Ten Tiny Dances at the South Waterfront, tomorrow from 4-7 pm. Ten 4x4 stages located throughout the neighborhood; ten separate performances repeating ten times at fifteen minute intervals. Wander around, check out the stages, check out the new "neighborhood." Performers include Hand2Mouth, Tere Mathern, Hot Little Hands, and Sojourn Theater. More explainyness here.

Speaking of Sojourn Theatre, I wish I could remember what song artistic director Michael Rohd sang at Hand2Mouth's karaoke party last night. He tried to tell me his performance was "off the record," which is patent nonsense; but lucky for him, alcohol is slowly eroding my short and long-term memory faculties. (At what point do "jokes" start to sound like "warning signs"?) Oh well. Robots will do my job in the future anyway.

Cannibal: The Musical, South Park creator Trey Parker's musical about the only man in American history ever convicted of cannibalism, is running at the Back Door Theatre, courtesy of Third Eye Theatre. I don't believe I've ever seen anything from this company (although I recall Chas Bowie being very unimpressed with their production of a Sam Shephard play a few years back), but the show isn't produced all that often so it might be worth taking a chance. We'll have a review next week.

Pippin at the World Trade Center Theater, produced by Tin Pan Alley Productions. This is a new musical theater company founded by two young Portlanders, both of whom go to college out of state--TPA is essentially their summer project. Now, Pippin by no means a great production. In fact, it has so many obvious problems (shitty sound, muddled artistic direction, the fact that it's a musical... i kid!) that I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I liked it. Yet I did. Major enthusiasm points.

I can't actively recommend the ComedySportz World Championship at the Gerding on Friday and Saturday--I'm saving my laffs for the Best of the Best Sketch Fest next weekend. But it is definitely... happening. Teams from around the country, family friendly improvised comedy games, etc.

More listings here.