Get sweet and low: The Sweet Lowdown bring their sweet harmonies and old-timey tunes to St. James Hall tonight as part of a B.C. tour in support of new album album Chasing The Sun.
Get provoked: Courier cartoonist/columnist Geoff Olson joins four artists from the hiphop, theatre, visual and live arts worlds for a free panel discussion tonight at Simon Fraser University hosted by Pi Theatre about the role of artists as provocateurs. The evening will begin with each panelist, which also includes Omari Newton, Jamie Hilder, Ndidi Cascade and Cherise Clarke, offering samples of their actual work to provide real-world context for the discussion to follow.
Get readjusted: Theatre for Living’s critically acclaimed maladjusted returns to the Firehall after a gruelling tour of small towns across B.C. and Alberta with this “choose your own adventure” type show where issues of mental health are explored by actors through audience participation and suggestions.
Take a load off: The Rio Theatre offers a 9:15 p.m. screening Martin Scorsese’s classic 1976 rockumentary The Last Waltz, which captures The Band’s final show and features appearances from such the four-fifths Canadian supergroup’s famous friends as Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Neil Diamond and Van Morrison.
Get Chekhovian: Playwright Christopher Durang takes some of Anton Chekhov’s more famous characters and plunks them down in the digital age with Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, continues tonight at the Arts Club’s Stanley Theatre.
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