Can't Miss It: Thursday

STRANGE AND STRANGER: Because the facts of the matter are curious enough, the play description from the theatre website: “Six male actors play little girls, who become birds, who manifest themselves as Mormon temple workers and Mormon pioneer women.” The Mormon Bird Play is an allegorical dark comedy in which a mute, 10-year-old girl comes to live with her cousins in Salt Lake City. When she finds an injured bird on the grounds of the LDS Temple, she becomes an object of suspicion. Sounds like a helluva trip to us. This is the world premiere, written and directed by Roger Benington. A Washington Ensemble Theatre production.

7:30 p.m. // The Little Theatre 608 19th Ave E // $10-$25

MASTERPIECE THEATRE: That’s it - who gave the puppets alcohol again? There’s no telling what those lightweight dummies might do this time. Hale’s brewery hosts Drunk Puppet Nite, presented by Monkey Wrench Puppet Lab. For three nights this week, some of Seattle’s most talented puppets, dolls, manikins, marionettes, icons and figurines perform twisted, comical acts to the delight of their human audience (probably also drunk). We hear the talent can sometimes be difficult to work with, but they’re willing to do just about anything.

8:00 p.m. // Hale’s Palladium 4301 Leary Way NW // $10

CUT UP: The Field released one of our favorite 2011 albums, Looping State of Mind, and we’re excited to see the electronic artist perform live. Sort of a paradoxical project, The Field is at once ambient and pop, trance and dance, minimal and experimental. Serene and celebratory. Familiar, weird, fundamental, innovative. Et cetera and repeat. LSM is The Field’s most dynamic album yet and should be great live. With Seattle’s Nordic Soul (Decibel Festival founder Sean Horton) and Portland’s Copy.

9:00 p.m. // Chop Suey 1325 E Madison // $13