AND YOU WILL KNOW ME (BY THE TRAIL OF MY PURSE) WITH THE WITCHES TITTIES
This is a three-night carnival of pure insanity that includes everything from bingo to bands to hard-dancing trannies, and it peaks tonight with performances by Jackie Hell, Ade, Vintage Youth, and the Witches Titties. Kook Teflon is a third-generation soothsayer, a mutinous nomad, and a founder and "front witch" of the Titties, and she tells us, "We are the newest 'necromancer noise cult.' We all live in a haunted, ramshackle compound on Aurora, and we create quite a stir that forces our audience into a frenzy." Wondering what to wear? Kook suggests, "Carnival drag, blood, and occult loincloths." Naturally. Re-bar, 8 pm, $7/$5 in costume, 21+.
BEHIND THE BLUE DOOR WITH REBECCA M. DAVIS
This new cabaret celebrates all things Doctor Who, which is so flippin' awesome sauce that it brings a tear to your eye, right? Hush now. I know. (Yes, I love me the Doctor Who to a strange and unhealthy degree, and yes, I've finally grown to accept it, and yes, now the world knows it too, and yes, CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?) David Tennant was my favorite Doctor, of course, but I've grown to accept that I'd suck Matt Smith and his big blue box right through his bow tie, so. But did you know there have been a reported total of 11ish Doctor Whos? Spanning 30ish years? And every weird and wonderful inch of this complex and colorful history is fair game... the Doctors, the companions, the villains (EX-TER-MINATE!), the spacey shenanigans, Rose Tyler's big huge British teeth! It's all mixed and mangled and channeled for you through some delightful burlesque stars and hosted by the incomparable Rebecca M. Davis. Annex Theatre, 8 pm, $16 adv/$20 DOS, 18+.
FREEDOM FANTASIA WITH BEN DELACREME
Happy Fourth of July Eve! The magical night that holly-jolly old Thomas Jefferson or Abe Lincoln or Uncle Sam or somebody flies SEAL Team 6 to your rooftop, breaks in through the stovepipe while you're sleeping, and raises your gas prices. Celebrate/protect yourself with this brilliant and very second-annual "liberty-encrusted, justice-soaked, apple-pie-scented pageant of patriotism," starring, naturally enough, country-lovin' drag queens and sparkly American burlesque stars. (For what's more fundamentally YOU-ESS-AY? I ask you.) Ben Delacreme, Kitten LaRue, The Cherdonna and Lou Show, Jinkx Monsoon and Major Scales, and MORE—fireworks shall fizzle in comparison. Triple Door, 7:30 pm (17+) and 10:30 pm (21+), $22 adv/$25 DOS.
