Thru 2/23, St Idiots Collective's You Are Pretty is about sex workers' struggles to find love within the harsh environs of a legal brothel. The yap about YAP is the megawatt heft behind it—the production is chock full of local luminaries. [tickets] // Thru 2/17, roving new kids NxNW Theatre are staging "wickedly funny" Five Women Wearing the Same Dress downtown at the Hideout. The titular characters do a little cussin' here, a little pot smokin' there, and cover topics with plenty of chops (religion, sexuality, AIDS). [tickets] ...

The trailer features a song from Kanye West with a pulsating beat. Jamie Foxx looks sternly at one of his troops, exclaiming, “I love this job.” Oil fires explode in the desert. Marines “hoo-rah” in anticipation of gory battle. The 30-second commercials you have seen provide pretty much all the action and excitement you can expect to get out of “Jarhead,” the new film by Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition). This is......