David Dougill
Ballet West USA
The company performs the rare works of Antony Tudor. Lilac Garden (1936) is a masterpiece; Offenbach in the Underworld (1955) and The Leaves Are Fading (1975) are the other dances.
Playhouse, today, Mon
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Mahler and Dance
Rambert Dance Company performs ballets to Mahler song cycles: Tudor’s Dark Eulogies (to the Kindertotenlieder), Peter Darrell’s Five Rückert Songs and the premiere of Songs of a Wayfarer by Kim Brandstrup.
Playhouse, Thu-Sat
Stephen Armstrong
The Perrier Comedy Award Shows
As Edinburgh draws to a close, the best way for stragglers to catch up on all the comedy they have missed would be to review the entire Perrier short list. This show does just that.
Assembly Rooms, tonight-Mon
Frank Whitford
Age of Titian
There are Titians here, it’s true, most of them usually hanging in the Scottish National Gallery. So most visitors will be more interested in work by Titian’s Venetian contemporaries, some from private collections.
Royal Scottish Academy, until Dec 5
Andy Warhol
Works from a private collection, most of them about death and America. So we’re given paintings of skulls, one called 129 Die in Jet, as well as of dollar signs, hamburgers and the Statue of Liberty.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Paolozzi at 80
Edinburgh celebrates the birthday of one of its native sons. This, the first full retrospective of Paolozzi’s prints and sculptures since 1971, make his status as a great British artist plain.
Dean Gallery, until Oct 31
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Mark Edwards
The Hives
The Swedish punks — complete with spats — play their Tyrannosaurus Hives album.
Corn Exchange, tonight
Concerts
Paul Driver
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Presteigne Festival
The festival offers an afternoon programme by the Sorrel Quartet: Mozart’s String Quartet in C, K465 (Dissonance), Debussy’s String Quartet in G Minor, Op 10, and the world premiere of Cecilia McDowall’s The Case of the Unanswered Wire.
St Mary’s, Leintwardine, today