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. more ›

FIRE GOOD: In his new book Catching Fire, Harvard biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham argues that it's the human need to cook our food that made us so smart and strong and socially organized. Take that, raw foods movement! Additionally, we have cooking to credit/blame for the male/female division of labor, so thank your great-great-great-to the nth degree-grandmothers for subjecting women to unequal pay for equal work. Anyone with any problems with the theories above can yell at Wrangham at his reading at Town Hall tonight. 7:30 p.m. // Town Hall // 1119 8th Ave. // $5 more ›