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