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UPCOMING EVENTS
The Oldest Profession
January 28, 2026 at 6:30 PM
January 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM & 9:00 PM
Welcome to The Oldest Profession LIVE at Seattle Open Arts Place | Seattle! Get ready for two nights of laughter and entertainment with a dose of education! Join us for a hilarious comedy show, followed by a Q&A.
Doors: 6:00 PM / 8:30 PM
Show: 6:30 PM/ 9:00 PM
3…2…1!
January 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM & 9:00 PM
January 31, 2026 at 7:30 PM & 9:00 PM
Join SaltShake Productions for our first show of 2026 at Seattle Open Arts Place. Featuring narrative works by Maisy Neill, Leah James Russell, Naphtalie Ann Gunther, and Shayley Timm, 3..2..1 celebrates vignettes of these dancers' individual worlds, told through 3-, 2-, and 1-minute acts.
Doors: 7:00 PM & 8:30 PM
Show: 7:30 PM & 9 PM
Improv for Real Life
SOAP is excited to host Improv for Real Life, a social connection initiative that uses improv and personal storytelling to help people build community. If you're tired of awkward networking events, are curious about improv, and want to make friends by laughing together right off the bat, this workshop is for you. Hosted by Saya Jenks, a theatre educator with 10+ years of experience, Improv for Real Life uses personal storytelling and fun improv games to help you make meaningful connections with people in your neighborhood. Visit IRLimprov.com to learn more!
Doors: 7:00 PM
Workshop: 7:30 PM
February 2 , 2026 at 7:30 PM
Seattle Open Screen
An open mic night for Washington filmmakers!
Need feedback on your latest masterpiece? Got a weird project burning a hole in your hard drive? Searching for a place where strangers will watch videos of your dog? Open Screen is the place to be!
Bring your film or video on a thumb drive. Anything under ten minutes goes up! Films screen on a first-come, first-screen basis, so get here early!
Head over to the pub afterward to socialize with other filmmakers!
Please bring videos on a standard Windows or Mac-compatible thumb drive.
Preferred format: MP4 or MOV files, compressed H.264
Ideal video specs:
Resolution: 1080p or 720p
Frame Rates: 23.976, 24, 29.97, 30, 59.94, or 60
Subtitles (optional): Superimposed on the video
We will try to accommodate all video formats, but if we are unable to play a video, we will skip it
Doors: 7:00 PM
Sreening: 7:30 PM
February 3 , 2026 at 7:30 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 in between.
Come as a performer, or as an audience member!
Sign up at the door to perform.
Doors: 7:00 PM
Show: 7:30 PM
February 10 , 2026 at 7:30 PM
Madam(e) Lou
February 13 , 2026 at 7:30 PM
Seattle has a founding mother they tried to erase. Meet the city’s hostess with the mostest… Madam Lou Graham.
Seattle: a town known for Frasier, Amazon, Starbucks, and tech bros. But it’s a city not known for its history, and that’s a shame because its history is downright bonkers. While its streets and buildings honor its founding fathers, there is a founding mother who has been written out of the history books because of her trade: Madam Lou Graham. Meticulously researched for over ten years, join award-winning playwright and performer, Kate Danley, for a funny, fascinating first look at one of Seattle’s most influential and erased power players. The truth is stranger than fiction, and no one could make this stuff up.
Content warnings: Tastefully approached, but recommended for ages 18+ due to mature subject matter.
Doors: 7:00 PM
Show: 7:30 PM
OLD AF
February 14 , 2026 at 7:30 PM
Does HR stand for Heated Rivalry or Harlequin Romance? If you had a date last night, does that mean you got laid, or you were constipated? Are you young or just young at heart? Either way, this show is for you! Witness these comedians flub their way through the latest trends and slang, all while supporting a great cause: Lambert House, a wonderful Seattle LGBTQ+ youth organization.
Featuring the Old AF players: Mia Iseman, Coonoor Behal, Janelle Bentley, Sonia Dillane, Annie Henderson, Hannah Monson, and Zak Nelson.
(PLUS: an opening set from a local act.)
Doors: 7:00 PM
Show: 7:30 PM
Animal Saints & Animal Sinners: The haunted Lives of Nicolette Chickering
February 20-21, 2026 at 7:30 PM
February 22, 2026 at 2 PM
The Haunted Lives of Nicolette Chickering depicts a life sliced up like a cow in a Damien Hirst sculpture.
Nicolette Chickering is a hapless woman tossed hither and yon by fate — or the next best thing: Three writers/storytellers, each tackling different phases of her life with only the vaguest of gestures towards continuity. From the improbable circumstances of
Nicolette’s birth, to being able to commune with the dead, to a prison sentence for attempted murder, to a brief career as a nanny/poetess, to the equally improbable circumstances of her death, Bret Fetzer, Scot Augustson, and Kelleen Conway Blanchard treat their decidedly unheroic heroine like a badminton shuttlecock. Nicolette faces each new turn with glum practicality, doing her best to make the best of things…and discovering that her best is maybe not all that good.
Following in the traditions of Tristram Shandy, Gulliver, and Orlando, The Haunted Lives of Nicolette Chickering bounces from comic to creepy to an unholy fusion of both.
Come to the 12th edition of their Animal Saints & Animal Sinners series: The Haunted Lives of Nicolette Chickering.
Doors: 7:00 PM & 1:30 PM
Show: 7:30 PM & 2 PM