Our first listing will always be our MAIN STAGE EVENT for the coming weekend. Please find important ticket information at the bottom of this page. See you soon!
A note about tickets: When you purchase tickets through our site we add your name to our will call list at our box office. Your tickets will be there waiting for you the night of the show. No paper tickets will be sent, however, you will see a receipt in your email.
Student Showcase!
Saturday Feb 15th @ 7:30pm (doors @ 7)
$7 or pwyc at the door The latest Form & Function and Foundations of Sound Improv classes are nearing their end, and these students are excited to show you what they've learned!
Come in to help support new blood in the improv community! |
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Nina Wise - What Just Happened
A Solo performance by Nina Wise based on the previous 24-hours of her life and the events in the world.
Friday, April 3rd @ 7:30pm (doors @ 7) $20 Nina Wise’s WHAT JUST HAPPENED? is an improvisational performance work based on personal and political events which have transpired over the previous twenty-four hours. Wise’s autobiographical performances, known for their warmth and compassion, weave irony, physicality and insight into complex, spontaneous narratives. Her work, which has been compared to a cross between Lily Tomlin, the Dalai Lama and Jules Feiffer, is at once full of humor and poignancy. Audiences repeatedly report that they have never seen anything quite like Wise before and that they are at one instant laughing so hard they are falling off their seats and the next moment moved to tears.
Wise has performed What Just Happened to sold out crowds at The Marsh in San Francisco and Berkeley, Highways, LA, the Solo Festival in Ashland, TEDxSF, Playground Solo Festival, SF, Bowery Poetry Club, NY, New York Open Center, NY; at Esalen Institute, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and at a number of conferences around the country. Originally a performer with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Wise soon set out on her own to create art that incorporated language as well as movement. In 1990, she developed Motion Theatre®, a unique improvisational form that replaces the bells and whistles of staging and technology with the raw elements available to an actor: body, voice, and insight. The technique draws on the performer’s skills as a writer, storyteller, dancer and intellectual. As described by Chloe Veltman in the SF Weekly: “Wise moves and speaks like a veteran jazz musician; there's structure and poise to her every riff. . . . Simply being in the same room as this consummate improviser for a couple of hours is to watch the unknown unfold before your eyes. Yet to reduce Wise's work to a mere curiosity, like a sideshow at a traveling fair, is to do it a great disservice. For I was . . . deeply moved and entertained by Wise's eccentric take [on her life as she] distilled something of the complexity of living in today's world . . . into something bizarre, beautiful, and brave.” Wise is known for her scripted as well as her improvised works and finds no venue or subject out of bounds. Her audiences have included think tanks, medical institutions, international conferences and spiritual centers while her subjects range from the environment, death and dying, healing, Jewish identity and Buddhism to...even...golf. Wise’s performances have garnered seven Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Circle Awards and she has received four fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and four from the Marin Arts Council. Her stories and articles have appeared widely and her book, A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life: Self Expression and Spiritual Practice for Those Who Have Time for Neither, was published in 2002 by Broadway Books. In addition to performing, Wise teaches and lectures. She has been on the faculty at JFK University, UC Santa Cruz and SF State University and been a guest lecturer at the University of Southern California, Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin. Wise has a devoted following of private students across the country, and regularly offers courses on both coasts. She is currently on the faculty of HB Studio in New York. A longtime Buddhist practitioner, she is a teaching affiliate of Spirit Rock Meditation Center. For more information, visit her website at www.ninawise.com |
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bigTINY Invitational Show!
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Skinny Dip: An Open Stage
$5 - Or Pay What You Can Show @ 9:30ish - Doors @ 7 From improv to singers, actors, musicians, poets, comedians or magicians, you never know what you will see on any given night. What you do know is that it will be entertaining, and the atmosphere will be loving and supportive to any performers plying their craft. If you are a performer who would like to sign your act up to play, please email us at info.deepend@gmail.com or press the "Sign Up" button, and let us know who you are, what you have in mind, and how long you need. Performers of all art forms are encouraged to apply! |
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Magic & Wonder:
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This fantastical improvised show uses your childs imagination to inspire a brand new fairy tale that will premier right before their eyes!
- Tickets will NOT be shipped. They will be waiting for you at the box office on show night!
- Most shows have a pay what you can option. We offer this because we never want money to keep you from attending great theater. We hope you'll use this option with care. PWYC tickets are only available at the door on show night.
- Doors open half an hour before Prime Time shows and 15 minutes before Late Night shows.
- Street parking is generally available.
- Deep End Theater is ADA accessible.
- Shows are ALL AGES unless otherwise noted.
- We serve beer, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages and snacks.