Friday 08.22
Time to Panic! … at South Side Ballroom
Brendon Urie, the queer-friendly frontman for the band Panic! at the Disco, will give you a chance to panic at a disco yourself … or at least, a ballroom, as the band shows up in The Cedars Friday for The Gospel Tour, in support of the group’s hot new disc, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!
DEETS: South Side Ballroom
1135 S. Lamar St.
7:30 p.m.
Tickemaster.com.
Friday 08.22
Stage West on the couch for ‘Therapy’
What happens when a bisexual man, his put-upon lovers and a bad psychiatrist walk into a room? When Christopher Durang is writing about them, hilarity ensues. Stage West tackles Beyond Therapy, the classic farce with a queer bent, for a long run, though OCD folks will want to go now.
DEETS:
Stage West
821 W. Vickery Blvd., Fort Worth.
Aug. 22–Sept. 28.
StageWest.org.
Wednesday 08.27
Sir, yessir! LeatherSIR, -boy competition returns to Dallas
Leathermen love their holiday weekends — IML is held in Chicago over Memorial Day, and the other big worldwide leather event, International LeatherSIR,Leatherboy and Community Bootblack competition, returns to its new home in Dallas for Labor Day. But you don’t have to wait until Friday to get your share of tanned hide — events start on Wednesday and go through the finals (and parties) on Labor Day.
DEETS:
Crowne Plaza Market Center (host hotel)
7050 N. Stemmons Freeway.
Aug. 27–Sept. 1
ILSb-ICBB.com.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition August 22, 2014.