Get stuck in the middle with Blue: Scantily clad women pay homage to the films of director Quentin Tarantino at the Rio Theatre tonight for Blue Morris Productions’ Tarantino Burlesque. The Rockwells will perform live versions of some of his signature soundtrack tunes and Fairlith Harvey of Geekenders fame emcees.
Get cheering: The playoffs-bound Canucks take on the basement-dwelling Edmonton Oilers tonight at Rogers Arena to fight for home-ice advantage when they take on the Flames in the opening series. Ryan Miller is finally off the injured reserve list just in time for the otherwise meaningless final game if the regular season and is expected to get the start over the red hot Eddie Lack. Because we all knew deep down that there was no way regular season was going to end without a goaltending controversy. This is Vancouver, after all. The puck drops at 7 p.m.
Get South African: The fifth annual Vancouver South African Film Festival continues today at SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts with a variety of films including Behind the Lens, a documentary about photographers who risked their lives during the apartheid era, and Andrew Mudge’s award-winning feature The Forgotten Kingdom.
Get rocked by Amadeus: The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s annual spring festival, which this year celebrates the music of the great Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, continues tonight at the Orpheum Theatre with tenor Michael Colvin and baritone James Westman performing Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera Mozart & Salieri (also the subject of the film Amadeus), with glorious music that quotes Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Requiem throughout the score.
Get blasted: Pi Theatre’s remount of the late Sarah Kane’s figuratively and literally explosive 1995 play Blasted at Performance Works Theatre opens tonight.
