THURSDAY, MAY 27, 2010 >>>

1. A handful of superhuman androids escape off-world servitude and return to Earth, and it's up to a disillusioned cop to stop them, permanently. In other hands, or a few more years deeper into the '80s, Blade Runner might have ended up just another sci-fi actioner with might restoring right, but the 1982 movie was based on a Philip K. Dick novel and director Ridley Scott was more ambitious - especially in "The Director's Cut" version, which screen at 7 p.m. inside the Tacoma Public Library's Main Branch.

2. Beginning at 6 p.m. Nestle up to pianist Mr. D in El Gaucho's piano lounge, sip on a cocktail or glass of wine while the D-ster works "The Girl From Ipanema" and watch the fortunate in the dining room eat giant slabs of delicious meat.

3. Bernard Shaw's famous play Major Barbara dismantles a cherished idea: "Right is right; and wrong is wrong; and if a man cannot distinguish them properly, he is either a fool or a rascal." Anyone in tonight's Tacoma Little Theatre audience, who believes this, is, like the twit who speaks it, in for a good moral tweaking by this socialist-capitalist-diabolical play, which begins at 7:30 p.m.

4. The Lakewood Playhouse offers a pay what you can performance of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, adapted by Frank Galati, at 8 p.m.

5. Megaton Leviathan, Bloodhunger, Christian Mistress and Throne Of Bone lay down some lovely metal inside Hell's Kitchen beginning at 9 p.m. Expect your cell structure to be different when you leave HK.

LINK: TCC's Chamber Orchestra, Schoolhouse Rock Live!, Tacoma Farmers Market and other events