Arts

Bryan Fogel’s documentary “Icarus,” which will be shown at Guild Hall on Saturday as part of the Hamptons International Film Festival’s SummerDocs series, establishes its original intentions early on. It opens with voice-overs of the track and field star Marion Jones and the champion cyclist Lance Armstrong asserting that they never used performance-enhancing drugs.

Donald Lipski's stockpiling days are over now that he works almost exclusively on public art projects. “I still make things,” he said, “but not very much."

The Montauk Library will present “A Summer Cabaret,” the 12th annual concert by the Aviva Players, a chamber ensemble devoted to the work of female composers, on Sunday afternoon at 3.

Music Mondays, the Broadway cabaret series at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, will conclude its summer season with “Stephen Schwartz and Friends” on Monday evening at 8. Appearing with Mr. Schwartz will be Liz Calloway, Scott Coulter, and Debbie Gravitte.

Guild Hall will offer two distractions from the grim events of recent weeks with a new comedy by Eugene Pack and the lowbrow eccentricity of “The Gong Show.”

Kate Mueth and the Neo-Political Cowgirls will present their production of “Andromeda,” the story of a girl trying to find her place in the world, from Tuesday through Sept. 3 at the Montauk County Park.

The next iteration of “Inter-Sections: The Architect in Conversation,” an ongoing series of panel discussions held at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, will focus on the revival of design publications as forums for critical dialogue on urban planning and architecture, with a specific focus on a proposal to redesign the Village of East Hampton.

While most of the interest in such artists as Norman Bluhm, John Little, Charlotte Park, James Brooks, Costantino Nivola, and Kyle Morris, is coming from galleries in the city or completely outside of the region, Eric Firestone has mounted a treasure hunt from his base in East Hampton.

Having a musically talented mother or father doesn’t automatically ensure that an offspring will be equally as gifted. But when your mother is Diana Ross and your father happens to be Berry Gordy, the legendary producer, songwriter, and founder of the Motown record label, the odds are exponentially greater.

Summer’s end must be nigh, as here comes Bay Street Theater’s annual Under the Stars open-air concert in Mashashimuet Park in Sag Harbor. This year’s alfresco free theatrical offering is a reading of “Kiss Me, Kate.”

An exhibition of work by the English artist Harland Miller will be on view at the Surf Lodge in Montauk from Saturday through Sept. 4, with a reception set for Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m. “Return to Ashawagh Hall,” an open invitational exhibition of works by Art Barge artists and faculty, will be on view from today through Wednesday with a reception to held Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m.

As part of the Hamptons International Film Festival’s ongoing SummerDocs series, “Whitney: Can I Be Me” will be screened tonight at 7 at the Southampton Cinema.

“As You Like It” is a genuine crowd-pleaser. Fulfilling this promise is an enjoyable and inventive new production now running through Sept. 3 at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

The 17th annual Box Art Auction to benefit East End Hospice has established itself as a highlight of the late summer season and a testament to the talent and generosity of the local art community.

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.