Stage

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Comedy Womb This “female-focused but not female-exclusive” show includes a headliner and an open-mike segment, in the Grotto underneath the Rendezvous. JewelBox Theater at the Rendezvous, 2322 Second Ave., Seattle, WA 98121 $5 Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Caught One-Handed Noah Duffy’s solo comedy about growing up gay, fundamentalist, and horny. Opens Aug. 12. 8 p.m. Tues.-Wed. Ends Aug. 27. Annex Theatre, 1110 Pike St., Seattle, WA 98122 $5-$10 Tuesday, August 26, 2014, 8pm

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Angels in America For the first two years of its reconfiguration as a summer theater festival, starting in 2012, Intiman went the traditional route for summer stages: several plays and genres, selling both series and individual tickets, with an a la carte approach that meant if you didn’t like one thing, something else might appeal. This year Intiman is going all in, betting the house-well, it no longer truly has a house-on Tony Kushner. The playwright won a Pulitzer and two Tony awards (among others) for his two-part Broadway extravaganza in 1993-94, subtitled “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” (Part I is Millennium Approaches. Part II is Perestroika.) Kushner wrote the famously brainy, sweeping plays in response to, among other things, the AIDS epidemic and the Cold War. But now, with 20 years’ distance, how should we view the twinned works? Are they old history now, too tied to the times and Kushner’s peculiar passions (Mormons among them)? And given the length of both shows, about seven hours in total (with two intermissions each), will audiences have the endurance for such an ambitious revival? Millennium Approaches, if you need reminding, is set back in 1985, with the gay right-wing homophobe Roy Cohn (Charles Leggett), a figure now nearly forgotten, dying of AIDS and haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, if not his conscience. Meanwhile there’s a Greenwich Village couple (Adam Standley and Quinn Franzen) whose relationship will founder because of AIDS; and, married to a closeted gay Republican husband (Ty Boice), is the pill-popping Mormon housewife Harper Pitt (Anne Allgood), into whose paranoid hallucinations we gradually enter. And overseeing both plays is Kushner’s famous, omniscient angel (Marya Sea Kaminski). Andrew Russell directs the whole daunting enterprise. (Previews for Part I begin tonight; opens Fri., Aug. 15; Part II opens Fri., Sept. 5; both end Sept. 21.) BRIAN MILLER E Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle Center $25 and up Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Comedy Womb This “female-focused but not female-exclusive” show includes a headliner and an open-mike segment, in the Grotto underneath the Rendezvous. JewelBox Theater at the Rendezvous, 2322 Second Ave., Seattle, WA 98121 $5 Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Teatro ZinZanni: When Sparks Fly Maestro Voronin headlines this mad-scientist-themed show. Opens June 6. Runs Thurs.-Sun. plus some Wed.; see zinzanni.com/seattle for exact schedule. Ends Sept. 21. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., Seattle $99 and up Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Jay Hollingsworth’s True Story Hollingsworth asks visiting and local comics to actually explain the stories behind their supposedly true stories. 7:30 p.m., last Wednesday of every month.  The Parlor Collection, 700 Bellevue Way N.E., Bellevue see website Wednesday, August 27, 2014, 7:30pm

Caught One-Handed Noah Duffy’s solo comedy about growing up gay, fundamentalist, and horny. Opens Aug. 12. 8 p.m. Tues.-Wed. Ends Aug. 27. Annex Theatre, 1110 Pike St., Seattle, WA 98122 $5-$10 Wednesday, August 27, 2014, 8pm

Flipside Comedy Show Stand-up every Wednesday at this bastion of old-school Seattle charm. 13 Coins, 125 Boren Ave. N., Seattle See website Wednesday, August 27, 2014, 8pm

Duos Comedy Showcase Unexpected Productions presents comedians two at a time. Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $5 Wednesday, August 27, 2014, 8:30pm

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Angels in America For the first two years of its reconfiguration as a summer theater festival, starting in 2012, Intiman went the traditional route for summer stages: several plays and genres, selling both series and individual tickets, with an a la carte approach that meant if you didn’t like one thing, something else might appeal. This year Intiman is going all in, betting the house-well, it no longer truly has a house-on Tony Kushner. The playwright won a Pulitzer and two Tony awards (among others) for his two-part Broadway extravaganza in 1993-94, subtitled “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” (Part I is Millennium Approaches. Part II is Perestroika.) Kushner wrote the famously brainy, sweeping plays in response to, among other things, the AIDS epidemic and the Cold War. But now, with 20 years’ distance, how should we view the twinned works? Are they old history now, too tied to the times and Kushner’s peculiar passions (Mormons among them)? And given the length of both shows, about seven hours in total (with two intermissions each), will audiences have the endurance for such an ambitious revival? Millennium Approaches, if you need reminding, is set back in 1985, with the gay right-wing homophobe Roy Cohn (Charles Leggett), a figure now nearly forgotten, dying of AIDS and haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, if not his conscience. Meanwhile there’s a Greenwich Village couple (Adam Standley and Quinn Franzen) whose relationship will founder because of AIDS; and, married to a closeted gay Republican husband (Ty Boice), is the pill-popping Mormon housewife Harper Pitt (Anne Allgood), into whose paranoid hallucinations we gradually enter. And overseeing both plays is Kushner’s famous, omniscient angel (Marya Sea Kaminski). Andrew Russell directs the whole daunting enterprise. (Previews for Part I begin tonight; opens Fri., Aug. 15; Part II opens Fri., Sept. 5; both end Sept. 21.) BRIAN MILLER E Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle Center $25 and up Thursday, August 28, 2014

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Thursday, August 28, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Thursday, August 28, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Thursday, August 28, 2014

Parlor Live Comedy Club See website for schedule. The Parlor Collection, 700 Bellevue Way N.E., Bellevue $15-$30 Thursday, August 28, 2014

Teatro ZinZanni: When Sparks Fly Maestro Voronin headlines this mad-scientist-themed show. Opens June 6. Runs Thurs.-Sun. plus some Wed.; see zinzanni.com/seattle for exact schedule. Ends Sept. 21. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., Seattle $99 and up Thursday, August 28, 2014

I Gelosi STAGEright Theatre presents David Bridel’s play about commedia dell’arte intrigue. Opens Aug. 15. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. & Mon. Ends Aug. 30. The Ballard Underground, 2220 N.W. Market St., Seattle $15-$20 Thursday, August 28, 2014, 7:30pm

Balconies With its huge cast and lofty ambitions to lampoon not only the gaming industry, but also celebrity, politics, and religious cults, Scotto Moore’s new comedy almost bites off more than it can chew. On a pair of adjoining condo balconies are two competing bashes: one a costume party to celebrate a new video game called Sparkle Dungeon 5: Assassins of Glitter; the other a U.S. Senate fundraising cocktail event hosted by the candidate’s daughter. Competing agendas are compounded by the fact that much of the would-be senator’s support comes from a shady, controlling, unnamed church. The satire is slow to get underway, and the show is too long; that said, as both playwright and director here, Moore has a gift for setting up a great joke, then riffing on it; and by its conclusion, the farce finally delivers on its promise. Katherine Karaus is warm and winning as Anna-lise, the condo owner whose mother’s political ambitions may be her undoing. Drew Highlands is the nerdy neighbor Cameron, who’s too timid to say hello until the night of their rival parties. The supporting cast is large and variable, one reason Balconies has difficulty maintaining momentum. Rather than editing out the conversational pauses, Moore ought to have edited his own script. (8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. plus Mon., Aug. 11. Ends Aug. 30.) KEVIN PHINNEY Annex Theatre, 1110 Pike St., Seattle, WA 98122 $5-$20 Thursday, August 28, 2014, 8pm

Black Comedy Peter Shaffer’s one-act is literally titled: it’s set during a power outage. Opens Aug. 21. 8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. Ends Sept. 20. Erickson Theatre, 1524 Harvard Ave $18-$36 Thursday, August 28, 2014, 8pm

Improv Anonymous: The Harold A narrative improv format created by legendary improv teacher Del Close.  Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $7 Thursday, August 28, 2014, 8:30pm

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Angels in America For the first two years of its reconfiguration as a summer theater festival, starting in 2012, Intiman went the traditional route for summer stages: several plays and genres, selling both series and individual tickets, with an a la carte approach that meant if you didn’t like one thing, something else might appeal. This year Intiman is going all in, betting the house-well, it no longer truly has a house-on Tony Kushner. The playwright won a Pulitzer and two Tony awards (among others) for his two-part Broadway extravaganza in 1993-94, subtitled “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” (Part I is Millennium Approaches. Part II is Perestroika.) Kushner wrote the famously brainy, sweeping plays in response to, among other things, the AIDS epidemic and the Cold War. But now, with 20 years’ distance, how should we view the twinned works? Are they old history now, too tied to the times and Kushner’s peculiar passions (Mormons among them)? And given the length of both shows, about seven hours in total (with two intermissions each), will audiences have the endurance for such an ambitious revival? Millennium Approaches, if you need reminding, is set back in 1985, with the gay right-wing homophobe Roy Cohn (Charles Leggett), a figure now nearly forgotten, dying of AIDS and haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, if not his conscience. Meanwhile there’s a Greenwich Village couple (Adam Standley and Quinn Franzen) whose relationship will founder because of AIDS; and, married to a closeted gay Republican husband (Ty Boice), is the pill-popping Mormon housewife Harper Pitt (Anne Allgood), into whose paranoid hallucinations we gradually enter. And overseeing both plays is Kushner’s famous, omniscient angel (Marya Sea Kaminski). Andrew Russell directs the whole daunting enterprise. (Previews for Part I begin tonight; opens Fri., Aug. 15; Part II opens Fri., Sept. 5; both end Sept. 21.) BRIAN MILLER E Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle Center $25 and up Friday, August 29, 2014

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Friday, August 29, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Friday, August 29, 2014

ComedySportz Seattle Comedy Group moves their improv show to the former Empty Space. 8 & 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Atlas Theater, 3509 Fremont Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103 $14 Friday, August 29, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Friday, August 29, 2014

Other Desert Cities In Jon Robin Baitz’s play, secrets are revealed among a powerful family. Opens Aug. 22. 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 14. Eclectic Theater, 1214 10th Ave., Seattle $18 Friday, August 29, 2014

Parlor Live Comedy Club See website for schedule. The Parlor Collection, 700 Bellevue Way N.E., Bellevue $15-$30 Friday, August 29, 2014

Teatro ZinZanni: When Sparks Fly Maestro Voronin headlines this mad-scientist-themed show. Opens June 6. Runs Thurs.-Sun. plus some Wed.; see zinzanni.com/seattle for exact schedule. Ends Sept. 21. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., Seattle $99 and up Friday, August 29, 2014

PROK Open Mike Sign up for this generally zany and enjoyable evening, when professionals are also known to drop by.  The People’s Republic Kafe, 1718 12th Ave., Seattle Free Friday, August 29, 2014, 6:30pm

I Gelosi STAGEright Theatre presents David Bridel’s play about commedia dell’arte intrigue. Opens Aug. 15. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. & Mon. Ends Aug. 30. The Ballard Underground, 2220 N.W. Market St., Seattle $15-$20 Friday, August 29, 2014, 7:30pm

Balconies With its huge cast and lofty ambitions to lampoon not only the gaming industry, but also celebrity, politics, and religious cults, Scotto Moore’s new comedy almost bites off more than it can chew. On a pair of adjoining condo balconies are two competing bashes: one a costume party to celebrate a new video game called Sparkle Dungeon 5: Assassins of Glitter; the other a U.S. Senate fundraising cocktail event hosted by the candidate’s daughter. Competing agendas are compounded by the fact that much of the would-be senator’s support comes from a shady, controlling, unnamed church. The satire is slow to get underway, and the show is too long; that said, as both playwright and director here, Moore has a gift for setting up a great joke, then riffing on it; and by its conclusion, the farce finally delivers on its promise. Katherine Karaus is warm and winning as Anna-lise, the condo owner whose mother’s political ambitions may be her undoing. Drew Highlands is the nerdy neighbor Cameron, who’s too timid to say hello until the night of their rival parties. The supporting cast is large and variable, one reason Balconies has difficulty maintaining momentum. Rather than editing out the conversational pauses, Moore ought to have edited his own script. (8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. plus Mon., Aug. 11. Ends Aug. 30.) KEVIN PHINNEY Annex Theatre, 1110 Pike St., Seattle, WA 98122 $5-$20 Friday, August 29, 2014, 8pm

Black Comedy Peter Shaffer’s one-act is literally titled: it’s set during a power outage. Opens Aug. 21. 8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. Ends Sept. 20. Erickson Theatre, 1524 Harvard Ave $18-$36 Friday, August 29, 2014, 8pm

Black Lodge Burlesque Subtitled “Cabaret Inspired by David Lynch,” it also includes comedy, aerial arts, music, and some damn fine prizes.  Columbia City Theater, 4916 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle, WA 98118 $15 (VIP table $100) Friday, August 29, 2014, 8:30pm

Searching for the Super Scene Fast-paced improv from Unexpected Productions. 8:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $12-$15 Friday, August 29, 2014, 8:30pm

Black Lodge Burlesque Subtitled “Cabaret Inspired by David Lynch,” it also includes comedy, aerial arts, music, and some damn fine prizes.  Columbia City Theater, 4916 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle, WA 98118 $15 (VIP table $100) Friday, August 29, 2014, 10:30pm

TheatreSports Unexpected Productions’ long-running (since 1983!) improv comedy show, pitting two teams against each other in front of a panel of judges. 10:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $15 Friday, August 29, 2014, 10:30pm

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Angels in America For the first two years of its reconfiguration as a summer theater festival, starting in 2012, Intiman went the traditional route for summer stages: several plays and genres, selling both series and individual tickets, with an a la carte approach that meant if you didn’t like one thing, something else might appeal. This year Intiman is going all in, betting the house-well, it no longer truly has a house-on Tony Kushner. The playwright won a Pulitzer and two Tony awards (among others) for his two-part Broadway extravaganza in 1993-94, subtitled “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” (Part I is Millennium Approaches. Part II is Perestroika.) Kushner wrote the famously brainy, sweeping plays in response to, among other things, the AIDS epidemic and the Cold War. But now, with 20 years’ distance, how should we view the twinned works? Are they old history now, too tied to the times and Kushner’s peculiar passions (Mormons among them)? And given the length of both shows, about seven hours in total (with two intermissions each), will audiences have the endurance for such an ambitious revival? Millennium Approaches, if you need reminding, is set back in 1985, with the gay right-wing homophobe Roy Cohn (Charles Leggett), a figure now nearly forgotten, dying of AIDS and haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, if not his conscience. Meanwhile there’s a Greenwich Village couple (Adam Standley and Quinn Franzen) whose relationship will founder because of AIDS; and, married to a closeted gay Republican husband (Ty Boice), is the pill-popping Mormon housewife Harper Pitt (Anne Allgood), into whose paranoid hallucinations we gradually enter. And overseeing both plays is Kushner’s famous, omniscient angel (Marya Sea Kaminski). Andrew Russell directs the whole daunting enterprise. (Previews for Part I begin tonight; opens Fri., Aug. 15; Part II opens Fri., Sept. 5; both end Sept. 21.) BRIAN MILLER E Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle Center $25 and up Saturday, August 30, 2014

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Saturday, August 30, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Saturday, August 30, 2014

ComedySportz Seattle Comedy Group moves their improv show to the former Empty Space. 8 & 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Atlas Theater, 3509 Fremont Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103 $14 Saturday, August 30, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Saturday, August 30, 2014

Other Desert Cities In Jon Robin Baitz’s play, secrets are revealed among a powerful family. Opens Aug. 22. 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 14. Eclectic Theater, 1214 10th Ave., Seattle $18 Saturday, August 30, 2014

Parlor Live Comedy Club See website for schedule. The Parlor Collection, 700 Bellevue Way N.E., Bellevue $15-$30 Saturday, August 30, 2014

Pink Door Cabaret Trapeze performances (6:15-8:45 p.m.) by Bridget Gunning (Sun.) and Tanya Brno (Mon.). Saturdays, go “Behind the Pink Door” (11 p.m.,). See website for full details.   The Pink Door, 1919 Post Alley, Seattle $20 cover Saturday, August 30, 2014

Teatro ZinZanni: When Sparks Fly Maestro Voronin headlines this mad-scientist-themed show. Opens June 6. Runs Thurs.-Sun. plus some Wed.; see zinzanni.com/seattle for exact schedule. Ends Sept. 21. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., Seattle $99 and up Saturday, August 30, 2014

The Mollusc Actors from Outsiders Inn Collective read scenes from the 1907 English drawing-room comedy by Greg Berry. Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $5 Saturday, August 30, 2014, 7 – 8pm

I Gelosi STAGEright Theatre presents David Bridel’s play about commedia dell’arte intrigue. Opens Aug. 15. 7:30 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. & Mon. Ends Aug. 30. The Ballard Underground, 2220 N.W. Market St., Seattle $15-$20 Saturday, August 30, 2014, 7:30pm

Balconies With its huge cast and lofty ambitions to lampoon not only the gaming industry, but also celebrity, politics, and religious cults, Scotto Moore’s new comedy almost bites off more than it can chew. On a pair of adjoining condo balconies are two competing bashes: one a costume party to celebrate a new video game called Sparkle Dungeon 5: Assassins of Glitter; the other a U.S. Senate fundraising cocktail event hosted by the candidate’s daughter. Competing agendas are compounded by the fact that much of the would-be senator’s support comes from a shady, controlling, unnamed church. The satire is slow to get underway, and the show is too long; that said, as both playwright and director here, Moore has a gift for setting up a great joke, then riffing on it; and by its conclusion, the farce finally delivers on its promise. Katherine Karaus is warm and winning as Anna-lise, the condo owner whose mother’s political ambitions may be her undoing. Drew Highlands is the nerdy neighbor Cameron, who’s too timid to say hello until the night of their rival parties. The supporting cast is large and variable, one reason Balconies has difficulty maintaining momentum. Rather than editing out the conversational pauses, Moore ought to have edited his own script. (8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. plus Mon., Aug. 11. Ends Aug. 30.) KEVIN PHINNEY Annex Theatre, 1110 Pike St., Seattle, WA 98122 $5-$20 Saturday, August 30, 2014, 8pm

Black Comedy Peter Shaffer’s one-act is literally titled: it’s set during a power outage. Opens Aug. 21. 8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. Ends Sept. 20. Erickson Theatre, 1524 Harvard Ave $18-$36 Saturday, August 30, 2014, 8pm

Searching for the Super Scene Fast-paced improv from Unexpected Productions. 8:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $12-$15 Saturday, August 30, 2014, 8:30pm

TheatreSports Unexpected Productions’ long-running (since 1983!) improv comedy show, pitting two teams against each other in front of a panel of judges. 10:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $15 Saturday, August 30, 2014, 10:30pm

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Angels in America For the first two years of its reconfiguration as a summer theater festival, starting in 2012, Intiman went the traditional route for summer stages: several plays and genres, selling both series and individual tickets, with an a la carte approach that meant if you didn’t like one thing, something else might appeal. This year Intiman is going all in, betting the house-well, it no longer truly has a house-on Tony Kushner. The playwright won a Pulitzer and two Tony awards (among others) for his two-part Broadway extravaganza in 1993-94, subtitled “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” (Part I is Millennium Approaches. Part II is Perestroika.) Kushner wrote the famously brainy, sweeping plays in response to, among other things, the AIDS epidemic and the Cold War. But now, with 20 years’ distance, how should we view the twinned works? Are they old history now, too tied to the times and Kushner’s peculiar passions (Mormons among them)? And given the length of both shows, about seven hours in total (with two intermissions each), will audiences have the endurance for such an ambitious revival? Millennium Approaches, if you need reminding, is set back in 1985, with the gay right-wing homophobe Roy Cohn (Charles Leggett), a figure now nearly forgotten, dying of AIDS and haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, if not his conscience. Meanwhile there’s a Greenwich Village couple (Adam Standley and Quinn Franzen) whose relationship will founder because of AIDS; and, married to a closeted gay Republican husband (Ty Boice), is the pill-popping Mormon housewife Harper Pitt (Anne Allgood), into whose paranoid hallucinations we gradually enter. And overseeing both plays is Kushner’s famous, omniscient angel (Marya Sea Kaminski). Andrew Russell directs the whole daunting enterprise. (Previews for Part I begin tonight; opens Fri., Aug. 15; Part II opens Fri., Sept. 5; both end Sept. 21.) BRIAN MILLER E Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle Center $25 and up Sunday, August 31, 2014

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Sunday, August 31, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Sunday, August 31, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Sunday, August 31, 2014

Other Desert Cities In Jon Robin Baitz’s play, secrets are revealed among a powerful family. Opens Aug. 22. 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 14. Eclectic Theater, 1214 10th Ave., Seattle $18 Sunday, August 31, 2014

Parlor Live Comedy Club See website for schedule. The Parlor Collection, 700 Bellevue Way N.E., Bellevue $15-$30 Sunday, August 31, 2014

Pink Door Cabaret Trapeze performances (6:15-8:45 p.m.) by Bridget Gunning (Sun.) and Tanya Brno (Mon.). Saturdays, go “Behind the Pink Door” (11 p.m.,). See website for full details.   The Pink Door, 1919 Post Alley, Seattle $20 cover Sunday, August 31, 2014

Teatro ZinZanni: When Sparks Fly Maestro Voronin headlines this mad-scientist-themed show. Opens June 6. Runs Thurs.-Sun. plus some Wed.; see zinzanni.com/seattle for exact schedule. Ends Sept. 21. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., Seattle $99 and up Sunday, August 31, 2014

Wicked Wiz of Oz A 45-minute mashup of your favorite Oz musicals, part of the “Mimosas With Mama” drag brunch. Narwhal, 1118 E. Pike St., Seattle $15-$20 Sunday, August 31, 2014, 1:30pm

Piggyback Stand-up and improv unite. 8:30 p.m. Sun.  Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $10 Sunday, August 31, 2014, 8:30pm

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Monday, September 1, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Monday, September 1, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Monday, September 1, 2014

Pink Door Cabaret Trapeze performances (6:15-8:45 p.m.) by Bridget Gunning (Sun.) and Tanya Brno (Mon.). Saturdays, go “Behind the Pink Door” (11 p.m.,). See website for full details.   The Pink Door, 1919 Post Alley, Seattle $20 cover Monday, September 1, 2014

Pagliacci Comedy Night Local and national comics, every first Monday. Beer and wine will be available with ID. 8 p.m., first Monday of every month. Pagliacci Pizza, 426 Broadway Ave. E., Seattle, WA 98102 Free Monday, September 1, 2014, 8pm

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Comedy Womb This “female-focused but not female-exclusive” show includes a headliner and an open-mike segment, in the Grotto underneath the Rendezvous. JewelBox Theater at the Rendezvous, 2322 Second Ave., Seattle, WA 98121 $5 Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Tuesday, September 2, 2014

The Great Soul of Uzbekistan Hear tales from Tashkent as The Seagull Project became the first American theater troupe to perform there, in April.  ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle, WA 98101 $10-$15 Tuesday, September 2, 2014, 7pm

A Chorus Line Marvin Hamlisch’s iconic backstage musical, with an all-star local cast. Previews begin Sept. 3, opens Sept. 11. 7:30 p.m. Tues.-Wed., 8 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., 1:30 & 7 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 28. 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 $29 and up Wednesday, September 3, 2014

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Angels in America For the first two years of its reconfiguration as a summer theater festival, starting in 2012, Intiman went the traditional route for summer stages: several plays and genres, selling both series and individual tickets, with an a la carte approach that meant if you didn’t like one thing, something else might appeal. This year Intiman is going all in, betting the house-well, it no longer truly has a house-on Tony Kushner. The playwright won a Pulitzer and two Tony awards (among others) for his two-part Broadway extravaganza in 1993-94, subtitled “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” (Part I is Millennium Approaches. Part II is Perestroika.) Kushner wrote the famously brainy, sweeping plays in response to, among other things, the AIDS epidemic and the Cold War. But now, with 20 years’ distance, how should we view the twinned works? Are they old history now, too tied to the times and Kushner’s peculiar passions (Mormons among them)? And given the length of both shows, about seven hours in total (with two intermissions each), will audiences have the endurance for such an ambitious revival? Millennium Approaches, if you need reminding, is set back in 1985, with the gay right-wing homophobe Roy Cohn (Charles Leggett), a figure now nearly forgotten, dying of AIDS and haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, if not his conscience. Meanwhile there’s a Greenwich Village couple (Adam Standley and Quinn Franzen) whose relationship will founder because of AIDS; and, married to a closeted gay Republican husband (Ty Boice), is the pill-popping Mormon housewife Harper Pitt (Anne Allgood), into whose paranoid hallucinations we gradually enter. And overseeing both plays is Kushner’s famous, omniscient angel (Marya Sea Kaminski). Andrew Russell directs the whole daunting enterprise. (Previews for Part I begin tonight; opens Fri., Aug. 15; Part II opens Fri., Sept. 5; both end Sept. 21.) BRIAN MILLER E Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle Center $25 and up Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Comedy Womb This “female-focused but not female-exclusive” show includes a headliner and an open-mike segment, in the Grotto underneath the Rendezvous. JewelBox Theater at the Rendezvous, 2322 Second Ave., Seattle, WA 98121 $5 Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Teatro ZinZanni: When Sparks Fly Maestro Voronin headlines this mad-scientist-themed show. Opens June 6. Runs Thurs.-Sun. plus some Wed.; see zinzanni.com/seattle for exact schedule. Ends Sept. 21. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., Seattle $99 and up Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Flipside Comedy Show Stand-up every Wednesday at this bastion of old-school Seattle charm. 13 Coins, 125 Boren Ave. N., Seattle See website Wednesday, September 3, 2014, 8pm

Live! Performance! MASH UP! theater simple’s two-night performance omnibus, with Waxie Moon, Jennifer Jasper, and plenty more. 8 p.m. Wed., Sept. 3-Thurs., Sept. 4. ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle, WA 98101 $10-$20 Wednesday, September 3, 2014, 8pm

Duos Comedy Showcase Unexpected Productions presents comedians two at a time. Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $5 Wednesday, September 3, 2014, 8:30pm

A Chorus Line Marvin Hamlisch’s iconic backstage musical, with an all-star local cast. Previews begin Sept. 3, opens Sept. 11. 7:30 p.m. Tues.-Wed., 8 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., 1:30 & 7 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 28. 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 $29 and up Thursday, September 4, 2014

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Angels in America For the first two years of its reconfiguration as a summer theater festival, starting in 2012, Intiman went the traditional route for summer stages: several plays and genres, selling both series and individual tickets, with an a la carte approach that meant if you didn’t like one thing, something else might appeal. This year Intiman is going all in, betting the house-well, it no longer truly has a house-on Tony Kushner. The playwright won a Pulitzer and two Tony awards (among others) for his two-part Broadway extravaganza in 1993-94, subtitled “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” (Part I is Millennium Approaches. Part II is Perestroika.) Kushner wrote the famously brainy, sweeping plays in response to, among other things, the AIDS epidemic and the Cold War. But now, with 20 years’ distance, how should we view the twinned works? Are they old history now, too tied to the times and Kushner’s peculiar passions (Mormons among them)? And given the length of both shows, about seven hours in total (with two intermissions each), will audiences have the endurance for such an ambitious revival? Millennium Approaches, if you need reminding, is set back in 1985, with the gay right-wing homophobe Roy Cohn (Charles Leggett), a figure now nearly forgotten, dying of AIDS and haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, if not his conscience. Meanwhile there’s a Greenwich Village couple (Adam Standley and Quinn Franzen) whose relationship will founder because of AIDS; and, married to a closeted gay Republican husband (Ty Boice), is the pill-popping Mormon housewife Harper Pitt (Anne Allgood), into whose paranoid hallucinations we gradually enter. And overseeing both plays is Kushner’s famous, omniscient angel (Marya Sea Kaminski). Andrew Russell directs the whole daunting enterprise. (Previews for Part I begin tonight; opens Fri., Aug. 15; Part II opens Fri., Sept. 5; both end Sept. 21.) BRIAN MILLER E Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle Center $25 and up Thursday, September 4, 2014

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Thursday, September 4, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Thursday, September 4, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Thursday, September 4, 2014

Parlor Live Comedy Club See website for schedule. The Parlor Collection, 700 Bellevue Way N.E., Bellevue $15-$30 Thursday, September 4, 2014

Teatro ZinZanni: When Sparks Fly Maestro Voronin headlines this mad-scientist-themed show. Opens June 6. Runs Thurs.-Sun. plus some Wed.; see zinzanni.com/seattle for exact schedule. Ends Sept. 21. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., Seattle $99 and up Thursday, September 4, 2014

Black Comedy Peter Shaffer’s one-act is literally titled: it’s set during a power outage. Opens Aug. 21. 8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. Ends Sept. 20. Erickson Theatre, 1524 Harvard Ave $18-$36 Thursday, September 4, 2014, 8pm

Live! Performance! MASH UP! theater simple’s two-night performance omnibus, with Waxie Moon, Jennifer Jasper, and plenty more. 8 p.m. Wed., Sept. 3-Thurs., Sept. 4. ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle, WA 98101 $10-$20 Thursday, September 4, 2014, 8pm

Improv Anonymous: The Harold A narrative improv format created by legendary improv teacher Del Close.  Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $7 Thursday, September 4, 2014, 8:30pm

A Chorus Line Marvin Hamlisch??s iconic backstage musical, with an all-star local cast. Previews begin Sept. 3, opens Sept. 11. 7:30 p.m. Tues.-Wed., 8 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., 1:30 & 7 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 28. 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 $29 and up Friday, September 5, 2014

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Angels in America For the first two years of its reconfiguration as a summer theater festival, starting in 2012, Intiman went the traditional route for summer stages: several plays and genres, selling both series and individual tickets, with an a la carte approach that meant if you didn’t like one thing, something else might appeal. This year Intiman is going all in, betting the house-well, it no longer truly has a house-on Tony Kushner. The playwright won a Pulitzer and two Tony awards (among others) for his two-part Broadway extravaganza in 1993-94, subtitled “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” (Part I is Millennium Approaches. Part II is Perestroika.) Kushner wrote the famously brainy, sweeping plays in response to, among other things, the AIDS epidemic and the Cold War. But now, with 20 years’ distance, how should we view the twinned works? Are they old history now, too tied to the times and Kushner’s peculiar passions (Mormons among them)? And given the length of both shows, about seven hours in total (with two intermissions each), will audiences have the endurance for such an ambitious revival? Millennium Approaches, if you need reminding, is set back in 1985, with the gay right-wing homophobe Roy Cohn (Charles Leggett), a figure now nearly forgotten, dying of AIDS and haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, if not his conscience. Meanwhile there’s a Greenwich Village couple (Adam Standley and Quinn Franzen) whose relationship will founder because of AIDS; and, married to a closeted gay Republican husband (Ty Boice), is the pill-popping Mormon housewife Harper Pitt (Anne Allgood), into whose paranoid hallucinations we gradually enter. And overseeing both plays is Kushner’s famous, omniscient angel (Marya Sea Kaminski). Andrew Russell directs the whole daunting enterprise. (Previews for Part I begin tonight; opens Fri., Aug. 15; Part II opens Fri., Sept. 5; both end Sept. 21.) BRIAN MILLER E Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle Center $25 and up Friday, September 5, 2014

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Friday, September 5, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Friday, September 5, 2014

ComedySportz Seattle Comedy Group moves their improv show to the former Empty Space. 8 & 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Atlas Theater, 3509 Fremont Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103 $14 Friday, September 5, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Friday, September 5, 2014

Other Desert Cities In Jon Robin Baitz’s play, secrets are revealed among a powerful family. Opens Aug. 22. 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 14. Eclectic Theater, 1214 10th Ave., Seattle $18 Friday, September 5, 2014

Parlor Live Comedy Club See website for schedule. The Parlor Collection, 700 Bellevue Way N.E., Bellevue $15-$30 Friday, September 5, 2014

Teatro ZinZanni: When Sparks Fly Maestro Voronin headlines this mad-scientist-themed show. Opens June 6. Runs Thurs.-Sun. plus some Wed.; see zinzanni.com/seattle for exact schedule. Ends Sept. 21. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., Seattle $99 and up Friday, September 5, 2014

PROK Open Mike Sign up for this generally zany and enjoyable evening, when professionals are also known to drop by.  The People’s Republic Kafe, 1718 12th Ave., Seattle Free Friday, September 5, 2014, 6:30pm

Black Comedy Peter Shaffer’s one-act is literally titled: it’s set during a power outage. Opens Aug. 21. 8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. Ends Sept. 20. Erickson Theatre, 1524 Harvard Ave $18-$36 Friday, September 5, 2014, 8pm

Searching for the Super Scene Fast-paced improv from Unexpected Productions. 8:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $12-$15 Friday, September 5, 2014, 8:30pm

TheatreSports Unexpected Productions’ long-running (since 1983!) improv comedy show, pitting two teams against each other in front of a panel of judges. 10:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $15 Friday, September 5, 2014, 10:30pm

Spin the Bottle Annex Theatre’s late-night variety show. Annex Theatre, 1110 Pike St., Seattle, WA 98122 $5-$10 Friday, September 5, 2014, 11pm

A Chorus Line Marvin Hamlisch’s iconic backstage musical, with an all-star local cast. Previews begin Sept. 3, opens Sept. 11. 7:30 p.m. Tues.-Wed., 8 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., 1:30 & 7 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 28. 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 $29 and up Saturday, September 6, 2014

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Angels in America For the first two years of its reconfiguration as a summer theater festival, starting in 2012, Intiman went the traditional route for summer stages: several plays and genres, selling both series and individual tickets, with an a la carte approach that meant if you didn’t like one thing, something else might appeal. This year Intiman is going all in, betting the house-well, it no longer truly has a house-on Tony Kushner. The playwright won a Pulitzer and two Tony awards (among others) for his two-part Broadway extravaganza in 1993-94, subtitled “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” (Part I is Millennium Approaches. Part II is Perestroika.) Kushner wrote the famously brainy, sweeping plays in response to, among other things, the AIDS epidemic and the Cold War. But now, with 20 years’ distance, how should we view the twinned works? Are they old history now, too tied to the times and Kushner’s peculiar passions (Mormons among them)? And given the length of both shows, about seven hours in total (with two intermissions each), will audiences have the endurance for such an ambitious revival? Millennium Approaches, if you need reminding, is set back in 1985, with the gay right-wing homophobe Roy Cohn (Charles Leggett), a figure now nearly forgotten, dying of AIDS and haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, if not his conscience. Meanwhile there’s a Greenwich Village couple (Adam Standley and Quinn Franzen) whose relationship will founder because of AIDS; and, married to a closeted gay Republican husband (Ty Boice), is the pill-popping Mormon housewife Harper Pitt (Anne Allgood), into whose paranoid hallucinations we gradually enter. And overseeing both plays is Kushner’s famous, omniscient angel (Marya Sea Kaminski). Andrew Russell directs the whole daunting enterprise. (Previews for Part I begin tonight; opens Fri., Aug. 15; Part II opens Fri., Sept. 5; both end Sept. 21.) BRIAN MILLER E Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle Center $25 and up Saturday, September 6, 2014

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Saturday, September 6, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Saturday, September 6, 2014

ComedySportz Seattle Comedy Group moves their improv show to the former Empty Space. 8 & 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Atlas Theater, 3509 Fremont Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103 $14 Saturday, September 6, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Saturday, September 6, 2014

Other Desert Cities In Jon Robin Baitz’s play, secrets are revealed among a powerful family. Opens Aug. 22. 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 14. Eclectic Theater, 1214 10th Ave., Seattle $18 Saturday, September 6, 2014

Parlor Live Comedy Club See website for schedule. The Parlor Collection, 700 Bellevue Way N.E., Bellevue $15-$30 Saturday, September 6, 2014

Pink Door Cabaret Trapeze performances (6:15-8:45 p.m.) by Bridget Gunning (Sun.) and Tanya Brno (Mon.). Saturdays, go “Behind the Pink Door” (11 p.m.,). See website for full details.   The Pink Door, 1919 Post Alley, Seattle $20 cover Saturday, September 6, 2014

Teatro ZinZanni: When Sparks Fly Maestro Voronin headlines this mad-scientist-themed show. Opens June 6. Runs Thurs.-Sun. plus some Wed.; see zinzanni.com/seattle for exact schedule. Ends Sept. 21. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., Seattle $99 and up Saturday, September 6, 2014

The Edge Bainbridge Island’s own improv troupe.  Bainbridge Performing Arts, 200 Madison Ave. N., Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 $12-$16 Saturday, September 6, 2014, 7:30pm

Black Comedy Peter Shaffer’s one-act is literally titled: it’s set during a power outage. Opens Aug. 21. 8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. Ends Sept. 20. Erickson Theatre, 1524 Harvard Ave $18-$36 Saturday, September 6, 2014, 8pm

Searching for the Super Scene Fast-paced improv from Unexpected Productions. 8:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $12-$15 Saturday, September 6, 2014, 8:30pm

TheatreSports Unexpected Productions’ long-running (since 1983!) improv comedy show, pitting two teams against each other in front of a panel of judges. 10:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $15 Saturday, September 6, 2014, 10:30pm

A Chorus Line Marvin Hamlisch’s iconic backstage musical, with an all-star local cast. Previews begin Sept. 3, opens Sept. 11. 7:30 p.m. Tues.-Wed., 8 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., 1:30 & 7 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 28. 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 $29 and up Sunday, September 7, 2014

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Angels in America For the first two years of its reconfiguration as a summer theater festival, starting in 2012, Intiman went the traditional route for summer stages: several plays and genres, selling both series and individual tickets, with an a la carte approach that meant if you didn’t like one thing, something else might appeal. This year Intiman is going all in, betting the house-well, it no longer truly has a house-on Tony Kushner. The playwright won a Pulitzer and two Tony awards (among others) for his two-part Broadway extravaganza in 1993-94, subtitled “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” (Part I is Millennium Approaches. Part II is Perestroika.) Kushner wrote the famously brainy, sweeping plays in response to, among other things, the AIDS epidemic and the Cold War. But now, with 20 years’ distance, how should we view the twinned works? Are they old history now, too tied to the times and Kushner’s peculiar passions (Mormons among them)? And given the length of both shows, about seven hours in total (with two intermissions each), will audiences have the endurance for such an ambitious revival? Millennium Approaches, if you need reminding, is set back in 1985, with the gay right-wing homophobe Roy Cohn (Charles Leggett), a figure now nearly forgotten, dying of AIDS and haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, if not his conscience. Meanwhile there’s a Greenwich Village couple (Adam Standley and Quinn Franzen) whose relationship will founder because of AIDS; and, married to a closeted gay Republican husband (Ty Boice), is the pill-popping Mormon housewife Harper Pitt (Anne Allgood), into whose paranoid hallucinations we gradually enter. And overseeing both plays is Kushner’s famous, omniscient angel (Marya Sea Kaminski). Andrew Russell directs the whole daunting enterprise. (Previews for Part I begin tonight; opens Fri., Aug. 15; Part II opens Fri., Sept. 5; both end Sept. 21.) BRIAN MILLER E Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle Center $25 and up Sunday, September 7, 2014

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Sunday, September 7, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Sunday, September 7, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Sunday, September 7, 2014

Other Desert Cities In Jon Robin Baitz’s play, secrets are revealed among a powerful family. Opens Aug. 22. 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 14. Eclectic Theater, 1214 10th Ave., Seattle $18 Sunday, September 7, 2014

Parlor Live Comedy Club See website for schedule. The Parlor Collection, 700 Bellevue Way N.E., Bellevue $15-$30 Sunday, September 7, 2014

Pink Door Cabaret Trapeze performances (6:15-8:45 p.m.) by Bridget Gunning (Sun.) and Tanya Brno (Mon.). Saturdays, go “Behind the Pink Door” (11 p.m.,). See website for full details.   The Pink Door, 1919 Post Alley, Seattle $20 cover Sunday, September 7, 2014

Teatro ZinZanni: When Sparks Fly Maestro Voronin headlines this mad-scientist-themed show. Opens June 6. Runs Thurs.-Sun. plus some Wed.; see zinzanni.com/seattle for exact schedule. Ends Sept. 21. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., Seattle $99 and up Sunday, September 7, 2014

Wicked Wiz of Oz A 45-minute mashup of your favorite Oz musicals, part of the “Mimosas With Mama” drag brunch. Narwhal, 1118 E. Pike St., Seattle $15-$20 Sunday, September 7, 2014, 1:30pm

Weird and Awesome With Emmett Montgomery “A monthly parade [every first Sunday] of wonder and awkward sharing hosted and curated by mustache wizard Emmett Montgomery. 7:30 p.m. first Sunday of every month. Annex Theatre, 1110 Pike St., Seattle, WA 98122 $5-$10 Sunday, September 7, 2014, 7:30pm

Piggyback Stand-up and improv unite. 8:30 p.m. Sun.  Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $10 Sunday, September 7, 2014, 8:30pm

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Monday, September 8, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Monday, September 8, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Monday, September 8, 2014

Pink Door Cabaret Trapeze performances (6:15-8:45 p.m.) by Bridget Gunning (Sun.) and Tanya Brno (Mon.). Saturdays, go “Behind the Pink Door” (11 p.m.,). See website for full details.   The Pink Door, 1919 Post Alley, Seattle $20 cover Monday, September 8, 2014

A Chorus Line Marvin Hamlisch’s iconic backstage musical, with an all-star local cast. Previews begin Sept. 3, opens Sept. 11. 7:30 p.m. Tues.-Wed., 8 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., 1:30 & 7 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 28. 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 $29 and up Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Comedy Womb This “female-focused but not female-exclusive” show includes a headliner and an open-mike segment, in the Grotto underneath the Rendezvous. JewelBox Theater at the Rendezvous, 2322 Second Ave., Seattle, WA 98121 $5 Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Tuesday, September 9, 2014

A Chorus Line Marvin Hamlisch’s iconic backstage musical, with an all-star local cast. Previews begin Sept. 3, opens Sept. 11. 7:30 p.m. Tues.-Wed., 8 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., 1:30 & 7 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 28. 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 $29 and up Wednesday, September 10, 2014

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Angels in America For the first two years of its reconfiguration as a summer theater festival, starting in 2012, Intiman went the traditional route for summer stages: several plays and genres, selling both series and individual tickets, with an a la carte approach that meant if you didn’t like one thing, something else might appeal. This year Intiman is going all in, betting the house-well, it no longer truly has a house-on Tony Kushner. The playwright won a Pulitzer and two Tony awards (among others) for his two-part Broadway extravaganza in 1993-94, subtitled “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” (Part I is Millennium Approaches. Part II is Perestroika.) Kushner wrote the famously brainy, sweeping plays in response to, among other things, the AIDS epidemic and the Cold War. But now, with 20 years’ distance, how should we view the twinned works? Are they old history now, too tied to the times and Kushner’s peculiar passions (Mormons among them)? And given the length of both shows, about seven hours in total (with two intermissions each), will audiences have the endurance for such an ambitious revival? Millennium Approaches, if you need reminding, is set back in 1985, with the gay right-wing homophobe Roy Cohn (Charles Leggett), a figure now nearly forgotten, dying of AIDS and haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, if not his conscience. Meanwhile there’s a Greenwich Village couple (Adam Standley and Quinn Franzen) whose relationship will founder because of AIDS; and, married to a closeted gay Republican husband (Ty Boice), is the pill-popping Mormon housewife Harper Pitt (Anne Allgood), into whose paranoid hallucinations we gradually enter. And overseeing both plays is Kushner’s famous, omniscient angel (Marya Sea Kaminski). Andrew Russell directs the whole daunting enterprise. (Previews for Part I begin tonight; opens Fri., Aug. 15; Part II opens Fri., Sept. 5; both end Sept. 21.) BRIAN MILLER E Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle Center $25 and up Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Comedy Womb This “female-focused but not female-exclusive” show includes a headliner and an open-mike segment, in the Grotto underneath the Rendezvous. JewelBox Theater at the Rendezvous, 2322 Second Ave., Seattle, WA 98121 $5 Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Teatro ZinZanni: When Sparks Fly Maestro Voronin headlines this mad-scientist-themed show. Opens June 6. Runs Thurs.-Sun. plus some Wed.; see zinzanni.com/seattle for exact schedule. Ends Sept. 21. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., Seattle $99 and up Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Flipside Comedy Show Stand-up every Wednesday at this bastion of old-school Seattle charm. 13 Coins, 125 Boren Ave. N., Seattle See website Wednesday, September 10, 2014, 8pm

Duos Comedy Showcase Unexpected Productions presents comedians two at a time. Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $5 Wednesday, September 10, 2014, 8:30pm

A Chorus Line Marvin Hamlisch’s iconic backstage musical, with an all-star local cast. Previews begin Sept. 3, opens Sept. 11. 7:30 p.m. Tues.-Wed., 8 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., 1:30 & 7 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 28. 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 $29 and up Thursday, September 11, 2014

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Angels in America For the first two years of its reconfiguration as a summer theater festival, starting in 2012, Intiman went the traditional route for summer stages: several plays and genres, selling both series and individual tickets, with an a la carte approach that meant if you didn’t like one thing, something else might appeal. This year Intiman is going all in, betting the house-well, it no longer truly has a house-on Tony Kushner. The playwright won a Pulitzer and two Tony awards (among others) for his two-part Broadway extravaganza in 1993-94, subtitled “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” (Part I is Millennium Approaches. Part II is Perestroika.) Kushner wrote the famously brainy, sweeping plays in response to, among other things, the AIDS epidemic and the Cold War. But now, with 20 years’ distance, how should we view the twinned works? Are they old history now, too tied to the times and Kushner’s peculiar passions (Mormons among them)? And given the length of both shows, about seven hours in total (with two intermissions each), will audiences have the endurance for such an ambitious revival? Millennium Approaches, if you need reminding, is set back in 1985, with the gay right-wing homophobe Roy Cohn (Charles Leggett), a figure now nearly forgotten, dying of AIDS and haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, if not his conscience. Meanwhile there’s a Greenwich Village couple (Adam Standley and Quinn Franzen) whose relationship will founder because of AIDS; and, married to a closeted gay Republican husband (Ty Boice), is the pill-popping Mormon housewife Harper Pitt (Anne Allgood), into whose paranoid hallucinations we gradually enter. And overseeing both plays is Kushner’s famous, omniscient angel (Marya Sea Kaminski). Andrew Russell directs the whole daunting enterprise. (Previews for Part I begin tonight; opens Fri., Aug. 15; Part II opens Fri., Sept. 5; both end Sept. 21.) BRIAN MILLER E Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle Center $25 and up Thursday, September 11, 2014

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Thursday, September 11, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Thursday, September 11, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Thursday, September 11, 2014

Parlor Live Comedy Club See website for schedule. The Parlor Collection, 700 Bellevue Way N.E., Bellevue $15-$30 Thursday, September 11, 2014

Teatro ZinZanni: When Sparks Fly Maestro Voronin headlines this mad-scientist-themed show. Opens June 6. Runs Thurs.-Sun. plus some Wed.; see zinzanni.com/seattle for exact schedule. Ends Sept. 21. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., Seattle $99 and up Thursday, September 11, 2014

Black Comedy Peter Shaffer’s one-act is literally titled: it’s set during a power outage. Opens Aug. 21. 8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. Ends Sept. 20. Erickson Theatre, 1524 Harvard Ave $18-$36 Thursday, September 11, 2014, 8pm

Improv Anonymous: The Harold A narrative improv format created by legendary improv teacher Del Close.  Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $7 Thursday, September 11, 2014, 8:30pm

A Chorus Line Marvin Hamlisch’s iconic backstage musical, with an all-star local cast. Previews begin Sept. 3, opens Sept. 11. 7:30 p.m. Tues.-Wed., 8 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., 1:30 & 7 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 28. 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 $29 and up Friday, September 12, 2014

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Angels in America For the first two years of its reconfiguration as a summer theater festival, starting in 2012, Intiman went the traditional route for summer stages: several plays and genres, selling both series and individual tickets, with an a la carte approach that meant if you didn’t like one thing, something else might appeal. This year Intiman is going all in, betting the house-well, it no longer truly has a house-on Tony Kushner. The playwright won a Pulitzer and two Tony awards (among others) for his two-part Broadway extravaganza in 1993-94, subtitled “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” (Part I is Millennium Approaches. Part II is Perestroika.) Kushner wrote the famously brainy, sweeping plays in response to, among other things, the AIDS epidemic and the Cold War. But now, with 20 years’ distance, how should we view the twinned works? Are they old history now, too tied to the times and Kushner’s peculiar passions (Mormons among them)? And given the length of both shows, about seven hours in total (with two intermissions each), will audiences have the endurance for such an ambitious revival? Millennium Approaches, if you need reminding, is set back in 1985, with the gay right-wing homophobe Roy Cohn (Charles Leggett), a figure now nearly forgotten, dying of AIDS and haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, if not his conscience. Meanwhile there’s a Greenwich Village couple (Adam Standley and Quinn Franzen) whose relationship will founder because of AIDS; and, married to a closeted gay Republican husband (Ty Boice), is the pill-popping Mormon housewife Harper Pitt (Anne Allgood), into whose paranoid hallucinations we gradually enter. And overseeing both plays is Kushner’s famous, omniscient angel (Marya Sea Kaminski). Andrew Russell directs the whole daunting enterprise. (Previews for Part I begin tonight; opens Fri., Aug. 15; Part II opens Fri., Sept. 5; both end Sept. 21.) BRIAN MILLER E Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle Center $25 and up Friday, September 12, 2014

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Friday, September 12, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Friday, September 12, 2014

ComedySportz Seattle Comedy Group moves their improv show to the former Empty Space. 8 & 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Atlas Theater, 3509 Fremont Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103 $14 Friday, September 12, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Friday, September 12, 2014

Other Desert Cities In Jon Robin Baitz’s play, secrets are revealed among a powerful family. Opens Aug. 22. 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 14. Eclectic Theater, 1214 10th Ave., Seattle $18 Friday, September 12, 2014

Parlor Live Comedy Club See website for schedule. The Parlor Collection, 700 Bellevue Way N.E., Bellevue $15-$30 Friday, September 12, 2014

Teatro ZinZanni: When Sparks Fly Maestro Voronin headlines this mad-scientist-themed show. Opens June 6. Runs Thurs.-Sun. plus some Wed.; see zinzanni.com/seattle for exact schedule. Ends Sept. 21. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., Seattle $99 and up Friday, September 12, 2014

PROK Open Mike Sign up for this generally zany and enjoyable evening, when professionals are also known to drop by.  The People’s Republic Kafe, 1718 12th Ave., Seattle Free Friday, September 12, 2014, 6:30pm

Black Comedy Peter Shaffer’s one-act is literally titled: it’s set during a power outage. Opens Aug. 21. 8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. Ends Sept. 20. Erickson Theatre, 1524 Harvard Ave $18-$36 Friday, September 12, 2014, 8pm

Searching for the Super Scene Fast-paced improv from Unexpected Productions. 8:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $12-$15 Friday, September 12, 2014, 8:30pm

TheatreSports Unexpected Productions’ long-running (since 1983!) improv comedy show, pitting two teams against each other in front of a panel of judges. 10:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $15 Friday, September 12, 2014, 10:30pm

A Chorus Line Marvin Hamlisch’s iconic backstage musical, with an all-star local cast. Previews begin Sept. 3, opens Sept. 11. 7:30 p.m. Tues.-Wed., 8 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., 1:30 & 7 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 28. 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 $29 and up Saturday, September 13, 2014

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Angels in America For the first two years of its reconfiguration as a summer theater festival, starting in 2012, Intiman went the traditional route for summer stages: several plays and genres, selling both series and individual tickets, with an a la carte approach that meant if you didn’t like one thing, something else might appeal. This year Intiman is going all in, betting the house-well, it no longer truly has a house-on Tony Kushner. The playwright won a Pulitzer and two Tony awards (among others) for his two-part Broadway extravaganza in 1993-94, subtitled “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” (Part I is Millennium Approaches. Part II is Perestroika.) Kushner wrote the famously brainy, sweeping plays in response to, among other things, the AIDS epidemic and the Cold War. But now, with 20 years’ distance, how should we view the twinned works? Are they old history now, too tied to the times and Kushner’s peculiar passions (Mormons among them)? And given the length of both shows, about seven hours in total (with two intermissions each), will audiences have the endurance for such an ambitious revival? Millennium Approaches, if you need reminding, is set back in 1985, with the gay right-wing homophobe Roy Cohn (Charles Leggett), a figure now nearly forgotten, dying of AIDS and haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, if not his conscience. Meanwhile there’s a Greenwich Village couple (Adam Standley and Quinn Franzen) whose relationship will founder because of AIDS; and, married to a closeted gay Republican husband (Ty Boice), is the pill-popping Mormon housewife Harper Pitt (Anne Allgood), into whose paranoid hallucinations we gradually enter. And overseeing both plays is Kushner’s famous, omniscient angel (Marya Sea Kaminski). Andrew Russell directs the whole daunting enterprise. (Previews for Part I begin tonight; opens Fri., Aug. 15; Part II opens Fri., Sept. 5; both end Sept. 21.) BRIAN MILLER E Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle Center $25 and up Saturday, September 13, 2014

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Saturday, September 13, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Saturday, September 13, 2014

ComedySportz Seattle Comedy Group moves their improv show to the former Empty Space. 8 & 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Atlas Theater, 3509 Fremont Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103 $14 Saturday, September 13, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Saturday, September 13, 2014

Other Desert Cities In Jon Robin Baitz’s play, secrets are revealed among a powerful family. Opens Aug. 22. 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 14. Eclectic Theater, 1214 10th Ave., Seattle $18 Saturday, September 13, 2014

Parlor Live Comedy Club See website for schedule. The Parlor Collection, 700 Bellevue Way N.E., Bellevue $15-$30 Saturday, September 13, 2014

Pink Door Cabaret Trapeze performances (6:15-8:45 p.m.) by Bridget Gunning (Sun.) and Tanya Brno (Mon.). Saturdays, go “Behind the Pink Door” (11 p.m.,). See website for full details.   The Pink Door, 1919 Post Alley, Seattle $20 cover Saturday, September 13, 2014

Teatro ZinZanni: When Sparks Fly Maestro Voronin headlines this mad-scientist-themed show. Opens June 6. Runs Thurs.-Sun. plus some Wed.; see zinzanni.com/seattle for exact schedule. Ends Sept. 21. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., Seattle $99 and up Saturday, September 13, 2014

Black Comedy Peter Shaffer’s one-act is literally titled: it’s set during a power outage. Opens Aug. 21. 8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. Ends Sept. 20. Erickson Theatre, 1524 Harvard Ave $18-$36 Saturday, September 13, 2014, 8pm

Searching for the Super Scene Fast-paced improv from Unexpected Productions. 8:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $12-$15 Saturday, September 13, 2014, 8:30pm

TheatreSports Unexpected Productions’ long-running (since 1983!) improv comedy show, pitting two teams against each other in front of a panel of judges. 10:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $15 Saturday, September 13, 2014, 10:30pm

A Chorus Line Marvin Hamlisch’s iconic backstage musical, with an all-star local cast. Previews begin Sept. 3, opens Sept. 11. 7:30 p.m. Tues.-Wed., 8 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., 2 & 8 p.m. Sat., 1:30 & 7 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 28. 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 $29 and up Sunday, September 14, 2014

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Angels in America For the first two years of its reconfiguration as a summer theater festival, starting in 2012, Intiman went the traditional route for summer stages: several plays and genres, selling both series and individual tickets, with an a la carte approach that meant if you didn’t like one thing, something else might appeal. This year Intiman is going all in, betting the house-well, it no longer truly has a house-on Tony Kushner. The playwright won a Pulitzer and two Tony awards (among others) for his two-part Broadway extravaganza in 1993-94, subtitled “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.” (Part I is Millennium Approaches. Part II is Perestroika.) Kushner wrote the famously brainy, sweeping plays in response to, among other things, the AIDS epidemic and the Cold War. But now, with 20 years’ distance, how should we view the twinned works? Are they old history now, too tied to the times and Kushner’s peculiar passions (Mormons among them)? And given the length of both shows, about seven hours in total (with two intermissions each), will audiences have the endurance for such an ambitious revival? Millennium Approaches, if you need reminding, is set back in 1985, with the gay right-wing homophobe Roy Cohn (Charles Leggett), a figure now nearly forgotten, dying of AIDS and haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg, if not his conscience. Meanwhile there’s a Greenwich Village couple (Adam Standley and Quinn Franzen) whose relationship will founder because of AIDS; and, married to a closeted gay Republican husband (Ty Boice), is the pill-popping Mormon housewife Harper Pitt (Anne Allgood), into whose paranoid hallucinations we gradually enter. And overseeing both plays is Kushner’s famous, omniscient angel (Marya Sea Kaminski). Andrew Russell directs the whole daunting enterprise. (Previews for Part I begin tonight; opens Fri., Aug. 15; Part II opens Fri., Sept. 5; both end Sept. 21.) BRIAN MILLER E Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, Seattle Center $25 and up Sunday, September 14, 2014

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Sunday, September 14, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Sunday, September 14, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Sunday, September 14, 2014

Other Desert Cities In Jon Robin Baitz’s play, secrets are revealed among a powerful family. Opens Aug. 22. 8 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Ends Sept. 14. Eclectic Theater, 1214 10th Ave., Seattle $18 Sunday, September 14, 2014

Parlor Live Comedy Club See website for schedule. The Parlor Collection, 700 Bellevue Way N.E., Bellevue $15-$30 Sunday, September 14, 2014

Pink Door Cabaret Trapeze performances (6:15-8:45 p.m.) by Bridget Gunning (Sun.) and Tanya Brno (Mon.). Saturdays, go “Behind the Pink Door” (11 p.m.,). See website for full details.   The Pink Door, 1919 Post Alley, Seattle $20 cover Sunday, September 14, 2014

Teatro ZinZanni: When Sparks Fly Maestro Voronin headlines this mad-scientist-themed show. Opens June 6. Runs Thurs.-Sun. plus some Wed.; see zinzanni.com/seattle for exact schedule. Ends Sept. 21. Teatro ZinZanni, 222 Mercer St., Seattle $99 and up Sunday, September 14, 2014

Wicked Wiz of Oz A 45-minute mashup of your favorite Oz musicals, part of the “Mimosas With Mama” drag brunch. Narwhal, 1118 E. Pike St., Seattle $15-$20 Sunday, September 14, 2014, 1:30pm

Piggyback Stand-up and improv unite. 8:30 p.m. Sun.  Unexpected Productions Market Theater, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle $10 Sunday, September 14, 2014, 8:30pm

Can Can Cabarets Seattle’s center for neo-burlesque presents shows and/or live music nearly every night; see website for full details and ticket prices. Can Can, 94 Pike St. Downstairs from Matts & Chez Chea, Seattle see website Monday, September 15, 2014

Comedy Underground See website for complete schedule, including their “Monday Madness” open-mike night, 8 p.m. Comedy Underground, 109 S. Washington St., Seattle, WA 98104 $6 Monday, September 15, 2014

Laughs Stand-up and other comedy. See website for complete schedule, including open-mike night.  Laughs Comedy Spot, 12099 124th Ave. N.E., Kirkland, WA 98034 $10-$20 Monday, September 15, 2014