Arts

Queen Esther Marrow has performed for Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr., and Clinton; Pope John Paul II, and in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s World Crusade, a series of civil rights rallies. Her next stop is the Southampton Cultural Center.

“A Grand Tour: The Songs of Jerry Herman,” featuring the Broadway performers Sal Viviano, Ted Levy, and Deborah Tranelli, with Charlie Romo and Valerie diLorenzo, will bring the music of the renowned composer-lyricist to Guild Hall on Saturday at 8 p.m.

Marc Fasanella, a professor of art, architecture, and design, will talk about “Ralph Fasanella: Images of Optimism,” a monograph that includes 70 full-color reproductions of his father’s paintings, on Saturday at 5 p.m. at Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor. The East Hampton Arts Council and Golden Eagle’s Studio 144 have teamed up to hold a series of networking nights for artists, professionals, and other community members, the first of which will take place this evening from 6 to 8 at the barn at the Golden Eagle at 144 Main Street in East Hampton.

Two free a cappella performances will take place this weekend at the Montauk Library. Tomorrow evening at 7:30, the Chickpeas, a quintet consisting of Liz Sarfati, Marcia Previti, Lisa Shaw, Deb Coen, and Jane Hastay, will perform a program of traditional and popular songs by composers ranging from Harold Arlen to Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne to Bob Dylan.

A broad discussion about art — and the business of art — engaged a capacity audience on Saturday at the Amagansett Library when Randy Lerner, an Amagansett resident and art collector, interviewed the artist Dan Rizzie, who lives on North Haven.

Loudon Wainwright III, the singer-songwriter whose memoir, “Liner Notes,” was published last week by Blue Rider Press, will perform “Surviving Twin” tomorrow and Saturday at 8 p.m. at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. Mr. Wainwright has called the show, a theatrical hybrid of music, family photographs, and dramatic readings, “a posthumous collaboration” with his father, who was a columnist and editor for Life magazine.

Enoc Perez Perez returns to Harper's Books in East Hampton with a kind of revival of the theme with completely different aims and mediums with “Nudes,” an exhibition of 15 paintings.

The ninth annual Save the Waves film festival, an evening of surf, adventure, and documentary films, will take place tonight at Atlantic Terrace in Montauk. Doors will open at 7, and a program of short films will run from 7:30 to 9.

Ryan Wallace has fashioned a career out of using byproducts and remnants from his studio to inspire paintings, sculptures, and other mixed-media works of art in an infinite cycle of re-cycling.

Three programs from Mountainfilm on Tour, a traveling selection of the best short films from the annual festival in Telluride, Colo., will be shown at the Southampton Arts Center tomorrow and Saturday. The festival’s stated goal is to use “the power of film, art, and ideas to inspire audiences to create a better world.”

The South Street Gallery in Greenport has issued a call for artists to participate in its annual “10X10=100” art show and sale for the benefit of the North Fork Environmental Council. More information is available by phone at 631-477-0021. “Walking the Walk,” an installation by Rosemarie Schiller, will be on view at Art Space 98 in East Hampton from tomorrow through Oct. 9, with a reception set for Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

The Southampton Arts Center and the Southampton African American Museum will stage “Harriet, Rosa, and Me,” by JD Lawrence, tomorrow at 7 p.m.

“Angels in America: Millennium Approaches,” part one of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, will be presented at Guild Hall tomorrow at 7 p.m. in an encore screening of a new staging by London’s National Theatre.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill announced last week that it had acquired the entire holdings of the James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation, including the art and archives left to establish it.

Edward Albee's collection of ur-modernism art and objects will be auctioned at Sotheby's on Sept. 26. The proceeds will go to the playwright's foundation.

A one-night-only reading of “Are You Now or Have You Even Been?” has a stellar cast and sold out quickly at Guild Hall.

Center Stage at the Southampton Cultural Center will celebrate its 10th anniversary season with performances of “Center Stage Sings: Fantastick Promises” tomorrow and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 5:30.

Delaney Colaio was one of 3,051 young people who lost a parent on Sept. 11, 2001. Now 18 and a freshman in college, she is a co-writer and co-director of “We Go Higher,” a documentary by and about the surviving children of the attacks.

As much a part of summer at Guild Hall as the clothesline art sale or “Celebrity Autobiography,” the Doo Wop Project will perform two shows there on Saturday at 7 and 9:30 p.m.

In conjunction with its current exhibition, “Abstract Expressionism Behind the Iron Curtain,” the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs will present “Cinema Behind the Iron Curtain,” a series of four film programs organized by Marion Wolberg Weiss, a film historian and professor.

As summer winds down, one of the South Fork’s many “must” events happens tomorrow at 8 p.m. at Guild Hall in East Hampton when the musician Taylor Barton and the guitarist G.E. Smith present the next in their “Portraits” series, featuring Mr. Smith in performance and conversation with Billy Squier.

The Southampton Arts Center’s outdoor summer concerts will come to an end on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. with a free performance by The HooDoo Loungers, widely known as the East Coast’s New Orleans party band. The sound of the nine-piece group encompasses traditional New Orleans jazz, brass band, classic R&B, and funk in a blend of original music and rearranged Big Easy classics.

Clifford Ross has made his mark on the exterior south-facing wall of Water Mill’s Parrish Art Museum as well as several interior walls.

Karma Gallery shows Duane Hanson and Dike Blair; paintings by the Amagansett artist Nick Weber are at Boo-Hooray Summer Rental in Montauk; Billy Sullivan and Kathy Rudin at Ille.

A benefit sale of art at Ashawagh Hall in Springs this weekend not only brings together past and present members of the East Hampton artists community but supports an enduring legacy for two of its longtime members.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will conclude its summer series of music on the terrace with “Bluegrass and BBQ,” tomorrow at 6 p.m., with the return of the Edith and Bennett Band and barbecue and specialty drinks from the Golden Pear Cafe.

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.

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.”

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.”

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.