Art: Continuum, an exhibition in collaboration with Florida Atlantic University’s master of fine arts in visual arts program that features the artwork of 10 current graduate candidates and 10 alumni, is on display at the main gallery space of the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County in Lake Worth. The exhibition, which includes paintings, ceramics and photography as well as installation and mixed media art pieces, runs through Nov. 10. Continuum celebrates the 10th anniversary of the MFA program at FAU and artist-led tours and artist presentations are being offered in conjunction with the exhibition throughout October. The Cultural Council is located at 601 Lake Ave. in Lake Worth. For more information, visit www.PalmBeachCulture.com.
Film: Fortunately not a documentary about citrus fruit, The Oranges instead is about suburban life in West Orange, N.J.,, a town and a state from which the young adult characters all want to escape. It focuses on two across-the-street families, intertwined in friendship until the college-grad, free-spirited daughter of one clan (Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester) comes home from Europe on the rebound from a bad relationship and falls into a worse one, launching an affair with her father’s best friend (Hugh Laurie of House). Director Julian Farino has gathered a strong cast, including Catherine Keener as Laurie’s disapproving wife and Alison Janney and Oliver Platt as the other couple. Few of the characters are particularly likeable, but their reactions to this awkward situation are never less than recognizably human. Opening this weekend as many area locations.
Theater: Like many area theater companies, Miami’s Zoetic Stage is reaching for a Pulitzer Prize winner to jump-start its season, opening this weekend with Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife, the astonishing story of a Berlin transvestite who survives first the Nazis and then the Communists — as a woman. Carbonell Award winner Tom Wahl plays the title character, carefully coiffed and frocked Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, as well as 30 other characters in this one-man tour de force. At the Adrienne Arsht Center’s studio space, through Oct. 21. Call (305) 949-6722 for tickets.
Dance: Colleen Smith’s Florida Classical Ballet Theatre opens its season today with two performances of Cinderella, the beloved fairy tale of the princess in rags, set to a great score by Sergei Prokofiev. Lily Ojea is Cinderella, with Rogelio Corrales as the Prince. Marinna Kus takes the role of the Fairy Godmother, and there are character dances from Marshall Levin, Rome Saladino and Joseph J. Bucheck III. Also on hand will be child dancers from FCBT’s Esther Center, adding that special touch of disciplined youthful energy that makes this company’s shows such fun to watch. Shows today are set for 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Eissey Campus Theatre on the campus of Palm Beach State College in Palm Beach Gardens. Tickets are $15. Call 207-5900 or visit www.fcbt.org.
Music: Two of the smaller-scale seasonal classical series get under way Sunday in Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale.
The Chameleon Music series, now in its 11th season at the Leiser Center off Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, regularly presents good chamber music concerts under the auspices of its director, Dutch-born cellist Iris van Eck. She’ll begin this year three piano trios by Beethoven: Op. 1, No. 1 (in E-flat), the Kakadu Variations (Op. 121a), and the Ghost Trio (in D, Op. 70, No. 1). Van Eck will be joined by pianist Kemal Gekic and violinist Robert Davidovici for the concert, which starts at 3 p.m. As always, there is a champagne reception afterward and plenty of tasty refreshments, which is a civilized way to wrap up these communions with chamber music. Tickets are $35. Call 954-761-3435 or visit www.chameleonmusicians.org.
Abram Kreeger’s Piano Lovers concerts also resume this Sunday at the Steinway Gallery in Boca Raton. Jose Lopez, an assistant professor and coordinator of the keyboard department at FIU, has scheduled Beethoven’s Op. 126 collection of Bagatelles and the Wanderer Fantasy of Franz Schubert. He’s also chosen two rarely heard pieces, the Fairy Tales of the fine Austrian composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who made his fortune in Hollywood, and the Three Fantasies (Op. 41) of the reclusive Romantic Charles-Valentin Alkan. Lopez is a dedicated digger-out of forgotten scores from the Classical and Romantic eras, and music by Alkan really deserves to be heard more regularly. The concert begins at 4 p.m. at the Gallery; tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Call 561-573-0644 or visit pianolovers.org.