Events on Central

This is a late-night set from Afters with the Cave at Luna Kava Root, a kava bar on Central that runs a tighter, quieter room than most venues its size....

A live improv comedy show at The Box, the small black-box theater on Central that has been quietly hosting some of the sharpest performance work in the neighborhood for years....

Improv Theatre takes the stage at The Box for an evening of live, unscripted comedy. The Box is a small, intimate room where nothing about your reaction goes unnoticed by...

In The Box Annex takes improv comedy into extraterrestrial territory with A51*, a short-form show built around the alien-conspiracy premise. The Box is a genuinely intimate black-box room where the...

William Parker is one of the most consequential bassists in free jazz, and this trio with Hamid Drake on drums and Cooper Moore on homemade instruments is about as serious as this music gets. Outpost is a small, acoustically honest room, which means nowhere to hide and nothing lost, a genuine advantage for a set...

Improv Theatre takes the stage at The Box for an unscripted hour of live comedy, the kind where nothing is planned and the room decides how good it gets. The Box is a small, focused space that rewards audience participation and punishes phone distraction, so come ready to be present. Ticket link is live through...

A comedy debate show where being wrong is apparently the whole point, running just one hour on a Friday night at The Box Annex on Central. The Box tends to reward a small, game crowd, and a format built around argument works better when the room is willing to heckle back a little. Tickets are...

In the Box Mainstage runs a full long-form improv show at The Box, one of the few dedicated performance spaces actually on the Central corridor. The 10:15 p.m. start time means this is a late-night crowd, which tends to loosen up both the audience and the players in ways that work in everybody's favor. Tickets...

The Blue Show is a live improv comedy night hosted by The Box Performance Space in partnership with Improv Theatre, running about an hour at 8 PM. The Box is a true black-box setup, which means sightlines are good from almost anywhere and the room stays small enough that crowd energy actually feeds the performers....

The One Night Stanleys bring long-form improv to The Box, one of the few dedicated performance spaces left on the corridor that actually treats comedy as a discipline rather than...