COMEDY IN A BOX >>>

Back for its fourth season, the Washington Center for the Performing Arts' Comedy in the Box series opens this year's schedule Thursday with Pittsburgh native Eddie Ifft, who has probably been heckled in at least a dozen different languages. That happens when you headline comedy shows in 17 different countries.

Ifft's resume is about as eclectic as they come, billed in pre-event hype as a comedian who has "hosted Shark Week, spent a season as the ABC College Football Guy, earned a job as ‘man-on-the-street' on the Queen Latifah show, and was co-host of a sports radio show on New York's legendary WNEW."

He also used his globetrotting to make America: The Punchline, a documentary featuring interviews with comedians and others about their perception of America.

Technically, this show can't be called Comedy In A Box as the Washington Center moved it from its Black Box Theater into the larger Mainstage due to the show's ticket sales.

[Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Thursday, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., $15, 21+, 512 Washington St. SE, Olympia, 360.753.8585]