Theater: Fresh from its Carbonell win for the best production of a play in 2011 (All My Sons), Palm Beach Dramaworks opens its first foray into the works of South Africa’s Athol Fugard, Master Harold … and the boys, the first of what producing director William Hayes expects will be an annual exploration of plays on the theme of racial conflict. Written in the midst of his nation’s apartheid policy of sanctioned discrimination, this tale of a young white teenager and the two waiters at his mother’s tea shop who helped raise him, is Fugard’s most personal drama. The intermissionless play is like a slow-burning fuse which seems to dawdling, but explode it does and afterwards, you will see that the initial languid pace was entirely intentional. Continuing through April 29. Call (561) 514-4042 for tickets.

Film: There is an art to the making of sushi and nowhere is that exemplified more completely than in a 10-seat counter-style restaurant located below street level in the Ginza subway station of Tokyo, run by an 85-year-old perfectionist named Jiro. Meticulously, he hand-shapes the fish and rice morsels, creating works of art what earned him a three-star Michelin rating -- the highest possible -- triggering foodies from around the globe to make pilgrimages to his humble operation. The film Jiro Dreams of Sushi, a documentary directed by David Gelb, delves into the zen of sushi-making, visiting with Jiro’s sons and disciples as well as the massive central fish market where he selects the choice tuna, octopus and other sea creatures. The result is a feast for the eyes and, if you happen to like sushi, chances are you will make a beeline for a Japanese restaurant after the movie. Opening at Mos’Art Theatre in Lake Park this weekend.

Music: This coming Tuesday, the Palm Beach Symphony gets ready for its future with a gala benefit concert at the Kravis Center featuring a major conductor and a rising soloist. Jahja Ling, now with the San Diego Symphony, will lead an expanded version of the 38-year-old orchestra in the Dvorak Eighth Symphony (in G, Op. 88) and the Piano Concerto No. 1 (in B-flat minor, Op. 23) of Tchaikovsky. The soloist for the Tchaikovsky will be the Tashkent-born pianist Lola Astanova, recently featured in Carnegie Hall’s tribute concert to Vladimir Horowitz. The concert also is a fundraiser for the orchestra, and begins with a 7 p.m. cocktail hour, followed by the concert and a dinner. The music starts at 8 p.m., and tickets start at $30. The reception in the Cohen Pavilion features performances by duo harpists and exhibits from artists Matt Dine and Emanuele Viscuso. Reservations for the cocktail hour and dinner (tickets range from $125 to $500) can be made by calling 561-833-3044. For more information, visit www.kravis.org/pbsgala, call the Kravis at 561-832-7469, or send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Dance: Jerry Opdenaker left Ballet Florida to strike out on his own a few years back, and the stage at the Kravis Center is his for the weekend. His FestOval of Dance features his own O Dance group as well Reach Dance Company, Surfscape Contemporary Dance Theatre, and Houston’s Infinite Moment Ever Evolving. It promises to be an interesting evening of contemporary dance with a host of local performers. Performances continue at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. today, and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $35. Call 832-7469 or visit www.kravis.org.

Dance: Valentine’s Day has passed, but hopeless romantics have another opportunity this month to rekindle their relationships at Florida Classical Ballet Theatre’s staging of Romeo and Juliet. Young love, family feuds and great tragedy all are a part of William Shakespeare’s most-beloved story, set against the backdrop of sumptuous Renaissance Italy, and with one of Sergei Prokofiev’s finest scores. Rogelio Corrales is Romeo and Lily Ojea is Juliet; Idael German is Benvolio, Marshall Levin is Paris, and Eric Emerson dances Mercutio. 2 and 7:30 pm Saturday, Eissey Campus Theatre, Palm Beach Gardens. Tickets: $22-$32. Call 207-5900 or visit www.fcbt.org.

Art: He began work in the heyday of the Social Realism in the 1930s, then evolved into abstraction before coming back to figurative painting and printmaking in the 1960s. Will Barnet, who turns 101 in May, is best-known for these family-centered works, and more than 50 of them are now on display through May 20 at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Will Barnet at 100: Eight Decades of Painting and Printmaking. Barnet often presents his scenes, such as a girl playing chess with an unseen person while a cat sleeps above, against the backdrop of simple geometric shapes, which gives them a starkly simple but moving quality. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, with extended hours on Wednesday until 9 p.m., and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission is just $8 for adults, $6 for seniors. Call 392-2500 or visit www.bocamuseum.org.

Film: Picture a gaggle of studio executives sitting around trying to think up the worst, most box office-dampening movie title. Surely it would be something like Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. And it probably will not do much business in the wake of The Hunger Games tidal wave, but it turns out to be an enjoyable, drily comic contemporary fable about a Middle Eastern sheik who yearns to go fly-fishing in his native land’s desert. Helping to realize his dream is a public relations operative (Emily Blunt) and a British fisheries wonk (Ewan McGregor) who, yes, fall in love during the project. Lasse Hallstrom directs with a puckish sense of humor, and the always welcome Kristen Scott Thomas lends support as press secretary to England’s prime minister. Opening Friday at area theaters.

Theater: OK, you’ve stalled long enough. This is the final weekend for the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s stunning production of Jerry Herman’s Hello, Dolly!, which has been shaken and stirred by director-choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge (who helmed the Maltz’s Master Class and Anything Goes). Yes, it is still the story of a widowed, meddlesome matchmaker at the turn-of-the-century, bringing romance to lovelorn characters from Yonkers to New York City, including herself. But if you are familiar with the Gower Champion-Carol Channing take on the material -- and you probably are -- get ready for a refreshing new look, led by a sly, flirty Vicki Lewis as Dolly Gallagher Levi and dithery Gary Beach (Tony Award winner for The Producers) as “half a millonaire” hay and feed merchant Horace Vandergelder. The production, like almost every show at the Maltz, was built and assembled strictly for the Jupiter audience, but do not be surprised if this staging shows up elsewhere after it leaves town. Through Sunday. Call (561) 575-2223.

Music: If you missed Osmo Vänskä’s terrific leading of his Minnesota Orchestra during the ensemble’s appearance with Midori at the Kravis Center, you can catch him this weekend with the New World Symphony. The Sibelius Violin Concerto (in D minor, Op. 47) is on the program, this time in the hands of Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud on an all-Nordic program that features Finnish composer Kalevi Aho’s Minea and the great Fourth Symphony (Op. 29, The Inextinguishable) by Carl Nielsen. Vanska is one of the finest conductors working anywhere, and the fellows of the New World will no doubt give him everything they’ve got. 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the New World Center, Miami Beach. Tickets start at $28. Call 305-673-3331 or visit www.nws.edu.

Meanwhile, the Delray Beach Chorale welcomes bass-baritone Dean Peterson to its concert Sunday afternoon for an afternoon of music from the opera. Peterson has appeared in major houses all over the world, and this concert is likely to be a good bit more star-centered than other events by this group. The program includes such things as the Soldier’s Chorus from Gounod’s Faust, O welche Lust, from Beethoven’s Fidelio, and the Anvil Chorus from Verdi’s Il Trovatore, plus solos and duets. Tickets for the 3 p.m. performance at the First Presbyterian Church in Delray Beach are $20. Call 1-800-984-7282 or visit www.delraybeachchorale.org

Music: Contemporary classical music has a surprising number of champions in South Florida, and that includes Tim Thompson of Palm Beach Atlantic University, who every year offers concerts of new pieces by faculty members, students, and guests. This year’s festival, called Frontwave, began last night with a concert by the piano team of Duo Gastesi-Bezerra, and tonight is the contemporary concert, which features works by a handful of composers including special guest Shawn Okpebholo, who teaches at the music conservatory of Wheaton College, a Christian school in suburban Chicago. On Saturday afternoon, it’s a concert of music by student composers, and that night, a concert of electronic music. Tonight’s concert begins at 7:30 in the Persson Recital Hall on the PBAU campus, and the student concert is set for 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the hall. The electronic concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Room 335 (the choral rehearsal hall) at PBAU’s Rinker Hall. Tickets for each event are $10, $5 for students. Call 803-2970 or visit www.pba.edu.

The Palm Beach Opera closes its 50^th season starting tonight at the Kravis Center with Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. Starring in the bloody bel canto with the famous mad scene is the Mexican soprano Maria Alejandres, who’s played La Scala and Covent Garden, and stays in South Florida right after the end of the run to star as Juliette in Romeo et Juliette for Florida Grand Opera. Her Edgardo in West Palm is Brazilian tenor Fernando Portari, and Enrico is played by Roman Burdenko. On Saturday night, Romanian soprano Valentina Farcas is joined by tenor Georgy Vasiliev. Massimo Gasparon directs what insiders say is a “very traditional” production, and artistic director Bruno Aprea conducts. The opera bows tonight at 7:30, repeats at 7:30 Saturday night, and returns at 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets start at $20. Call 833-7888 or visit www.pbopera.org.

It’s not everyday that you get to hear a full-blown horn concerto, and so this weekend at Lynn University is the perfect time to stop by. Hornist Greg Miller will play the first of Richard Strauss’ two concertos for the instrument, which his father Franz Strauss memorably played better than anyone else in the Europe of his time (he played principal horn in most of the Wagner opera premieres). The Lynn Philharmonia under Albert-George Schram will also play Blue Cathedral, Jennifer Higdon’s popular orchestral piece, on a program with Bernstein’s late Divertimento, and Respighi’s Pines of Rome. The concerts are set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday in the Wold Performing Arts Center on the Lynn campus. Tickets range from $35-$50. Call 237-9000 or visit www.lynn.edu.

Dance: Choreographer Deborah Marquez presents the premiere of her new ballet, Dracula, tonight and Saturday in Wellington. Based on the Bram Stoker novel and inspired by Francis Ford Coppola’s weird but memorably extravagant movie version, the ballet features a score drawn by Marquez drawn from a variety of sources. Cuban-born Javier Torres, now a member of the Northern Ballet Company in Leeds, England, will dance the role of the mysterious lord of Castle Carfax. The performances will mark a notable debut for Marquez’s new Greenacres-based Arts Dance Generation dance company, which opened in August. Dracula can be seen at 8 tonight and 8 p.m. Saturday at Wellington High School. Tickets are $30. Visit www.schoolofballetartsfl.com for purchase, or call 577-5355.

Film: If you can stop that hacking cough long enough to enjoy a movie, take a look at Addiction Incorporated, the tale of a whistleblower who took on Big Tobacco. The spotlight is on research scientist Victor DeNoble -- isn’t that a great name? -- who, while working for a tobacco company in search of a safe, effective nicotine substitute in the 1980s, came upon the proof that cigarettes are addictive. Naturally, the industry did whatever it could to squelch the information and to discredit DeNoble. He refused to be silenced and, eventually, he went public with the case, testifying before Congress in 1994. Charles Evans Jr. directed the documentary, with the straightforward style of a filmmaker who knows he has a good story and doesn’t need to sensationalize it. At Mos’Art Theatre in Lake Park, beginning Friday.

Theater: “Dust Bowl troubadour” Woody Guthrie wrote hundreds of songs in tribute to the land and in protest of those that would despoil it. Many of the events in those songs parallel his life, as we see in Woody Sez, the first full production of The Theatre at Arts Garage. David M. Lutken and Helen J. Russell, who appeared at Florida Stage 18 years ago with a revue of a slightly different focus, Woody Guthrie’s American Song, are joined here by David Finch and Megan Loomis, and the four of them convey the often tragic incidents of Guthrie’s existence and sing with glorious harmonies numbers which bring back the Depression era and also suggest the parallels to today. At Arts Garage in Delray Beach, 180 N.E. First St., through Sun., April 8. Call (561) 450-6357 for tickets.

Film: One of France’s greatest exports is surely actress Audrey Tautou, the winsome creature of Amelie and The Da Vinci Code. She current stars in a sweet little film called Delicacy, playing a recent widow having difficulty starting over after her husband’s sudden death. The last thing she wants is the attentions of an awkward geek at work who declares his love for her. Before she has a change of heart, you will find yourself rooting for these two to accept their unlikely attraction in this smarter than usual romantic comedy. Opening at area theaters this weekend.

Theater: Jerry Herman’s Hello, Dolly! is one of the high points of the so-called Golden Age of Broadway in the 1960s, but since then it has been locked into Gower Champion’s original staging in too many revival tours starring Carol Channing. Now comes Tony Award-nominated director-choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge with a new spin on the show, drawing startling new stage pictures at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre in a charming new production featuring wily, slyly comic Vicki Lewis as meddlesome matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi and blustery Gary Beach as her quarry, “Yonkers’ well-known half-millionaire,” Horace Vandergelder. Even if you think you have seen Hello, Dolly! one time too many, see it at the Maltz. Continuing through April 1. Call (561) 575-2223.

The Boca Raton Symphonia, which has been playing this week for the Festival of the Arts Boca, returns to the Roberts Theater this Sunday afternoon for music by Bach, Mozart and Poulenc. German pianist Sebastian Knauer joins director Philippe Entremont for the Concerto for Two Pianos (in E-flat, K. 365) of Mozart, and plays the Keyboard Concerto No. 2 (in E, BWV 1053) of J.S. Bach. The orchestra rounds things out with the Poulenc Sinfonietta, a delightful work from 1947, written on commission from the BBC. The concert is set for 3 p.m. at the Roberts Theater, St. Andrew’s School, Boca Raton. Tickets are $35-$62. Call 561-376-3848 or visit www.bocasymphonia.org.

The Young Artists troupe from Miami’s Florida Grand Opera makes a foray into Palm Beach County this weekend with two concerts at Lynn University. Among the seven singers are tenor Daniel Shirley, who was a terrific Prunier in this season’s production of Puccini’s La Rondine, and soprano Brittany Anne Renee Robinson and mezzo Courtney McKeown, who also distinguished themselves in that opera. They’ll perform popular selections from operas such as Verdi’s Rigoletto and La Traviata, Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Cosi fan Tutte. Terence Kirchgessner conducts the Lynn Philharmonia. Concerts are at 7:30 tonight and 4 p.m. Sunday at the Wold Performing Arts Center on the Lynn campus in Boca Raton. Tickets are $45-$65. Call 561-237-9000 or visit www.lynn.edu/tickets.

Festival of the Arts Boca: The operatic world, unlike what many casual observers may think, is flush with youthful activity, as young singers try to scale the heights of musical Parnassus and see the stages of the world. Last night, the Boca Symphonia performed the soundtrack of the 1942 classic Casablanca with a showing of the film, but tonight the orchestra and conductor Constantine Kitsopoulos return to showcase operatic music with film ties. The stars of Opera Goes to the Movies are soprano Angela Meade, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano and tenor James Valenti. They’ll perform classics such as Casta diva from Bellini’s Norma (and from The Bridges of Madison County), When I am laid in earth, from Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (and The Man Who Cried), and Questo o quella from Verdi’s Rigoletto (and Wall Street). The show begins at 7:30 tonight under the big tent at the Mizner Park Amphitheater. Tickets start at $25. Call 866-571-2787 or visit www.festivaloftheartsboca.org.

Art: There are only three weeks left before Rembrandt’s 20 dirty little erotic secrets go back to hiding in the closet. Since November, these erotic etchings by the Dutch painter have been out in the open for everyone to see at the World Erotic Art Museum in Miami Beach.

Don’t let the name of the venue intimidate you. We are all humans, and this is Rembrandt, after all. Not just any Rembrandt, but particularly revealing works (in terms of technique, too) that have never been seen together. Indeed, this is the first time all 20 works – the only known existing erotic etchings by the artist -- are presented for public exhibition. You can find them in the newly created Rembrandt Gallery of the museum.

Among those displayed figures Adam and Eve (1638), Diana Bathing (ca. 1631) and one personal favorite, Jupiter and Antiope (ca. 1659). There is another etching by the same title dating to 1631, but it is the 1659 one that gives us the dramatic lighting with Jupiter creeping up on princess Antiope while she sleeps in the nude. The World Erotic Art Museum is located at 1205 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, and is open Monday through Thursday, 11a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to midnight. Tickets are $15. No one under 18 admitted. Call 305-532-9336. – G. Sarmiento

Film: This is wrap-up weekend for the Miami International Film Festival, one of the premier film events of the nation, with an emphasis on movies from Latin and South America, but also plenty of quality domestic independent films. To single out a couple that are screening this weekend, you will probably like One Night Stand and The Woman in the Fifth. The former is not what it sounds like, no sex is involved, but instead it is a documentary about the creation of 15-minute musicals, written and produced in a 24-hour period, starring several of Broadway’s current mainstays. It screens Saturday and Sunday nights. “The Fifth” of The Woman in the Fifth refers to the Paris neighborhood where American Ethan Hawke loses his wallet and begins an affair with Kristin Scott Thomas. Ah, Paree! This one plays tonight. Screenings are all around Miami. The best thing to do is head to the festival’s website, www.miamifilmfestival.com.

A scene from Come Fly Away.

Theater: Beginning Tuesday night at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach and playing through the week is Twyla Tharp’s latest dance-concert-cum-theater-piece, Come Fly Away. Like her earlier Tony Award-winning Movin’ Out, which featured the music of Billy Joel, this one marries Tharp’s idiosyncratic dance moves to recordings by the late Frank Sinatra. Fittingly, perhaps, it takes place in a saloon, but one that happens to have an onstage orchestra. Don’t go for the plot, because there’s not much there, but Tharp’s energetic, quirky choreography is a wonder to behold. Tickets start at $25 and up, on a sliding scale based on demand, not unlike airline tickets. Call (561) 832-8471 for the current prices.

Music: This weekend is a good one for two titans of classical music in one night, as the Japanese-born violinist Midori (born Midori Goto) arrives for a concert with the Minnesota Orchestra and its conductor, Osmo Vanska. Midori, who’s had a stellar international career for nearly 30 years since she burst onto the scene at age 11, will perform the big Violin Concerto (in D minor, Op. 47) of Sibelius, one of the very finest of all late Romantic concerti. Vanska, who’s recorded all the Beethoven symphonies with his band, performs one of the best-loved of them all in the Symphony No. 5 (in C minor, Op. 67). Rounding out the bill of fare is the Variations on a Theme by Haydn (Op. 56a) of Brahms. The concert is at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Kravis Center; tickets start at $15. Call 832-7469 or visit www.kravis.org.

String quartets crowd the field over the next few days, too, with foursomes on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday.

Sunday afternoon, it’s the Jerusalem Quartet, an Israeli foursome that’s been playing together for nearly 20 years. The Society of the Four Arts brings them together for a concert featuring the Quartet No. 2 (in G, Op. 18, No. 2) of Beethoven, the Quartet No. 4 (in D, Op. 83) of Shostakovich and the Quartet No. 2 (in A minor, Op. 51, No.2) of Johannes Brahms. The concert begins at 3 p.m. Tickets are $15. Call 655-7226 or visit www.fourarts.org.

Monday night, the young Ariel Quartet, also an Israeli group, concludes the Young Artists series at the Kravis Center. Now based in at the University of Cincinnati’s Conservatory of Music, the Ariel will play Beethoven’s Quartet No. 6 (in B-flat, Op. 18, No. 6), the Quartet No. 1 (Kreutzer Sonata) of Leos Janacek, and the Quartet No. 14 (in D minor, D. 810) of Franz Schubert, the much-beloved Death and the Maiden Quartet. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Rinker Playhouse in the Kravis Center. Tickets are $30. Call 832-7469 or visit www.kravis.org.

Finally, The Classical Café series at the Duncan Theatre concludes Wednesday with the Afiara String Quartet, an all-Canadian ensemble that formed in San Francisco in 2006 and quickly snatched up awards such as top prize at the Concert Artists Guild International Competition.

On the program are two key canonical works: the Quartet No. 11 (in F minor, Op. 95), of Beethoven (nicknamed the Quartetto Serioso), and the Quartet No. 13 (in G, Op. 106) of Dvorak.

The Afiara also will play the Quartet No. 2 of Boston-based composer Brett Abigana, whose roommate at Juilliard was David Samuel, the Afiara violist. When Samuel’s mother died, Abigana wrote this quartet in tribute to her memory, Afiara first violinist Valerie Li wrote in an email message. Each of the four movements describes some part of Betty Samuel’s personality, according to Abigana’s program notes.

“We as a quartet really enjoy performing this piece because we feel it is very accessible, and resonates emotionally and powerfully with our audiences,” Li wrote. The concert begins at 3 p.m. Wednesday in the Stage West black-box theater at the Duncan. Tickets are $27. Call 561-868-3309 or visit www.duncantheatre.com.