Between Jinkx Monsoon’s towering impersonation of Edith Bouvier Beale on RuPaul’s Drag Race and the musical now running at ACT, Grey Gardens is having a distinctly Seattle moment. Submerge yourself in the film that started it all and remains a standard-bearer for American documentaries: the Maysles brothers’ messy masterwork Grey Gardens, which will be preceded by a mimosa reception and followed by a continental brunch and a screening of The Beales of Grey Gardens, the Maysles’ follow-up documentary using footage left out of the original film. (SIFF Film Center, Seattle Center Northwest Rooms, siff.net, 11 am, $15)

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...