Rock and Drama

“The Last Waltz,” Martin Scorsese’s film of the Band’s final concert in 1976, has immortalized that event. Among the musicians who performed were Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Neil Young, and many others.

On Saturday evening at 8, at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater, local musicians will perform tunes from the concert, among them Mr. Morrison’s “Caravan,” Joni Mitchell’s “Coyote,” and Mr. Dylan’s “Forever Young,” as well as such Band classics such as “The Weight,” “Up on Cripple Creek,” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.” 

The performers include Joe Lauro, Michael Schiano, Daniel Koontz, Dave Giacone, David Deitch, Gene Casey, Michael Weiskoph, Jim Turner, Katie Pearlman, Randolph Hudson III, Mama Lee and Rose Lawler, and Eamonn Bowles. Tickets are $30.

Bay Street will also present four performances of “The Wave,” a 1967 play written by Ron Jones and performed by Jon Kovach, from Wednesday through Saturday at 7 p.m. The play is based on a true story about a 1960s California history teacher whose classroom experiment went awry. In order to deter his students from the allure of totalitarianism, he created a fascist state on campus, including salutes and Gestapo-like informants. What began with 30 students grew to 200, and the five-day experiment gradually spiraled out of the teacher’s control. 

Mr. Kovach is an actor who has performed on stages in New York City, at regional theaters, and on the South Fork at Guild Hall and Bay Street. Tickets range from $20 to $45.