Arts

   The Southampton Center, a new arts and cultural center at 25 Job’s Lane in Southampton Village, has announced a schedule of free programs to be presented throughout the rest of the summer. It will include movie showings, visual art presentations, live concerts, dance performances, interactive educational workshops, and children’s programs such as the Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre.

   Dick Cavett will read the leading role of Len in Joni Fritz’s “In the Car with Blossom and Len” on July 29 at Guild Hall. Lynne Taylor-Corbett will direct. Proceeds of the reading will benefit the Alzheimer’s Association. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at brownpapertickets.com.

At Guild Hall

    On Saturday at 4 p.m., John Alexander will speak about his work at Guild Hall. An interview with the artist appears on C1.

   Friday, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will screen “Growing Farmers,” a short documentary about the work that the Peconic Land Trust is doing with new farmers on eastern Long Island. The film won the audience award for Best Short Film at last year’s Hamptons International Film Festival.

    The presentation will begin at 6 p.m. and will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Michael Halsband and Hilary Leff, John v.H. Halsey, and several of the farmers. Reservations have been requested, and can be made by calling the museum by phone or visiting its Web site.

    The East Hampton Historical Society Antiques Show will return to Mulford Farm on Saturday and Sunday. The show will open with a preview cocktail party tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m., and will offer patrons an early buying opportunity of the various antiques, art, jewelry, and collectibles that will be on display. Steven Gambrel, an interior designer, will serve as the honorary chairman of the Friday preview. Ticket proceeds will benefit the East Hampton Historical Society.

A Guild Hall exhibition is a snapshot of what has occupied the self-effacing artist most recently. Almost all of the paintings were completed in 2012 and 2013, some practically drying on the walls.

    Two major summer exhibitions, “Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet” and “Michelle Stuart: Drawn From Nature,” will open at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill on Sunday and will remain on view through Oct. 27.

    Tickets are still available for the annual Rock the Farm fund-raiser, which happens on Saturday from 6 to 10 p.m. at Ocean View Farm, 551 Montauk Highway in Amagansett. The English Beat, which the Web site allmusic.com called “one of the most important ska revivalist groups,” will headline the show, and special guest artists will also perform. Fifty-five American and seven British veterans who suffered traumatic injuries in combat will attend the concert.

   The Neo-Political Cowgirls will bring back EVE, a “theater immersion experience” with a “bath of music, art, and story,” according to the organizers at LTV Studios in Wainscott, from July 23 to Aug. 4.

    A special preview will take place at the Topping Rose House during the Guild Hall Young Contemporaries summer party on Saturday (more information below).

    Tickets for performances are $25 purchased online at npcowgirls.org and $40 at the door.

Two New on View

At Halsey Mckay

    Halsey Mckay Gallery in East Hampton is showing “Mornings, Sentimental, Wonder & Acoustic Shadows,” works by Patrick Brennan, and “Two Wholes” by Brie Ruais through July 31.

    Mr. Brennan’s paintings “function as transference of a particular season, emotional state or time of day,” according to the gallery. The paintings lead the eye through random choices and different materials, making the viewer conscious of time.

   The annual Bridgehampton Antiques and Design Fair will be open tomorrow through Sunday at the Bridgehampton Community House. In a packed week of art fairs and related events, this fair will feature, among many less elderly items, a fossil mural said to be from 50 million years ago, a 19th-century Belgian day bed, and 4,000-year-old jade.

   On Saturday, at the Montauk Library, the classical pianist Drew Peterson will perform a concert titled “Mostly Chopin . . . and Some Surprises!”

    Considered a child prodigy, Mr. Peterson started playing piano at the age of 5. Now, at the age of 19, he has performed solo and concerto recitals in Europe and the United States.

    He is a graduate of both Harvard University and the Juilliard School. The free performance will feature pieces by Beethoven, Chopin, and Barber, and will start at 7:30 p.m.

   Monday is the final film submission deadline for the Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival, which will take place Dec. 6 through 8 at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre.

    Filmmakers from Montauk to Manhattan can submit their entries as a short (up to 40 minutes), a feature length (41 to 180 minutes), or a student film (maximum of 15 minutes).

   Tomorrow, the Sag Harbor Historical Society will hold its Fridays on the Porch with Rebecca Radin of the Parrish Art Museum. She will speak at the Annie Cooper Boyd House about William Merritt Chase’s Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art and its influence on Boyd’s art. The talk and a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception will begin at 5 p.m.

   “Growing Farmers,” a short documentary about the work that the Peconic Land Trust is doing with new farmers on the East End, will be shown at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill on Friday, July 19.

   The surprise that is Noel Coward is coming to the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall next week, starring Blythe Danner and Simon Jones, and directed by Tony Walton, in the form of “Tonight at 8:30.”

   Coward wrote the show in the 1930s as a touring vehicle for himself and his longtime friend and working partner Gertrude Lawrence. It’s actually a collection of 10 one-act plays. Each night the partners would choose three to perform, at, of course, 8:30.

    Mid-July has become art fair season on the South Fork, with three fairs running in rapid succession, two this weekend in Bridgehampton and another beginning July 25 in Southampton.

    Both ArtHamptons and artMRKT Hamptons will open their doors tonight with previews and cocktail parties for their own exhibitors, sponsors, media partners, honorees, events, and beneficiaries.

   What do you get when you combine two actors, eight parts, and a stew of Gothic theatrical silliness? A whole lot of laughs, when the production is as sharp and clean as that of Bay Street’s “The Mystery of Irma Vep.”

    Created by Charles Ludlam during that final burst of creative, subversive lunacy that characterized the last few years of his life, “The Mystery of Irma Vep” is the most revived of his Ridiculous Theatrical Company plays. When done well, as this production is, you can see why.

    Paul Reiser will take the stage this week at the Bay Street Theatre’s Comedy Club on Monday.

    He is best known for his role as Paul Buchman on NBC’s long-running comedy “Mad About You,” in which he starred with Helen Hunt, and won an Emmy, Golden Globe, American Comedy Award, and Screen Actors Guild nominations for best actor in a comedy series.

    He also had his own show in 2011, “The Paul Reiser Show,” and has appeared in such movies as “Diner,” “Aliens,” “Bye, Bye Love,” and “Beverly Hills Cop I and II.”

More Aycock, Now

In East Hampton

    The “Alice Aycock: New Works on Paper” exhibition will open on Saturday at the Drawing Room in East Hampton.

    Ms. Aycock came of age as an artist between the Modernist and Post-Modernist eras in the 1970s. She is known for her large-scale installations, public art projects, and outdoor sculptures. As the gallery notes, she is a conceptualist at heart and her drawings are driven by language, memory, fiction, and scientific and philosophical extremes.

    The show will be on view through Aug. 12.

   On Wednesday, the Southampton Cultural Center will continue its 2013 Concerts in the Park Series with Matt Daniels, a New York composer and songwriter, who will play a mix of jazz, blues, and rock ’n’ roll from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

   Stephanie Whiston of Montauk has dived in deep seas over 1,000 times in the last 20 years. And all because of her little fear of sharks!

    A friend suggested she combat that fear by diving with the often-maligned creatures. She now photographs them and other underwater species, and it has become her life’s work.

    On one of her first dives, in 1993 aboard a National Geographic Society vessel, a crew member lent her a camera, and she ended up winning first place in a photography contest sponsored by the society.

   Music lovers have been invited to lounge on the lawn or the terrace of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow for a performance by SisterMonk. The band, mostly female-powered, makes music that is soulful, easy to dance to, and draws on a variety of cultures. They have previously performed with Zap Mama, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Anoushka Shankar, and the Karl Denson Trio.

    The show, from 5 to 8 p.m., is free with museum admission.

Essentially a retrospective in paper and maquettes, a major show of work by Alice Aycock is on view at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill and New York City though July 13.

   Direct from her sold-out performance at Lincoln Center, Audra McDonald, the celebrated soprano and actress, will perform with her jazz ensemble at Guild Hall on Saturday at 7 p.m.

    Ms. McDonald, who is touring in support of her new album, “Go Back Home,” was a presenter at the recent Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall. She then closed the show in a surprise performance with the actor and director Neil Patrick Harris.

   The Sag Harbor Historical Society is starting up its Fridays on the Porch series — informal open house events at the Annie Cooper Boyd House with refreshments and speakers. On Friday, July 12, Rebecca Radin will talk about the influence of William Merritt Chase’s Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art on the painting of Annie Cooper Boyd.

    Ms. Radin, a former professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, ran an art gallery in the first Borders bookstore. The event goes from 5 to 6 p.m. Donations would be appreciated.

   Dom Irerra, who has been nominated six times for an American Comedy Award, starred in countless comedy television shows for HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central, Fox, and Nickelodeon, and performed in four films, will take the stage as part of the 2013 Comedy Club at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor on Monday. Mr. Irerra sharpened his stand-up comedy skills growing up in a multigenerational Italian household in South Philadelphia.

Anne Chaisson has been director of the Hamptons International Film Festival since November, but she has been associated with the organization for more than a decade.

    Josephine Meckseper, a New York City artist, photographer, and cinematographer, has installations of a different sort on display at the Parrish Art Museum this summer and fall.

    The exhibition is part of the Parrish’s “Platform” series, experimental artist-driven projects that aim to use all aspects of the museum as a canvas. The installations mix a number of artistic disciplines that in conjunction are designed to evoke certain feelings.

   The Choral Society of the Hamptons joined with the Greenwich Village Singers and the South Fork Chamber Orchestra on Saturday evening to fill the Parish Hall at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton with the glorious sounds of masterpieces by Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, composers who brought Baroque music to its peak.

“DNA & Dust”

    QF Gallery in East Hampton will present “DNA & Dust,” work by Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Paul Hazelton, beginning Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.