Arts

The idea of German Expressionist comedy seems rather oxymoronic, but in the hands of Steve Martin it becomes zany social commentary. In his play “The Underpants,” a young bourgeois couple copes with infamy and flirts with infidelity, learning something about each other in the process.

The Barnes Landing Association will present its Anna Mirabai Lytton Writers and Artists Showcase on Saturday afternoon from 2 to 3:30 at the Barnes Landing Meeting House, which is at the intersection of Barnes Hole Road and Waters Edge in Springs.

Among the best-known benefits are the Parrish Art Museum’s Midsummer Party and the Bay Street Theater’s 25th Summer Gala, both of which are likely to sell out in advance despite being held the same evening. Art or theater, it’s your choice.

The Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will kick off its 25th summer season Saturday night with “How Long Has This Been Going On?” an evening of stories, songs, and laughs with Mario Cantone and Jerry Dixon, followed next week by the world premiere of “The Forgotten Woman,” a new comedy-drama by Jonathan Tolins.

If dance is already an art form in itself, then the Trisha Brown Dance Company’s appearances this weekend at the Watermill Center can be likened to an established painter reimagining her most brilliant work in mixed media.

The Perlman Music Program will open its summer program at the Clark Arts Center on Shelter Island this weekend with two alumni recitals and a family music event.

The Parrish Art Museum’s “Sounds of Summer” music series will launch tomorrow at 6 p.m. on the museum’s terrace with the first of four “Jazz en Plein Air” programs. Organized by Richie Siegler, a jazz drummer from Shelter Island, the concert will feature the Emilio Solla Tango Jazz Quartet.

There's a new jam in town! The Hampton Jam Company, founded by Joe and Jessica Cipro, is a new company offering a line of products made in East Hampton from organic ingredients: fruit, spices, sugar, and lemon. The jams will be sold at the Havens Farmers Market on Shelter Island and at the Hampton Bays farmers market. Shawn Christman, the Montauk chef behind the Sea Bean mobile food vendor and catering truck, will be at the Amagansett Farmers Market serving breakfast on weekends, starting tomorrow.

The Art Barge on Napeague will open for classes on June 6, featuring courses in studio painting and ceramics. The Springs Improvement Society will hold its 32nd annual members’ show from tomorrow through Monday at Ashawagh Hall.

Last September, when the pianist and vocalist Judy Carmichael spoke with The Star about her upcoming cabaret performance at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, she was already excited, though the show was still eight months in the future. “Billy Stritch is going to be my guest,” she said. “We will have two Steinways and will play duets, and I will interview him onstage. Bay Street is perfect for that.”

The Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue will present “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” a Drama Desk and Tony Award-winning comedy by Christopher Durang, beginning next Thursday at 7 p.m. and continuing through June 12.

The Montauk Music Festival’s seventh annual happening heralds summer’s imminent arrival, as the four-day event draws hundreds of artists and thousands of music lovers to the hamlet on the weekend before Memorial Day.

The Rising Stars Piano Series at the Southampton Cultural Center will conclude its spring season with a piano concert by Jiayin Shen on Saturday at 7 p.m.

The new gallery Art Space 98 will open Saturday at 98 Newtown Lane in East Hampton. The inaugural exhibition, “People and Lost Traces,” which will open Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m., will include paintings by Thomas Buehler and clay assemblages by Rosemarie Schiller. Paton Miller, the Southampton artist whose work reflects his extensive travels and his admiration of such Spanish artists as Goya, Velazquez, and El Greco, will show new paintings at the Monika Olko Gallery in Sag Harbor from tomorrow through June 13.

“Water, water everywhere . . . but is it safe to drink?” If he were alive today, Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner might have told a different, less poetic story, perhaps as a speaker at “Tideland Sessions,” an all-day program of talks and performances organized in conjunction with the Parrish Art Museum’s current exhibition, “Radical Seafaring.”

The Watermill Center is shedding the relatively low profile it has maintained for the past few weeks with a weekend of open studios and rehearsals by resident artists, a guided tour of the facility, and the second installment of its spring International Brunch series.

Classical piano will be featured at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m. when Yoonie Han, an award-winning soloist, will wrap up the museum’s Salon Series for the season.

“Local Talent @ SCC,” a new program of the Southampton Cultural Center that showcases the work of local performing artists, will present a piano duo of Ellen Johansen and Marlene Markard on Saturday at 4 p.m.

The 33rd season of the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Long Island’s longest-running classical music series, will present 13 concerts, from July 31 to Aug. 28, beginning with “Mozart: A Portrait in Music and Words,” narrated by Alan Alda. Tickets, always in demand, will go on sale Saturday at the festival’s website, bcmf.org, or by calling 212-741-9403.

The Salon Series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will present a concert by Carol Wincenc, a Grammy-nominated flutist and winner of lifetime achievement awards from the National Flute Association and the Society of Arts and Letters, tomorrow at 6 p.m. She will be accompanied on the harp by Parker Ramsey, one of her Juilliard students.

Houston Person, a tenor saxophonist, will return to the Bridgehampton Museum’s Art of Song/Parlor Jazz series on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with a program titled “Let’s Fall in Love.”

The Drawing Room in East Hampton will open two new exhibitions tomorrow. A stoneware sculpture show by Toni Ross and a show by Irene Kopelman, Pat Pickett, and Alexis Rockman that finds inspiration in the direct contact of the artist with nature. Amy Kirwin has been appointed the new director of programs at the Southampton Arts Center.

The last time the Irish playwright Conor McPherson had major play across the pond, it was in 2006, with “The Seafarer,” which I had the good luck to see on Broadway. In many ways it is Mr. McPherson’s signature play, including all of his classic elements and concerns: humor, drinking, the Irish character, pipe dreams, the supernatural, and a good amount of blarney. It was largely that play that prompted Ben Brantley of The New York Times to call Mr. McPherson “quite possibly the finest playwright of his generation.”

From the original hip-hop beats aligning their movements to the movements themselves to the art on the walls in the studio where Adam and Gail Baranello train and teach, right down to some of the clothing they wear, their film projects, and live events, everything is all their own.

Dance Fusion at the Southampton Cultural Center will present a workshop and performance featuring dancers from the Ailey School on Saturday. Freddie Moore, the company’s rehearsal director, will lead both programs.

In celebration of its 25th anniversary, Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater will hold “Curtain Up!” — its fifth annual Honors Benefit — on Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in Manhattan.

While new technologies have had an impact on retail and advertising, Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan remains one of the staunch supporters of creative window dressing. On Saturday at 7:30 p.m. the Montauk Library will present “Creating Fantasy: Behind the Glass at Bergdorf Goodman,” a free talk by Demetrios Argyropoulos, who has overseen the design, production, and execution of the retailer’s ever-changing windows on Fifth Avenue for 15 years.

Gayle Kirschenbaum spent a long time figuring out how to forgive her mother for what she has described as a difficult upbringing, throughout which her mother was sharp-tongued, critical, and lacking in empathy and sensitivity.

It wasn’t just a dream. Music for Montauk is back again this year, and in the capable hands of Lilah Gosman and Milos Repicky, who rebooted the popular classical music series last year with some off-season events and a week of musical surprises in August. The future of the concerts had been uncertain after the death of the founder, Ruth Widder, in 2013.

Guild Hall of East Hampton is having a sale on tickets to select summer programs.