THEATER & PERFORMANCE
Double Your Pleasure
Theatre Limina invites you to “double your pleasure, double your fun,” tonight at its 2nd Annual Burlesque Show and Fundraiser. Two years, two purposes, two nights, two babes at a time (and so much more). “Order up your favorite cocktail, and watch our bawdy babes shake their bitchin’ booties. We’ve got hungry harlots, prurient poets, tarty tramps, and licentious ladies of the evening.” Tonight is preview night, but don’t miss out on Sunday’s benefit performance and silent auction.
7p.m., Bryant Lake Bowl, 810 W. Lake St., Minneapolis; 612-82-8949; $15.
Home Place
Brian Friel is one of Northern Ireland’s most celebrated playwrights today. Dancing at Lughnasa, probably his most successful play, won three Tony Awards in 1992, including Best Play; and Translations, an earlier work, has gone on to become a telling allegory of the troubles in Northern Ireland. Now, his most recent work, The Home Place makes its American premiere after a sold-out season in Dublin and another successful season in London. And it’s all happening right here, at the Guthrie. Set in a big house in Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century, The Home Place tells the story of a landlord and his son, whose lives come undone with the arrival of an English cousin.
7:30 p.m., McGuire Proscenium Stage, Guthrie Theater, 818 S. 2nd St., Minneapolis; 612-377-2224; $29-$49.
MUSIC
Lavay Smith & The Red Hot Skillet Lickers
First there was Bessie Smith, then Dinah Washington and Billie Holiday. Now, there’s Lavay Smith, today’s jazz and blues diva. And just as Bessie had Clarence Williams, just as Billie had Lester Young and Count Basie, just as Dinah had Max Roach, Lavay Smith has the Red Hot Skillet Lickers at her back — and you can’t ask for a more swingin’ jazz and blues band these days. Enjoy their vast array of original compositions and jazz and blues classics tonight and tomorrow night.
7 and 9 p.m., Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant, 1010 Nicollet Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-332-1010; $30 and $20.
Sons and Daughters of Folk
It’s hard to resist mentioning her father when writing about Pieta Brown. Sure, it’s a great claim to fame in its own right — to be Greg Brown’s daughter; to grow up in his midst, in his embrace, his love; to be the subject of so many beautiful songs. But the truth is, Pieta is much more than this. While some might say that she reflects her father’s greatness like the very moon — actually, the light is all her own. She’s been in town quite a bit lately, but tonight’s performance is a double whammy, as the Iowa girl will perform alongside another great “seedling.” Benson Ramsey — son of Greg Brown’s longtime producer and sideman Bo Ramsey — now makes up half of The Pines, an up-and-coming roots, blues, and indie rock duo (with David Huckfelt). While it’s certainly more common to see Pieta sharing a stage with Bo than with Benson, I suspect this is not the first time the two have played together; at least now they’re not wearing diapers.
7:30 p.m., Varsity Theater, 1308 4th St. S.E., Minneapolis; 612-604-0222; $12.
Qui? Quien? Who? Huh?
While they’ve been around for seven years, there’s a pretty good chance you hadn’t heard of Qui until last year, when drummer/vocalist Paul Christensen and guitarist/vocalist Matt Cronk were joined by vocalist David Yow of The Jesus Lizard and Scratch Acid fame. Heck, let’s be honest: There’s a pretty good chance this is the first you’ve heard of them. But that would mean you’re no longer on the cutting edge of the whacked-out indie punk-rock world. Can you live with that? Either way, it might be worth your while to go see 7th Street Entry, 701 1st Ave. N., Minneapolis; 612-332-1775; $12.
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