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Dancer/choreographer Ying Zhou and composer/musician Emily Greenleaf in Susie J. Lee's "For these Unclosings" at New City Theatre.
RECOMMENDED For these Unclosings @ New City Theatre. Local visual artist phenom Susie J. Lee has taken her studious exploration of the transience of memory out of the art gallery in this collaboration with dancer/choreographer Ying Zhou. Utilizing some impressive technology, Lee has put together a dramatic live performance/art installation/dance piece that builds on her already impressive catalog of achievements. (1404 18th Ave. Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. Tix $15.)
ONE WEEKEND ONLY Missoula Oblongata's The 50 Greatest Ladies and Gentlemen @ Theatre off Jackson. Missoula Oblongata returns with their new touring show. Set shortly after the Treaty of Versailles, a cowardly veteran in search of his brother stumbles upon a town suffering a mass outbreak of tarantism and befriends the responsible spider to go up against the maniacal town doctor. (409 Seventh Ave. Sat. & Sun. 8 p.m. $8-$15.)
WEEKDAY SPECIAL LEONIX Movement Theatre: Crossing the Bridge @ Annex Theatre. LA-based LEONIX Movement Theatre Ensemble arrives in Seattle for a limited run at Annex Theatre this coming Monday and Tuesday. LEONIX uses movement and music to produce original works about social causes. Crossing the Bridge tackles the complex topic of end-of-life choices and tries to create dialogue about dying--one of the few things Americans hate to discuss. (1100 E. Pike St. Mon. & Tues., 8 p.m. Tix $15.)
OPENING Penguins: Episode 1, Heaven the Hard Way @ Annex Theatre. Local playwright Scott Auguston's new play is gangster-style send-up of competition in the Catholic Church, where turf-hungry priests start gang wars with nuns by wiping out popular competitors. (1100 E. Pike St. Fri. & Sat., 11 p.m., Sun. 8 p.m. Tix $10/$5.)
CLOSING Criminal Hearts @ Artattack. Jane Martin's play about an agoraphobic who makes friends with her burglar and takes revenge on her mean-spirited husband. (Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. 1205 E. Pike St. #BA. Tix $10-$14.)
ALSO PLAYING...
Emerald and the Love Song of the Dead Fishermen @ Annex. "Playwright Brendan Healy uses a healthy dose of whimsy and charm to tackle big themes of loss and love in his new play, Emerald & the Love Song of the Dead Fishermen... And that's a good way to go about it, because a more serious take on a girl with a shut-in, hypochondriac mother in permanent mourning for her dead husband would probably be tedious as hell." [Read our review.] (1100 E. Pike St. Fri. & Sat. 8 p.m.Tix $12/$10.)
Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe @ the Balagan. "Director Lisa Confehr and [actress Terri] Weagant zero in on the core of frustration and anguish that Wagner's nonstop, pop-cultural skewering can obscure, and it is this, even after Trudy returns to tie it all up in a bow of messy mystery, that will either get to you or not." [Read our review.] (1117 E. Pike St. Fri. & Sat. 8, Sun. 2. Tix $12-$15.)
The Last Cargo Cult @ Richard Hugo House. Master monologist Mike Daisey is workshopping his new work, about cargo cults and capitalism. (1634 11th Ave. Fri. & Sat. 8 p.m. Tix $20.)
Catch Me If You Can @ 5th Avenue. A new musical based on the Spielberg film. (1308 Fifth Ave. Fri. 8, Sat. 2 & 8, Sun. 1:30 & 7. Tix $29-$93.)
The Maids @ Stone Soup. Jean Genet's troubling one-act takes the true-life story of a pair of murderous maids and transforms it into a meditation on sex and power. (4035 Stone Way N. Fri. & Sat. 8 p.m. Tix $10-$12.)
Das Barbecu @ ACT Theatre. Wagner's Ring Cycle as a Country Western musical. 'Nuff said. (800 Union St. Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m., Sun. 7:30 p.m. Tix $37.50.)
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Also playing: The Music Man, Twelfth Night Productions. http://www.twelfthnightproductions.org/
West Seattle High School, 3000 Calfornia Ave SW. Aug 14 and 15 at 7:30 PM and Aug. 16 at 3:00 PM.