VISUAL ART

Thru Aug 16
Jana Brevick: This Infinity Fits in My Hand
Jana Brevick’s imagination contorts the mundane and makes it magnificent. In her hands, repurposed strobe light vacuum tubes become stylish modern jewelry and basketball nets become shimmering crystal chandeliers. This month Brevick’s mix of crafts, metallurgy, and scientific ingenuity gets showcased in the Seattle artist’s first solo museum exhibit, This Infinity Fits in My Hand. Bellevue Arts Museum, $12

FILM

Apr 23–30
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is not a Nirvana documentary. It's a story of art, family, and pain. When director Brett Morgen was granted access to Cobain's drawings, journals, and home movies, the film became an archival portrait of an artist and his raw emotions mostly in his own words. Montage of Heck doesn't feed the Cobain mythos in a style befitting the man: visceral, unrelenting, and loud. SIFF Cinema Egyptian, $9–$12

Apr 23–26
NFFTY
When film purists decry the shift from celluloid to digital moviemaking, they’re not thinking of the children. Without digital cameras lowering the cost threshold, the young imaginative minds showcased at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth might be forced to merely dream of their projects instead of realize them. Various venues, single tickets $11, day passes $24, three-day passes $60–$150

THEATER

Apr 23–May 24
Angry Housewives
In the mid-’80s Angry Housewives became a local phenomenon, running for a record-setting six straight years at the (now defunct) Pioneer Square Theatre. The musical story of four homemakers who channel their pent-up frustrations into forming a punk rock band captured the zeitgeist at the time and now returns for a (much shorter) run at ArtsWest. ArtsWest, $17–$36

PERFORMANCE

Sat, Apr 25
Alice Gosti: How to Become a Partisan
Alice Gosti isn’t interested in merely choreographing a new dance; she wants an event. How to Become a Partisan begins with a community procession on Capitol Hill that moves on to St. Mark’s Cathedral for an immersive five-hour performance piece that explores what happens when apathy cedes to action in order to battle complacency. St. Mark's Cathedral, $18–$20

CONCERTS

Fri, Apr 24
Rocky Votolato: 'Hospital Handshakes' Release Show
Rocky Votolato thought his music career was over. After a year-long battle with songwriter’s block, he got a “real” job and resigned himself to a postmusic life. But after relentless pushing by his family, especially his musical brother Cody (The Blood Brothers, My Goodness), he found the creative spark once again. A reinvigorated Votolato heads to the Fremont Abbey to celebrate the release of his new album, Hospital Handshakes, produced by Chris Walla (formerly of Death Cab for Cutie). Fremont Abbey, $15–$18

Sun, Apr 26
Elvis Costello (Solo)
There’s a power to knowing you have the audience in the proverbial palm of your hand. When Elvis Costello takes the stage at the Paramount Theatre, he’ll do so alone; just a man and his guitar. No band. No accompaniment. And that’s fine. His legendary collection of songs speaks for itself and will surely keep the audience rapt. Paramount Theatre, $54–$85

DANCE

Apr 23–26
Carmina Burana
The satirical poems about love and morality found in Carmina Burana still carry weight more than seven centuries after being written. Donald Byrd and Spectrum Dance Theater present a new dance interpretation of the work, using the music of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana cantata, to examine the loss and rediscovery of faith by the monks who wrote the texts. Moore Theatre, $38–$48

CLASSICAL & MORE

Thur, Apr 23
Simone Dinnerstein
New York pianist Simone Dinnerstein drew wide acclaim in 2007 when she self-financed a brilliant recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, which became both a critical and commercial success. Her latest album Broadway-Lafayette explores the transatlantic relationship between American and French composers, including George Gershwin, Maurice Ravel, and Phillip Lasser, but on this evening she’ll lean more French, playing works by Débussy and Francis Poulenc. Meany Hall, $40–$45

COMEDY

Apr 16–18 
Jon Dore
Canadian comedian Jon Dore is an oddball. While he casually might be recognized from an episode of How I Met Your Mother where he played a mugger, comedy nerds adore his way-outside-the-box standup appearances on Conan. Bits have included Dore and comedian Rory Scovel unintelligibly performing two different standup sets at the same time and Scovel playing a fake usher who interrupts Dore's standup, leading to pure chaos. Whenever Dore shows up, audiences are sure to get gut-busting, cleverly stupid comedy. Laughs Comedy Spot, $10–$15

BOOKS & TALKS

Thu, Apr 23
Jennifer Jacquet
It’s more associated with petulant teens on social media than Mahatma Gandhi, but shaming might be the nonviolent protest of the future. In her new book Is Shame Necessary?, NYU professor Jennifer Jacquet examines public shaming as an effective modern way to put pressure on governments and corporations to make changes to policy. Town Hall, $5