Cyndi Lauper’s big gay music fest lands in Seattle with a
lineup so great, it quashes all reservations. Topping tonight’s bill:
queers-for-life the B-52s (whose new album is 50 times better
than it has a right to be) and, be still my heart, the West
Indies–born/United Kingdom–bred legend Joan
Armatrading, whose lavish love songs have inspired more lesbian sex
than booze and The L Word combined. (And don’t underestimate
Cyndi Lauper; she always delivers.) (WaMu Theater, 1000 Occidental
Ave S, www.ticketmaster
.com. 6:30 pm, $56–$126, all
ages.)

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...