Events on Central

Yungchen Lhamo is one of the most quietly commanding vocalists alive, a Tibetan singer whose a cappella and minimally accompanied performances have carried weight on stages from Carnegie Hall to...

The Wailers, the band that outlasted Bob Marley's death by four decades and kept touring with original members carrying the weight of that legacy, play the Journal Theatre for their 50 Years of Positive Vibrations run. The Journal is an intimate indoor theater, which means the sound stays tight and the sightlines are good, a...

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...

The Expendables are a Santa Cruz reggae-rock band with twenty-plus years of catalog and a fanbase that treats their shows like a reunion. Launchpad is a small room, which means...

The post-Bob Marley touring lineup of The Wailers brings the full roots-reggae catalog to what is almost certainly an outdoor stage at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, not Launchpad's usual...

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...

This is a late-night tribute DJ set at El Rey, running from 9:30 p.m. Friday deep into Saturday morning, which tells you everything about the crowd's intentions. El Rey's floor opens up well when a DJ has the room to themselves, and a set framed around a specific artist's influence tends to pull people who...

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...