Film: Uruguay’s official submission for the foreign-language Oscar this year and an audience favorite at the recent Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival, Mr. Kaplan, has returned for a commercial run at Boca Raton’s Living Room Theaters and other venues in the area. It is that tricky commodity — a dark comedy with a Holocaust theme — but it works, largely because of the assured work by writer-director Alvaro Brechner. The title character (Héctor Noguera) assesses his life at 76, coming to the conclusion that he has done nothing of lasting importance. But that is about to change, because he is pretty sure that the proprietor of a seaside snack bar in his town is a Nazi war criminal and Mr. Kaplan is determined to abduct him and turn him over to Israeli authorities for trial. Of course, he has jumped to chasmic conclusions, but that is why this wry film is so entertaining.
Theater: A half-century ago, an unheralded musical with the unlikely source material of the classic Spanish novel Don Quixote and the life of its author Miguel de Cervantes arrived on Broadway. Its unabashed idealism and sense of hope struck a chord with audiences in the bleak post-Kennedy, Vietnam War era and it retains its inspiring impact, as the current production at the Wick Theatre in Boca Raton demonstrates. Props to Dom Ruggiero’s heart-on-its-sleeve staging and the full-voiced, versatile performance by George Dvorsky as Cervantes/Quixote, the comic relief of Robert Anthony Jones as his sidekick Sancho Panza and Alix Paige as the down-and-dirty kitchen wench Aldonza, who is elevated by Quixote’s delusions. Continuing through March 28. Tickets are already becoming scarce. Call 561-995-2333.
Music: In recent months, Delray Beach’s Arts Garage has been bringing some jazz artists in of more than usual interest, including pianist Cyrus Chestnut and the rising singer Cyrille Aimée. Tonight, it’s the Canadian trumpeter and singer Bria Skonberg, whose love of Louis Armstrong is evident in the way she plays, and whose voice is a gem: There are many performances of hers all over the Internet, and she is a player, singer and composer of impressive talent and wide tastes. And — this is no small thing these days — she’s supermodel-beautiful, which, taken all together, is pretty close to unfair. But here’s a performer who does wonderful things in her niche, and it’s entirely possible that she could join Diana Krall and Michael Bublé as the next big deal from the Great White North. She’s accompanied at Arts Garage tonight by a trio that includes bassist Chuck Bergeron, who runs the Mancini Institute at the University of Miami. The show starts at 8 p.m.; tickets start at $25. Call 450-6357 or visit www.artsgarage.org.
Meanwhile, the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival continues its winter concert series with a program Sunday afternoon at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Palm Beach. Primarily a wind quintet program, it features unusual French music by Adrien Barthe, Charles-Édouard Lefebvre and Rameau, plus two American works by Gordon Jacob and Jan Bach, as well as a wind trio by Britain’s Malcolm Arnold and a quintet by Spanish-French composer Blas Maria de Colomer. Oboist Erika Yamada and hornist Christopher Jackson join founders Karen Dixon (flute), Michael Forte (clarinet) and Michael Ellert (bassoon) in the 3 p.m. concert.
Dance: There is more dance activity in Palm Beach County than many arts patrons might be aware, and there’s proof tonight at Spanish River High School when the Boca Ballet Theatre welcomes the Stars of American Ballet troupe in a one-night performance. The Stars, a company founded by Daniel Ulbricht of the New York City Ballet, includes four other NYCB dancers as well as two from the Pacific Northwest Ballet. Scheduled for tonight’s concert is Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free, to a score by Leonard Bernstein that was later transformed into the musical On the Town. Also on the program is Balanchine’s Valse-Fantaisie, set to music by Mikhail Glinka and performed by Boca Ballet Theatre. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m.; tickets begin at $50. Call 995-0709 or visit bocaballet.org.