ART

EAST END EXPRESSIONISM The Vered Gallery has for 30 years offered and purchased fine art of the 19th and 20th centuries. Andy Warhol’s “Lee Iaoccoca” (1985), above, is on view. The screen print is reproduced from a Time magazine cover story of the same year about the businessman who revived the Chrysler brand. Vered Gallery, Sunday, Monday, and Thursday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Friday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–9 p.m., 68 Park Place Passage, East Hampton, N.Y., 631-324-3303, free.

FILM

PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE The Museum of the Moving Image and Partnerships for Parks presents Outdoor Cinema 2007, its annual festival of international film, music, dance, and food. Roy Rowland’s “5,000 Fingers of Dr. T” (1953), with a screenplay by Theodore “Dr. Seuss” Geisel, is this week’s selection. The inventive musical fantasy follows a young boy whose dreams and nightmares are provoked by his fear of an overbearing piano teacher. Hors d’oeuvres are catered by Serena Bass, whose menus include British fare such as sweet potato cakes and rum glazed swordfish. Tonight, sunset, Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd. at Broadway, Long Island City, Queens, 718- 956-1819, free.

COMMERCIAL LOVE The Museum of the Moving Image presents “Uneasy Riders: American Film in the Nixon Years, 1970–1974,” a cinematic series that highlights films produced during a period marked by a turbulent presidency and the unrest of the Vietnam War. Among the screenings is Irvin Kershner’s “Loving” (1970), which tells the tale of a commercial artist trying to keep up appearances while juggling an unsatisfying job, a failing marriage, and a troubled affair. Featured actors include George Segal and Eva Marie Saint. Saturday, 4:30 p.m., through Sunday, September 2, dates and times vary, Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, 718–784–0077, $10 general, $7.50 students and seniors. $5 children under age 18, free for members. For complete information, go to movingimage. us.

MOVIES

CATHERINE THE GREAT The Film Society of Lincoln Center presents a screening of “Repulsion” (1965), which is featured as part of its “Summer Chills: Four by Roman Polanski” series. The nail-biter features French actress Catherine Deneuve as an isolated young virgin who is both repelled by and drawn to the idea of sex. During a weekend alone in a London apartment, she becomes a victim of her own paranoid fears. The black-and-white film is considered to constitute one third of the exiled director’s “apartment trilogy.” Tomorrow, 6:15 p.m., Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St., between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, 212-496-3809, $11 general, $7 students and FSLC members.

MUSIC

I’LL TAKE YOU THERE The summer-long River to River festival features a host of events held in downtown Manhattan. Tomorrow, soul singer Mavis Staples performs classics, “freedom songs” of the Civil Rights movement, and selections from her well-reviewed new album “We’ll Never Turn Back.” A Chicago-native, Ms. Staples had her start in the music industry as part of a family gospel quartet, the Staples Singers. The group was signed to Memphis-based Stax Records in 1968, and the tale of their climb to pop chart success is among the highlights of a PBS Great Performances program airing tomorrow night titled, “Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story.” Tonight, 7 p.m., Rockefeller Park, at north end of Battery Park City, corner of River Terrace and Warren Street, 212-945-0505, free.

POETRY

LITERARY GIANTS Poets Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez give a poetry reading in Central Park as part of the SummerStage series presented by the City Parks Foundation. Mr. Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, is one of the founders of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Ms. Sanchez reads from among her acclaimed works, including “Shake Loose My Skin” (Beacon) and “Like the Singing Coming off the Drums.” (Beacon) Thursday, 7:30 p.m., Central Park Summer-Stage, Rumsey Playfield, enter on 69th Street at Fifth Avenue on the east side, or 72nd Street at Central Park West on the west side, 212-360-2756, free.

READINGS

WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS The author of “The Septembers of Shiraz” (HarperCollins), Dalia Sofer, discusses her novel in conversation with her editor at HarperCollins, Lee Boudreaux. The talk is featured as part of the “Author/Editor” series at McNally Robinson bookstore, which brings the pairs together to expound on the process of creation and offer insights into a book’s deeper themes. Ms. Sofer’s book tells the story of a man wrongly imprisoned by the Ayatollah’s government in the wake of the Revolution, and its effects on his family in Iran and New York. Tonight, 7 p.m., McNally Robinson Booksellers, 52 Prince St., between Lafayette and Mulberry streets, 212-274-1160, free.

MAMA’S BOY A political reporter for the 24-hours news channel NY1,Dominic Carter, readsfromhis memoir “No Momma’s Boy: How I Let Go of My Past and Embraced theFuture” (iUniverse). After years of keeping secret the details of a difficult childhood marked by horrific abuse at the hands of his mother, Mr. Carter learned of the extent of her mental illnesses through state psychiatric records. In writing the book, the author makes an effort to seek understanding and part with the shame of long-held family secrets. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble, 2289 Broadway at 82nd Street, 212-362-8835, free.

THEATER

A TEMPEST UPTOWN As part of its third annual Harlem Summer Shakespeare project, the Pulse Ensemble Theatre presents “The Tempest,” performed outdoors. In this multi-ethnic, contemporary interpretation of the Bard’s play about a duke (Prospero) who relinquishes power in an effort to end an ongoing war, Lacoste shirts replaceElizabethanrufflesandthe music ranges from African drumming to a performance by the Bulgarian Women’s Choir. Alexa Kelly is artistic director of the Pulse. Tomorrow, 8 p.m., through Sunday, August 26, Thursday–Sunday, 8 p.m., Riverbank State Park,138thSt. at Riverside Drive, 212-695-1596, free. For complete information, go to pulseensembletheatre.org.

WHAT’S MY LINE? The Playwrights’ Theatre of East Hampton and Guild Hall present a staged reading of Joseph Stein’s “Enter Laughing,” adapted from the novel of the same name by Carl Reiner. A discussion with Mr. Stein and a dessert reception follows. The play is set in New York City in the early 1950s and follows a young David Kolowitz, who longs to break into the acting profession. The aspiring thespian’s stage debut is depicted in an inept play-within-a-play that is wildly comical for all the wrong reasons. Featured readers include actors Cady Huffman, Jerry Adler, Eli Wallach, and Anne Jackson. Lewis Stadlen is the director. Sunday, 8 p.m., East Hampton Studios, 75 Industrial Road, (near Northwest Road), Wainscott, N.Y., 212-268-1522, $20 general, $18 members.

MUSICALS ON THE GRASS The local radio station 106.7 FM kicks off its sixth annual “Broadway in Bryant Park” lunchtime series with live performances of scenes from Broadway favorites. Among the featured casts are those from “Mary Poppins: The Musical,” “Stomp,” “Les Misérables,” and “Hairspray,” which features a former member of the boy-band OTown, Ashley Parker Angel, and a former protégé of producer Quincy Jones, Tevin Campbell. On-air personality Al Bernstein, among others, hosts the festivities. Tomorrow, 12:30–1:45 p.m., and Thursday, August 9, and Friday, August 10, Bryant Park Stage, between 40th and 42nd streets, and Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212- 212-768-4242, free.

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