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Seattle has plenty of things going for it, including a diverse appreciation for nightlife. On any given night there are burlesque shows, rock bands playing music clubs, the symphony or opera performances or DIY spots popping up to host events. But sometimes it can feel overwhelming and hard to find the exact right option for a night on the town. Well, you’re in luck! Here are three terrific choices, all happening in the month of March and beyond.  

French Kiss debuted just in time for Valentine’s Day, but the show must go on, and the sultry dancers of Pike Place Market’s Can Can Kitchen & Cabaret are ensuring audiences get their money’s worth. The Can Can, which specializes in alluring shows and body positivity, is Seattle’s aphrodisiac and its dancers are the components to the love potion. Watch them slink on the catwalk, do alluring gymnastics on the building’s metal pipes and grin widely with a well-timed joke. The Can Can, which also has an excellent kitchen (bacon-wrapped prawns, salmon sliders and a three-cheese mac & cheese are on the menu) and top shelf cocktails (try the Old Fashioned), will not let you or your date down. French Kiss shows are Wednesday through Sunday from now through May 29. The Can Can bills the show as the most seductive and ambitious show in its ten year history — and you can buy tickets here.  

Mary Stuart is the story of royalty — the kind of royalty that can command an army or have a traitor hung — caught up in a love triangle and a battle for morals. It features prisons, songs of indecision and songs of love. With sweeping, hefty vocals and, at times, brooding live orchestral accompaniment, this larger-than-life opera debuted Wednesday, March 2, at McCaw Hall to an applauding audience cheering, “Brava! Brava!” So don your best dress or your favorite suit jacket, tie your tie and shine your favorite shoes, because this fancy affair is calling your name. Tickets to Mary Stuart, which runs through March 12, are available here.  

Arts collective Love City Love has become a Seattle institution. It’s basically a long-term pop-up art space that welcomes anyone and everyone into its doors for musical performances and hangouts. At any given point, performers might include Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Marco Collins, double bassist Evan Flory-Barnes, singer Adra Boo or any number of other local artist. Love City Love, which takes over unused spaces in the city and turns them into temporary musical hangouts, will come to life again on Wednesday, March 9 (for an undetermined duration) at 1406 E. Pike Street, in the old Royal Cleaners building. That night, expect house band Love City Love and, as usual, the likelihood of great musical guests sitting in.