What's on today? Dance, visual art, film and theatre

DANCE: PARALLEL/PARALLELS

First seen at the Edinburgh Fringe last month, Plan B's new show is the end result of years spent by choreographer Frank McConnell studying quantum physics. With a lovely, lilting score by Michael Marra (who also performs live), good dancers and an inspired set, it is certainly a good-looking show, but it is unlikely to teach you very much about science.

&149 The Arches, Glasgow, 7:30pm, 0141-565 1000

VISUAL ART: STEVEN CAMPBELL, WRETCHED STARS, INSATIABLE HEAVEN

When painter Steven Campbell died in August 2007, aged just 54, he was working on a major exhibition for Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow Print Studio. Since he had completed enough work already, his family decided to go ahead with the show; the result is a poignant tribute to a major Scottish talent.

• Glasgow School of Art, 10am-7pm, 0141-353 4589, and Glasgow Print Studio, 10am-5:30pm, 0141-552 0704

FILM: ROCKNROLLA

With his fifth film, Guy Ritchie has managed to narrow that chasm-like gap between his screen-writing abilities and his camera skills. It's no candidate for greatness, but it flows in a way that even Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels didn't. The humour is breezier, and the plot is easy to get caught up in.

• Cinemas nationwide. Listings, p44

THEATRE: ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR

Deborah Grant stars in this new touring production of Alan Ayckbourn's 1972 drama, set on three successive Christmas eves in the kitchens of three different couples, all from different social backgrounds, in a play that remains a savage satire on the British class system.

• Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 7:30pm, 0870 060 6647

FILM: THE WACKNESS

Set in New York over the long, hot summer of 1994, and rich in period detail, director Jonathan Levine's hip-hop-themed coming-of-age story focuses on a teenage drug dealer (Josh Peck) who trades pot for therapy from Ben Kingsley, who is on entertaining form as a psychiatrist heading for meltdown.

• Cinemas nationwide. Listings, p44

THEATRE: EVITA

Louise Dearman steps into the shoes of Elaine Paige, Marti Webb, Madonna and many others as Argentina's First Lady in this touring production of Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Tim Rice's hugely popular, faintly preposterous musical, seen earlier in the year at the Playhouse in Edinburgh.

&149 King's Theatre, Glasgow, 7:30pm, 0870 060 6648

FILM: THE DARK KNIGHT

With his second Batman film director Christopher Nolan delivers something more than a comic book movie; this is a genre-redefining crime epic whose reference points are Heat and The Godfather more than other superhero movies. It's best seen in cinemas, so grab the chance if you haven't already.

• Cinemas nationwide. Listings, p44

VISUAL ART: JANET CARDIFF AND GEORGE BURES MILLER

Cardiff and Miller's multilayered installations offer a fascinating journey of discovery, as you find yourself in an old attic, or a room full of speakers, radios and microphones, or a house of books which you crawl inside.

• Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 11am-6pm, 0131-225 2383

VISUAL ART: TRACEY EMIN

Some 15 years on from her first Major Retrospective, the Britart star gets to have a proper, unironically titled major retrospective, with written texts, monotypes, blankets, banners, neon, painting and sculpture and that famous/infamous bed.

• Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 9am-5pm, 0131-624 6200

FILM: HELLBOY 2, THE GOLDEN ARMY

After the success of Pan's Labyrinth, it's perhaps a sign that Hollywood now trusts Guillermo del Toro that this comic-book fantasy is his most satisfying mainstream outing to date. His personal stamp is on every frame, from the fantastic creatures to the spectacular set pieces.

• Cinemas nationwide. Listings, p44