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And that noise is the sound of children laughing. Okay, not children, but 30-somethings and under, drawn to the Seattle Rep's Leo K. theatre by a new play from Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, a playwright so cool and cutting edge he lives in the Mission in San Francisco. And of course having two of Seattle's most talented young-ish actors, Chelsey Rives and Nick Garrison, in lead roles doesn't hurt. Not to mention the scenic design genius of Jennifer Zeyl.

It's not that you forget to tell yourself you know better, that's not a blue sky over the French Quarter, you aren't really sweating in a muggy, swampy heat, the tinny piano isn't spilling out of the bar down the block. Watching A Streetcar Named Desire (at Intiman through August 2, tickets $10-$48) doesn't automatically summon up a hi-def New Orleans, circa 1947--but it does create a rapt, illicit, time-stunned two hours, as if you're having a boozy mid-afternoon conversation in a bar, trading giggling fits and pulling the bandages off old wounds for the sake of the sting.

"This family has sure got a lot on its plate," remarked our companion at the intermission of the new play Wake, from Onward Ho! Productions. Playwright Sonya Schneider loads the Harlows with about a decade's worth of mishap and miscommunication, and then packs them all into a tiny cabin for a birthday party. There's a point about fifteen minutes in where you feel acute sympathy for Delby, a friend who's blindly wandered into this O'Neill-meets-Stoppard family drama (runs through April 13, Thursday to Sunday, at the Little Theatre, tickets $15).