Arts

A sure sign of summer is the arrival of free outdoor movies at various locations on the South Fork.

“MOTHER (and me),” a solo play written by and starring Melinda Buckley, will come to the Bay Street Theater for one night on Monday.

Gallop on down to Studio 11 in East Hampton’s Red Horse Plaza to see new work by Eugene Brodsky. The artist Mary Delany will teach oil and acrylic painting at The Depot Gallery, home of the Montauk Artists Association.

Mortified Live, a storytelling event in which adults share their childhood writings, art, lyrics, plays, home movies, and other media in front of total strangers, will bring its comic excavation of the strange and extraordinary to the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill Saturday at 6 p.m.

Jesse Harris and Star Rover will play songs from their new album “No Wrong No Right” tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Harper’s Books in East Hampton.

Lucy Winton’s Wainscott studio is in a whitewashed barn with two large roll-up garage doors. Inside, the space is white, vast, and almost empty of furnishings, but the walls are covered with art. The adjacent bay is the studio of Bryan Hunt, a sculptor who has been her companion for 14 years.

The Southampton Historical Museum will throw a party to celebrate the town’s 375th birthday on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Rogers Mansion on Meeting House Lane.

Kelsey Brookes investigates ancient botanical compounds in a show of paintings at the Eric Firestone Gallery while Collage at Dodds and Eder show the “Strength in Layers." Jack Lenor Larsen speaks at the Art Barge in an interview with Janet Goleas.

Bay Street Theater will present the East Coast premiere of “Five Presidents,” a play by Rick Cleveland, an Emmy Award-winning writer, from Tuesday through July 19.

Over the last several months, the guitarist G.E. Smith has brought a number of unique performances to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. In October, he, Jim Weider, and Larry Campbell presented “Masters of the Telecaster,” an ensemble performance in which each played his favored electric guitar, the Fender Telecaster.

“Chuck Close,” a documentary by Marion Cajori, will be screened Friday, June 19, at 6 p.m., at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, where an exhibition of the artist’s photographs is on view.

Many new shows open with new materials and interesting installations.

“Best of Enemies,” a documentary by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville about the 1968 television debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr., will inaugurate the Hampton International Film Festival’s SummerDocs series on July 11.

The Watermill Center will present an open rehearsal of “Flying Point,” a multimedia portrait of the contemporary Shinnecock community and the tribe’s history, on Saturday.

The Perlman Music Program will present “Classical Collaborations” concerts at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons on Saturday and at the Southampton Cultural Center on Sunday.

Innovative technologies are used in new cutting edge shows on the East End. The siren call of nautical themes is heard as maritime exhibits open this weekend.

During the run of its mainstage production “The New Sincerity,” Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor is filling the few empty slots on its calendar with new programs.

“All My Sons,” starring Alec Baldwin and Laurie Metcalf in Arthur Miller’s 1947 play based on a true story of industrial corruption during World War II, will open Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Guild Hall and run through June 28. Stephen Hamilton will direct.

The Parrish Art Museum’s Sounds of Summer music series will take a new turn tomorrow at 6 p.m. when Dave Harvey, a professional caller and founder of New York City Barn Dance, and Dunegrass, an East End bluegrass group, will lead an evening of traditional American contra dance on the museum’s outdoor terrace.

What's happening on the arts scene this week.

Lovers of classical music have a lot to choose from this season, starting on June 7 with a kick-off chamber music workshop concert at the Perlman Music Program’s Clark Arts Center on Shelter Island.

The John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor will present a three-part Chinese film festival organized by Ou Wang, a Mandarin teacher at the Ross School, beginning next Thursday at 6 p.m. with a screening of “To Live,” a film by Yimou Zhang about a family’s struggles to live in China from the 1940s to the 1970s Cultural Revolution.

The Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue finishes off its 30th season with “Hay Fever,” the Noel Coward comedy of English mores.

With the unofficial start of summer upon us, music is about to fill the air, indoors and out, in the golden sunlight and late into the starry night.

The Rising Stars Piano Series at the Southampton Cultural Center will conclude its spring series with a recital by Orion Weiss on Saturday at 7 p.m. His program will include works by Beethoven and American composers in celebration of Memorial Day.

Sounds of Summer will return to the covered terrace of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill this summer, kicking off tomorrow at 6 p.m. with the HooDoo Loungers, the nine-piece New Orleans party band whose repertoire incorporates traditional New Orleans jazz, brass band standards, classic R&B, and funk.

Remember 1975? Those alive that year would have witnessed the fall of Saigon, two assassination attempts on President Gerald R. Ford, the conviction and sentencing of three key Nixon administration officials due to Watergate, and the premiere of “Saturday Night Live.”

The next iteration of Saturdays @ WMC, the Watermill Center’s free programs of activities for families, will take place Saturday.

Our Fabulous Variety Show, a troupe of actors devoted to refining their craft while raising funds and awareness for both local and national nonprofits, will hold open auditions for a future production.

It’s time to get out the calendars and save the dates for the South Fork’s annual round of summer benefits. Beginning with Planned Parenthood on Sunday and finishing up with the Box Art Auction for East End Hospice at a yet to be determined date in September, the season is full of opportunities to socialize and help out good causes.