Vancouver couple Maiko Bae Yamamoto and James Long are theatrical adventurers—their last production was a series of one-person plays for one-person audiences. Sexual Practicesthree interlinked vignettes about life in Japan—promises simulated sex, a workplace romance, a schoolgirl beating the crap out of a businessman with a baseball bat, and one woman’s fetish for Ichiro Suzuki. (On the Boards, 100 W Roy St, 217-9888. 8 pm, $18.)

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....