Hot Ticket Alert: Steve Martin, HVSF and more 
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What To Do's Summer Camp Guide
Here's everything you need to know about over 200 area camps offered by 88 camp organizations. Browse our camp listings in alpha order. Search by category: sports; nature; arts, dance, music & theater; and more. Or search by keyword like tennis, swimming, photography or chess. Developed over five years in What To Do: Armonk, Bedford & Chappaqua magazine, our camp guides are now available online.  whattododigital.com

A Conversation with President Bill Clinton
Lester Crystal, former Executive Producer of PBS NewsHour, will engage President Clinton in a dialogue on issues facing the nation and the world. The event will also serve as the site of the conferring of a SUNY Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. A wine and cheese reception will follow the presentation. All proceeds from the event will go to the WCC Foundation Scholarship and Program Fund. Sat, 5/18: 1:30-2:30pm. (Westchester Community College, 75 Grasslands Rd., Valhalla) www.sunywcc.edu

The Shadow Box in Armonk
The Small Town Theatre Company presents a staged reading of Michael Christopher's The Shadow Box. The play takes us through a day in the life of three hospice patients, their families and a psychiatrist interviewing them for a psychological study. The play won the Tony Award for Best Play and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1977. Ken Marsolais, the original Broadway Producer of Shadow Box will join STTC on May 17 for a talk back after the performance. Fri-Sat: 5/17-18: 8pm.; Sun, 5/19: 7pm. (Hergenhan Center, 40 Maple Ave., Armonk)  www.smalltowntheatre.com

The Opening Night Party for the John Jay Carriage Barn Education and Visitor Center features cocktails in the newly restored Carriage Barn, local farm-fresh food provided by Bedford Gourmet, and a silent auction. Ticket prices range from $125 - $1,000 and are available by contacting Friends of John Jay. Sat, 5/18: 6:30-9pm. (John Jay Homestead, 400 Jay St., Katonah) www.johnjayhomestead.org

WSW's 25th Anniversary Gala Concert 
The Westchester Symphonic Winds, conducted by Curt Ebersole, celebrate their 25th anniversary with guest conductors Mallory Thompson and Tom McCauley, plus Barbara Ciannella, piano, playing Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, and Lois Hicks-Wozniak, alto saxophone, playing Fantasie un sir theme original by Bemersseman. Plus, Elegy for a Young American by LoPresti to honor the 50th year since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Sat, 5/18: 8pm. (Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main St., Tarrytown) www.tarrytownmusichall.org

The Westchester Philharmonic at PAC
Guest conductor Tomomi Nashimoto leads the Westchester Philharmonic in a spring concert that includes Tachaikovsky's Serenade and Mozart's "Great G Minor" Symphony No. 40. He will be joined by guitar virtuoso Eliot Fisk for a performance of Rodrigo's Concierto Aranjuez. The New Yorker called Fisk "the king of American classical guitar." Sat, 5/18: 8pm; Sun, 5/19: 3pm. (The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase) www.westchesterphil.org

I've Got a Little Twist at WCC
The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players present the Broadway revue, I've Got A Little Twist at the Westchester Community College. A veritable parade of hits for musical theater lovers, as this production pays homage to Rogers & Hammerstein, Jerry Herman, Bernstein, Sondheim, and Lerner and Lowe. It's where The Mikado meets The Music Man, and HMS Pinafore sets sail for Brigadoon. Sat, 5/18: 8pm; Sun 5/19: 3pm. (WCC Academic Arts Building, 75 Grasslands Ave., Valhalla) www.sunywcc.edu

A Little Mozart in Chappaqua
The Chappaqua Orchestra presents masterpieces from the teenage Wolfgang including the Symphony No. 9 in A major, Piano Concerto No. 9 in E Flat major, K. 449 with pianist Cynthia Peterson. Plus, scenes from his first opera, Bastien and Bastienne with Leigh Folta, soprano; Alan Briones, tenor; and John Dominick III, bass-baritone. Sun, 5/19: 3pm. (Horace Greeley HS, 70 Roaring Brook Rd., Chappaqua)  www.chappaquaorchestra.org

The Castles of New Castle
The New Castle Historical Society's Castles of New Castle House Tour showcases five homes in different architectural styles. Including, a country house built in 1918 for publisher George Doran, of Doubleday Doran, with views of the Hudson River and an eclectic art collection. Also on the tour is a 1920's Tudor Revival, a coachman's cottage, with a flavor of Bermuda reclaimed from a former estate, and a 18th century tavern. Crabtree's Kittle House is offering a special luncheon. Tues, 5/21: 10am-2:30pm. www.newcastlehs.org

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
This musical revue based on the popular children's books by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond is one hour of enchanting fun for children ages 4 and up. The New York Times called it "sparkling." Variety said it is " ... pure theatre. With a capital "I" for imagination."  Sat, 5/18: 11am & 1:30pm. (Emelin Theatre, 153 Library Ln., Mamaroneck) www.emelin.org

Pinkster Day at Phillipsburg Manor
Pinkster Day is an African-American celebration of spring. The earliest Pinkster days in the Hudson Valley date back to the 17th century. Phillipsburg Manor's (the only living museum dedicated to the history of slavery in the northern colonies) Pinkster festival recreates the spring holiday with a colonial-style celebration of music, dance and food. Including presentations of drumming, traditional dance and African folktales. Sun, 5/19: 10am-5pm. (Phillipsburg Manor, 381 N. Broadway, Sleepy Hollow) www.hudsonvalley.org

John Jay Homestead celebrates the grand opening of its recently renovated Carriage Barn Education and Visitor Center with a day of free activities that include Revolutionary War reenactors, colonial games, museum tours, crafts, a scavenger hunt, and the debut of its new interactive discovery centers in five buildings on the site. You can even milk a mechanical cow. Sun, 5/19: 11am-4pm. (John Jay Homestead, 400 Jay St., Katonah) www.johnjayhomestead.org

Zingy notes of lemon, lime and peach
This week's Wine Geek's Wine of the Week is the Vera Vinho Verde 2012 from Portugal. "This new vintage is just in and is better than ever," according to Wine Geek's sommelier Derek Todd. "Bone dry and slightly fizzy, it's a great choice for sipping by the pool on a warm spring day with its zingy notes of lemon, lime and peach." Normally $10.99 with this week's discount it is only $9.34 a bottle. Buy it by the case and receive an even deeper 20% discount. Tues-Sun, 5/14-19. (Wine Geeks Armonk, 559 Main St., Armonk; 914.273.WINE) www.winegeeksarmonk.com

Meet Tebow at Muscoot Farm
Meet Tebow, Muscoot Farm's first Toggenberg goat; Raspberry's second calf, Rose; Olivia's ten piglets, the new black and white Southdown lambs, and all the baby animals at Muscoot's annual Memorial Day weekend coming out party. Pick up some early season veggies at the farmer's market. Sun, 5/26: 1-3pm. (Muscoot Farm, Rt. 100, Somers) www.muscootfarm.org

Lasdon Memorial Day Antiques Fair & Plant Sale
Cord Show's 28th annual Memorial Day Antiques Fair offers up to 85 booths of authentic Audubon prints, antique maps, folk art, European advertising posters, French Enamelware, Stangl pottery, American art pottery, furniture, silver, jewelry, British Coronation collectibles, art glass, Oriental carpets and more. Music by Gary Dillon, food, kettle corn, and a plant sale by Friends of Lasdon. Mon, 5/27: 10am-5pm. (Lasdon Park & Arboretum, Rt. 35, Katonah) www.cordshows.com

Byram Hills Education Foundation's Gala
The BHEF's Gala at Brynwood Golf & Country Club offers cocktails, dinner, dancing and a silent and online auction with new interactive bidding. The auction includes a Yankee Box for 23, a membership at the Hermitage Club at Haystack Mountain, VT, and your message on the Times Square Billboard. Enter a raffle for a chance to win diamond earrings worth $10,200. BHEF recently awarded Byram Hills Schools 5 grants totaling $263,243. Since 1994 BHEF has awarded 299 grants worth over $3.3 million. Fri, 5/31: 7-11pm. (Brynwood Country Club, 568 Bedford Rd., Armonk) www.byramhillsfoundation.org

Peter and the Wolf in Stamford
The Ballet School of Stamford presents two family friendly ballets: Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, based on a popular Russian children's story about a boy's adventure to capture a dangerous wolf and a one-act suite of Don Quixote, based on Miguel de Cervantes epic masterpiece. Choreography by Alex Brady, who has worked with the Joffrey Ballet, and Twyla Tharp Dance. Fri, 5/31: 7pm. (The Palace, 61 Atlantic St., Stamford) www.stamfordcenterforthearts.org

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