One reason I love America: Our inexhaustible hunger for fatuous garbage guarantees that genius drag parodist Dina Martina will stay stocked with fresh material until we’re all dead. Another reason I love America: Dina Martina, whose universally heralded psycho-comedy—incorporating film, music, and performance art—continues to rank among the artsiest funny stuff (funniest artsy stuff?) on the planet. (Re-bar, 1114 Howell St, www.brownpapertickets.com, 8 pm, $20 adv/$25 DOS, 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...