Brendan Kiley: "I actually saw this last night, but I'd urge everybody to see The Invisible Hand at ACT—a new play by Ayad Akhtar about a financial whiz kidnapped by Islamists in Pakistan and forced to raise $10 million of his own ransom money by playing the markets. It's like a terrorist-kidnapping action movie crossed with a Wall Street thriller but it all happens in a single room. (Well, two, technically—but never mind that.) Akhtar's writing his a cinematic urgency but with the complicated moral investigation of a great playwright. And the fact that this terrorism-and-capitalism play is ambiguous—there are captors and captives, but no clear 'good guys'—coupled with the fact that ACT opened it on 9/11 is gutsy. Non-theatergoers often ask me: 'What's playing now that's good? What should I see?' Sometimes I don't have an answer for them. But my answer for the next few weeks is The Invisible Hand."

Jen Graves: "Continuing reading James Baldwin’s Another Country for the second time, for the Easter eggs. Looking at pictures of strangers touching each other, and hearing the artist, Richard Renaldi, explain why. Going to MadArt at UW at night to see Piper O’Neill’s giant inflatable oldtimey cowboy The Lone Stranger, Kevin McCarthy’s super-reflective robot dog Sentinel, and a work of neon lights in the dark grove next to the women’s building: Lux Sit by Julia Chamberlain."

Christopher Frizzelle: "Eating at Lark, seeing Waiting for Godot, maybe finally checking out Mimosas with Mama at the Narwhal."

Katie Allison: "I am barely embarrassed to admit that I'll be spending the entire weekend playing a much-hyped new video game called Destiny. If I decide to go outside at all, I'll be seeking out some delicious cider while Washington Cider Week is still happening! My life is awesome."

Ansel Herz: "I have missed every Blue Scholars—the OGs of Seattle hip hop—show since I came back to Seattle a few years ago. But when I was away in Texas and Haiti, nothing but intermittent phone calls with friends and Blue Scholars songs kept me feeling connected to my city. I am extreme-fanboy-level excited to be going to their show at Showbox tonight. The rest of the weekend? Maybe hiking with a former Stranger intern on Saturday and brunch with a practitioner of authentic journalism (Google it) on Sunday."

Gillian Andersen: "I'm going to go to Guemes Island to look at the northern lights (Aurora borealis) because sun flares are going to affect the magnetic poles and bring the lights farther south than usual."

Charles Mudede: "This weekend I'm watching Dwayne Kennedy, an excellent black comedian who was a regular on Totally Biased, a show whose cancellation is still sad and baffling to me. The sharp and flawless Kennedy plays tonight and tomorrow at Comedy Underground. A taste of what I will see tonight was once on Late Show With David Letterman..."