Co-Produce with us! 2027 WAVE 1 IS ON THE HORIZON!
Where Creative Risk and Play Meet
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sketch Overload
August 20, 2026 at 7:30 PM
The premiere of an Independent Comedy Showcase hosted by NOT CLICKBAIT. Performances from up to 4 sketch teams all in one night!
Come on down to Seattle Open Arts Place to behold an overload of sketch comedy mayhem! Each team is given a time limit and NO RULES! Anything goes, and teams are encouraged to get wacky, experimental, and to bust out some never-before-performed sketches just for you! We’ll make you laugh, make you cry (from laughing), and maybe even cause your humor chip to short circuit!
Doors: 7:00 PM
SHOW: 7:30 PM
The Tonight Jone
August 27, 2026 at 7:30 PM
The Tonight Jone is a surrealist comedy talk show hosted by Seattle standup comedians Jone Dehuff and Gavyn rings featuring live standup comedy, sketch comedy, and live music performances by local bands. The Tonight Jone, which has been featured at several venues across the Pacific Northwest, following a notable run at the Crocodiles downstairs venue; the Here-After, is now being featured at Seattle Open Arts Place.
Doors: 7:00 PM
SHOW: 7:30 PM
Amplifier: Make Your Voice Heard
September 4, 2026 at 7:30 PM
September 5, 2026 at 7:30 PM
September 6, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Cliff Roven was a man not afraid to call out corruption and call those in power who held good people down. But after an accident on the set of his radio show, He knows he has a sonic scream. Now patrolling the streets of Capacoma as Amplifier, he must uncover the secrets of the Gloom and their leader, Mr. Gloom.
Doors: 7:00 PM | 1:30 PM
SHOW: 7:30 PM | 2:00 PM
Short shorts
Art in community – explore, experiment, connect.
The stage is yours for 5 minutes – dip your toes into performance practice with us!
All live art is welcome – dance, theater, music, word, and anything else you want to bring in.
Come as a performer, or as an audience member!
Sign up at the door to perform.
Doors: 7:00 PM
SHOW: 7:30 PM
September 8, 2026 at 7:30 PM
December 8, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Out With it
Rough House's OUT WITH IT, created and performed by Artistic Director Claire Saxe, tells a wild and lyrical tale of holding things in and letting things go. In the languages of movement, clown, and found-object puppetry, OUT WITH IT unpacks a tale at once intimate and universal. In a whirlwind 55-minutes, a fastidious clown takes on the forces of chaos: they face off, they spar, they make a mess – and, somehow or other, they come to terms.
In Rough House’s signature “rough-theater" flavor, OUT WITH IT is fabricated from found and repurposed materials. Puppets come to life in a palette of shredded bedsheets, clothes-hanger-wire, and spruced-up cardboard.
Rough House Puppet Arts (Chicago) is on a mission to connect individuals and communities through puppetry-arts, celebrating the weird things that make us unique, and the weirder things that bring us together. Rough House’s work collides puppetry with physical theater, music, visual arts, and an insatiable taste for experimentation.
Doors: 7:00 PM | 1:30 PM
SHOW: 7:30 PM | 2 PM
September 17, 2026 at 7:30 PM
September 18, 2026 at 7:30 PM
September 19, 2026 at 7:30 PM
September 20, 2026 at 2 PM
The Museum of Almost
September 25, 2026 at 7:30 PM
September 26, 2026 at 7:30 PM
September 27, 2026 at 2 PM
The Museum of Almost is an immersive multimedia experience about all the unfinished parts of being human. Life is full of almosts: the relationships that almost worked, the paths we almost took, the people we almost became, and the things we almost said. This experience gives those unfinished pieces a place to live.
Through original music, visual art, found objects, photography, text, and storytelling, visitors explore an intimate, living museum centered on memory, identity, grief, resilience, womanhood, and transformation. And because it wouldn’t be one of my projects without something a little strange, you won’t just sit back and watch. You’ll move through the exhibits, interact with the work, and leave pieces of your own story behind, becoming part of the museum itself.
Doors: 7:00 PM | 1:30 PM
SHOW: 7:30 PM | 2 PM
PSA: Pelvic Service Announcement
If you’re reading this, you have a pelvic floor. NYC comedian Amy Veltman reveals why that matters for everyone in this personal, raw, ridiculous tale told through unhinged characters, video, music, and a medically unsanctioned chart. “As fearless as it is funny” (FringeReview). Winner, Best Musical Comedy, United Solo Off-Broadway.
Doors: 7:00 PM | 1:30 PM
SHOW: 7:30 PM | 2 PM
October 17, 2026 at 7:30 PM
October 18, 2026 at 2 PM