Oct 12 - 18, 2026 - All showtimes have $15 and under options

 

"PSA: Pelvic Service Announcement," Amy Veltman, Seattle Open Arts Place, Central District

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”

Choose Your Own Price tickets starting at $10 for all shows.  Click here for tickets and more info.

"Leni's Last Lament," Intiman Theatre, Erickson Theatre Off Broadway, Capitol Hill

The 2025 Edinburgh Fringe smash hit named a Critic’s Pick by The London Times comes to Intiman Theatre!

Infamous filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl takes center stage for a final, unflinching reckoning. The dazzling, defiant diva revisits her legacy, her art, and her ties to Nazi propaganda through music, storytelling, and dark humor. Blurring performance and confession, the piece invites audiences to become judge and jury: was Leni a visionary artist, or complicit in unimaginable harm? Part cabaret, part courtroom, this electrifying work wrestles with guilt, memory, and the cost of creating art in dangerous times.

10 Free for Everyone tickets are distributed at the door starting 1hr before the show on a first come, first served basis.  Click here for tickets, showtimes, and more information.

Earshot Jazz Festival, Multiple Venues, Throughout Seattle

Now in its 38th year, the Earshot Jazz Festival returns in October with performances, premieres, and workshops at more than a dozen venues across the city, showcasing esteemed Pacific Northwest resident artists alongside internationally renowned masters in a celebration of Seattle’s vibrant jazz scene.

In honor of the centennial of John Coltrane and Miles Davis, this year’s festival reflects on their enduring legacies while spotlighting the artists shaping jazz today and into the future.

Many, but not all, concerts feature sliding scale tickets starting at $5.  Choose the concert from the calendar, and the event will tell you the price range.  Click here for schedule and more info.

"Neha and Neel," Seattle Public Theatre, Green Lake

Neha (नेहा) fears she has failed to pass her language and culture down to her seventeen-year-old son, Neel (नील). A summer trip to visit colleges could be Neha's last chance, if only she can get Neel to visit the historic Hope Diamond and witness a piece of Indian history for himself. नेहा & Neel (Neha and Neel | नेहा और नील) Neha and Neel is a road trip comedy about how our families and our values evolve from one generation to the next.

$10 "Art is for Everyone" tickets available for every performance.  Click here for tickets, showtimes, and more info.

"How does it feel to look at nothing," Holland Andrews and yuniya edi kwon, On The Boards, Belltown

Using an improvised language of disintegration, How does it feel to look at nothing is an embodied pre-origin story of a Deity of Nothingness. An opera of the elemental, of pre-deities, and illusions of containment, this interdisciplinary performance emerges through a story of transitional states. Composer-performers, multi-instrumentalists, and vocalists Holland Andrews and yuniya edi kwon co-create this work of composition, improvisation, dance, and ritual. Grounded in Holland and yuniya’s shared spiritual lineages and lives as partners, the opera explores the forces and conditions that compel life’s emergence, and the spiritual act of meaning-making during epochs of decay.

Pay What You Can tickets available starting at $0 for all performances.  Click here for tickets, showtimes, and more info.

"Prove It On Us," Akoiya Harris, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, Central District

A show directed and choreographed by Akoiya Harris. Prove It On Us looks at the legacy of Black Queer Blues Women using dance, music, & film

Prove It On Us is an evening length work produced and choreographed by Akoiya Harris. This project celebrates the legacy of Black Queer blues women such as Ma Rainey, Gladys Bentley, and Bessie Smith. It looks at how because of the work they did, we can dream up new futures as Black Queer femmes today. This project also examines Black Queer femme ways of loving. Learn more at akoiyaharris.com

Reduced price tickets available for all performance starting at $13.63.  Click here for tickets and more info.

"Rat Cage," Annex Theatre, Capitol Hill

Welcome to the technological nightmarescape where The Next Big Violent Thing is only an assaulting barrage of buzzes, notifications, and TV static away. Can Vendetta Payne (her stage name, obviously) navigate her new relationship, family pressures, and totally-not-a-stripper job? Or will the oligarchs of this world— business moguls called The Rats from the hit TV show Rat Cage— best her?  

Sliding Scale Tickets available starting at $5 for all performances.  Click here for tickets, showtimes, and more info.

"References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot,"  Sound Theatre, Center Theatre, Seattle Center

The final show of the 2026 season is References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot by acclaimed playwright José Rivera. Set in the desert of Barstow, California, the play follows Gabriela, the wife of career soldier Benito, as she dives into a surreal fantasy world during her husband’s prolonged absences, imagining the mating rituals between a coyote and a cat. The play explores love, longing, and desire through a poetic and dreamlike lens.

References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot received the Obie Award in 2001, recognizing Rivera’s distinctive voice and groundbreaking approach to storytelling.

Inclusion rate tickets available to all shows for $5.  Click here for tickets, showtimes, and more info.