Quickies, Volume 9

The latest in Live Girls!’ raucous theater series dishes up six short new plays by up-and-coming women writers. Bounding gleefully from ethereal suburban creepiness to sweet and goofy love, from unsettling memories to hilarious parody, these riveting and imaginative tales pack a full-course meal into a flavor-packed sampler of strong contemporary work. An expecting couple settles into the perfect neighborhood, only to discover the terrible dark price they must pay the local Elder God in Lisa Romero’s Yog Sothoth. In Your Roaring Blood, Catherine Trieschmann tells a tender story of a precocious backwoods girl, shipped off to an arranged marriage, who teases a boy at the train station with kisses and her sweet tales. Two sisters share a brief moment from their busy schedules, but a half-revealed memory spins their comfortable lives into breathless uncertainty, in Allison Moore’s A Little Test. Finally, Kristina Sutherland’s Hardy Boys “solve” the “mystery” of a stolen Egyptian statue, escaping danger with wits, dumb luck and their fat friend. Host Shermona Mitchell reanimates the stage between each piece with quizzes, contests, and the “alternate talents” of the cast and crew. NEIL CORCORAN 8 p.m. Fri., 4 & 8 p.m. Sat. (Industry night, pay-what-you-can, is Mon., May 19.) Ends May 24.

Live Girls! Theater

$5-$15. Mon., May 19, 8:00pmEvery week Friday from Fri., May 2 until Sat., May 24, 8:00pmEvery week Saturday from Sat., May 3 until Sat., May 24, 4:00pmEvery week Saturday from Sat., May 3 until Sat., May 24, 8:00pm

Get Loweded

This variety show offers a special industry night: $3 off to everyone with a valid class 12 bartender's license.

Re-bar

$8. Mon., May 19, 9:00pm

Like Water For Chocolate

A reading of (high-school senior) Carissa Quisenberry's adaptation of Laura Esquivel's magical-realist novel.

Shoreline Center

Free. Mon., May 19, 7:00pm

Comedy Underground

Beginning May 16, the long-running humor hangout is closed for remodeling UFN.

Comedy Underground

$6-$15. Daily

To Do List

Saturday, May 17

Dead Meadow, SubArachnoid Space, Whalebones, Patrol
Man, the stoners haven't had a pairing this perfect since Comets on Fire pl... More>>
El Corazon, Sat., May 17, 7:00pm, $10 adv./$12

Peter Bagge
Artist Peter Bagge will show off a form of panels from Hate, his pioneering... More>>
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, Sat., May 17, 6:00pm-9:00pm

Thee Emergency (CD release), the Valley, the Hands
With Dita Vox at the helm, Seattle garage-rock band Thee Emergency speciali... More>>
King Cobra, Sat., May 17, 8:00pm

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