A Guide to Summer Entertainment

The American Festival at the Arts Center Theatre (Soldiers Field Road, AL 4-1310): The season opens July 5 with Patricia Neway in "The Turn of the Screw," Benjamin Britten's opera ghost story. The show closes July 15.

Playing July 17 through 29 will be a Dance Festival, followed by Anstol a musical with Jean -Pierre Anmont and Marisa Pavan (July 31-August 19), and Maxwell Anderson' Elizabeth the Queen with Eva LaGallienne (August 21-September 9).

The Boston Pops Orchestra continues until July 1 with its popular concerts in Symphony Hall, nightly at 8:30 p.m. except Sundays. Arthur Fiedler conducts. (CO 6-1492). From July 2-14 and July 21-26, (excluding July 8), the Pops Orchestra moves outside to the Hatch Memorial Shell on the Charles River.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch Conducting, plays at Tangle wood (Lenox, Mass), in the 1961 Berkshire Festival from July 5 through August 20. At the Festival 15 concerts by the Full orchestra will be given, plus six chamber orchestra concerts of music by Bach and Mozart, seven chamber music recitals, and two guests will be Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Monteux, Eugene Ormandy, Arthur Fiedler, and Richard Burgin.

The Carousel Theater in Framingham (TR 2-3577 or CE 5-9180) presents Shelley Berman in Where's Charley playing June 26 through July 1. Opening July 3 (through July 8) will be The Merry Widow, with Katherine Grayson. Also on the summer program are Kismet,with Howard Keel (July 10-15); Okla-homal, with John Raitt (July 17-22); The King and I, with Giesele Mac-Kenzie (July 24-29); and a review with Danny Kaye (July 31-August 6).

Also, Wildest, with Rhonda Fleming (August 7-12); Destry Rides Again, with Hugh O' Brian (August 14-19); the Flower Drum Song (August 21-26); and a final show to be announced.

The South Shore Music Circus(off Route 3A--Ev 3-1400) will produce The Pleasure of His Company,with Faye Emerson and Reginland Gardiner (opening June 26); The West Side Story (July 3); The Flower Drum Song (July 17); and Take Me Along (July 24).

Also, Paint Your Wagon (July 31); Guys and Dolls (August 7); the Merry Widow (August 14); The Most Happy Fella (August 21); and Finian's Rainbow (august 28), with Juluis LaRosa. The latter closes September 1.

The Castle Hill Foundation presents a full schedule of varied musical concerts this summer. The Concerts are on Argilla Road in Ispwich (EL 6-4351 in Ipswich). The Ahmad Jamal Trio Opens the season June 30 through July 1. Then Earl Wild, piano soloist, and Arthur Fielder, with a symphony group (July 7-8); a Weekend of Jazz with Dave Brubeck and the Modern Jazz Quartet, and Duke Ellington and Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross (July 14-15); Ferrente & Teicher, duo-paints, (July 21-22); a Weekend of Folk Music with Odetta and Pete Seeger, and The Weavers and John White (July 28-29); The Kingston Trio (August 4-5); Carlos Montoya, Flamenco guitarist (August 11-12); and Leon Fleischer, pianist (August 18-19).

The American Shakespeare Festival (Stratford, Conn., Exit 52 from the Connecticut Trunpike or Exits 51 or 53 from the Merritt Parkway--ED 7-4456 in Stratford) presents a repertory of three Shakespearean plays: Macbeth, As you Like It, and Troilus and Cressids, alternating Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8:30 p.m.; Wednesdays, Saturday, and Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. Starring in the productions are Jessica Tandy as Lady Macbeth, Pat Hingle at Macbeth, and Kim Hunter as Rosalind.

Music in Newport, the Jazz Festival in everything but name, presents a big weekend of music over the Fourth. (Freebody park in Newport, R.I.--VI 7-3095 in Newport). Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, Ramsey Lewis, Maynard Ferguson, Cannonball Adderly, and Carmen McRae are on the first night, June 30. Count Basic, Chico Hamilton, John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Gloria Lynn, and Slife Hampton Perform July 1: Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, Anita O'Day, Art Blakey, the Jazztet, George Shearing, and Eddie Harris take over Sunday