they do, and love the fact that they sing, their vocals are big. I asked Gary if we could do a double bill, and he went for it. I called Telly, they were psyched to do it, and here we are.”

Aspiring writers, directors, and producers have been invited to attend an open classroom-open house by the directors of the new M.F.A. program established by Stony Brook University and Killer Films, on Wednesday at 5 p.m. at the Stony Brook Manhattan campus, 387 Park Avenue South.

Guild Hall has announced the election of three new trustees to its board. Florence Fabricant, Alan Levin, and John Shea were elected on Feb. 25.

The Salon Series, a program of concerts by award-winning young classical musicians, will return to the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow evening at 6 with Tim Fain, a violinist who has not only performed with orchestras in the U.S. and abroad but has also appeared on screen in “Black Swan” and as a violin double for Richard Gere and Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Mr. Fain, who plays an instrument made by Francesco Gobetti in Venice in 1717, will be accompanied on piano by Tanya Gabrielian, who was featured in the Salon Series last spring.

“All My Sons,” the 1947 play by Arthur Miller that launched the playwright’s career, will be presented at Guild Hall from June 9 through June 28 with Alec Baldwin and Laurie Metcalf in the leading roles. Stephen Hamilton, co-founder of Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, will direct.

“This was a role that Alec was always looking for,” according to Barbara Jo Howard, Guild Hall’s director of marketing and communications. “Steve and Alec were batting that idea around for several years until the timing finally clicked into place.”

Comedy will take over the Bay Street stage on Saturday at 8 p.m. when Joseph Vecsey will host the All-Star Comedy Show, a recurring program that features up-and-coming comedians.

Saturday’s program will include Mike Brown, Nore Davis, and Yannis Pappas, in addition to Mr. Vecsey. Mr. Brown, a comedian and writer from Harlem, has performed at such comedy venues as Caroline’s Comedy Club, Stand Up NY, and Laugh Lounge.

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present “A Night to Rock” with G.E. Smith, a guitar master and former “Saturday Night Live” bandleader, and David Broza, an acclaimed Israeli singer-songwriter, tomorrow at 8 p.m.

Mr. Smith, who lives in Amagansett, was the lead guitarist for Hall and Oates from 1979 to 1985 and for Bob Dylan’s touring band from 1988 to 1990. The roster of musicians who performed with the band on “Saturday Night Live” during his tenure includes Eddie Van Halen, Keith Richards, Rickie Lee Jones, Dave Edmunds, Johnny Winter, and many more.

Group Show at Ille Arts

Ille Arts in Amagansett will present “Ubiquity,” a group exhibition organized by Saskia Friedrich, from Saturday through April 27, with an opening reception set for Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. Participating artists, who work in a variety of mediums, are Maeve D’Arcy, Jim Drain, Sabra Moon Elliot, Bill Saylor, and Ms. Friedrich.

According to Ms. Friedrich, “The show reflects the cultural, philosophical, and existential pluralism that exists today and invokes a simulacrum of the sublime within our consumerist society.”

Bay Street Theater has announced that Jason Alexander, who had been set to star in “Other People’s Money,” the second play of the 2015 Mainstage summer season, has had to withdraw from the role because he is taking over for Larry David in “Fish in the Dark” on Broadway.

The theater will announce Mr. Alexander’s replacement in the near future.

The John Drew Theater Lab will present a free staged reading of “Life Is Shorts,” an evening of short plays by Kat O’Neill, on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. The program will weave together 18 brief plays written and directed by Ms. O’Neill.

Talk at Parrish

The next installment of “Brain Food,” the Parrish Art Museum’s lunchtime series of illustrated talks, will feature Scott Howe, the Parrish’s deputy director, who will discuss the museum’s landscape design and its connection to the geology and history of Long Island and to the artists inspired by the natural beauty of the East End. Tickets cost $10, free for members, students, and children.

Free Admission

Slow food, sustainable agriculture, organic farming, and farm-to-table are terms that are so ubiquitous in the ever-expanding culinary world that hardly a restaurant opens today that doesn’t tout its use of locally sourced organic ingredients.

Several chefs on the East End were early proponents of those practices before they became commonplace, among them Colin Ambrose, who purchased Estia in Amagansett in 1991 and planted a two-acre organic garden close by, on the property of Lorne Michaels, the producer of “Saturday Night Live,” which provided produce for the restaurant.

Bay Street Theater will present “Get Down With Dawnette: A Classic Variety Show” on Saturday at 8 p.m. Dawnette Darden, who has performed for 10 years with her own band, New Dawn, and more recently with the HooDoo Loungers, will host the program, which will be modeled after such classic television fare as “Laugh-In” and “The Carol Burnett Show.”

Ms. Darden will sing with her two bands as well as with special guests — Inda Eaton, Mama Lee and Rose Lawler, Marvin Joshua, Julia Minerva, a comedian, and Danny Ximo.

The Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival, which will take place in December at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, will begin accepting submissions on Wednesday. Now in its eighth year, the festival celebrates the rich world of documentary films, with a particular emphasis on filmmakers from New York City and Long Island. Details about how to submit work can be found on ht2ff.com.