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Double the Funny
With new venues and showcases, SXSW Comedy keeps giving Austin more to laugh about
"...a heaving slate of stand-up showcases, live podcast recordings, improv and sketch shows, comedy-focused panels, and exclusive television previews...."

March 8, 2013 Arts Feature by Russ Espinoza

Fandom: Improvised Fan Fiction in Your Favorite Worlds
This Hideout series both sincerely celebrates and lovingly pokes fun at the fantasy worlds we love
"...Fandom: Improvised Fan Fiction in Your Favorite WorldsThe Hideout Theatre, 617..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Arts Review by Dan Solomon

Not Quite the Usual Holiday Gift Ideas
Something a little different for your loved ones this year
"...mean: The experience of learning. We're talking about comedy improv classes, specifically. Not to better whatever stage-performance skills you..."

Dec. 12, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Manhattan Stories
An ensemble of improvisers expertly captures the essence of Woody Allen's comedy
"...As the Hideout's talented improvisers prove in Manhattan Stories, their homage to Allen's 40..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

New Movement Downtown!
Even comedy can metastasize
"...more underground style, like NewYork or Chicago style of improv or sketch – you know what I mean? Chronicle:..."

April 12, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Edinburgh Festivals
If it's August, this must be Scotland, say three Austin arts groups
"...Every August sees another area theatre company, solo performer, improv troupe, or school group jumping the pond to take..."

July 29, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'69 Love Scenes'
Each of the 69 Love Songs on the 1999 CD gets a scene in this theatrical venture
"...a scripted piece. Because there's been a lot of improv with Gnap!, but Shannon wants the company to do..."

May 21, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

What Would Owen Do?
Or, more to the point, what can't comic, screenwriter, and now-novelist Owen Egerton do?
"...the Alamo Drafthouse? Or because he's done so much improv onstage with Les McGehee and National Comedy Theatre? Or..."

April 30, 2010 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

One On One
Hall & Oates write songs that make choreographed dances happen
"...On doing improv with Flight of the Conchords:..."

March 25, 2010 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Charles Dickens Unleashed
Schmaltzy Victorian costume-drama improv, gamely and rather adroitly rendered
"...in "Cry Dickens and let slip the dogs of improv!" This just-passed December brought to the Hideout Theatre a..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

The First Time
Austin artists reveal the intimate details of how they got their muse on
"...Actor, improviser, ColdTowne Theater co-founder..."

July 17, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Big Range Austin
With improvisational movement, the performers work to play – to free up the ways they move
"..."When I see a good improv session, it's almost like watching a boxing match. There..."

June 12, 2009 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Top 10 Wonderful Things About Austin Theatre in 2008 (In No Particular Order)
Chronicle Arts writer Avimaan Syam recalls 2008, in the theatre
"...7) Ka-Baam!! (Austin Improv Collective) Austin's improv scene has grown to include plenty..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Arts Feature by Avimaan Syam

Matt Bearden
The Austin comedian on his influences, why he's not in L.A., and Red River hipsters
"...then, the comedian has been a linchpin of Austin's improv and stand-up scenes. His improv tenure includes the mid-Nineties..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Arts Feature by Steve Birmingham

Bubba and Babe's Backwoods Texas Wedding
Dinner-theatre nuptials, Texas-style
"...Patsy's Cowgirl Cafe. The cast of 11 actors, singers, improvisers, and the occasional juggler fill out a character list..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Girls Girls Girls: The female of the species
Girls Girls Girls launches its Boys of Summer series with guest male improviser Jeremy Lamb
"...and we were especially lucky to catch their recent improv gig at the Hideout. Especially lucky, because this was..."

July 13, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Vertigo Ramp: Inclined toward humor
In the improv created by Craig Kotfas and Ted Rutherford as the duo Vertigo Ramp, the unintentional chaos in the patterns is often as delightful as the patterns themselves
"...a mission. Their mission, like the mission of all improvisers, is to create something out of nothing and, at..."

July 6, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Is That Science?: The elements of smile
The initial results of the experiment Is That Science? – wherein members of the theatrical company St. Idiot Collective interacted with the element Improvium – were fast, furious, and funny
"...The Austin improv scene, like all improv scenes, comprises many elements. Each..."

June 29, 2007 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Blank Generation
Amy Sedaris on 'Strangers With Candy'
"...here called Second City. It's perfect for you. You improvise, they wear wigs, and they use props." He really..."

July 21, 2006 Screens Feature by Steve Birmingham

National Champions of Comedy
Austin's improv headquarters is fielding its own nationally ranked team (of comedians, natch) to put a live comic spin on the Rose Bowl championship
"...and a smile on your face. You see, Austin's improv headquarters is fielding its own nationally ranked team (of..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Get Folked!
An interview with the men behind the Folksmen.
"...the South by Southwest media sessions for their new improv film, A Mighty Wind, maybe in part because the..."

May 9, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Articulations
The grand old troupe of the Austin improv comedy scene is closing its home of six years, and the Texas Commission on the Arts announces the appointments for state poet laureate, state musician, state two-dimensional artist, and state three-dimensional artist for 2003 and 2004.
"...the mall. The grand old troupe of the Austin improv comedy scene, NCT has been pulling laughs out of..."

May 2, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Through the Eyes of a Kid
Bringing kids to adult theatre is uncool, but what's about children's theatre, where they belong? Ada Calhoun borrows a friend's three-and-a-half-year-old son to find out and discovers that theatre ain't all magic when you're a preschooler.
"...at Playfest were a guy and a girl, two improv comics from ComedySportz. ComedySportz is a national comedy franchise,..."

July 21, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun

Best Excuse for Missing a Gig: a True Story
"...day, but not in time to host their big Improv Jam at Esther'sPool. RASSLE went off without a hitch,..."

April 16, 1999 Arts Feature

Momfest: the Schedule
"...11pm, Only 90% Effective (Local improv troupe doing a combination of sketch comedy and improv.)..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Arts Feature

BS3 Picks & Sleepers
"...MISSION: IMPROVABLE: Amherst, MA improv troupe that has proven itself, comedically..."

April 17, 1998 Arts Feature

Where Are They Now?
"...Post-Follies: Performed improv locally with The Laff Staff (1977-92); performed stand-up and..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Arts Feature

Articlulations
Amoa Ceo G-o-e-s
"...One of the hopes for the Big Stinkin' International Improv Festival is that it will help launch talented improv..."

June 20, 1997 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Big Stinkin' Schedule
"...The Big Stinkin' International Improv Festival II continues through Saturday, May 24, with seven..."

May 23, 1997 Arts Feature

Qmmunity: Pride Calendar
A buffet of June Pride events in Austin
"...their tales along with a cast of stellar local improv comics. He-he, haw-haw, and all that. Shears for Queers..."

June 7, 2024 Column by James Scott

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