Back for its fourth season, the Washington Center for the Performing Arts' Comedy in the Box series opens this year's schedule Thursday with comedian Eddie Ifft. Known around the world - thanks in large part to tireless touring - Ifft has achieved a comedy career of moderate success through many mediums, from podcasts to stand-up to radio and beyond. 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."

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