Get combative: The staff bouncers will likely be taking notes tonight as masked luchador wrestlers put on a special Ocho de Mayo evening of Mexican-style cartoonish combat tonight at the Commodore Ballroom.
Get jonesing: Chart-topping ‘80s-era synth pop pioneer Howard Jones performs a career retrospective tonight at the Biltmore Cabaret.
Get alien: With Vancouver Film School grad Neill Blomkamp set to direct a new Alien film, this seems a ripe opportunity to brush up on the work of German visionary H.R. Giger, who first brought the terrifying Xenomorphs to life in Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi classic. Vancity Theatre screens Belinda Sallin’s Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World at 9:15 p.m. as part of the ongoing DOXA film fest.
Get in a New York state of mind: The Arts Club Theatre’s production of the Tony Award-winning musical In The Heights continues tonight at the Stanley Theatre.
Get the RITE stuff: Ballet BC presents the world premiere of RITE, an adaptation of Igor Stravinsky’s notorious The Rite of Spring, tonight at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
