Art: Transformations, a solo exhibition of mixed-media paintings, wall reliefs and sculptures by artist Yvonne Parker, has just opened at the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens Museum in West Palm Beach. Parker, who was born and raised in southern Germany, was encouraged by her father to explore multiple media in her artwork from a young age. She studied porcelain painting in Switzerland and art history in Germany from the age of 16, and then worked as a fashion model. The exhibition of her work runs through June 9. Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens Museum is located at 253 Barcelona Road. Exhibition hours are Wednesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $7. For more information, visit www.ansg.org.
Film: Michael Shannon, the designated psychopath of such films as Bug, Revolution Road and Take Shelter, gives another brilliant, unhinged performance as real-life contract killer Richard Kuklinski in the violent character study, The Iceman, opening in area theaters this weekend. Shannon plays a sadistic professional murderer and a doting family man, whose wife and daughters had no idea how he really made a living until the police carted him away. In one of her umpteen comebacks, Winona Ryder plays Shannon’s tense-by-nature wife, and Ray Liotta adds yet another mobster to his résumé. And keep an eye out for cameos by James Franco and, of all people, David Schwimmer of Friends.
Theater: Cock. The very title gets your attention, as it did that of GableStage artistic director Joe Adler, who never met a controversy he did not like. So he produces the South Florida premiere of Mike Bartlett’s 2010 Olivier Award-winning drama about a gay man who, during a break from a relationship from his boyfriend, finds himself falling in love with a (gasp!) woman. The theater describes it as “a playful, candid look at one man’s sexuality and the difficulties that arise when you realize you have a choice.” Sounds explosive to us. It opens this Saturday evening and continues through June 16. Call (305) 445-1119 for tickets.
Music: One thing South Florida has plenty of is Russian pianists, and there’s probably an interesting story there if we could get some time. But there’s too much going on, even in mid-May. Tonight at the Boca Steinway Gallery, it’s Asiya Korepanova in an all-Russian program that includes two Rachmaninov miniatures (including the C-sharp minor Prelude) and his early Sonata No. 1, plus Mikhail Pletnev’s wonderful transcription of music from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, and Guido Agosti’s transcription of Igor Stravinsky’s score for The Firebird. Judging from sound clips and a YouTube excerpt, the University of Miami doctoral student is a fine player who will doubtless feel right at home in music from her homeland. Tickets for the 7 p.m. concert are $20 in advance and $30 at the door. Call 561-929-6633 or visit www.pianolovers.org.
The Delray String Quartet finds itself back in Miami (where it used to have a series) as the stars of Saturday afternoon’s concert in the Mainly Mozart Festival. Pianist Tao Lin joins the quartet for the Piano Quintet (in F minor) of Cesar Franck, which the five recently recorded. Also on the program is a quartet by Franz Hoffmeister featuring the viola d’amore, and the so-called Hoffmeister Quartet (No. 20 in D, K. 499) of Mozart, which his composer-publisher friend commissioned. The concert starts at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Coral Gables Museum. Tickets are $20; call 786-422-5221 or visit mainlymozart.com.
Chances are the name of the Greek woman composer Krinio Papastavrou isn’t very familiar, but she had a long life (1921-2008) that included residence in England, where her St. Nicholas suite for flute, viola and harp premiered in 1968. This Sunday afternoon, the Sunshine Trio — flutist Beth Larsen, violist Scott O’Donnell and harpist Kay Kemper — play not just that work by the Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp of Debussy, one of his last works, and shorter pieces by Tournier, Ibert, Hoffmeister, Villa-Lobos and Saint-Saens (The Swan). Also included are arias by Puccini — Vissi d’arte and Che gelida manina — and the contemporary Italian pop composer Francesco Sartori’s Con te partiro, essentially Andrea Bocelli’s signature song. The concert at St. Paul’s Episcopal in Delray Beach starts at 3 p.m.; tickets are $15 and $20. Call 278-6003 for more information.