Theater: Ten years ago, West Palm Beach’s Actor’s Workshop & Repertory Company had a critical hit with a teen drama by Mark St. Germain (Freud’s Last Session). Called Out of Gas on Lover’s Leap, it concerned two newly graduated high schoolers — one the daughter of a fading rock star, the other the son of an ambitious, conservative U.S. senator. They go together to a promontory in the woods, a popular spot for frisky youngsters, armed with beer and marijuana, expecting to celebrate this rite of passage and perhaps to consummate their feelings for each other. And that is all you should know about the play, except that director Dennis Sims, a retired drama teacher from the Dreyfoos School of the Arts is very enthusiastic about his two cast members, Alexa Roosevelt and Stoan Maslev. Opens this weekend at the Bhetty Waldron Theatre at 1009 N. Dixie Highway, and runs through May 26. Call (800) 494-8497 for details.
Film: French director Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool, Potiche) is known for juggling the challenging and the playful, which he does again in his latest film, In the House. It is largely a character study of a disillusioned high school teacher who finally finds a promising student whose fiction writing seems to be worth encouraging. At least that is what it seems to be, but the more Fabrice Luchini tries to guide his young protégé, the more he gets wrapped up in the young man’s storytelling. And the writer, who imagines what goes on inside the seemingly orderly home of a classmate, is drawn romantically to his pal’s mother. This is, after all, a French film. Kristin Scott Thomas plays the teacher’s art gallery owner wife, with her impeccable French, and French star Emmanuelle Seigner is the alluring housewife and mother. Playing at the Living Room Theater in Boca Raton.
Art: Every year since the early 1950s, the Boca Raton Museum of Art has mounted its All-Juried Competition and Exhibition, and this year’s version (No. 62), which opened Wednesday, features 149 works from 122 artists across the state. The works were chosen for the exhibit by Mark Scala, curator of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville. The exhibition, which runs through July 14, showcases paintings, graphics, drawings, sculptures, installations, photographs, computer-generated images and video. Earlier this week, the Best in Show award went to artist Geoff Hamel of Lehigh Acres, who is represented in the exhibit by three works; two Boca Raton artists, Barry Rosson and Misoo Filan, won Merit Awards for their pieces. The Boca Museum of Art is open Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. and Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, visit bocamuseum.org.
Music: Miami’s professional chamber choir released its most recent disc this week, titled Seraphic Fire and containing largely sacred works including Ariel Ramirez’s Missa Criolla, Shawn Crouch’s Pie Jesu and Alvaro Bermudez’s Padre Nuestro. This week, the group is wrapping up its 11th season with a program called Cathedral Classics, featuring works chosen in part by request from the group’s email list members; the program includes Randall Thompson’s Alleluia, Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere, and Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus. They can be heard at 8 tonight at All Saints Episcopal in Fort Lauderdale and 4 p.m. Sunday at the Miami Beach Community Church. Call 305-285-9060 or visit seraphicfire.org.
Iris van Eck’s Chameleon chamber music series at the Josephine Leiser Center in Fort Lauderdale closes this weekend with music for piano trio, featuring van Eck on cello, violinist Dmitri Pogorelov and pianist Misha Dacic. In addition to the Notturno (D. 897) of Schubert and the great Piano Trio (in A minor, Op. 40) of Tchaikovsky, the three will perform the Piano Trio No. 2 (in C minor) of the much-neglected Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée, who in addition to her musical efforts was a prominent suffragist. The concert begins at 3 p.m. Sunday, and there’s always a good refreshments spread afterward. Tickets are $35; call 954-761-3435 or visit www.chameleonmusicians.org.