Theater: As its name implies, Palm Beach Dramaworks usually sticks to plays of dramatic substance, but the company goes lighter in the summertime, usually with a musical. This season it is at least continuing its pre-occupation with classics by reviving The Fantasticks, that off-Broadway Energizer Bunny, which ran for 42 years originally, with its simple, allegorical tale of young lovers and the fathers who connived to bring them together. Director J. Barry Lewis and musical director/pianist Craig Ames have assembled a cast of Dramaworks veterans, including Jim Ballard, Dennis Creaghan and Tangi Colombel, plus newcomers Jacob Heimer and Jennifer Molly Bell as the romantic duo. Opening Friday night and running through Aug. 5. Call (561) 514-4042 for tickets.
Film: “They don’t make ’em like they used to” is a cliché, but it is also true. If you appreciate movies old enough to be on Medicare, you will not want to miss a rare opportunity to see Marcel Carne’s Children of Paradise ― a classic of the French cinema ― digitally restored and projected on the big screen, this Saturday at 2:40 p.m. and again on Wednesday at 6:20 p.m., at Mos’Art Theatre in Lake Park. Filmed in Paris during the Nazi occupation, but set in the 1830s, this epic, tragic tale of love lost involves a talented mime (Jean-Louis Barrault) and the woman from whom he is separated by dire circumstances. Yes, it sounds like every romantic comedy that has glutted multiplexes, but Children of Paradise is the real thing. Take hankies and go.
Dance: Tonight and Saturday night, Maria Konrad’s Reach jazz dance studio in Palm Beach Gardens offers a program called Studio One: The Choreographic Process, featuring works by new and established choreographers including Michele Zehner (director of PBG’s Florida School for Dance Education), Sydney Baldwin, Lauren Carey, Nicole Haag, Donna Goffredo Murray, Dennis Wayne and Alexis Weisbrot. The program is being done with the dancers of Reach and the School for Dance Education, at whose studio (4100 PGA Blvd.) the show will be seen at 8 tonight and 8 p.m. Saturday. Visit reachdancecompany.com or floridaschoolfordanceeducation.com.