Catch a double-feature: The Gentlemen Hecklers -- Eric Fell, Patrick Maliha and Shaun Stewart – offer a critical play-by-play of the late, great Patrick Swayze’s cheesy and violent 1989 classic Roadhouse tonight at the Rio Theatre followed by an unheckled (hopefully) screening of the 1982 Star Trek classic The Wrath of Khan starring the late, great Leonard Nimoy.
Get brooding: Kiwi sibling duo Broods play the Imperial tonight in support of their debut album Evergreen, which debuted at number one on New Zealand’s charts. Louisiana’s Mikky Ekko, best known as the guy from the Rihanna song “Stay,” opens the show.
Get competitive: ITSAZOO, the folks behind last year’s award-winning Killer Joe, present Sebastian Archibald’s new satirical play The Competition is Fierce set in a dystopian future where corporate drones are forced to literally fight for their careers. Running until March 22 and described by two of its actors as “The Hunger Games set on Wall Street” and “UFC mixed with The Office,” the play continues tonight at Renegade Studios’ Shop Theatre.
Get read to: As part of the ongoing Incite reading series, Giller Prize-nominees Fred Stenson and Kim Echlin will read from their respective new novels Who By Fire and Under the Visible Life tonight at the main brnach of the Vancouver Public Library. The two established writers are also joined by firt-time novelist Chelse Rooney, who will read from her debut Pedal.
See What You’re Missing: A new comedy by Vancouver-born, England-based playwright Tamara Micner premieres tonight as part of the ongoing Chutzpah Festival. Directed by John Cooper, What You’re Missing explores about the trials and tribulations of two young Jews sin love who are from very different backgrounds.
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