TUESDAY
What: Maroon 5
Where: BB&T Center, 1 Panther Parkway, Sunrise
When: 7:30 p.m.
Cost: $90.20-$377.19
Contact: 954/835-8000, thebbtcenter.com
Adam Levine could have it worse. The heavily tattooed vocalist with the impossibly high falsetto was named People’s Sexiest Man Alive in 2013, made his acting debut in 2014’s “Begin Again,” and has coached the talent of tomorrow on all seven seasons of “The Voice,” with his singers winning two of them. Somehow, he manages to tour—a lot—with his band Maroon 5, the hit-making Los Angelinos whose records have sold 27 million copies worldwide. No strangers to South Florida venues, Maroon 5 makes its annual stop in our region the day after Levine bookends the coaches’ chairs in the Season Eight premiere of “The Voice.” The tight and groovealicious band—which should be called Maroon 6, since it took on a keyboardist in 2012—is supporting its latest, dancey album “V,” with its ubiquitous singles “Animals” and “Maps.”
THURSDAY
What: Opening night of “The Gin Game”
Where: Sol Theatre, 3333 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton
When: 7 p.m.
Cost: $10 students, $15 adults
Contact: 561/447-8829, eveningstarproductions.org
If you’ve ever seen the inside of a nursing home, you’ll feel more than a tinge of familiarity with “The Gin Game,” the 1978 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by D.L. Coburn. It’s set in one of these ubiquitous convalescent homes, where two of its residents—the cantankerous Weller Martin and the needling Fonsia Dorsey—share nothing but their mutual abandonment from their respective families. Stubbornly combative, Weller and Fonsia “bond,” if you can call it that, over games of gin rummy initiated by Weller to pass the time. As the cards are shuffled and reshuffled, their conversations transcend diamonds and clubs and begin to intensify, leading to a fevered pitch. This two-character drama has been famously staged with the likes of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, Charles Durning and Julie Harris, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore, and, in Palm Beach Dramaworks’ superlative 2010 production, Peter Haig and Barbara Bradshaw. Jim Gibbons and Kala Kaminsky will star in this budget-friendly professional production in Boca Raton, which runs through March 15.
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What: Opening day of “Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera”
Where: NSU Art Museum, 1 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale
When: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Cost: $5-$12
Contact: 954/525-5500, nsuartmuseum.org
When it was time for Beyoncé to select a Halloween costume last year, she chose a getup that was, for her youngest fans, stunningly esoteric: She dressed us Frida Kahlo, the Mexican surrealist championed for her motley self-portraits, in which her familiar visage stares penetratingly at the viewer, often surrounded by blooming nature. If Beyoncé’s transformation—which included fierce eyebrows, a bouquet of flowers and butterflies atop her head, and striking purple lipstick—brought even one new visitor to fridakahlo.com, it was worth it. The treasured painter’s lifelong health problems cut her life painfully short at 47, but she created some of the most arresting images of the early 20th century. This exhibition, culled from a private collection, provides the rare opportunity to explore the modernist masterworks of both Kahlo and her husband, the muralist Diego Rivera. The works on display will include Kahlo’s “Diego on My Mind” and Rivera’s “Self-Portrait.” The exhibition runs through May 31.
FRIDAY
What: Opening night of “Deli Man”
Where: Living Room Theaters at FAU, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton
When: TBA
Cost: $6.50-$9.50
Contact: 561/549-2600, fau.livingroomtheaters.com
Bound to be the most mouth-watering movie to receive a theatrical release since “Chef,” Erik Greenberg Anjou’s “Deli Man” takes as its subject the titular culinary institution: the Jewish-American deli, which over the past century has sadly vanished from “one on every street corner” to something like 200 across the nation. Anjou, whose “Deli Man” is the third in a trilogy about Jewish culture, sees a metaphor for the Jewish diaspora in the deli narrative—a scattered persistence that manifests most strongly in the figure of Ziggy Gruber, a third-generation deli man in Houston, who becomes the movie’s delicatessen Virgil. Aided by interviews with deli enthusiasts like Larry King and Jerry Stiller, Anjou explores this personality-driven, Darwinian environment with humor and insight. The movie also opens Friday at other theaters across South Florida, including Regal Shadowood in Boca, Movies of Delray and Movies of Lake Worth.
What: Richard Lewis and Kevin Pollak
Where: Parker Playhouse, 707 N.E. Eighth St., Fort Lauderdale
When: 8 p.m.
Cost: $51.50-$126.50
Contact: 954/462-0222, parkerplayhouse.com
Speaking of Jewish icons, the Parker Playhouse has lined up two of them for a special night of comedy benefiting that storied enclave of Jewish-American humor: The Catskills. Kevin Pollak and Richard Lewis are no strangers to South Florida Improv clubs, but they rarely have the opportunity to share a co-headlining bill on an acoustically flawless stage like this one. Pollak, still perhaps best known for his dramatic turn in “A Few Good Men,” is a master impressionist who peppers his act with uncanny impersonations of Christopher Walken, Dustin Hoffman and many others. Lewis, meanwhile, is a motor-mouthed, endless repository of diversions, seemingly extemporaneous observations and therapeutic asides. Both are comedians unlike any other, and both represent the tradition of Catskills comedy—which is why their appearance doubles as a fundraiser for the forthcoming Catskill Resort Museum, planned for Ellenville, New York.
FRIDAY TO SUNDAY
What: Miami City Ballet’s Program III
Where: Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach
When: 8 p.m. Friday; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday; and 1 p.m. Sunday
Cost: $20-$175
Contact: 305/929-7010, miamicityballet.org
The second half of Miami City Ballet’s 2014-2015 season is almost entirely composed of company premieres, which are both exciting and risky. If performed correctly, the ballets in Program III will be so emotionally stirring that they’ll take audiences into deeper, more passionate, and even more metaphysical spaces. Twyla Tharp’s 1996 masterpiece “Sweet Fields” is an alternately joyous and solemn exploration of the passage between life and death, with a soundtrack unlike any other: American Shaker hymns, sung a cappella. No less transformative is “Carmen,” choreographer Richard Alston’s critically acclaimed 2009 adaptation of the tragic Bizet opera, which brings gypsies, matadors, cigar factories and bullfights to vivid life. The program also includes another example of MCB’s George Balanchine bread-and-butter, “Allegro Brillante,” which the choreographer called “everything I know about classical ballet in 13 minutes.”
SATURDAY
What: Health and Wellness Experience
Where: Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton
When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Cost: Free
Contact: 561/881-0702, thewellnessexperience.org
If you’ve been procrastinating or slacking on your New Year’s resolution to eat better and exercise more, this second annual expo sponsored by CBS-12 may be the motivational impetus to usher you into a healthier life. And if nothing else, it will find the entertainment value in topics such as health and nutrition. In addition to free blood pressure, glucose and BMI screenings, attendees can observe and/or participate in Brazilian Capoeira, cheerleading, kickboxing, yoga and meditation. Children’s activities include a rock wall, face painting and an arts and crafts area, and the special “Peaceful Mind Peaceful Life” zone includes presentations from spiritual author Barb Schmidt, chakra specialist Amelia Maynard, chair yogi Michelle Maros and more. Restaurants such as Green Fields Organic Bistro and New Vegan will provide healthy cooking demonstrations. Visit the event’s website for the complete schedule.
What: Spady Living Heritage Day festival
Where: Spady Museum complex, 170 N.E. Fifth Ave., Delray Beach
When: 2 to 10 p.m.
Cost: Free
Contact: 561/279-8883, spadymuseum.com
Each year, the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum reminds its visitors what Delray Beach was like before five-star restaurants landed on every block, fashion models strutted the Avenue beside designer pooches, and shark tanks popped up in hotels. This was once a tumbleweedy land where pioneers had to turn nothing into something, planting and cultivating their own food—all of it, not just a few items in a community garden—and designing household items like lye, soap and straw brooms from scratch. At Spady Living Heritage Day, the Tradition Bearers of Renaissance Park of Marianna, Fla. will be on hand to explain just how these products came to be, and it’s just one part of this beloved celebration. You can also expect the Bahamas 2 Miami Junkanoo Revue will make its annual appearance, bringing Caribbean dance to the festivities along with stilt walkers, a bounce house, face painting, food trucks and, if past years are any indication, live storytelling and exotic animal encounters.
