After distinguishing himself as the world’s most artful Billie
Holiday channeler (suck it, David Sedaris), gender-bending
performance artist Joey Arias celebrated the new millennium
with an extended run with Cirque du Soleil and an award-winning
theatrical collaboration with acclaimed puppeteer Basil Twist. Drag
star Sherry Vine remains what she’s always been: a statuesque blond
with an enormous voice. SINsation finds the pair saluting
“vaudeville and burlesque” via songs of Johnny Mercer, Kander and Ebb,
and other standard-generators. (Re-bar, 1114 Howell St,
www.brownpapertickets.com. 8 pm, $20, 21+.)
David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest... More by David Schmader
aw… I LOVE how David Sedaris does Billie Holiday!