A village maiden falls in love with a princewho’s betrothed to someone else in ‘Giselle.’
MUSIC: Seeing a concert at Whitehall, the Gilded Age estate of Henry Flagler, is a special experience in which the surroundings compete with the music for the title of most elegant. The Flagler Museum concert series begins Tuesday night with the Baltimore-based Poulenc Trio: Pianist Irina Lande, oboist Vladimir Lande and bassoonist Bryan Young. The program includes music by the group’s namesake, Francis Poulenc, as well as Andre Previn. The concert begins at 7:30 pm Tuesday, Jan. 6. Tickets are $60. Call 655-2833. — G. Stepanich
The Kravis Center’s series of Rinker Playhouse concerts featuring emerging musicians brings the pianist and tech advocate Hugh Sung to the venue with the other members of his trio, accordionist Lidia Kaminska and saxophonist Doug O’Connor. That promises a novel and fascinating mix of music, which in this case includes sonatas by the American composers Paul Creston and John Harbison, tangos by the Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla, and an arrangement of a movement from Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, originally for violin, viola and orchestra. The Hugh Sung Trio appears at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 5. Tickets: $30. Call 832-7469 or visit www.kravis.org. — G. Stepanich
THEATER: Profanely abusive and dependent on alcohol and drugs, actress Tallulah Bankhead is fertile territory for a biographical play. Give playwright Matthew Lombardo (Tea at Five) credit, though, for not making his new script, Looped, a one-woman show, for giving it a strong dramatic context — the difficult “looping” session for Bankhead’s final film, Die! Die! My Darling! — and for casting Valerie Harper as the Southern hellcat. The pre-Broadway engagement is in previews now, opens officially Jan. 7 and continues at the Cuillo Centre in West Palm Beach through Feb. 15. Call (561) 835-9226 for tickets.