Weekend Theatre: Dec. 11–14

We here at Seattlest have been seeing more shows than ever lately, so to help you keep up with the best theatre, dance, and performance, we've started running down the weekend's best shows every Thursday, with info on tickets, show times, and reviews.

LAST CHANCE

• The Quick Change Room @ UW/Meany Hall. "The UW Drama department didn't schedule The Quick Change Room in response to our recession, but you can't help feeling a bracing amount of sympathy for the inhabitants of St. Petersburg's Kuzlov Theatre as perestroika brings novel free market thrills like at-will employment to the quick-change room." [Read the review.]. Thurs.–Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun. 2 p.m. Tix $10–$15.
• The Adding Machine @ ACT. Possibly the best production of 2008. [Read the review.] Thurs.–Sun., 8 p.m. Tix $20–$25
• Othello @ Balagan Theatre. Pared down but powerful. [Read the review.] Thurs.–Sat., 8 p.m. Tix $12–$15

• boom @ Seattle Rep. Just extended through Dec. 21! "boom has a Twilight Zone set-up played—to the hilt—for laughs. We'd call it a "hilariously profane romp through the Apocalypse" but we get paid for writing ad copy, and besides, there's something intransigent in the play that resists snappy descriptive slogans. It keeps leading you down old roads that somehow open onto new horizons you haven't considered." [Read the review.] Tues.–Sun., 7:30; weekend matinees at 2:00. Tix $10–$40
• A Christmas Carol @ ACT Theatre. Reminds you why this story's so great. [Read the review.]. Tues.–Sun., twice daily. Tix $22–$47

• Black Nativity @ Intiman. The show that puts the "Christ" back in X-mas. [Read the review tomorrow.] Tues.–Sun., 7:30/8, Sat. & Sun., 2 p.m. Tix $15–$45