Arts

A weekend focused on Black storytelling, performance, and community will feature a variety of programming at the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center, The Church, Guild Hall, and EHP Resort.

Coming to Guild Hall are a recital by the Met Opera soprano Angel Blue, and a documentary about the Broadway star Tovah Feldshuh.

Up next in LTV’s Hamptons Summer Songbook series are Barbara Fasano and Eric Comstock singing Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Sondheim, and more, while Laurence Maslon provides commentary and cocktails.

The Springs Invitational turns 59, a new documentary on John Chamberlain, Lucy Villeneuve solo at Keyes, five artists inspired by nature, and East End Photographers in Water Mill.

East magazine's society reporter visits Camp Rubirosa restaurant, the Sag Harbor Cinema, and the Watermill Center’s annual benefit, and finds interesting people and outfits wherever he touches down.

A new production of “Dear Evan Hansen,” the winner of six Tony Awards, including best musical, is for “anyone who has been a teenager, is a teenager, or has a teenager,” according to Scott Schwartz, the director.

A comic drama from Accabonac Theater Project, jazz at Duck Creek, Sticks and Stones comedy, a screenwriting class at LTV, and a documentary on the bond between humans and horses.

Guild Hall will host an improvisational hip-hop comedy group and a new show from the incomparable John Waters.

The music of the lyricist Lorenz Hart, the longtime partner of Richard Rodgers, will be performed at LTV Studios in Wainscott in the Summer Songbook series.

The Southampton Arts Center will have a show of a hundred photos by some of the most influential photographers of the 20th century.

Photography has enabled Jessica Wynne to learn about things outside of her realm, including the chalkboards of accomplished mathematicians and Jackson Pollock’s studio floor.

Six artists at Ashawagh Hall, solos for Robert Storr and Darius Yektai, Clothesline Art Sale at Guild Hall, South Fork studio visits, an exhibition tour, and a group show at the Ezra Gallery.

A cabaret tribute to Big Mama Thornton and a talk about American art from the 19th century to the present are coming to The Church.

Billy Stritch and Klea Blackhurst will be at LTV Studios to pay tribute to the music of Hoagy Carmichael with their cabaret show “Dreaming of a Song.”

“Bar,” a 400-page, limited-edition coffee-table book about the “wild ride of the Stephen Talkhouse” since 1987, is set for release on July 25.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music’s summer series will celebrate this country’s 250th anniversary with an emphasis on American composers, among them Steven Banks, a saxophonist and composer.

A groundbreaking documentary in Southampton, jazz at Duck Creek, benefit for Wings Over Haiti, saxophone ensemble on Shelter Island, and a talk on Basquiat's early days.

A conversation about the importance of evergreens for America’s culture and economy, and a jazz concert by the Rez Abbasi and Kiran Ahluwalia Quartet will happen at The Church.

Guild Hall will host four vocalists from N.Y.U.’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, and Christine Ebersole and Scott Frankel for the 20th anniversary of the musical “Grey Gardens.”

Mark Mennin, whose large-scale stone carvings are at LongHouse, will be there to discuss his work with Hilary Lewis, a writer and curator.

Artists meet the ocean at ARC Fine Art, rare woods at Halsey McKay, Almond Zigmund named film fest’s poster artist, jewelry fair in Southampton, and an artists’ talk in Bridgehampton.

More than 50 antiques and decorative art dealers will descend on Mulford Farm for the East Hampton Historical Society’s annual Antiques and Design Show.

Featured in “Looking” at the Bridgehampton Museum are portrait paintings by Rainer Andreesen, photographs by Christophe von Hohenberg, and sculpture by Oscar Molina.

Benefit for OLA of Eastern Long Island, John Adams brought to life in Montauk, jazz at the Southampton Arts Center, and a Gershwin concert at the Jewish Center.

A busy week at Guild Hall brings contemporary dance, Second City comedy, a chamber music ensemble, a panel on the media landscape, and an artists’ conversation.

Hamptons JazzFest will bring Edmar Castaneda and his innovative harp to LTV, and Ann Hampton Callaway, a Tony nominee, will perform a cabaret set there.

Now at The Ranch in Montauk, a showcase for innovative large-scale sculpture, are Nancy Rubins’s “Friends of Pluto,” Matt Johnson’s “Meditating Figure,” and Paul McCarthy’s “Sisters.”

Works by Willem de Kooning and Claude Lawrence at Keyes Art, Ellsworth Kelly’s legacy, abstraction in Amagansett, Haim Mizrahi solo, and artist talks at The Church and the Leiber Collection.

Philip Hartman came to the Sag Harbor Cinema to show his 1986 film “No Picnic,” a love letter to the Lower East Side that is having 12-week run at Manhattan’s Film Forum.

East Hampton Art and Design Days will return for its second iteration on July 9 and continue through July 12.