If you're a theater fan, mark your calendars: there's plenty to do when it comes to stage performances in Seattle this week, from a raucous one-woman show with a live band to a thoughtful play about a transracial family. 

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"Family Matters"

This "insightful, humorous and affecting" play revolves around the transracial, Jewish-American Horowitz-Yamasaki-Bloom family, who gather in their backyard to celebrate Mother's Day. Struggling with a grandmother's Alzheimer's and the arrival of a granddaughter's new boyfriend, the family must cope with unexpected secrets and revelations. 

When: Wednesday, July 18, 8 p.m.
Where: 12th Ave. Arts, 1620 12th Ave.
Price: $18
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"Sweet Land: The Musical"

This musical tells the story of a young German woman who comes to America to marry a Norwegian man she's never met. What should be their happy ending is met with suspicion and prejudice, as friends and neighbors abandon them. But when hardship befalls the community, the couple are willing to sacrifice it all to make peace. 

When: Thursday, July 19, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Jewell Mainstage at Taproot Theatre Company, 204 N. 85th St.
Price: $36
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"Patience; or Bunthorne's Bride"

This goofy Gilbert & Sullivan musical comedy also boasts some of the pair's "most most plaintive melodies and beautiful orchestrations," according to the Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society, which is staging it. The story involves "rapturous maidens, handsome and moody poets, a platoon of enthusiastic British Dragoon Guards, and the local milkmaid who throws a wrench in it all!"

When: Thursday, July 19, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Seattle Rep - Bagley Wright Theatre, 155 Mercer St.
Price: $40
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"Lauren Weedman Doesn't Live Here Anymore"

Seattle native and former Daily Show correspondent Lauren Weedman (who's also guest-starred on Will & Grace and Arrested Development) stars in this one-woman comedy-drama, which tells stories of romance gone wrong, complete with songs backed by a live band. 

When: Friday, July 20, 8 p.m.
Where: Falls Theatre at ACT, 700 Union St.
Price: $40 - $50
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