Film: David Gordon Green came on the cinema scene with such methodical, observant art films as George Washington, Undertow and Snow Angels. Lately, though, he has made broad, raucous comedies like Pineapple Express and Your Highness. He now returns to his earlier mode with Prince Avalanche, the saga of two men who paint traffic lines on remote country roads. The older guy (Paul Rudd) gets a job for the younger brother of his girlfriend (Emile Hirsch) and together they banter and bond to while away the time. Not much happens in Prince Avalanche, but with Green at the helm, chances are you will not notice. This Sundance Festival charmer opens this week at the Mos’Art Theatre in Lake Park.
Theater: The theatrical dog days of September continue, but at least Broward Stage Door Theatre bucks the seasonal inactivity with its new production of Ken Ludwig’s Moon Over Buffalo. It is another of his farces, about backstage chaos and the disintegrating marriage of a pair of second-rate thespians on the road in lowly Buffalo, N.Y. The droll Ken Clement plays the self-absorbed husband, who thinks (erroneously) that Frank Capra is coming to scout him for a movie role, with Michelle Foyteck as his long-suffering wife, under the assured direction of Michael Leeds. Continuing in Coral Springs through Oct. 6. Call (954) 344-7765 for tickets.
Music: Say what you like about Adam Levine, including that he’s overexposed, but he and his fellow Angelenos in Maroon 5 have ridden his distinctive tenor and lovelorn lyrics to a kind of pop fame achieved by only a small number of contemporary acts. He and the rest of the band appear tonight at the Cruzan Amphitheatre on their current tour, which includes American Idol belter Kelly Clarkson and Grammy and Dove Award winner PJ Morton, who is filling in as Maroon 5’s keyboardist. Doors for the show open at 7 p.m.; tickets through Live Nation / Ticketmaster range from $23.50 to $93. 50.
This coming week, the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival opens its first fall festival after 21 years of doing summers only. The group is also exploring two new venues: the Wold Performing Arts Center at Lynn University in Boca Raton, and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Lake Worth. The first of three programs this month, October and November includes music by Francois Gebauer, Aaron Copland, Bohuslav Martinu, and the Clarinet Quintet (in A, K. 581) of Mozart. Thursda’s show at the Wold and Friday’s at St. Andrew’s both begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25; call 800-330-6874 for more information.
Art: The Brookyn-based American artist Mickalene Thomas is a graduate of Yale and the Pratt Institute, and has placed her colorful work in some of the country’s best-known galleries and museums of contemporary art (the Whitney, Guggenheim, MOMA). Her newest work, a lobby installation for the Norton Museum of Art, debuts Tuesday with the museum’s reopening and will be on display for a year. The West Palm Beach Museum has been closed for the past couple weeks for reinstallations, and its Tuesday reopening also will be accompanied by a reorganization of its American art (under the new direction of curator Ellen Roberts) and a new espresso bar. For more information, call 832-5196.