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THEATRE: Theodore Bikel is a veteran of the stage, screen, and recording studio. He's been nominated for an Academy Award (for his role in The Defiant Ones) and two Tony Awards, performed with Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger, and is a founder of the Newport Folk Festival. With this outstanding list of accomplishments behind him, tonight he returns to the stage in Toronto for a preview performance of his one-man show, Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears, which he both wrote and is starring in. Sholom Aleichem was a Yiddish author in the late 1800s whose short story about Tevye the milkman inspired the musical Fiddler on the Roof. Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre (189 Yonge Street), 8 p.m., $40–$75.

As everyone’s favourite girl-about-town Tyler Clark Burke says, “This is really complicated.”

A whirlwind tour of 50 cities in 50 nights makes its Toronto stop Saturday night. The good folks over at Wave Books have put together the self-proclaimed “biggest literary event of 2006”, The Poetry Bus. The bus is a 40ft. bio-diesel MCI touring coach that sleeps 38 poets (that’s a lot of angst) and probably doesn’t look a whole lot like the bus pictured. Over 200 poets will be participating; getting off and on the bus at various stops across the continent. There will be one past presidential candidate participating along with one Pulitzer Prize winner.

For those of you who didn’t attend on Wednesday night, the news coming out of the Pontiac Quarterly is that founder Damian Rogers is leaving the poetry/prose/arts/music night. Liz Clayton is taking over organizing and hosting duties, with her first edition slated for October.

Eye contributor Liisa Ladouceur helps run the Royal Sarcophagus Society a neo-gothic collective that makes and sells crafts, organizes readings and more. The group's latest event is Wanderlust,an evening of raunchy road-trip tales, provocative poetry and more tonight at the Gladstone art bar.