Thankfully, The Sweetest Swing doesn’t have a goddamned thing
to do with baseball. Instead, it’s about an artist who desperately
wants to stay in a mental institution because she’s doing the
best work of her life. Rebecca Gilman’s script is impeccable, from its
first artsy complaint to its final, triumphant cussword. And
Heather Hawkins, onstage for the entire show, is incredible as the
aforementioned scam-artist artist pretending to be baseball’s baddest
bad boy, Darryl Strawberry. (Seattle Public Theater, 7312 W
Green Lake Drive N, 524-1300. 2 pm, $15–$24.)