1 MUSIC: KYLIEKylie Minogue's new show lasts more than two hours, during which she performs 28 numbers with just enough time to change her corset between lavishly conceived set pieces, from an American football routine to a Malib
u-flavoured disco stomp. Despite the spectacle, her shows still lack some heart, but, as she signs off with the lyric "love me, love me, I'm the one", few would dissent.
• SECC, Glasgow, 8pm, 0870 040 4000
2 MUSIC: THE PROCLAIMERS AND RODDY HARTGlasgow's Roddy Hart is a man with good connections. Fresh from a tour supporting country legend Kris Kristofferson, he is back on stage as warm-up act to Scottish national treasures the Proclaimers. Turn up early to see a solo acoustic spot by this promising young singer-songwriter before a romp through Craig and Charlie Reid's most popular hits, all for charity.
• Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline, 7:30pm, 01383 602302 (returns only)
3 THEATRE: ARCADIAPlaying in repertoire throughout Pitlochry summer season, this is the Scottish premiere of Tom Stoppard's Olivier Award-winning detective story, set on a dramatic weekend at a stately home in 1809, and a century later, as an academic investigates what happened.
• Pitlochry Festival Theatre, 8pm, 01796 484626
4 THEATRE: THE MERCHANT OF VENICEGlasgow's annual Bard in the Botanics season kicks off with a version of Shakespeare's play set in 1930s Europe, a time when, its director Gordon Barr says, good and evil came sharply into focus. Audiences are advised to bring waterproofs, and coffee, for this outdoor evening show.
• Botanic Gardens, Glasgow, 7:45pm, 0141 330 5522
5 DANCE: SCOTTISH BALLETThe dance company continues its summer tour, taking its current programme to a wider audience. The evening consists of extracts from five pieces, including Stephen Petronio's Ride the Beast, which is set to the music of Radiohead, and Krzysztof Pastor's In Light and Shadow.
&149 Elgin Town Hall, 7:30pm, 01343 562600; Reid Hall, Forfar, 7:30pm, 01241 435800
6 FILM: THE VISITORAlthough set in present-day New York and dealing directly with the post-11 September, 2001 illegal immigration crackdown, Thomas McCarthy's wondrous new film is no groan-worthy issue movie. Instead it's a moving story about a friendship between two illegal immigrants and an economics professor who tries to help them.
• Cinemas nationwide.
7 THEATRE: OUR HOUSEThe distinctive ska-pop sound of Madness is spun out into a musical that gives full expression to the values behind the group's songs, a mixture of streetwise cynicism and underlying romanticism. The result is gem of a show, with bold echoes of Willy Russell's Blood Brothers
• Playhouse, Edinburgh, 7:30pm, 0870 606 3424
8 VISUAL ART: ALTERED STATES OF PAINTDCA's ambitious new exhibition is named after Altered States, Ken Russell's film about a man who conducts extreme sensory experiments. The show aims to challenge preconceptions about what can be done with paint.
• Dundee Contemporary Arts, 10:30am-5:30pm, 01382 909900
9 MUSIC: MAKE MODELSigned to EMI amid much hype, this Glasgow band could, if you were feeling generous, be likened to a Scottish version of the retro-sounding Captain, who have enjoyed some success. A slightly bland, indie Deacon Blue is another description that springs to mind.
• Hootananny's, Inverness, 8pm, 01463 233651
10 MUSIC: RICHARD FLEESHMANRichard Fleeshman is a former Coronation Street actor and winner of the coveted "Sexiest Male" gong at the British Soap Awards a couple of years ago – with credentials like that it's hard to see how he could fail in his latest incarnation as an over-earnest singer-songwriter.
• Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, 7pm, 0131-220 6176
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