Arts

Two concerts that will be welcome summer events for lovers of chamber music will take place at Guild Hall tomorrow and Saturday night at 7, well before other established festivals here. Six musicians from the New York Philharmonic will give the back-to-back concerts along with a guest pianist, the first time the Philharmonic has been represented on the John Drew Theater stage.

The Steve Shaughnessy Quartet will perform a live show at the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum tomorrow at 6 p.m.

“Bohème to Broadway,” an evening of music ranging from opera classics to Broadway and beyond, will take place at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday at 7 p.m. Melissa Zapin, a vocalist, actress, and voiceover artist, will perform with Willy Falk, a Tony Award-nominated actor-singer, and Konstantin Soukhovetski, a conductor and pianist. Tickets are $50 and include a preconcert reception.

Paintings by Paul Feeley and John Wesley, will be shown in the first exhibition at the Collective by Jeff Lincoln in Southampton. “Pop Art: ‘A Catalyst for Dreams,’ Abstraction and Figuration,” will be shown through July 27. “The Last Baymen of Amagansett,” an exhibition of photographs by Michael Ruggiero, is on view from today through Sept. 19 at Estia’s Little Kitchen in Sag Harbor. A reception will be held Sunday from 4 to 6:30 p.m.

Just as an artist working in assemblage would craft a three-dimensional project with objects that take up space and achieve a specific goal, so did Karyn Mannix build her working art studio from scratch.

Run, don’t walk, to the Bay Street Theater’s adaptation of “The Last Night of Ballyhoo.” It’s the best local production since last year’s “All My Sons” at Guild Hall, which rose to Broadway-level quality. Review by Kurt Wenzel.

The other two shoes — er, art fairs — will drop this weekend, with Art Southampton returning to the grounds of Nova’s Ark in Bridgehampton and Market Art + Design pitching its tent at the Bridgehampton Museum. Both fairs will open with V.I.P. previews this evening. Market Art + Design will close on Sunday at 6 p.m., while Art South­ampton will run through Monday at 6.

If music is the food of love, a satisfying supper can be had at Guild Hall on Sunday evening at 8 when Jarrod Spector and Kelli Barrett, newly married Broadway veterans, will perform the greatest songs from notable married couples, among them Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Sonny and Cher, and Beyonce and Jay-Z.

Jake Lear, a blues guitarist and songwriter, will perform a free concert at the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum tomorrow evening at 7:30.

Stanley Casselman rose to notoriety by responding to a challenge by Jerry Saltz, the provocative New York magazine art critic, but he remains a sought-after painter through his own process and creativity. His latest work is now on view at the Mark Borghi Fine Art gallery in Bridgehampton.

The second annual Southampton Jewish Film Festival has brought together seven documentaries and one narrative feature that explore different aspects of the Jewish experience. Presented by the Southampton Cultural Center in partnership with the Chabad Southampton Jewish Center, the weekly screenings will begin Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. with a showing of “I Have Never Forgotten You,” a 2006 documentary about Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor, and his work with the American War Crimes Unit, which tracked down more than 1,000 Nazi war criminals.

Some people need no introduction, and Paul Reiser is one of them. The actor, comedian, and writer will bring his stand-up comedy to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Monday evening at 8.

Jazz on the Steps, a weekly program at the Southampton Arts Center that brings live music outside onto Job’s Lane, will feature Nestor Milanes, a pianist, and Steve Shaughnessy, a bassist, on Sunday at noon.

In November, Legacy Records released “The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12,” featuring demos and outtakes from the recording sessions for three of Bob Dylan’s most groundbreaking albums: “Bringing It All Back Home,” “Highway 61 Revisited,” and “Blonde on Blonde.” The set was issued in both two and six-disc iterations, as well as a limited-edition 18-disc set that includes every take of every song from the three albums.

Brian Rutenberg will show his recent paintings in a new show, "Scallop Pond" at the Peter Marcelle Project in Southampton. The show will open Saturday with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. and continue through July 17. Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor will open “Dichotomies and Transformations: Genesis-Lilith-Shekhinah,” an exhibition of Jewish-themes works by Berenice D’Vorzon with a reception today from 5 to 7 p.m. The show will run through Sept. 5.

Once a year the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill invites one artist to use the museum as a playground whose building, collection, and grounds are fair game for projects that use them in imaginative and innovative ways. Since the “Platform” series launched in November 2012, “We have been wondering how the series would incorporate performance, dance, and other artistic disciplines,” said Andrea Grover, the museum’s curator of special projects. “Since Jonah Bokaer is very much a crossover artist working between media, he seemed like the perfect person to invite to do this.”

Tomer Gewirtzman, an award-winning Israeli pianist, will perform a classical recital at Christ Episcopal Church in Sag Harbor tonight at 8. Only 26 years old, Mr. Gewirtzman has performed in London, Paris, Moscow, Belgium, and the United States, as well as regularly in Israel.

This year’s Aviva Players concert will take place at the Montauk Library on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. The evening will feature Karen Jolicoeur and Hillary Schranze, sopranos, and Mimi Stern Wolfe on piano.

As of the date of this publication, Williams Cole is at the Galway Film Festival for the world premiere of his film “Rebel Rossa,” enjoying the accomplishment of several months of filming and just as much time editing.

Ellen Johansen and Marlene Markard, classically trained pianists who live in East Hampton, will perform a concert of music by Fauré, Poulenc, Schubert, Ravel, and Gilbert at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 4 p.m.

You’ve heard of the classical “three Bs” — Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Well, there are more than three notable composers whose last names begin with the second letter of the alphabet, and you can include Victoria Bond in that extended list. Ms. Bond, a well-known conductor and music commentator, is also a composer of considerable ingenuity.

Calling all tree lovers! Get down to the Woodbine Collection in Montauk for the opening of “The Tree Show” tomorrow with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. “Water+Color+Works,” a group show of contemporary watercolors, will be on view at the Amagansett Library from tomorrow through July 31. A reception will happen Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.

Sandra Bernhard, always provocative and topical, is bringing her latest mix of comedy, rock ’n’ roll, cabaret, and a little burlesque to Guild Hall on Friday, July 8.

The Montauk Library will present “Folk Music of Long Island’s Maritime Past,” a free concert by Astrograss, on Wednesday evening at 7:30. Originally collected by Stan Ransom, a folklorist, in the 1960s, the seafaring songs have been newly arranged by Jordan Shapiro, a guitarist and vocalist.

The stars of “The Unmovers,” a popular series of Optimum TV commercials and YouTube sketches, will bring their stand-up acts to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Monday at 8 p.m.

Center Stage at the Southampton Cultural Center will hold open auditions for performances of Yasmina Reza’s four-character play “God of Carnage (A Comedy Without Manners)” on Wednesday and next Thursday at 6 p.m. in the center’s Levitas Center for the Arts.

For the past decade, it’s seemed that Mary Heilmann was bent on world domination. A career survey show that started in her native California in 2007 and made stops in Houston and Columbus, Ohio, before concluding at Manhattan’s New Museum in 2009, ignited a critical and popular response that led to several solo shows in New York, Holland, and all over Germany, and a regular presence at the most respected international art fairs.

Jack Lenor Larsen has channeled 25 years of creative energy into the house, sculpture, gardens, and overall landscape of the LongHouse Reserve, his residence and public preserve in East Hampton.

The Southampton Arts Center will kick off its summer music programs with three free outdoor concerts on Saturday and Sunday. Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz for Young People on Tour program will return to the center on Saturday afternoon at 4 with a free performance on the outdoor stage by Thunderswamp, a party jazz collective whose music celebrates the culture and legacy of New Orleans. Compositions by Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Professor Longhair, and others will be on the program.

The Perlman Music Program will present a faculty concert tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in a performance tent at its Shelter Island campus. The performers include Rachel Calin, Catherine Cho, Kirsten Docter, Yi-Fang Huang, Ron Leonard, Sean Lee, Merry Peckham, Itzhak Perlman, John Root, Elizabeth Schumann, and many others.