Shimmy up to Shentai [with Photo Gallery]

There's nothing typical about this theater event

You know that nightmare about being onstage in your underwear? Shentai promises to be every bit as startling and surreal, combining avant garde theater with Barnum-inspired spectacle and junkyard art—performances overlapping and replacing one another without a moment’s warning [see our photo gallery at right or click here for a slide show].

Not your typical theater experience, so don’t treat it as such; rather, let Shentai dizzy up your senses for a night. Opens Thursday, June 14; runs through July 1. $15-20, doors at 7:30pm. The Ix Building, 955 Second St. SE. For tickets, call the Live Arts box office at 977-4177.

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