Want some hot fun in the summertime? That’s no problem in the Capital Region and the surrounding areas, which burst with artistic endeavors for lovers of culture.

Much of the activity, not surprisingly, will be centered at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. This year, the outdoor amphitheater will host the Dave Matthews Band as well as Police with Elvis Costello. Its classical program will include New York City Ballet’s celebration of all things Jerome Robbins, as well as the Philadelphia Orchestra with a slew of guest artists, including Baltimore Symphony conductor Marin Alsop. Pianist Martha Argerich will also visit SPAC, playing with the Philadelphians and the Saratoga Chamber Music Festival.

The jazz scene is ripe in Saratoga Springs, too. The Freihofer’s Jazz Festival at SPAC and the Skidmore Summer Jazz Institute with Terrence Blanchard and Arturo O’Farrill will set the stage.

But you don’t have to stay in Saratoga to experience great theater, music, art and dance. Go east for some inspired theater. The Oldcastle Theatre in Bennington will host an Alan Ayckburn mini-festival with “How the Other Half Loves” and “Bedroom Farce.” Williamstown Theatre Festival also promises great drama and comedy. Among its highlights will be the staging of “A Flea in Her Ear,” a George Feydeau farce that has been adapted by David Ives.

Also in the Berkshires, Tanglewood will be busy with not just the Boston Symphony Orchestra but pop concerts featuring Wilco and Andrew Bird. At Jacob’s Pillow, Lar Lubovitch will celebrate his company’s 40th anniversary. And at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, an exhibition will honor American painters of the early 1900s including James McNeill Whistler and George Inness.

Other important exhibitions expected are the Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region at the Albany Institute of History & Art and Winslow Homer’s watercolors at the Arkell Museum.