Theater: Eighteen years ago, a wordless theatrical event involving a gang of street urchins banging on garbage can lids and oil drums, making unlikely percussive music with brooms, sticks and other found objects opened off-Broadway, where it continues to this day. The show is called Stomp and the touring edition plays West Palm Beach’s Kravis Center this weekend only. Even those with no rhythm can appreciate how this rag-tag troupe finds music with the darnedest impromptu instruments. Tickets start at $25. Call (561) 832-7469 for reservations.
Film: If seeing the recent Hollywood version of Swede Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has whetted your cinematic appetite for the grisly adventures of Goth computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, you can see all three of the original Swedish movies in the trilogy this weekend at Stuart’s Lyric Theatre. They each screen twice today and Sunday at 2:00, 5:15 and 7:45 p.m. A ticket package for all three films is available for $15. And while you are there, think about joining the Lyric’s Film Society to see more intriguing recent classics-to-be. 59 S.W. Flagler Ave., Stuart. Call: (772) 286-7827.
Music: It’s season-closing time for two more performing arts groups this weekend, as the Delray String Quartet brings in pianist Tao Lin and bassist Janet Clippard for a performance of Schubert’s Trout Quintet at the Colony Hotel in Delray Beach on Sunday afternoon. The program also includes the Schumann Piano Quartet (in E-flat, Op. 44) and an arrangement for the Trout forces of the Adagietto from Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. The quartet offers the same program at 7:30 p.m. next Friday at All Saints Episcopal in Fort Lauderdale and April 29 at St. Stephen’s in Coconut Grove. Tickets for Sunday’s performance are $35. Call 213-4138 or visit www.delraystringquartet.com.
The other season-ender is the Master Chorale of South Florida, which wraps up its ninth season tonight in Boca Raton and on Sunday afternoon at First United Methodist in Coral Gables. The program, which features four soloists and members of the Boca Raton Symphonia, is a collection of music inspired by royalty, including English King Henry VIII’s Pastyme With Good Company and Hawaiian Queen Lili’uokalani’s Aloha’oe. Other works include the Coronation Mass (in C, K. 317) of Mozart and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music. The music begins at 8 tonight at the Wold Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Lynn University. Tickets are $30. Call 954-418-6232 or visit www.masterchoraleofsouthflorida.org.