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. 

​*SHOWS CANCELLED THIS WEEKEND FOR SAFETY.

3/12/2020 - TV Party and The Big Tiny Invitational cancelled this weekend. 

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TV PARTY is cancelled this weekend, March 13th & 14th. 

We're postponing shows this weekend  (3/13 & 3/14) - We will be updating as we watch/follow the news. Thanks for understanding.

TV Party! Fri, March 20th

$16.00

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TV Party! Sat, March 21st

$16.00

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TV PARTY!
Fridays & Saturdays
March 6th - 21st
7:30 p.m. / $16 (or pwyc at the door)
(doors open @ 7:00)

There was a time, not long ago, when our televisions were filled with Must-See TV.  Every week, we got to hang out with our favorite characters in coffee shops, offices, schools, or wherever else life took them. 

No matter what problems they faced, no matter what happened, at the end of thirty minutes, we knew that everything would be solved and the world would be back to normal. And sometimes, just sometimes, we'd learn an important life lesson alongside all the laughter. Those were the days...

Inspired by those amazing sitcoms of yore (and semi-yore), TV Party will craft a brand new, two-part, "Very Special Episode" each and every night, based on audience suggestions.

So change the channel to Deep End, and don't touch that dial!

bigTINY Invitational Show!
Improv comedy show
Sunday March 15th
7:00 p.m. / $7 (doors @ 6:30)

Sunday the 1st there will be some sweet sweet improv going down at Deep End Theater. Big Tiny is inviting some of their favorites to come play, so you have to get your butt in a seat to watch them create magic. It is going to be a great show!

BigTINY Invitational is cancelled March 15th.
We're postponing shows this weekend  (3/13 & 3/14) - We will be updating as we watch/follow the news. Thanks for understanding.

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Hey Babe- A Comedy Show
Second Sundays
Next show is March 8th!
7:00 p.m. / $10 advanced - $12 @ the door
(doors open @ 6:30)

Hey Babe is a new stand up comedy show highlighting Portland’s best performers and is hosted by Portland comedian Elena C. Hayden.

Hey Babe: A Comedy Show - March 8th

$10.00

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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 @ 8:00pm (doors @ 7:30) $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

Postponed for now. We'll update when we know more info. Stay tuned!

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Skinny Dip: An Open Stage
​$5 - Or Pay What You Can
Show @ 9:30ish - Doors @ 7

Skinny Dip returns March 7th!!


 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!

Sign up!

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Magic & Wonder:
An improvised Fairy Tale for kids!
Magic & Wonder back in 2020!
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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! 

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• 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.