Ex-local boy and perennial local favorite Mike Daisey returns for a one-night-only performance at CHAC. Like all of Daisey’s solo storytelling works, Stories from the Atlantic Night Cafe is created without a script. Unlike his other works, SFTANC involves a subject chosen by Daisey an hour before curtain, upon which he extemporaneously pontificates during that evening’s show. Every show is a world premiere, never to be repeated again. Go. (Capitol Hill Arts Center, 1621 12th Ave, www.brownpapertickets.com. 7pm, $20/$25.)

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...