A 200-seat black box in the basement of a former Davis Square department store, The Rockwell has been Somerville's home for the strange and the funny since 2016 - the same room that housed Boston Baked Theatre in the '80s and Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway in the 2000s. It stages more than 500 performances a year and books work it describes as funny, dark, smart and great: touring stand-up hours (Jaboukie Young-White, George Civeris, Matt Goldich, Nate Varrone), clown and character solo shows, sketch, burlesque, live music and fringe theatre, plus a busy slate of clown and comedy-writing workshops. It hosts the annual Boston Fringe festival and has been repeatedly voted Boston's best comedy club. Fridays and Saturdays are 21+ unless noted; matinees and Sunday-Thursday shows are generally all ages.
Top performers
Andy Gross
7:00 PMSun, Oct 25$25 – $35
Boston Comedy Festival Comedy Contest: Semifinal Round 1
7:00 PMFri, Nov 13$20
Boston Comedy Festival Comedy Contest: Semifinal Round 3
9:30 PMFri, Nov 13$20
Boston Comedy Festival Presents
7:00 PMSat, Nov 14$25
glADDY8rs
Open mic9:30 PMFri, Nov 20$15 – $20
Pushing 30
9:30 PMFri, Dec 4$30
Janine Harouni
7:00 PMSat, Dec 12$23
You Had To Be There
7:00 PMThu, Feb 4$20 – $30
Ryan Conner
7:00 PMFri, Feb 26$20 – $30
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Aaron McCann
7:00 PMSat, Oct 10$20
Jaboukie Young-White
9:30 PMSat, Oct 3$25Sold out
Jaboukie Young-White
7:00 PMSat, Oct 3$25Sold out
Nate Varrone
9:30 PMThu, Sep 24$20
How To Be Successful
7:00 PMThu, Sep 24$20
Matt Goldich
7:30 PMWed, Sep 16$15 – $25
George Civeris
7:00 PMFri, Sep 11$20
Sam Taggart
7:00 PMFri, Sep 4$22
Every comedian who's been on a lineup at The Rockwell.
- Janine Harouni473.9K
- Charles McBee435.3K
- Jaboukie Young-White286.2K
- Andy Gross283.8K
- Abby Govindan128.8K
- Aaron McCann47.1K
- George Civeris37.7K
- Nate Varrone34K
- Emo Philips19.1K
- Sam Taggart18.8K
- Matt Goldich11.3K
- Ryan Conner11K
- Rebecca Donohue1.4K
- Stacy Kendro1.1K
- James Huessy911
- Andrew Mayer716
- Brian Longwell629
- Addy569
- CCorey Manning