Music
Sexy Merlin/Gay EP Release A couple local weirdo rock bands celebrate a split 7″ vinyl release tonight at the Silver Dollar. See listing.
Movies
Frankenstein Slumdog Millionaire’s Oscar-winning Danny Boyle directs this stunning stage version of the Mary Shelley tale, broadcast from London’s National Theatre. It screens tonight with Johnny Lee Miller as Dr. Victor Frankenstein and Benedict Cumberbatch as the Creature, and on March 31 they switch roles. See Jon Kaplan’s review of the live stage production.
A Screaming Man Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s film about a pool attendant who’s giving an opportunity that comes with a big price tag opens today at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See review.
Stage
Montparnasse Erin Shields, Maev Beaty and Andrea Donaldson’s play about two Canadian women living and modelling in 1920s Paris gets its first preview tonight at Theatre Passe Muraille. See interview with Shields and producer Gideon Arthurs.
Billy Elliot The Musical This musical based on the film about the working class kid living in a mining town during Margaret Thatcher’s tenure is the year’s best-reviewed show. Now at the Canon Theatre. See our original 5-N review.
Community
Budget 2011: Warfare Or Welfare? With the federal budget coming soon, the Canadian Peace Alliance’s Sid Lacombe and Stop Community Food Centre co-ordinator Jen Danch discuss the priorities opposition parties need to push. 7 pm. Free. Davenport-Perth Community Centre. See listing.
Art
Anitra Hamilton The Toronto artist, who made a car into a tequila-and-nachos-filled piñata for Beater at MOCCA and carried around an art gallery in her handbag, opens a show that evidently involves a coat made entirely of Remembrance Day poppies. Reception tonight at Georgia Scherman Projects. See listing.
Barbara Sternberg Experimental filmmaker Sternberg, a founding member of Pleasure Dome who just received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, screens her films Once (07), Transitions (82), and Like A Dream That Vanishes (00) and talks with Ryerson Image Arts prof Gerd Cammaer. Rogers Communcations Centre. See listing.
Books
Farzana Doctor The author of Six Metres Of Pavement appears at the revitalized Toronto Women’s Bookstore. See listing. For a review of her new release go here.
Giles Blunt The mystery master and author of Crime Machine appears at the reference library. See listing. See review of Crime Machine.
