Are you cool? Or do you feel out of touch?
Either way, this show is for you! Fully improvised, Old AF is the show where you, the audience, teach Seattle comedians about the latest trends, slang and hot goss. Come laugh at them as they desperately try to stay relevant.
Storytelling at its best-funny and profound.
18th & Union presents witty, eccentric Seattle storytellers Scot Augustson, Kelleen Conway Blanchard, and Bret Fetzer for an evening of strange and delightful tales about animals—saints, sinners, and the moral spectrum in-between. The ninth edition of their Animal Saints & Animal Sinners presents twisted tales of romance: Love on a Leash
“Does anyone have a question about Christmas?”
Emmett Montgomery’s Sugar Plum Gary answered this year’s first show’s batch of questions in the sold-out space at 18th & Union on the night of Friday the 15th. The beloved character has returned to the stage to share the true meaning of Christmas as December 25th approaches: the fully gut-wrenching truth only the sole survivor of Santa’s visit to the Rankin Bass Home for Unfortunate Children could fully grasp.
And Now for Something Completely Different at 18th and Union.
18th and Union will host #ShowTHEM Burlesque Basics Fall 2023 Recital, produced by Puckduction, featuring a cohort of 9 burlesque humans ready to take the stage and #Show you what they’ve been working on these past 8+ weeks, with emcees: Mx. Pucks A’Plenty and Lavish Leone, and featuring: Beatrix Tera Belle Tease, Ester Pine, Flora P’leaze, Jan from Accounting, Lato Lardon, Lilith Luminae, Swell Bordel, Thirst Contact and Vera Volcano.
Everything’s Fine Tonight LIVE! w/ Jordan is Seattle’s own late-night talk show. Webster’s dictionary defines “late-night” as happening or appearing late at night, and “talk show” as a program in which persons engage in discussions or are interviewed. Webster, we couldn’t have said it better ourselves! This show has it all: a guest, a desk, and a host. Oh! And also jokes. (Can’t believe we almost forgot the jokes.) This month features the hilarious Grace Penzell of Stoner Chicks Podcast, and I guess Jordan Eskenazi… of uhh… this show. Plus, an opening set from Ben Steitzer!
A Ghost Story
Written by playwright James T. Washburn, Rust is a tense, claustrophobic exploration of the cycles of patriarchal violence and what happens when tradition and a mythologized past cloud our understanding of the present. Hamlet and Macbeth meet Gormenghast and The Woman in Black (+ homoerotic swordfights) in this haunting supernatural revenge thriller.
A Fracture is about to Break out in Central Seattle.
Math is breaking, leaving horror and chaos in its wake. This terrifying experience is part haunted trail, part live theatre, part escape room and entirely SCARY!
Join Matheatre for FRACTURE, a haunted path of Pythagorean horror, opening this weekend! This terrifying experience is part haunted trail, part live theatre, part escape room and entirely SCARY!If you’re brave enough, tour the zone where the ancient Cult of Pythagoras has broken mathematics as we know it, and if you can…get out alive. 
Spooky Stories ‘Round the Bonfire
Time loops. Total nothingness. Falling in love… with the voice inside your head. Spooky Stories ‘Round the Bonfire is our newest Bonfire production, featuring three spooky short plays by local teens. The plays will perform October 23 at 7:30pm at 18th and Union.
pay-what-you-choose for all ages (starts at $15 online, $0 at the door)
Master storyteller Larry Hohm returns to 18th & Union to deliver an evening of spooky tales. He makes stories come alive, telling them from memory without notes. The evening will include stories by Shirley Jackson, Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, and Colin Nissan.
The Ugly Radio LIVE!
Welcome to the Void. “The Ugly Radio: Live!” brings its late-night horror / sci-fi podcast to the stage for the first time!
Seattle’s pre-eminent late-night lo-fi sci-fi theatre anthology podcast is taking the stage! The Ugly Radio is performing its first ever LIVE show in the historic Central District at 18th & Union! Be there Sept. 7th-9th for a weekend of live performances featuring a rogues’ gallery of our favorite writers, our stellar ensemble and live music guests!
