Arts

By any measure Johannes Brahms was an “Old Master” and it was with his German Requiem, that musical salve for human suffering in the face of death that the Choral Society of the Hamptons, joined by the Greenwich Village Chamber Singers and the South Fork Chamber Orchestra, closed its 2016-2017 concert season on Saturday in the Parish Hall of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton.

On Sunday at 7 p.m., Dennis Elsas will present “Rock ’n’ Roll Never Forgets,” a multimedia show featuring highlights from his interviews with rock ’n’ roll royals, at Guild Hall in East Hampton.

If you are among those who are frustrated by the crowds and noise of summer (and who isn’t?) the East Hampton Historical Society exhibition now at Clinton Academy offers a chance to reflect on simpler times.

Race and matrimony are at the heart of “Intimate Apparel,” a 2003 play by Lynn Nottage in revival now through July 30 at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

The Platform series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill provides an occasion for individual artists to consider the entire museum over a period of months as a location for interdisciplinary artworks and installations.

Ashawagh Hall in Springs will be the site of the third Hamptons Plein Air invitational from tomorrow through July 23. Twenty-one artists will not only participate in the exhibition but also paint outdoors daily at locations in East Hampton and Springs. The East End Photographers Group’s summer exhibition will open at the Water Mill Museum with a reception next Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. and continue through Aug. 13.

Yung Jake Patterson is bringing his emoji.ink paintings to the Tripoli Gallery in Southampton.

Guild Hall has a lively week ahead, with performances by the internationally acclaimed Pilobolus Dance Theater, the Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress and vocalist Bebe Neuwirth, the classical musicians Boyd Meets Girl, and a talk by Misty Copeland, a principal dancer of the American Ballet Theater.

Via Brooklyn will present "The 39 Steps," which spoofs Hitchcock’s murder mystery with a cast of four playing more than 50 characters, along with fast changes, shadow puppets, fog machines, projections, questionable accents, and moustaches.

The Montauk Library will present “What’s All That Jazz About?” on Wednesday evening at 7:30.

Bay Street Theater will introduce the concert series “Music Mondays” on July 10 at 8 p.m. with a performance by the Tony Award-winner Betty Buckley, whose many credits include “Cats,” “Sunset Boulevard,” and the Bay Street production of “Grey Gardens.”

Strange, almost surreal forms are central to Deborah Buck's paintings, so they aren’t resolutely abstract. But, with a few exceptions, they are not figurative either--except perhaps in her head, where magic is the norm.

The Bridgehampton Antiques and Modern Design Show will take place at the Bridgehampton Community House through Sunday.

The third annual Southampton Jewish Film Festival offers an opportunity to explore a wide span of Jewish history and culture, with films ranging from a documentary about American delicatessens to a narrative feature that eerily foreshadows the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris.

As part of its “Music on the Terrace” series, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will host Mamalee Rose and Friends, a popular East End band that has mixed blues, gospel, and lively vocals for more than 20 years.

The Hamptons International Film Festival’s SummerDocs series will kick off its 2017 season with “Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press” on Saturday at 7 p.m. at Guild Hall in East Hampton. Alec Baldwin will host the screening.

“Intimate Apparel,” an early play by Lynn Nottage at Bay Street Theater, takes audiences back in time to 1905 New York, where Esther Mills, an African-American seamstress, has a successful business.

In an old Southampton power station, Jeff Lincoln's “The Organic Impulse in Contemporary Art and Design” celebrates how artists and designers look to nature and organic shapes and motifs to inform their work.

Paintings and works on paper by the East Hampton artist Susan Vecsey are on view at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor though Sept. 4. The White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton will present “Out of Bounds,” a group exhibition, from Monday through July 31, with a reception set for July 15 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Outdoor film screenings will take place this summer from Montauk to Southampton and beyond.

In connection with its exhibition of American landscape paintings by Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver, and Casey Chalem Anderson, Ille Arts in Amagansett will present a performance of folk and roots music by the Fairlane Family on Saturday night from 7 to 10.

The Southampton Cultural Center will kick off its annual Concerts in the Park series with a performance by Nancy Atlas on Monday at 6:30 p.m. at Agawam Park.

Jazz on the Terrace, an annual summer series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, will open this year with “The Music of Burt Bacharach and Michael Jackson,” a performance by The Iris Ornig Group, tomorrow at 6 p.m.

“Inconceivable,” Jonathan Baker's first feature film as director, which stars Nicholas Cage, Gina Gershon, and Faye Dunaway, will be released nationally tomorrow. The culmination of his career so far, it did not come to fruition easily.

The Amagansett Library will present “Stage to Film,” a series of six movies adapted from plays, starting Wednesday at 7 p.m. with “Fences,” the Oscar-nominated film adapted by August Wilson from his own play.

What better way to welcome summer in the Hamptons than with “Surf Movie Night,” a free program of short, noncommercial surf movies that will be shown under the stars at the Southampton Arts Center tomorrow at 8:30.

“American Masters” is opening Saturday at Mark Borghi in Bridgehampton with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. It will be on view through mid-August. Grain Surfboards Gallery in Amagansett will present “Salty Drawers,” drawings, paintings, and scrimshaw by Paton Miller and Peter Spacek, two inveterate surfers, from Saturday through July 16. A reception will take place Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. and an artist chat will happen on July 8 at 7 p.m.

Two dramatic presentations and two evenings of lively music kick off at Guild Hall tonight at 8.

Several of Tony Vaccaro's photographs from a visit to Springs in 1953 had been lost for decades, but they recently resurfaced and are being shown at the Pollock-Krasner House.

Guild Hall will hold a premiere screening of “Larsenworld: LongHouse in East Hampton” tomorrow night at 8. The 23-minute film chronicles the many facets of the career and dreams of Jack Lenor Larsen, the noted textile designer and collector who established the LongHouse Foundation, now LongHouse Reserve, in 1991.