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Ongoing–Feb. 28 Luke Haynes Alt-quilting. See profile.
Ongoing–May 1 Vanities: A New Musical The 1976 play by Jack Heifner about three Texas cheerleaders in the '60s who age into '80s discontent was recently reworked as an off-Broadway musical. This staging is co-produced by ACT and The 5th Avenue Theatre. ACT Theatre, acttheatre.org.
Ongoing–May 8 Shadows of a Fleeting World Post-WWI photos by the Seattle Camera Club are exhibited, most in soft-focus pictorialist mode, daubed with hazy clouds and light. Henry Art Gallery, henryart.org.
Ongoing–May 8 Uta Barth The L.A. photographer, originally from Germany, crops and decontextualizes her borrowed commercial imagery into hazy remnants of our consumer desire. Henry Art Gallery, henryart.org.
Ongoing–May 8 Teatro ZinZanni: Radio Free Starlight Their current dinner-circus show recreates the golden age of radio. See our profile of the costume work of Louise DiLenge. Teatro ZinZanni, dreams.zinzanni.org.
Ongoing–July 10 Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Celebrating Fifty Years Local photographer Subhankar Banerjee froze his butt off and endured swarms of ravenous mosquitoes to bring you this series of nature scenes and wildlife images from ANWAR. Burke Museum, burkemuseum.org.
17 Cleveland Confidential Authors/musicians Cheetah Chrome (Rocket From the Tombs, Dead Boys), Mike Hudson (the Pagans), and Bob Pfeifer (Human Switchboard) pay a visit. Note that they're reading, not jamming. Experience Music Project, empsfm.org.
PICK 17–20 Crystal Pite See the Wire. On the Boards, ontheboards.org.
PICK 18–25 The Threepenny Opera The wonderful Brecht/Weill musical allows Seattle Shakes a rare foray into melodic terrain. Center House Theatre, seattleshakespeare.org.
18–March 6 Mother in Another Language In Taniya Hossain's real-estate comedy, an immigrant Bangladeshi husband and his American bride unwisely install his tradition-minded mother in the basement. ACT Theatre, acttheatre.org.
18 and 25 Hollywood's Black America Black History Month is commemorated with screenings of The Defiant Ones, The Sound of Jazz, and White Lines and the Fever. Seattle Art Museum, seattleartmuseum.org.
18 Maxine Hong Kingston She reads from her new memoir, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life. This is her second memoir; the first, The Warrior Woman: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, received a National Book Award. Elliott Bay Book Co., elliottbaybook.com.
18 Ginny Ruffner: A Not So Still Life The veteran local artist is profiled in this new documentary, covering both her work and recovery from brain injuries sustained in a near-fatal 1991 car crash. Henry Art Gallery.
19–March 19 Mitzi Pederson Florida-born and Berlin-based, she shows new sculpture in The Still Night Air hewn from crude, cheap materials including cinder blocks, plywood, and cellophane. Open Satellite, opensatellite.org.
PICK 22–March 13 Next to Normal See a profileof locally raised Brian Yorkey, who wrote the Tony Award–winning musical about mental illness. The 5th Avenue Theatre, 5thavenue.org.
23–Aug. 9 Wanxin Zhang The Chinese-born artist, now a San Francisco resident, addresses historical themes from his homeland in large ceramic figures. Bellevue Arts Museum, bellevuearts.org.
24 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter He of the famous Bob Dylan song, wrongfully convicted for a triple murder and imprisoned 19 years before exoneration, reads from his new memoir, Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom. University Book Store, ubookstore.com.
24–April 2 Joseph Goldberg Based in Soap Lake, the Seattle-born painter pushes Eastern Washington landscapes into abstraction, punctuated by lightning bursts and low-flying owls. Greg Kucera Gallery, gregkucera.com.
24 Zhi Lin & Z.Z. Wei The two local artists discuss influences in the ongoing Wang Huaiqing show (through April 10) at SAAM. Seattle Asian Art Museum, seattleartmuseum.org.
PICK 24–26 The Indian Queen You got your dance in my opera! No, you got your singing in my ballet! Seattle Early Dance and Baroque Northwest jointly present an Aztec love triangle, as conjured by Henry Purcell in 1695. Chapel Performance Center, earlymusicguild.org.
25–26 Seattle Women's Chorus Actress Kathy Najimy—among other gigs, the voice of King of the Hill's Peggy—joins the choir for comedy and songs. Paramount Theatre, flyinghouse.org.
PICK 26 Israel Philharmonic "Macho Maestro" (as a Newsweek cover once famously dubbed him) Zubin Mehta conducts a potentially dazzling program of Beethoven, Webern, and Mahler's Fifth. Benaroya Hall, seattlesymphony.org.
26–March 12 Don Quichotte This season's novelty from Seattle Opera is Massenet's sentimental 1910 take on Cervantes. McCaw Hall, seattleopera.org.
PICK 26–May 30 American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell Mocked as a square by baby boomers, this iconic American illustrator is getting a well-deserved second look in this decade-by-decade survey (a carefully curated traveling show). His idealized images from the '20s through the '60s are grounded in social observation and news headlines that, regardless of your politics, are more nuanced than much of the criticism leveled against him. Tacoma Art Museum, tacomaartmuseum.org.
26 The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis pits a man of faith against a demon determined to drag him to hell. The Moore Theatre, stgpresents.org.
27 Beyond the Score Beginning with a multimedia historical performance on the creation of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, the night ends with a full performance by the Seattle Symphony. Benaroya Hall.
27 Orchestra Seattle Virtuoso concertos for piano and bassoon. First Free Methodist Church, osscs.org.
