FILM The Departed Martin Scorsese is back on form with this bloody and gripping tale of mobsters and moles. Jack Nicholson is the depraved criminal the cops want to bring down; Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio play the two moles out to catch each other. CL
18, 151 mins

THEATRE Tom and Viv This superb revival of Michael Hastings’s richly comical and heartbreaking portrait of TS Eliot’s first marriage is unobtrusively directed by Lindsay Posner, with riveting turns from Will Keen and Frances O’Connor. CH
Almeida, N1

ART Velazquez Las Meninas and a few other key works are missing from this otherwise thrilling account of the dizzyingly successful career of one of the greatest painters ever. The early, dramatically lit compositions are especially effective.
National Gallery, WC2, until January 21

COMEDY Tim Vine — Current Puns A gag writer on a par with the talented American Steven Wright, Vine is merciless in his delivery and timing. He manages, somehow, to average two punch lines a minute for an entire hour. A comedy virtuoso.
Embassy Theatre, Skegness, Thu

DANCE Michael Clark Company: Mmm... For Dance Umbrella, and as Part 2 of his three-year Stravinsky Project for the Barbican’s Bite series, Clark revives his 1992 interpretation of The Rite of Spring, to the composer’s two-piano version, with an expanded cast of 12.
Barbican, EC2, Fri-Sat and Oct 30-Nov 4

OPERA Peter Grimes Phyllida Lloyd returns to large-scale Britten for the first time since her trailblazing Gloriana. Opera North’s music director, Richard Farnes, conducts the entire company at its newly furbished home. Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts is Grimes, Giselle Allen is Ellen Orford and Christopher Purves is Captain Balstrode.
Grand Theatre, Leeds, Wed

CONCERTS BBC Philharmonic and Hallé Choir The Neglected Genius series continues with a performance, under Gianandrea Noseda, of Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw (with John Shirley-Quirk as narrator), alongside the Prelude and Good Friday Music from Wagner’s Parsifal and Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra.
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Fri

POP King Creosote The leader of Fife’s Fence Collective adds further dates in support of the sublime KC Rules OK, which is slow-burning its way into the hearts of neo-folk fans.
Plug, Sheffield, tonight; Academy 2, Birmingham, Tue; Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth, Wed; Shepherd’s Bush Empire, W12, Thu; Audio, Brighton, Fri