Pat Graney
Attic
June 4–7, 2020
ATTIC is the third and final part of Seattle-based choreographer Pat Graney’s House of Mind Trilogy. ATTIC investigates rape culture.
Season
19/20 Season
Past Events
Postponed
Takahiro Yamamoto
Direct Path to Detour
June 4–7, 2020
Direct Path to Detour is a dance exploration instigated by Portland-based choreographer Takahiro Yamamoto.
Discussion Seminar with Takahiro Yamamoto
May 29, 2020
Postponed
Spectacle Spectacular 2020: Sensory Perception
May 21, 2020
Spectacle Spectacular: Sensory Perception has been postponed until May 21, 2020 and will be an online extravaganza.
Start a Play Workshop with Tina Satter
May 16, 2020
Half Straddle playwright and director Tina Satter leads participants through simple generative prompts to get the earliest basics of a new play started from a non-psychological, pressure-free place.
Postponed
Tina Satter/Half Straddle
Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription
May 7–10, 2020
"...while Is This a Room is on its face a re-enactment, there are elements of the transcript that pitch it into the surreal..." –The New York Times
Tim Smith-Stewart, Jeffrey Azevedo
A Conversation hosted by The Cloud Room and On the Boards Artistic Director
May 6, 2020
Cancelled
Virtually Spectacular: Sensory Perception
May 1–31, 2020
We have moved On the Boards’ biggest fundraiser of the year to the virtual realm.
Postponed
Co-curated with Dakota Camacho
A Performance Lab on dxʷdəwʔabš land
April 29, 2020
A Performance Lab on dxʷdəwʔabš land is an opportunity to reflect upon and explore the relationships we have to the land and waters of the Duwamish.
Cancelled
Small Human Festival
April 23–26, 2020
Small Human Festival On the Boards | April 23-26, 2020 Tickets available soon!
Chase Burns and Jasmyne Keimig
Watch With Me Viewing Party
April 16, 2020
Join The Stranger's digital editor, Chase Burns and former Stranger visual arts critic, and culture writer, Jasmyne Keimig for a "Watch With Me" viewing party of Diana Szienblum's "Alaska."
Markeith Wiley
Working (Undecided Title)
April 9–12, 2020
Working (Undecided Title) or W(UT), happens when a group of artist throw a party!
Markeith Wiley
W(UT) Now
April 9–12, 2020
Join Markeith Wiley on Instagram Live for W(UT) Now, an episodic ‘happening’ of different aspects of the piece online every evening from Thursday, April 9 until Sunday, April 12.
Postponed
Timothy White Eagle
The Violet Symphony
March 19–22, 2020
- Do nothing. The price of your ticket will still support the art and artists at On the Boards. - Exchange your ticket for a yearlong subscription to OntheBoards.Tv.
Solo: A Festival of Dance
February 20–23, 2020
"I am super excited to work with On the Boards again and build on our relationship.
Dani Tirrell
Black Bois
February 14, 2020
Enter a world where Black bodies tell their own stories. Where Black love and Black expression prevail. A world where Black stories heal, grow, and transform the lives they touch. Featuring live music, collaboration with a large cast of…
Tim Smith-Stewart & Jeffrey Azevedo
Salvage Rituals (Work-in-Progress Showing)
February 1, 2020
This work-in-progress showing invites the audience into the first iteration of an ongoing community practice and dance party.
Film Screening: Whispering into the Void
January 25, 2020
Wa Na Wari and On the Boards have partnered to bring filmmaker Amir George to Seattle to screen his new film series “Whispering into the Void.” Both Wa Na Wari and On The Boards are interested in supporting the ideas of Black artists as…
Jaha Koo
Cuckoo
January 23–26, 2020
A journey through the last 20 years of Korean history told by a bunch of talkative rice cookers.
Co-curated by Charles Smith & HATLO
Performance Lab - An Augur: Future Visions
January 15, 2020
In conversation with OtB's 19/20 season theme of In The Future's Wake, this meditative lab is called An Augur: Future Visions.
Taylor Mac: Holiday Sauce
December 19–20, 2019
STG Presents Taylor Mac: Holiday Sauce at The Moore Theatre through December 19-20, 2019, this performance is included in OtB's Complete Series Subscription.
Ahamefule J. Oluo
Susan
December 5–8, 2019
This darkly comic musical portrait of Oluo's mother builds one story out of many, a journey from Section 8 housing in 1980s Seattle to the mangrove swamps of the Niger Delta to the Clallam Bay Correctional Facility.
Co-curated by Charles Smith & Matt Aguayo
Performance Lab - Uncanny Cabaret
November 4, 2019
Matt Aguayo, alternatively known as Angel Baby Kill Kill Kill in Seattle’s thriving drag scene, believes in the myriad possibilities of dynamic gender expression.
Co-curated by KT Kusmaul & Charles Smith
Oct 16: Performance Lab: In the Round
October 16, 2019
Shaun Keylock Keylock is a choreographer, director, teacher and dancer currently based in Portland, Oregon.
Autumn Knight
M_ _ _ ER
October 10–13, 2019
"Intense and disarming, [Knight's] pieces play off the social dynamics of her audiences, amplifying the race, gender, and power relationships in the room—often to absurd (even hilarious) effect." – Gavin Kroeber, Art In America
Bryce Dessner | Roomful of Teeth
Bryce Dessner's Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)
October 9, 2019
STG Presents Bryce Dessner's Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) at The Moore Theatre on Wednesday, October 9, 2019, this performance is included in OtB's Complete Series Subscription.
STG and OtB
The Work of Robert Mapplethorpe: A Community Discussion
October 6, 2019
This event is free, however RSVP is required.
Ligia Lewis
Water Will (in Melody)
September 19–22, 2019
"Like the best science fiction, Lewis’ work is most successful in its insistence that the spare can be made spectacular. " – Catherine Damman for ARTFORUM
Ahamefule J. Oluo
SUSAN: A Work-in-Progress Performance
August 8–9, 2019
Acclaimed Seattle artist Ahamefule J. Oluo presents a public work-in-progress performance of his newest project, SUSAN.
Morgan Thorson
Still Life
August 1–4, 2019
Performance Times Thu, Aug 1: 4 - 9 pm Fri, Aug 2: 4 - 9 pm Sat, Aug 3: 3 - 8 pm Sun, Aug 4: 3 - 8 pm