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This past Sunday, Public Radio International‘s Studio 360 aired a segment which they described as being about one of the more unexpected results of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans: a thriving comedy scene. Stand-up, open mics and sketch comedy acts such as the Red Light District Variety Show have have been cropping up…
This upcoming weekend marks the end of the 2007 San Francisco SketchFest and two weeks ago closed the Chicago fest. Together these twin bottles of bubbly smashed across the bow of the good ship SketchFest, christening the eighth year of the circuit. As you can tell by the sidebar, the sketch world has grown…
At a restaurant the other night I had a dish called pork-filled squid. It was delectable. Similarly, a local specialty known as Pork Filled Players is “Delectably loopy!” You can’t just find this dish anywhere mind you, but a hand full of local venues will serve it up piping hot: Northwest…
Do you like sketch? Are you fond of fringe theater? Do you enjoy artistic gray-areas and subjects of contention? Then do we have the festival for you! 14/48 is billed as the world’s quickest theater festival: fourteen plays written, rehearsed and performed in 48 hours! Like a theatrical mayfly, 14/48 is…
After a weekend of shows opening for SketchFest favorite The Cody Rivers Show in Canada, Vancouver sketch/improv and video troup The Happy Birthdays! will be coming to Seattle to play at The Rendezvous’ Jewelbox Theater in Belltown. The SketchFest research team hasn’t been able to find much about this young troupe. Some say they were created when an eccentric…
Just a reminder, sketchfans, that this is your last chance to catch The Cody Rivers Show’s lastest endeavor, Tangle, at the Rendezvous’ Jewelbox Theater. The Cody Rivers boys have been awful hard at work of late, performing at comedy and theater festivals on both coasts, either side of the Mason-Dixon, and across a whole international border.…
Yes, my labored attempt at a portmanteau can only mean one thing – The San Francisco SketchFest is upon us. The 2007 line up has just been announced and tickets have already gone on sale. With acts including UCB’s ASSSSCAT, Mystery Science Theater 3000, STELLA, The Bruce McCulloch Project and a tribute to Paul Reubens, you’ll want to catch this…
Torrential rain? Freezing temperatures? Hurricane-force winds and state-wide black outs? Summer sure seems far away. None the less, it’s time already to apply for SketchFest NYC in June ’07! The last two years of the Festival have been a huge success, featuring over thirty different sketch comedy groups from across the country, sold-out shows, standing ovations,…
Actor and Comedian Peter Boyle, famous for his roles at the tap-dancing monster in Young Frankenstein and perhaps more recently as the dad in Everybody Loves Raymond, died last night in New York. He was 71. A large man, Boyle was often typecast as the irascible scoundrel (Taxi Driver, Joe), despite his background in comedy…
Here’s yet another a reminder sketchfans, that you have two more days before SketchFest Seattle, with Scarecrow Video and Neumos Nightclub bring you the comedy of Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter! Two Michaels for the price of Juan! These cult icons and stars of such sketch classics as MTV’s…
