Theater: The Wick Theatre has been anything but consistent in its debut season, but when it is good, it is very, very good. That describes its final show on the season, the Tony Award-winning Fats Waller revue, Ain’t Misbehavin’. It helps considerably that director-choreographer Ron Hutchins gathered a company of seasoned veterans of the show, then stuck closely to the original staging of this compact but entertainment-packed songfest of sassy, jazzy, usually upbeat musical numbers from the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s. Mountainous Philip L. Boykin leads the cast and is the embodiment of Waller, but there is not a weak link in the ensemble of Reggie Whitehead, Debra Walton, Shirley Tripp and Joy Lynn Jacobs. Through June 1, the joint is jumpin’ at the Wick. Call (561) 995-2333 for tickets.
Film: You think you’re having a bad day? It is nothing compared to what Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) is going through. The British family man and construction foreman is driving into London to be with the woman who is having his baby, the result of a one-night stand. That means he will have to miss the crucial concrete pour on one of the largest construction projects Europe has ever seen, an absence that will cost him his job. By his car’s Bluetooth, he has to calm the pregnant woman, break the news to his unforgiving wife and smooth over details of the traffic around the construction site for the following morning. This all happens in an unassuming, but surprisingly involving film called Locke, 90 minutes of watching Hardy in his BMW, calmly dealing with crises that would make a lesser man a basket case. It makes Robert Redford and All Is Lost look like an extravaganza. At least he could move around his boat as it slowly sank. Locke opens this weekend at area theaters.
Music: The classical music season ostensibly ended a few weeks ago, but you wouldn’t know it by the activity this weekend. In addition to Carson Kievman’s chamber opera, Fairy Tales: Songs of the Dandelion Woman, now in its world premiere run at the SoBe Institute of the Arts in Miami Beach (see www.sobeart.org), and Mia Vassilev’s Miami Piano Circle performing music from the operatic repertoire on 10 grand pianos at the New World Center on Saturday night (call 305-673-3331), two chamber groups are trading places on Sunday afternoon. The Delray String Quartet appears at 4 p.m. Sunday in the Mainly Mozart Festival, performing works of Mozart, Salieri and West Palm Beach’s own Richard Danielpour in the Granada Ballroom at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables; oboist Joseph Peters joins the group. Call 786-556-1715 or visit mainly-mozart.com for tickets, which are $20. Meanwhile, the director of that concert series, the Ukrainian-born pianist Marina Radiushina, is in Delray, playing with her Pulse chamber music group (violinist Scott Flavin and clarinetist Margaret Donaghue Flavin) in the Music at St. Paul’s series. That concert, which begins at 3 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal, features music by Jean Francaix, Aram Khachaturian, George Gershwin and UM’s Thomas Sleeper. Call 561-278-6003 or visit www.stpaulsdelray.org; tickets are $15-$20.
Art: Closing this weekend at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens west of Delray is an exhibit featuring 19th-century woodblock prints inspired by The Tale of Genji, usually considered the first novel in the world. Written by a woman at the imperial court named Murasaki Shikubu, it the epic story of an emperor’s son demoted to commoner level and the life he then pursues. It was a huge inspiration for Japanese artists, and this collection of more than 50 prints from the Scripps College collection depicts scenes from the novel; the exhibit is paired with a display devoted to the culture of letter writing in Japan, which in that country was historically a very delicate and symbolic art. The museum is open today, Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $14. Call 561-495-0233 or visit morikami.org.