Top 10 events not to be missed

Rock of Ages His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen, Monday to Saturday

The award-winning smash hit Broadway musical direct from the West End arrives in Aberdeen.

Made into a film starring Tom Cruise, Rock of Ages is an LA love story featuring 25 classic rock anthems, including Don’t Stop Believin’, We Built This City, The Final Countdown, Wanted Dead or Alive, Here I Go Again, Can’t Fight this Feeling and I Want To Know What Love Is, all performed by a live band. Former Holby City and the Bill star Ben Richards and Noel Sullivan from Hear’Say star in this loud musical comedy.

Counting Crows O2 Glasgow Academy, Sunday, November 2

Twenty-one years after releasing their debut album August and Everything After, which featured the hit single Mr Jones, the California-based alternative rock band are back on the road in support of their latest album, which is their seventh studio release. The Oscar-nominated group, fronted by the charismatic Adam Duritz, are regarded as one of the greatest live bands in the world and tonight is a chance to see why. Support comes from English singer-songwriter Lucy Rose.

Gordon Buchanan: Lost Adventures Mitchell Library, Glasgow, Tuesday

The highly acclaimed wildlife cameraman and presenter of The Bear Family and Me and The Polar Bear Family and Me hosts an evening of exciting personal recollections.

With twenty years’ experience of traveling across the globe, Gordon has a reputation for relishing dangerous and tough assignments. This is a chance to listen to his adventures, watch footage and study images of all that he has come to face with. A show for any wildlife enthusiast from a man who has experienced danger face-to-face in places like South America, Asia, Africa, Papua New Guinea, Russia and Alaska.

Riverdance 20th Anniversary Tour Edinburgh Playhouse, Tuesday to Sunday

With an incredible two decades of global success since the show first burst onto the public stage at the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin in 1994, this new show is a chance for audiences to reconnect with the foot-tapping spectacle.

This 20th Anniversary UK Tour gives Riverdance fans old and new the opportunity to celebrate a major milestone for an incredible show. Twenty years after it took its first steps and Michael Flatley became a household name, this phenomenal piece of theatrical entertainment is back by popular demand.

Stars on Parade Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Wednesday

A special night to commemorate the First World War and some of the incredible acts of heroism through music and song, with special guests including Ricky Ross, Johnny Beattie, Robyn Stapleton, Alistair McDonald, Lorne Macdougal, The Swing Cats and Jamie MacDougall.

The concert celebrates the musical talents of service men and women past and present, with the special guests joining them to help raise funds for Scottish veterans’ charities through Our Scottish Heroes. The heroes of the past will be honoured by presenting the outstanding talents of our heroes of today in what is being promised as a night to remember.

Dreamboats and Miniskirts King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, Monday to Saturday

The sequel to Dreamboats and Petticoats follows up on the stories of Bobby and Laura and Norman and Sue.

Set in 1963, Bobby and Laura’s single Dreamboats and Petticoats has not taken off, but the advent of The Beatles and the Merseyside sound is inspirational.

Will it inspire Bobby and Laura to have one more shot at stardom? All is revealed in this sequel with the same wit, charm, and great songs as Dreamboats and Petticoats, featuring some of the great pop songs from that period in history.

Sixties Gold Caird Hall, Dundee, Saturday

A stellar line-up of some of the biggest groups of the decade comes to Dundee. Tipped to be as big as The Beatles, The Searchers’ first single went to No.1 and led to five more Top 5 hits.

Spencer Davis had a string of hits including the No.1s Keep on Running and Somebody Help Me, while controversial P.J. Proby, whose trouser splitting shocked the nation, was a Melody Maker teen idol award winner in 1964.

The Fortunes stormed the Top 10 with a string of hits like You’ve Got Your Troubles, and finally, Brian Poole and Chip Hawkes perform the greatest hits of The Tremeloes.

Mr Turner Out now

Timothy Spall is in award-worthy form in this extraordinary portrait of the last quarter century of the life of eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner.

Directed by Mike Leigh, the film aptly demonstrates why the artist was both celebrated and reviled by the public.

Spall paints the picture of a complex man, a loving son who barely acknowledged the existence of his own daughters and who lived incognito in his final years with the great love of his life.

Interstellar Out Friday

The future of the human race is on the line in Batman director Christopher Nolan’s visually breathtaking science-fiction thriller.

With the Earth of the near future running out of food due to the decimation of its crops, Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway head out beyond our solar system to find a suitable habitable replacement.

But when the mission runs in to trouble, McConaughey can only think of one thing finding a way home to see the young son and daughter he left behind.