Critics’ choice: 26 April - 2 May

Scotsman critics select the best of this week’s Scottish arts and entertainment...

JOYCE MCMILLAN ON THEATRE: ENQUIRER

THE HUB, PACIFIC QUAY, GLASGOW, 28 APRIL UNTIL 12 MAY; PREVIEWS TONIGHT AND TOMORROW

WITH the Leveson inquiry in full swing, and Britain’s newspaper industry facing unprecedented challenges, the National Theatre Scotland seizes the moment to create a brand-new piece of site-specific documentary theatre, based on interviews with 50 leading journalists, about the uncertain future of their profession, and of news itself. Andrew O’Hagan shapes the script, and Vicky Featherstone and John Tiffany join forces to direct a fine cast, led by John Bett, Billy Boyd and Maureen Beattie.

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ALISTAIR HARKNESS ON FILM: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

THE CAMEO, EDINBURGH, 27 APRIL

As ONE of those annoying people who can lay claim to having their mind blown by seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark in the cinema as a kid back in 1981, it’s hard to be completely objective about why any chance to see it on the big screen should be seized. So I’ll just say that this one-off late-night screening at the Cameo should be a pretty good way to experience the finest film of the blockbuster golden age the way it’s meant to be seen. Hats, whips and snakes are optional.

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DUNCAN MACMILLAN ON VISUAL ART

EVER SINCE I PUT YOUR PICTURE IN A FRAME

42 CARLTON PLACE, GLASGOW

Carol Rhodes & Merlin James have opened 42 Carlton Place as a new art gallery and part of Glasgow International. Their first show Ever Since I Put Your Picture in a Frame mixes up paintings by well-known artists with works from different periods and by less well-known or even anonymous artists. The idea is to confound your prejudices and throw you back on actual judgement. It is, they say, “a kind of anti-manifesto; an exploratory and partial working definition of painting as an art form.”

KENNETH WALTON ON CLASSICAL: THE SCO / NICOLA BENEDETTI

USHER HALL, EDINBURGH, TONIGHT; CITY HALLS, GLASGOW, TOMORROW; ABERDEEN MUSIC HALL, 28 APRIL

After last night’s appearance in her home county of Ayr, Scotland’s sweetheart of the violin, Nicola Benedetti, pictured, teams up with the SCO and conductor of her most recent album, Christian Curnyn, in Edinburgh and Glasgow for a programme that stretches from the Venetian baroque of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons to the French-influences of Gluck’s Overture, Ballet and Chaconne from his opera Orfeo ed Eurydice. Benedetti also features in Vivaldi’s Il Grosso Mogul concerto, while Curnyn, directing from the harpsichord, leads Rameau’s colourful Suite from Les Paladins.

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FIONA SHEPHERD ON POP: RYAN ADAMS

GLASGOW ROYAL CONCERT HALL, TONIGHT

Following a hiatus which was forced on him by chronic hearing problems, the tousled troubadour returns with some of the best material of his solo career. His most recent album, Ashes & Fire, turns down the volume of his work with backing band The Cardinals and turns up the heartbreaking melodies and intimate atmosphere on songs that will kill you softly.

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