From September 27–October 6, the Pacific Northwest Ballet will open its 47th season with a Carmina Burana/Agon double feature. Credit: Angela Sterling

From September 27–October 6, the Pacific Northwest Ballet will open its 47th season with a Carmina Burana/Agon double feature.

From September 27–October 6, the Pacific Northwest Ballet will open its 47th season with a Carmina Burana/Agon double feature. Angela Sterling

Below, we’ve rounded up all of our critics’ performance picks for the season, including Ahamefule Oluo’s new jazz musical, a comedy set by Demetri Martin, Ligia Lewis’s dark dances, and an appearance by mean queen Bianca Del Rio. Plus, find a complete list of theater, dance, and comedy events in Seattle this fall on our EverOut Things To Do calendar, or check out the rest of our critics’ picks from Seattle Art and Performance.

Theater

Sept 11–Oct 6
Everything Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer’s semi-autobiographical first novel, Everything Is Illuminated, about a man (also named Jonathan Safran Foer) who travels to Ukraine to try to track down the details of his Jewish ancestry, is one of the most brilliant and celebrated novels of the last 20 years. Much of it is narrated by a translator who shows Jonathan around and gets many English words wrong, hilariously. The language of the book is key, and Book-It adaptations always emphasize the language of the original text in a way that other dramatic treatments (and the movie) don’t. CF (Book-It Repertory Theatre, $26—$50)

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