Can't Miss It: Thursday
OUT OF SPITE: With A Doctor in Spite of Himself, the 17th Century comedic playwright Moliere turned his farcical eye to the doctors of the time. In the play, Sganarelle, a drunken and uneducated woodcutter is mistaken as a doctor and helps a young woman who has lost her voice. It's funny because he's ignorant, but people think he's a doctor. In a new adaptation by Christopher Bayes and Steven Epp, an argument between Sganarelle and his wife Martine ends badly when Martine seeks revenge on Sganarelle by telling the town that he is the best doctor around and can cure anyone. Though Sganarelle is no doctor, he takes on the role in an effort to get back at his wife. It's funny because he knows he's ignorant. A Doctor in Spite of Himself is spirited and antic, dare we say, just what the doctor ordered.
7:30 p.m. // Intiman Theatre // $10-$45
DO YOU SEE?:John Dwyer has been making low fidelity psychedelic rock a la 60s garage in one fashion or another since 1997. Starting off as a solo lo-fi folk instrumentalist with a project called OCS, Dwyer added band members over the course of a few albums, and by 2006, his group was the best in their field. Formerly called Orange County Sound, The Ohsees, and Ornioka Crash Suite, as well as OCS, the group is now Thee Oh Sees, and they do psychedelic spazzed out rock as well as most Nuggets-era groups and better than any of their modern peers. Like The Troggs on speed or like the 13th Floor Elevators as if they were actually falling from the 13th floor, Thee Oh Sees take the sound of the late 60s, bundle it up with even more distortion, sheer noise, and modern angst, and shoot it all into the air where it explodes. Fans of Seattle's The Intelligence, or any other lo-fi group for that matter, will most certainly enjoy Thee Oh Sees and the group's fast and loose live show. With Tyvek and Love Tan.
8:00 p.m. // The Crocodile // $10
OPEN SEASON: Ladies and Gentlemen, ready or not, life without professional football officially comes to an end tonight when The Vikings of Minnesota challenge last year's champions The Saints of New Orleans. There is now one possible explanation for loud shouts and strange yelps coming from homes and restaurants on Sunday, Monday night, and a some Thursday nights. From now until January, Sunday bars will be busier, church pews may be a little emptier, and people will casually be mentioning such odd things as buttonhook, touchback, power rankings, and the neutral zone. Do not be alarmed by any of this. It's only the natural tug of professional football, the ebb and flow of America's sport.
5:30 p.m. // NBC
