What's on today

Published on Monday 13 October 2008 20:18

1 THEATRE: ELYSIAN FIELDS

This year's Tennessee Williams-inspired Glasgay! festival (commemorating the 25th anniversary of his death) opens with a new play by Derek McLuckie about the writer's drink and drug-hazed final days, spent at the Hotel Elysee in New York. Grant Smeaton and Pauline Goldsmith star in what should be a witty and hard-hitting introduction to the life of the great gay playwright.

&#149 The Arches, Glasgow, 8pm, 0141-565 1000

2 VISUAL ART: BOUCHER AND CHARDIN, MASTERS OF MODERN MANNERS

Curated by Anne Dulau, this is a small but well-chosen exhibition of paintings of domestic scenes by Chardin, Boucher and some of their 18th-century contemporaries, which offer a fascinating portrait of, in particular, women's home lives. The pictures, especially Boucher's, are a study in fashionable taste and are full of beautifully rendered exotic objects.

&#149 Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, 9:30pm-5pm, 0141-330 4221

3 THEATRE: AN IDEAL HUSBAND

Kate O'Mara, Fenella Fielding and Tony Britton star in Peter Hall's West End production of Oscar Wilde's brilliantly witty 1895 play, a tale of blackmail, political corruption, public and private honour. The play is showing in Aberdeen all this week.

&#149 His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen, 7:30pm, 01224 641122

4 OPERA: THE TWO WIDOWS

Scottish Opera is to be praised for bringing an obscure work back to life, but subtle, imaginative stagecraft is not this production's priority, at least it wasn't on its Edinburgh debut. Still, there are stirring moments, and one beautifully extended scene featuring Jane Irwin (as Anezka) is show-stopping.

&#149 Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 7:15pm, 0870 060 6647

5 THEATRE: CALENDAR GIRLS

This is the stage version of the hit 2003 movie, based on the true story of a Yorkshire Women's Institute, who made a nude calendar to raise money for cancer research. Elaine C Smith, Lynda Bellingham and Patricia Hodge are among the cast getting their kit off – briefly and tastefully – for art and a good cause.

&149 King's Theatre, Edinburgh, 7:30pm, 0131-529 6000

6 MUSIC: GLEN CAMPBELL

The easy-listening country kingpin, best known for his evergreen interpretations of Jimmy Webb songs such as the classic Wichita Linesman, tackles the thoroughly modern likes of Green Day, Foo Fighters and Travis on new album Meet Glen Campbell; expect to hear some of those songs on this tour.

&#149 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 7:30pm, 0141-353 8000

7 VISUAL ART: THE FRONT ROW

Amy Whiten and Alistair Wyllie's small west-end gallery, Recoat, continues to prosper, with another new show opening this weekend, consisting of new work by eight illustrators and new fashion designs inspired by classic couture. Artists include Micca Okada, Katy Smail and Whiten herself.

&#149 Recoat, Glasgow, noon to 6pm, 07968 252454

8 EVENT: FOUND

Found is an American magazine and website consisting of odd, abandoned notes, letters, photos and other things that readers have found and submitted. It's a quirky, sometimes poignant museum of the stuff of people's lives, and now it's on a tour, with music, chat and the inevitable slideshow.

&#149 Sub Club, Glasgow, 8pm, 0141-248 4600

9 THEATRE: VIDEOTAPE

Inspired by the Radiohead song of the same name, this new lunchtime play by Glasgow-based writer Oliver Emanuel sees a woman following a man through a city, recording his every move on video, in a story about "love, loss, truth and lies, and the things we can't throw away".

&#149 Oran Mor, Glasgow, 12:30pm, 0141-357 6200

10 FILM: UNRELATED

British writer-director Joanna Hogg makes a striking debut with a quiet, understated, truthful and beautifully composed drama about a fortysomething woman (an astonishing performance by Kathryn Worth) trying to hold herself together as her marriage appears to be splintering.

&#149 Selected cinemas.