Film: The airwaves are full of reports of the current presidential campaign, but for an even more momentous election, check out Nanni Meretti’s drily comic film Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope). It begins with the College of Cardinals, assembled within the Sistine chapel, and a paper ballot vote, with most of the cardinals secretly praying they do not get elevated to the right hand of God. And when a long shot, Cardinal Melville (Michel Piccoli), is elected, the enormity of what has befallen him so overwhelms him that he escapes to the streets of Vatican City to try and sort things out. Meretti, who wrote and directed, also plays a non-believing psychiatrist called in to ease the new pope’s mind. We Have a Pope is entertaining, regardless of your faith or lack of it, since it is ultimately about dealing with the hand we have been dealt. At the Living Room Theaters in Boca Raton. – H. Erstein
Theater: This weekend, Palm Beach Dramaworks opens its production of David Auburn’s Proof, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner of 2001. It is the story of a mathematics whiz who is the daughter of a renowned math professor, a man she cared for in his final years, as he became mentally unstable. His daughter may have inherited his facility for math, but she may also have gotten his mental burden. William Hayes directs a cast of five, who sort out this puzzle on a Chicago back porch. And do not worry, very little math knowledge is required. Continuing through June 17. Call (561) 514-4042 for tickets. – H. Erstein
Recently signed to Sony’s Epic Records, Nayvadius Cash, better known by his stage name, Future, has made a mark on the mainstream with songs such as Tony Montana and At the Same Damn Time. The 25-year-old Atlanta native has collaborated with some of the most familiar names in the industry, including Drake, T.I., Young Jeezy and Rick Ross. Future was recently called “one of the hottest newcomers in the game,” by hip-hop lifestyle magazine Complex, and earlier this week he began a 45-city tour in honor of his debut disc, Pluto. Tuesday night, Future will be at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale with hip-hop veteran Pusha T (Trouble on My Mind, Mercy). Doors open at 7 p.m.; tickets are $29 and available through Ticketmaster. – Abbey Hilton
This Monday marks Memorial Day, a time when everyone takes a moment to think about the unimaginable sacrifices so many fighting men and women have made over the course of our fairly bellicose history, and it’s always a time, too, for the corpus of our national music. In keeping with the oldest of American instrumental traditions, that means a concert band. Saturday night, the New Gardens Band, joined by the Indian River Pops Orchestra and the Robert Sharon Chorale, gives a Memorial Day concert featuring Sousa marches, patriotic songs, selections from Richard Rodgers’ Victory at Sea, and George Gershwin’s Strike Up the Band. The concert starts at 8 p.m. in the Eissey Campus Theatre at Palm Beach State College in Palm Beach Gardens. And if you miss that, you can catch another version of the concert outdoors on Memorial Day itself at the Mizner Park Amphitheatre. The free concert is set for 7 p.m., and is sponsored by the city of Boca Raton.
Art: This coming Wednesday, it’s time for the 61st edition of the All-Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition. About 600 artists from across Florida turned in 1,800 pieces of art, all judged by Valerie Cassel Oliver of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. The exhibit, which runs through July 8, will feature 101 works by 74 artists, and always provides an impressive variety of work. It runs concurrently this year with the biennial exhibition of work from the Boca Museum Artists’ Guild. Tickets are $8, $6 for seniors and $4 for students; members and children 12 and under get in free. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Call 392-2500 for more information.