Emma Stone in Easy A.Film: When Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter, he never imagined it would become the inspiration for a high school comedy such as Easy A, but screenwriter Bert V. Royal plants his tongue firmly in cheek and comes up with a wise, wise-assed morality tale set at Ojai (Calif.) High, about a misfit named Olive who lies about losing her virginity and gets swept up in a new-found wave of popularity. As Olive, winsome Emma Stone will remind you of a younger Lindsay Lohan, but sober. Stealing every scene that they are in are Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson as Olive’s very hip parents. Yes, I know you are not in the habit of going to teen comedies, but this is one of the best-written and performed examples of the genre since Juno. – H. Erstein
Theater: Zoetic Stage, the fledgling Miami company, is fishing for funds to support its inaugural season and has scheduled a staged reading event for this Monday, Sept. 20, at Boca Raton’s Caldwell Theatre, beginning at 7 p.m. On tap is the award-winning comedy 37 Postcards by the troupe’s resident playwright, Michael McKeever, a family reunion play tinged with absurdism about a young man’s return home from traveling abroad, only to find his home and clan in disarray. Performing the script will be such South Florida favorites as John Felix, Nick Duckart, Barbara Bradshaw, Beth Dimon, Katherine Amadeo and Ellen Davis. The suggested donation is $20. For reservations, call (305) 741-3180, or go to www.zoeticstage.com. – H. Erstein
Yoko Sata Kothari, from her Website.Music: The classical music season in Palm Beach County gets under way this weekend with the first concert in the 23rd season of performances at St. Paul’s Episcopal in Delray Beach on Sunday afternoon. Up first in the series – which will include appearances by the church’s own Camerata del Re in music from the French and German Baroque traditions, as well as Paris-based Fuoco e Cenere in early music from Italy – is the Trillium Piano Trio. Pianist Yoko Sata Kothari, violinist Ruby Berlund and cellist Benjamin Salsbury will perform the Trio in C of Gaspar Cassado, the Trio No. 3 (in G minor, Op. 110) of Robert Schumann, and a rarity, the Trio quasi una ballata (in D minor, Op. 27) by the Czech composer Vitezslav Novak (1870-1949). Novak’s trio, written in 1902, is considered one of the most important piano trios in Czech music, but it’s almost never heard in this country, and so this concert offers listeners a good way to get acquainted with an important but overlooked master. The concert begins at 4 p.m., and tickets are $15-$18. Call 278-6003 for more information, or visit www.stpaulsdelray.org.
Sofiya Uryvayeva.That same afternoon, the young Ukrainian-born pianist Sofiya Uryvayeva makes a return visit to the Steinway Gallery in Boca Raton for an all-Tchaikovsky program. Uryvayeva will play the Russian composer’s Dumka (Op. 59), selections from his popular suite The Seasons (Op. 37a), and a Mikhail Pletnev arrangement of music from The Nutcracker. Uryvayeva moved to the United States in 2009 after studies in Odessa and Germany, and began concertizing here right away; you can hear some of her performances on her Website, including one of the Grand Pas de Deux from the Nutcracker. The concert begins at 5 p.m. Sunday; tickets are $20 in advance, and $25 at the door. For more information, call 561-929-6633 or visit www.pianolovers.org.