Calendar
May 22
Flying Lotus
Showbox SoDo—that vast, booming, concrete-floored bunker—is the wrong place to put a detail-obsessed sonic technician like Flying Lotus. For the last several years, the man born Stephen Ellis has been crafting beautiful, complex musical landscapes...
Who knows?
The Telephone Room, at 12 ½ sq. ft., is the world’s “second-smallest” art gallery. (What’s the first?) Accommodating only a rotary phone since 1930, the space has also welcomed art since 2009. Make an appointment at thetelephoneroom@gmail.com.
Triumph and Tragedy Comedy Open Mic
Seattle’s newest weekly comedy show has taken up residence at the Crescent Lounge, Capitol Hill’s most popular karaoke bar. Triumph and Tragedy features everything from seasoned Seattle comics to newbies who are just trying comedy for the first time...
Fun House
In A Natural History of the Senses, writer Diane Ackerman explains how the desire to distort our sensual experience begins in childhood: Watch a kid hold their breath underwater or spin around until falling. A carnival, with its wacky mirrors and...
Punchline Fridays
The producers of this weekly comedy show have turned the colorful back room of a Thai restaurant into one of Seattle’s best places to see stand-up comedy (for free!). The format alternates between open mic and showcase every other week, meaning the...
Level Up!
Far-flung comics come home to Seattle for the holidays, and they’re often looking to borrow mom’s car, escape the family for a few hours and check in on the local scene. Many of these prodigals will find their way to Level Up!, a weekly showcase...
April 12 - May 25
Team of Heroes: No More Heroes
The Cap’n, Madame Mayhem and Shock Wave squeeze into their spandex one last time for the third and final installment of Annex’s epic satirical saga led by playwright Alexander Harris and director Jaime Roberts. Following the collapse of their...
May 1 - May 25
33 Variations
Ludwig van Beethoven spent his last years of hearing, 1819 through 1823, composing the acclaimed Diabelli Variations, 33 variations on a waltz by little-known composer Anton Diabelli that Beethoven initially dismissed as a schusterfleck, or cobbler’...
May 10 - May 25
The Tempermentals
This docudrama by Jon Marans takes its name from early 20th century slang when “temperamental” was necessary code for homosexual. The show recounts the 1950s foundation of the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights organization in the U....
May 17 - May 23
Graceland
Graceland provides a potent dose of caper-heavy darkness, straight from the hothouse environment of the Philippines. A gang of kidnappers abducts the daughter of a chauffeur, thinking the girl’s actually the child of the chauffeur’s boss—a...
May 22
Flying Lotus
Showbox SoDo—that vast, booming, concrete-floored bunker—is the wrong place to put a detail-obsessed sonic technician like Flying Lotus. For the last several years, the man born Stephen Ellis has been crafting beautiful, complex musical landscapes...
May 28 - May 31
Fela!
The Tony-winning musical that details the iconic life and funky times of Fela Kuti makes its way from Broadway for its first U.S. tour. (Thank Jay-Z and Will and Jada Smith for footing the bill on the production.) In the early ’70s, the Nigerian-...
