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THE RISING SEA: Town Hall hosts Orrin Pilkey and Rob Young, professors and authors of The Rising Sea, tonight as the second installment of a series on sustainability issues titled Soundings From Island Press. The two will be discussing the possible consequences of sea levels rising by as much as seven feet in 2100, and how we can plan ahead for saving lives and communities in coastal cities such as Miami, New York, and New Orleans.

"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is harder than to understand him."--Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Intiman Theatre runs on a different schedule than other playhouses, which is why they're announcing next season's plays right now. The two that jump out at us are Crime and Punishment (an adaptation by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus) and Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking (based on the only Didion book we didn't love). Sheila Daniels will restage the Dostoevsky--she did it in 2007 at CHAC, where it was a sold-out smash-hit...in an admittedly tiny space. Magical Thinking, as Slate points out, had a difficult time getting to its feet onstage. A lot will ride on the Intiman's choice of performer--luckily Seattle is rich in that regard.

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.