All of these performances are approved by Culture Fiend.

Closing Feb 20: Seattle Improvised Music Festival finishes out its two-weekend run with collaborations by Seattle, Portland, and New York musicians at the Chapel Performance Space. Editor’s note: It’s the 25th anniversary of the longest running improv music fest in the nation.

Closing Feb 21: 5th Avenue Theatre’s South Pacific, the hit Broadway revival by Intiman’s outgoing artistic director Bart Sher, shuffles off to Lincoln, Nebraska. Editor’s note: In this adaptation, “Happy Talk” is racier than you ever imagined.

Closing Feb 21: Last run for Seattle Repertory Theatre’s Speech and Debate, a comedy about three high schoolers who find unlikely friendship as they work together to expose a sex scandal in their hometown of Salem, Ore. Editor’s note: If you like Glee, you’ll like this.

THIS WEEKEND ONLY

Through Feb 21: The comedy’s unfiltered and off the cuff at the Seattle Festival of Improv Theater, organized by the guys behind Jet City Improv and Twisted Flicks. Editor’s note: We want them to make a joke out of the words “carrot” and “Laundromat.”

Through Feb 21: In a Seattle Pops tribute to Stephen Sondheim, EGOT winner Marvin Hamlisch guest conducts a medley from Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, and A Little Night Music. Editor’s note: What’s an EGOT? Every award in the book: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony. Miami Vice star Philip Michael Thomas allegedly came up with the acronym back in the ‘80s when he decided to dedicate his life to winning each award. Sadly, he didn’t win any.