Arts

Stories — sung or spoken, from the living and the dead — will figure in two programs at Guild Hall this week.

The Montauk Library will host “The Housewives’ Cantata Reboot,” a free cabaret concert, on Wednesday.

The Southampton Historical Museum is presenting a lecture series that looks back to various manifestations in Southampton of the Gilded Age of the late-19th and early-20th centuries.

“Summer Roses VIII: Love in the Garden of Dreams,” a classical concert, will take place at the Southampton Cultural Center on Sunday.

Oh, how I wish I’d known the photographer Susan Wood during the "Mad Men" days of the ’60s, when I was a very young reporter at The New York Post and she was a very young freelance photographer.

Joel Perlman and Karl Klingbiel at Ille; Alan Vega at Boo-Hooray; Simphiwe Ndzube and Cassi Namoda at Harper's Books; Basquiat film in Sag Harbor, and more

Hadley Vogel's eclectic background and interests include art making, exhibition space management, teaching preschool, and—in keeping with her father’s line of work—bookbinding. Her attempts to unify these metiers is already generating new hybrids.

"Destination America" is the 35th Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival's theme with 18 concerts scheduled around the South Fork from July 19 to Aug. 19.

Get ready for a bonus mini-run at Bay Street Theater with a new version of “Confessions of a Mormon Boy,” which earned its writer-director Steven Fales an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for outstanding solo performance.

Michael Weiskopf and Randolph Hudson, co-founders of the Complete Unknowns, a Bob Dylan tribute band, with Lauren Matzen, will perform a selection of Mr. Dylan’s weather-related songs on Wednesday.

Two documentaries on artists by Lana Jokel will be shown Thursday and Monday on the South Fork.

The Southampton Arts Center will host a free outdoor bluegrass concert on Saturday.

The Sag Harbor Whaling Museum will present a free concert by the Certain Moves Trio on Friday.

How hip-hop has melded with Bollywood, Latin, jazz, and other genres will be the theme of Reaction Dance Company's performance at the Parrish Art Museum on Wednesday afternoon.

In presenting the virtual reality works of Laurie Anderson, Guild Hall is participating in a world-wide appreciation of the pieces, which have won a Venice Film Festival award and are being exhibited at Mass MoCA and in Tasmania this summer.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons made the most of Carl Orff's opportunities for compelling music making in his piece "Carmina Burana," on Saturday.

Two performances by the Strangemen Theatre Company and Dancers for Good, a benefit evening of dance, will take place at Guild Hall during the next ten days.

Upstairs Art Fair returns to Amagansett; Naama Tsabar at Fireplace Project; Marc Dalessio at Grenning; "Captivate" at White Room, and more

From the Great American Songbook to multi-cultural compositons from a Ugandan artist at Guild Hall

The East Hampton Library will present “Big Ideas for Small Gardens,” a free program featuring an illustrated talk followed by a tour of several nearby gardens, on Saturday morning.

When the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio celebrates its rebirth Friday it will represent the culmination of almost five years of painstaking restoration of the National Historic Landmark.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will present Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana” in two performances Saturday at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

It will be impossible to watch this play and not marvel at the relevance of the material today — the fake news, the political trickery, the controversy regarding the past election, and all the eerie resemblances to Watergate.

The Havana Film Festival New York, which features movies from and about Cuba, Latin America, and Latinos in the United States, will show two this summer at the Southampton Arts Center.

The Parrish Art Museum will host the multi-ethnic music of Mambo Loco on the terrace Friday at 6 p.m.

Bay Street Theater brings “Norm Lewis: Songs for a Summer Night” to Sag Harbor on Monday at 9 p.m.

The Southampton Arts Center and the Hamptons International Film Festival are teaming up again to screen free outdoor Steven Spielberg movies on Friday nights through August.

Pollock-Krasner lectures; “Creatures Large and Small” at Benson; Carl Johan De Geer at Boo-Hooray, Vogt Gallery's "Barn Show," and more

The Southampton Jewish Film Festival, a program of seven films, most accompanied by guest speakers, will begin Tuesday.

“Monteverdi and Bartok,” a benefit performance for the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station, will take place Friday evening at the historic structure at Atlantic Beach.