Victoria Segal
FILM The Bourne Supremacy The CIA decides to take out its former hit man Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), so he comes after them. Paul Greengrass has created a fresh, tense and gripping thriller that even non-fans of the spy genre can enjoy. Joan Allen and Brian Cox are wonderful as Bourne’s targets.
12A, 108 mins
Cosmo Landesman
ART Russian Landscape in the Age of Tolstoy Not a title to set the world ablaze, but that mustn’t mislead you into thinking that a show of 70 paintings by 15 unknown artists isn’t worth going to see (or that it has anything whatever to do with Tolstoy). Most are unfamiliar outside Russia. Some are epic, some political; all are wonderful.
National Gallery, WC2, until Sept 12
DANCE Dangerous Liaisons Northern Ballet Theatre premieres its latest dramatic production by the director-choreographer David Nixon, inspired by the 1988 film and the classic novel by Laclos. The ballet is a series of duets with an actress-narrator and music by Vivaldi.
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, Fri-Sat and Sept 6-11
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COMEDY Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure Gorman’s bid to avoid writing a novel spawned a book and this bestselling show. Last chance to see before he decamps to New York; this show is being taped for a Christmas DVD.
Grand Theatre, Swansea, Thu
OPERA Orfeo ed Euridice Opera North’s season opens with a new production of Gluck’s “reform” opera starring the Canadian counter-tenor Daniel Taylor as Orpheus, with Isabel Monar as Eurydice. Nicholas Kok conducts this “multimedia” production.
Opera North, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Wed, Fri, Sat
CONCERTS Il Fidelio Piano Quartet The quartet plays Judith Weir’s El Rey de Francia, Mozart’s Piano Quartet in E Flat, K493, Dutilleux’s Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher, and Fauré’s Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op 15.
St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne, Tue
POP Mark Lanegan Looking for something a little intense? Then try the post-grunge blues of Mark Lanegan, the man whose circle of rock chums (Queens of the Stone Age, PJ Harvey) is as cool as his last album (Bubblegum) was inappropriately titled.
Woughton Centre, Milton Keynes, Tue; Academy, N1, Wed