Arts

The accelerating dotage of the ’60s generation is surely a fountainhead of comedic material, and as such, a triple dose of laughs should be in store next Thursday when comedy legends from the last 30 years of stand-up take the stage at Guild Hall.

Bill O’Connell, a bandleader, pianist, arranger, music director, and accompanist for many icons of jazz and Latin music, will perform at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m. as part of the museum’s Jazz on the Terrace series.

Mavis Staples will bring her unique blend of gospel, soul, folk, pop, R&B, blues, rock, and hip-hop to Guild Hall on Saturday at 8 p.m. For more than 60 years, with both the Staple Singers and as a solo artist, she has entertained audiences and performed with such artists as Prince, Ray Charles, Curtis Mayfield, the Band, and Bob Dylan, who once said of her voice, “It was like the fog rolling in.” Tickets are $55 to $150, $53 to $145 for members.

The Montauk Library will present “Songs and Sounds of Michigan,” a free concert celebrating the bicentennial of the founding of the University of Michigan.

Midway through its summer season, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival gave an outstanding concert that exemplified what it has come to be known for: a well-chosen selection of sublime classics offering entertainment of the highest order, along with a refreshing sampling of the best of the newest additions to the repertoire.

The Hip to Hip Theatre Company will bring its 2017 season of Free Shakespeare in the Parks to Agawam Park in Southampton tomorrow and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

The Montauk Artists Association’s 23rd annual show on Montauk Green will take place tomorrow from noon to 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. As summer in the Hamptons winds down, the Tripoli Gallery in Southampton will present “Summer Trip,” a group exhibition that “formed itself around a chill mood,” from Saturday through Sept. 18, with a reception set for Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m.

Beginning Sunday, the bluffs will be alive with the sound of music as Music for Montauk returns for a week of concerts under the direction of Lilah Gosman and Milos Repicky.

The Christy’s Art Center on Madison Street in Sag Harbor is showing "Velvet Elvis," an eclectic group of artists united somewhat by their compositional focus on undulating lines.

Billy Porter, a Tony and Grammy Award-winning singer, composer, actor, and playwright, will present an evening of songs and stories from his career on and Off Broadway at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater on Monday at 8 p.m., as part of the venue’s ongoing Music Mondays series.

This weekend will be a busy one at Guild Hall, with its annual summer party tomorrow evening and two new art exhibitions opening on Saturday.

Go People, a professional company ­from England that specializes in high-quality intimate theater, will perform two Noel Coward plays, “Ways and Means” and “Hands Across the Sea” on Sunday afternoon at 4 at the Southampton Arts Center.

The Watermill Center will open its doors Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m. for an afternoon of art installations, performances, workshops, tours, and family activities both inside the center and on its eight-and-a-half landscaped acres.

“Jackson Pollock: The Graphic Works,” which will open at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Saturday and continue through Oct. 9, includes seven engravings from original plates made by Pollock in 1944 and 1945, and seven serigraphs from screens made by his brother Sanford in 1951.

The Southampton Cultural Center’s Center Stage will hold open auditions for Marc Camoletti’s play “Boeing Boeing” on Sunday and Monday at 6 p.m.

A solo show of silkscreens, collages, maquettes, and paintings by Eugene Brodsky will be on view from Saturday through Sept. 6 at Studio 11 in the Red Horse Plaza in East Hampton. “Wednesday Wonders,” an exhibition of work by the Wednesday Group of plein-air painters, is view at the Nature Conservancy in East Hampton through Aug. 24, with a reception set for Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.

A stand of three trees encased in steel cages wrapped in hemp twine at LongHouse Reserve are the latest manifestations of the ascendancy of the artistic career of Toni Ross.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill is celebrating three West African countries tomorrow night with live performances and the screening of two 30-minute documentaries.

“Architecture: Does Modernism Still Matter?” will be tackled by Paul Goldberger, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic, Jake Gorst, a filmmaker, writer, and grandson of the Long Island Modernist architect Andrew Geller, and two architects, Robert Barnes of Barnes Coy and Anne Surchin, co-author of “Houses of the Hamptons: 1880-1930.”

Sweet Honey in the Rock, a Grammy-nominated a cappella ensemble rooted in African-American history and culture, will perform at Guild Hall on Saturday evening at 8.

In the Bay Street Theater’s production of Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” audiences will note its innovative approach to the enduring wit and captivating plot of Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy.

BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance, a contemporary dance company that captures and communicates universal human encounters through dynamic, purposeful movement, will perform three works from its repertory, “Agawam,” “Home,” and “The Warm-Up,” at the Southampton Cultural Center on Sunday afternoon at 4. Tickets are $10.

Green Afternoon V, an annual interactive garden installation and performance by the Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre, will take place Saturday afternoon at 5 p.m. at the residence of the architects Peter Gumpel and Marcia Previti at 230 Old Stone Highway in Springs.

The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs will open a new show today featuring artists who managed to transcend totalitarianism to pursue pure abstraction in defiance of Communist Party doctrine during the Cold War.

“High Rise Lazarus” at Fireplace Project is a jumble of works in several series and mediums, a genre mash-up. Four different series of works are interspersed throughout the space so that their disjunctive and uniting effects can be experienced at once.

LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will hold a birthday concert for its founder, Jack Lenor Larsen, on Saturday at 6 p.m.

An open call for “The Resettlement of Isaac,” a play that will be performed at the Southampton Cultural Center on Aug. 21 as part of the Jewish Film Festival, will take place Sunday and Monday from 6 to 9 p.m. at the center.

The Parrish Art Museum's “From Lens to Eye to Hand: Photorealism, 1969 to Today” will showing works of art capturing time and space precisely.

Revel in Dimes will bring its original musical blend of rock, jazz, and blues to the terrace of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow evening at 6.

When Teri Kennedy, a Springs artist, agreed to serve as curator for the 50th annual Springs invitational art exhibition, she received advice from friends about how to approach it.