Events Listings
Camera Obscura, Papercuts
Music: Rock, Pop and Hip-HopSun., Nov. 22, 8 p.m.
When we're sad we listen to "Razzle Dazzle Rose." When we're happy we listen to "Suspended From Class." When we're in love we listen to "Let's Get Out of This Country." When we're heartbroken we listen to "I Need All the Friends I Can Get." What we're saying here is that Camera Obscura's delicate retro-pop is flat-out wonderful, no matter the occasion. SOLD OUT
Dirty Projectors, tUnE-YaRdS
Music: Rock, Pop and Hip-HopSun., Nov. 22, 8 p.m.
Just like in the months leading up to the Oscars when all the year's heavy-hitting films suddenly reappear in movie theaters, Dave Longstreth and his Dirty Projectors are playing a four-night run of local shows, as if gently reminding bloggers about to make their year-end lists just how much they liked Bitte Orca. Don't worry, guys: In a year where whacked-out pop was the bee's knees, you were one of the big ones. No one's forgotten. SOLD OUT
The Lily’s Revenge
Theater: Off-Off BroadwayThu-Sun at 6:30pm
You wouldn’t expect a play where all the characters are flowers to have such serious subtexts, but this fusion of puppet theater, Noh, vaudeville and dance, with its six directors and 40-plus performers under the coordinating vision of Taylor Mack, is dealing with gay marriage, the homogenization of life and culture, and the role of activist theater. $35
Mine
Theater: Off-Off BroadwayTue-Sat at 7:30pm, Sat at 2p, Sun at 3pm
In this new play by Bekah Brunstetter about aspiring artists and their day jobs, a young poet can’t seem to make up her mind between her successful boyfriend and her charismatic coffee shop co-worker (an indie rock musician by night, obvs). $18
Mine
Theater: Off-Off BroadwayTue-Sat at 7:30pm, Sat at 2p, Sun at 3pm
In this new play by Bekah Brunstetter about aspiring artists and their day jobs, a young poet can’t seem to make up her mind between her successful boyfriend and her charismatic coffee shop co-worker (an indie rock musician by night, obvs). $18
The New Electric Ballroom
Theater: Off BroadwayTue-Sat at 8pm, Sat at 2pm, Sun at 4pm
Enda Walsh’s latest wildly imaginative multimedia work, winner of the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe First Award, tells of two spinster sisters in a small fishing town on the west coast of Ireland who reenact their long-ago encounter with a sexy rockstar every night. $27-$53
Or,
Theater: Off-Off BroadwayMon, Tue at 7pm, Thu-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 3pm
Liz Duffy Adams’ biography about Aphra Behn, a 17th century playwright and spy whose celebrity with the cultural and political elite of her day interfered with her not negligible duties to the state. $52
Stephen Irwin: Sometimes When We Touch
ArtWednesdays-Sundays. Continues through Nov. 29
The starting point for each of Irwin’s drawings and paintings is a photo of vintage porn, which he either tactfully paints over so as to obscure (but not really) the action, or where he alters the image so as to highlight disparate anatomical features like hands and arms.
Twelfth Night
Theater: Off-Off BroadwayThu-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2:30pm
Shakespeare’s ensemble comedy of shipwreck, gender role play, mistaken identity and cross-class romance gets a miniature adaptation in this production by the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater. $18
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Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen
ArtWednesdays-Sundays. Continues through Nov. 29
Though most easily describable as sculpture, the landscapes Kavanaugh and Nguyen place inside the gallery are truly monumental and magical, crafted out of spectacular quantities of paper into vaguely naturalistic environments.
Mike Kelley and Michael Smith
ArtMondays, Thursdays-Sundays. Continues through Nov. 30
In their latest video collaboration, Kelly follows Smith’s character Baby IKKI around the grounds of a radical festival of self-expression in the Southwest desert for several days. The tragicomic adult baby also designed the junk monument at Sculpture Center that serves as the video’s display space.
Beth Cavener Stichter: On Tender Hooks
ArtTuesdays-Saturdays. Continues through Dec. 5
With sculptures and installations that always combine an exquisite sensibility for the manipulation of materials and an uneasy balance of humor and sadism, Stichter’s stoneware figures depict barnyard animals in various states of unnatural pain or pleasure.
Idiot Savant
Theater: Off BroadwayTue, Sun at 7pm, Wed-Sat at 8pm, Sat, Sun at 2pm
Willem Dafoe stars in this spectacular theatrical farce from writer and director Richard Foreman that features acrobatics both literal and metaphoric and a round of golf with a giant duck. $60-$70
This
Theater: Off BroadwayTue-Sat at 8pm, Sat, Sun at 2:30pm, Sun at 7:30pm
A poet and her circle of friends deal with the uneasy generational transition from youth into middle age, relinquishing certain habits and taking on new responsibilities despite protestations from their former selves. $65
Andrew Moore: Detroit
ArtTuesdays-Saturdays. Continues through Dec. 19
Following the tradition of contemporary ruin photography, Moore creates improbably lush and vibrant large-scale images of urban environments and architectures falling to ruin, in this case the crumbling cityscape of Detroit.
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