In town tonight

11 April 2012
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PICK OF THE NIGHT

Curtis Stigers
8.30pm, Jazz Café, 5 Parkway, NW1. £20. Tube: Camden Town
The charismatic singer-saxophonist continues his mini-residency at the Jazz Café, promoting his latest offering, You Inspire Me. After a brief detour to the fringes of pop stardom in the early Nineties, Stigers is back doing what he loves best - blues-driven swing, backed by a tight three-piece band. His repertoire remains eclectic - with material ranging from The Kinks to Irving Berlin by way of Bob Dylan, all given a distinctive, toe-tapping spin.
020 7916 6060

FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY

Cardiac Classroom
7pm, Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, SW7. FREE! Tube: Gloucester Road
A gruesome, controversial project: at the Science Museum's Dana Centre, you can watch a liveheart-bypass operation, beamed over from America, with a surgical team on hand to dissect any audience questions.

Medical experts have queued to condemn the exercise as an ill-conceived - and potentially dangerous - publicity stunt, while its defenders plead educational value. Returns only.
020 7942 4040

FILM

A Mighty Wind (12A)
Selected cinemas across London
Christopher Guest's affectionate parody, telling the fitfully funny tale of the reunion of an anaemic 1960s folk supergroup. Inoffensive fun.

Lost in Translation (15)
Across London
Bill Murray is in his element and Scarlett Johansson never strikes a false note in this strange tale of isolation set in Japan from the intuitive eye of Sofia Coppola. Perfectly poised between humour and sadness.

Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (15)
6.40pm, 8.40pm, The Other Cinema, Rupert Street, W1. £8, £4.50 concs. Tube: Piccadilly Circus
The world's greatest chess player pits his wits against the Deep Blue supercomputer. Director Vikram Jayanti attempts to evoke all the paranoia of the game and the machinations of IBM in this intriguing documentary.

Shows

Jumpers
7.30pm, Piccadilly Theatre, Denman Street, W1. £20-£40. Two for the price of one. Tube: Piccadilly Circus
Tom Stoppard's dreamlike fantasia fuses comedy, bedroom farce, murderous whodunnit and a satirical philosophical battle. And thanks to our Metro Life offer you can get two tickets for the price of one on the best seats - just quote Metro Life when you call!
0870 060 6630

Pugilist Special and Hurricane
7.30pm and 9pm, Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1. £5-£15 each play. Tube: Tottenham Court Road.
Pugilist Special, written by Adriano Shapiro of San Francisco's Riot Group, poses hard questions about the United States' conduct of its 'war on terrorism'. And it's well worth sticking round for Richard Dormer's Hurricane, an exhilarating whirl through the life of Alex Higgins.
020 7478 0100

Celebration - Holiday on Ice
7.30pm, Wembley Arena. £10-£24, £9 child. Tube: Wembley Park
Sixty years on, and the annual ice event is still going strong. Choreographed by British Olympic medal-winning skater Robin Cousins, and featuring more than 60 skaters from 25 countries.
0845 367 8000

The Phantom of the Opera
7.30pm, Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, SW1. £15-£42.50. Tube: Piccadilly Circus
A grand, gothic musical of love and death at the opera. Hal Prince's current staging is the real star of a venerable production. And there's no need to book months in advance either - tickets are available from the theatre for tonight.
020 7494 5400

MUSIC

Brand New
7pm, Astoria, 157 Charing Cross Road, WC2. £9.50. Tube: Tottenham Court Road
Long Island punk-poppers with a penchant for lengthy song titles, who are reaping the benefit of being named Rolling Stone magazine's 'hot band for 2004'.
020 8963 0940

Ex Cathedra
7.30pm, St John's Smith Square, SW1. £6-£16. Tube: Westminster
Jeffrey Skidmore takes his acclaimed choir through a demanding programme of four of Bach's motets, while Scotch cellist Jonathan Manson rings the changes on the composer's First and the Fourth Cello Suites.
020 7222 1061

The Ordinary Boys
7.30pm, 100 Club, 100 Oxford Street, W1. £7. Tube: Tottenham Court Road
Newly minted four-piece whose acerbic debut single, Maybe Someday, came out on Monday. We could be seeing a lot more of them soon.
020 7636 0933

EVENTS

Photographing the Holocaust
>Polish Cultural Institute, 34 Portland Place, W1. Entrance free. Tube: Oxford Circus.
Janina Struk's photographic montage book is released with this special event. Advance calling is essential.
0870 774 2902

Michael Rosen
0pm, Stratford Library, 3 The Grove, E15. £3. Tube: Stratford
The cherished children's author (and eloquent member of the Newsnight Review panel) reads from his new, autobiographical collection of poetry, This Is Not My Nose.
0 8430 6886

COMEDY AND CABARET

Dan Clark
7.45pm, Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1. £8, £6 concs. Tube: Tottenham Court Road
Clark, currently appearing in the BBC sitcom Mad About Alice, here plays his Edinburgh show in which, with 57 minutes to live, he reviews his sorry life story.
020 7478 0100

Express Excess
8.30pm, The Enterprise, 2 Haverstock Hill, NW1. £5, £3 concs. Tube: Chalk Farm
Anarchic spoken-word event, featuring 'hardcore mediaeval chamber punk' Attila the Stockbroker, magic realist Niall O'Sullivan and the energetic Deryl Walsh. Hosted by Paul Lyalls.
020 7485 2659

CLUBS

Raison D'Etre
8pm-1am, Rhythm Factory, 16 Whitechapel Road, E1. Free. Tube: Aldgate East.
Unpretentious East End club where genuine party people converge for funk, soul, ska and world, courtesy of Healer Selecta, plus open-mic poetry and music.
020 7375 2771

Rodigan's Reggae
10pm-2am, Mass, St Matthew's Church, SW2. £5 before 11pm, then £7. Tube: Brixton
David Rodigan, the radio DJ responsible for bringing the joys of roots to the attention of countless Londoners, blasts out the bass.
020 7737 1016

STAYING IN

DVD

American Pie 3 - The Wedding
The third and final helping of knob gags, gross-outs and tender coming-of-age moments. Keeping the majority of the cast together was the real coup for the lucrative franchise.

... and for free

Inventions, Enigmas and Variations
Until 9pm, National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, WC2. FREE! Tube: Charing Cross, Leicester Square
In his time, Hieronymus Bosch's lively, often disturbing imagination spawned a herd of acolytes forging his style. The most skilful of these was Pieter Bruegel, whose work now appears alongside his master - it's a welcome reappraisal of Bosch, and proof that Bruegel was more than just a pale imitation.
020 7747 2885

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