Performances
On the Boards presents performances across 2 programming series. The Inter/National Series features some of the most innovative artists from around the world working in dance, music, theater, and multimedia performance. The Northwest Series commissions, produces and presents evening-length works by some of the most talented and experimental artists and companies from our region. Projects are curated by artistic director Lane Czaplinski, 1-2 years prior to being seen in Seattle.
Watch a video preview of the season by artistic director Lane Czaplinski.
SPECIAL EVENT | Christian Rizzo | Sophie Laly • Néo-Fiction
Sep 14 - Sep 15
Figures have a way of appearing and disappearing in Christian Rizzo’s performances. In Néo-Fiction he and filmmaker Sophie Laly investigate physical presence and its dispersion and disappearance amongst nature. The Pacific...
Gob Squad • Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good)
Sep 27 - Sep 30 • Inter/National Series
It’s 1965 and everything is just about to happen. Pop, subculture, superstars, feminism, drugs, bright lights, and sex are about to rock the world like never before. And Andy Warhol was about to help usher it all in. Gob Squad...
SPECIAL EVENT | Mark Morris Dance Group • Back On the Boards
Oct 4 - Oct 6
Please note: tickets will NOT be mailed out in advance for this performance, all tickets will be kept at Will Call to be picked up day of show.
Before Mark Morris became a household name in...
Kidd Pivot • The Tempest Replica
Oct 23 - Oct 25 • Northwest Series
The theatrical greatness of Shakespeare meets the virtuosity and stage wizardry of Crystal Pite as she and her company return to OtB, their Seattle home-away-from-home. The Tempest Replica marries theater and dance in a...
12 Minutes Max
Oct 28 - Oct 29 • 12 Minutes Max
CURATED BY:
Kate Wallich (Dancer/Choreographer/Director, The YC)
Eric Pitsenbarger (Writer/Visual Designer)
José Amador (Actor/Director/Playwright and Editor In Chief, Seattle Star)
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Teatro Línea de Sombra • Amarillo
Nov 8 - Nov 11 • Inter/National Series
A man departs for the US–Mexican border and vanishes before reaching his destination: Amarillo, Texas. Through stunning projected images, bilingual monologues and a sea of displaced objects and natural elements, this renowned...
12 Minutes Max
Dec 2 - Dec 3 • 12 Minutes Max
CURATED BY:
Jen Graves (Art Critic, the Stranger)
Storme Webber (Writer/Performer/Interdisciplinary Artist)
Nilki Benitez (Founder NBComm & World Writer’s Alliance Seattle)
FEATURING:
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Kyle Loven • Loss Machine
Dec 5 - Dec 10 • Northwest Series
As the visual and performance worlds continue to collide, Kyle Loven is a difficult artist to categorize. An object maker with theatrical designs, his Rube Goldberg-esque Loss Machine unearths a world of lost items, misplaced thoughts...
Catherine Cabeen and Company • Fire!
Jan 17 - Jan 20 • Northwest Series
The career of visual artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) was both joyful and troubled, peppered with complex depictions of child’s play, violence and femininity. Her assemblages finished with rifle shots and her monumental...
She She Pop and Their Fathers • Testament
Jan 31 - Feb 3 • Inter/National Series
The Shakespearean vision of fathers and daughters in King Lear meets the modern realities of aging and parenthood in the funny and sad, razorsharp and frank Testament. The members of She She Pop bring their own ...