Lee Byung-Hun in The Good, the Bad, the Weird.Film: Even art houses have to compete with the action movies that major studios churn out in the summertime, so that probably explains the arrival of The Good, the Bad, the Weird, a rock-’em, sock-’em Korean western from director Ji-woon Kim, a master of camerawork and production excess. Set in Japanese-occupied Manchuria in the 1930s, the movie concerns a treasure that is stolen and re-stolen and the subsequent chase for the booty. Ji-woon displays an affection for the old “spaghetti westerns” of Clint Eastwood’s early career, but ups the violence quotient as if he were also emulating Quentin Tarantino. On now at Mos’Art Theatre in Lake Park and Emerging Cinemas in Lake Worth. – H. Erstein
John Herrera and Dan Domingues in When the Sun Shone Brighter.Theater: It’s not easy staying ahead of reality when you are writing a fictional tale of Florida politics. Christopher Demos-Brown’s When the Sun Shone Brighter, a yarn about an ambitious Miami-Dade mayor preparing to run for an open U.S. Senate seat, despite being a closeted gay man and a Cuban-American with a politically toxic past, seems ripped from the headlines, though it actually precedes its non-fiction parallels. In Florida Stage’s final production in Manalapan prior to its move to the Kravis Center, director Lou Tyrrell demonstrates with this world premiere why the company is moving as well towards national recognition. Continuing through June 20. Call (561) 585-3433 for reservations. – H. Erstein
Cellist Anna Litvinenko.Music: Tonight in Coral Gables, fans of the cello have a chance to hear a recital by a very young area musician who has been getting national and international exposure for the past three or four years, including an appearance on the From the Top radio program. Anna Litvinenko is only 16, but she’s played such milestones of the repertoire as the Dvořák Cello Concerto with the Miami Symphony. Tonight, Litvinenko plays the Shostakovich Cello Sonata, a contemporary masterpiece, along with a suite by the Catalan cellist Gaspar Cassadó, the prelude from the Cello Concerto of Eduard Lalo, and the deathless Elegie of Gabriel Fauré. The Uruguayan-born pianist Ciro Fodere, piano professor at the New World School of the Arts, accompanies. Free admission; call 305-444-6176 for more information. – G. Stepanich
Imogen Heap.The English songwriter and one-woman band Imogen Heap broke through to wider fame a few years ago when the chorus of her song Hide and Seek was used as the backdrop to a key scene in an episode of The O.C. Her most recent disc, Ellipse, released in 2009, was nominated for two Grammy Awards, and next week Heap will be in Miami Beach for a stop on the tour in support of that record. She’s one of the more able users of technology as part of her art, and doubtless she will have a long, multifaceted career ahead of her. Heap’s concert at the Fillmore’s Jackie Gleason Theater is set for 8 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets are $27.75 and are available through livenation.com. – G. Stepanich