Starting at 8pm tonight, a traveling multimedia storytelling outfit called Dogs on Tour is making a stop at The Bridge/PAI, joined by a few local raconteurs. Storyteller, musician, and graphic designer Browning Porter and radio journalist/Raquellos frontman Jesse Dukes are starting things off with a few original tales, and then producer Andy Mills will perform two stories featured on WNYC’s Radiolab, with live accompaniment from Hudson Branch. Listen to all the This American Life you want, but there’s nothing quite like live storytelling, and this session should tide folks over until the next audio month at the Bridge/PAI.
Local songstress Sarah White, who played in the Dave Matthews Band Caravan this summer with her band The Pearls, is hosting her eighth annual Country Christmas Celebration tonight with collaborator Sian Richard and the inimitable Jim Waive. Once a year, White and Richards play harmonious, stripped-down holiday tunes as The Acorn Sisters, and this time Waive is playing with all the Young Divorcees in tow. All this starts at 8pm at the Linen Building, and there’s a $10 suggested donation.
As if there weren’t enough going on at 8 tonight, the formerly local duo Birdlips is playing a set at Random Row Books, and Roanoke’s Eternal Summers are opening. A $5 cover charge gets you in to see both. As to the rest of the weekend, your guess is as good as mine, but there’s a bevy of good holiday plays happening around here on Saturday and Sunday: Deathtrap at Play On! Theatre, The Producers at Live Arts, The Homecoming at Hamner Theatre, It’s a Wonderful Life at Four County Players, and The Santaland Diaries and The Twelve Dates of Christmas at Blackfriars.