Can't Miss It: Thursday

ART: We hear Goldmine Shithouse is visiting the Grey Gallery, but you wouldn't know it from either of their sites. The GMSH calendar ends in February, while the Grey Gallery still invites you to their January grand opening. Thank god they have booze to draw you in anyway. Now, about the scruffy guests they're expecting. Goldmine Shithouse is an artist cooperative:

They focus primarily on painting, drawing and collage, and have extended into the realm of video and music/punk rock art noise (Murder Baby). The GMSH converge in different cities creating the work for exhibition or private or in the gallery itself.The artist create an energy and environment that is inspired and exciting and those who come in contact with their cathartic process leave energized and motivated.

BALLET: PNB's Director's Choice opens tonight with a great mixed bill: Ulysses Dove's Vespers, Edwaard Liang's Für Alina, Paul Gibson's Sense of Doubt, and William Forsythe's One Flat Thing, reproduced. The first two are having their first PNB performances, which gives you a sense of the new-fangled flavor of the evening. (For PNB, that is.) We're going and we're pretty amped about it. Kids, if you're under 25, you can buy a pair of tickets for $25 and that's as good a deal as you're going to get, take our word for it. (That's Noelani Pantastico, left, in Sense of Doubt, photo © Angela Sterling.)

7:30pm // McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St // Tickets: $20-$150

THEATRE: We have never seen a Sound Theatre Company show, but their Troilus and Cressida, "Shakespeare’s rarely-performed searing satire on sex, politics and the consequences of an entrenched and aimless war" sounds topical. *coughIraqcough* Seven years into the Trojan war, victory looks as distant as ever. We'll let the inimitable Joe Adcock sum up the rest:

Shakespeare's 1602 drama is the opposite of "The Iliad." It festers with loathing and disgust. The title characters are Trojan teenagers. They are in love. They are idealistic. They start out intensely romantic. They end up demoralized and cynical.

8pm // Magnuson Park Bldg 30, 6310 NE 74th St // Tickets: $15 adults, $12 students/seniors

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