“Nanny McPhee Returns” (PG): Emma Thompson’s back as the magical, wart-ridden nanny, this time to help an anxious woman (Maggie Gyllenhaal) trying to take care of her kids and the family farm while her husband’s off to war. “Piranha 3D” (R): Elisabeth Shue fights to save herself and the vacationers at Lake Victoria from the hordes of prehistoric man-eating fish — in 3-D, of course — on the loose and after munchies. Jerry O’Connell and “Gossip Girl’s” Jessica Szohr must decide whether to fish or cut bait.

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Venus in Fur: Real life and scripted action become blurred in this work about a playwright-director and the final actress he auditions for his play. Through March 1, times vary. San Jose Stage Company, 490 S. First St., San Jose. $30-$60. 408-283-7142, thestage.org. Where Angels Fear to Tread: Opera San Jose presents the world premiere of Mark Lanz Weiser’s adaptation of E.M. Forester’s novel. Through Feb. 22, times vary. California Theatre, 345 S. First St., San Jose. 408.437.4450, operasj.org.

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The Playwright. Robert Schenkkan, who won the Pulitzer Prize for “The Kentucky Cycle” and who co-wrote the screenplay for this year’s Oscar-winning “Hacksaw Ridge,” has a new play that explores the concept of the banality of evil in our own backyard. “Building the Wall” opened last weekend at the Fountain Theatre in LA and it examines the unimaginable happening in Trump’s America. In one week, Schenkkan had written a first draft of this Broadway-bound political suspense drama, which imagines a Trump immigration policy of mass arrests and deportations that leads to the incarceration of several million detainees. Consider your ticket a down payment on life imitating art imitating life.