Punk parade
The Damned/Beat/Rezillos/Meteors
Preposterous but amiable pre-Christmas package of punk and ska: regardless of who's actually in the band, the Damned remain reliably good value live, while Scotland's Rezillos are overdue some kind of critical reassessment for their kitschy take on gob-flecked ramalama.
· Carling Academy, Glasgow (0870 771 2000), Sunday.
Weird pop
Brakes/Tiny Dancers
Brighton's Brakes specialise in brevity: appealingly short sharp bursts of weird pop. Support Tiny Dancers are reputed to offer a more edgy take on the piano balladry of Keane and Coldplay: admittedly, it's hard to see how anyone could be less edgy than Keane and Coldplay, but big things are predicted.
· King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, (0141-221 5279), tonight.
Cavalier opera
Der Rosenkavalier
Final opportunity to catch the revival of David McVicar's wonderfully intelligent Strauss production. With a cast led by Rebecca Nash as the Marschallin, Sarah Connolly singing her first Octavian and Richard Armstrong conducting, it's a reminder of Scottish Opera at its very best.
· Festival Theatre, Edinburgh (0131-529 6000), tonight.
Saintly art
Pete Howson
One of Scotland's leading contemporary artists tackles the theme of St Andrew, Scotland's patron saint, in a variety of media. Howson combined literary research with a trip to Israel to see where the disciple would have lived. And it all opened yesterday, on St Andrew's Day.
· City Art Centre, Edinburgh, (0131-529 3993), until March 4.
Mobster movie
London to Brighton
With little in the way of money and a mainly non-professional cast, the young British film-maker Paul Andrew Williams has written and directed a cracking debut feature about gangsters. It's a cold-sweat thriller with a twist of social realism, but saddled with none of the mockney-geezer nonsense we've come to expect from home-grown mobster films. Best British film of the year.
· On national release.
Toilet film
Flushed Away
The first big Hollywood film from Aardman, creators of Wallace and Gromit. Hugh Jackman voices a pampered pet mouse who gets flushed down the lavatory and finds himself in a sewer underworld. After a dull opening, the gags begin to kick in and there are some good laughs.
· On national release.
Cracking dance
St Petersburg Ballet Theatre
Claiming a true St Petersburg heritage, Konstantin Tachkin's company takes The Nutcracker and Swan Lake on tour. They can boast a seriously disciplined corps de ballet and a genuinely lyrical ballerina in Irina Kolesnikova.
· Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham (0115-989 5555), ends tomorrow.
Great Britten
Peter Grimes
You have to go back almost 30 years for a British staging of Benjamin Britten's masterpiece to equal Phyllida Lloyd's visceral production for Opera North. Its bleak centre is Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts as Grimes, a soul in purgatory from the very start.
· Theatre Royal, Newcastle (0870 905 5060), tonight.
Sado staging
Drunk Enough to Say I Love You
Caryl Churchill's 50-minute two-hander is based on the clever idea there is a sado-masochistic sexuality lurking behind the "special relationship". Ty Burrell and Stephen Dillane embody American and British political attitudes with real finesse.
· Royal Court, London SW1 (020-7565 5000), until December 22.
Devil drama
Faust
Punchdrunk's latest piece of theatre takes you places you've never been before. Behind the façade of 21 Wapping Lane lurks a parallel universe where a preacher raises hell and Faust raises the devil.
· 21 Wapping Lane, London E1 (020-7452 3000), to March 31.
