Theater: Fort Lauderdale’s Thinking Cap Theatre has produced the area premiere of Dave Hanson’s clever Waiting for Waiting for Godot, a takeoff on Samuel Beckett’s highly influential existential comedy. Set backstage at a playhouse where Waiting for Godot is being performed, this wry tale stuffed with inside show business jokes focuses on two understudies who while away the time, waiting for their chance to go onstage. As they do, the action — well, non-action really — mirrors Beckett’s play, heard just offstage. Which is onstage, if you see what I mean. Mark Duncan and Scott Douglas Wilson make a nice Laurel and Hardy act, or maybe they’re more Abbott and Costello. At The Vanguard through Sunday, Sept. 13. Call 813-220-1546 for tickets.
Film: Anyone remember the 1968 political conventions in Miami and Chicago? No, not the street riots in Mayor Daley’s town, but the sideshow that ABC News held on the air, initiating debates between two celebrated, effete intellectuals, conservative William F. Buckley Jr. and liberal Gore Vidal. Those debates, which grew increasingly vitriolic and personal, are the subject of a heady new documentary, Best of Enemies, co-directed by Morgan Neville (2013 Oscar winner for 20 Feet From Stardom) and Robert Gordon. It is their thesis that these debates were the precursors of the way cable TV punditry has devolved today. The film digs up fascinating archival footage and what it doesn’t have gets recreated with the voices of John Lithgow and Kelsey Grammer reading transcripts of Vidal and Buckley. Opening this weekend at Living Room Theaters in Boca Raton.
Art: This is the last weekend you’ll be able to visit the Norton Museum of Art until the end of September, as the West Palm Beach museum closes for three weeks starting on Labor Day to get installations ready for the season. Yes, it really is just about that time again. Although the highly anticipated women-oriented exhibits that will dominate its season aren’t up yet, you can still catch some shows that will be there when the museum reopens Sept. 26, including Summer of 68, an exhibit of Black Panther photographs, and Going Places, a fascinating look at the design of planes, trains and automobiles. And when the Norton does reopen, it will do so with the much-loved Moon Festival, which celebrates the museum’s collection of Chinese art. It’s open today and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. And admission, normally $12, is free Saturday for West Palm Beach and Palm Beach County residents. Call 832-5196 for more information.