7:00 – Slow Children At Play This young group takes straight-up, no-gimmick sketch with familiar premises and makes them fresh again with strong performances, good ideas and a good command of the form. A worthy successor to similar groups like Elephant Larry and TROOP! 8:00 – Dance Party Newfoundland…
SketchFest NYC kicked off its third year last night in the city-by-the-everything, and SF Seattle was fortunate enough to have their very own Josh Knisely there in the trenches. He sends us this report. ===================== New York in June is hot, sticky, and the air has the opacity of net…
Comedienne Laura Myers, perhaps better known by her stage name Laura Hotspur, died last week after a three-year fight with cancer. She was thirty seven. She came to us from her bay area hometown of Eureka, CA. When she moved to Seattle, she began performing sketch and improv with the…
There are Do’s and Don’ts of audience membership. This’d be a “don’t.” Last weekend, SketchFest co-founder and acclaimed monologist Mike Daisey was performing his lastest one-man show Invincible Summer at The American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University when eighty-seven members of a high school “Christian group” attending the show walked out en masse – one of whom dumped water on Mike’s signature…
An unearthly howl in the distant night; a blood curdling scream and the slosh of monstrous limbs through freshly-drawn blood. These are the sounds of … comedy? Yes, THEM!, Seattle’s horror-themed sketch comedy group returns this weekend with their second show (read our interview with THEM! founder John McKenna here). This incarnation…
Tonight is Brown Derby‘s last performance of their staged reading of Planet of the Apes! Check out the latest in this year’s drunken interpretations of science- fiction classics! FEATURING: Nick Garrison, Imogen Love, Dusty Warren, Ade, Joe Randazzo, Spencer Thorson, and MANY MORE! reBar, Thursday 03/22. Doors at 7pm, show at…
Sketchingham – Bellingham’s answer to the sketchfest circuit, hosted by Washington sketch institution Cody Rivers – is more than half way over now. This second year of the festival opened last weekend with return performances by 2006 attendees Bucket and Ten West. This weekend featured SketchFest mainstays Troop! (read last month’s interview here) and renowned fringe circuit act The…
A couple of swell kids from Portland are performing their show in Seattle tonight at what’s becoming the hub of out-of-town sketch acts – the Jewelbox Theater. Appropriate for what as once a stop on the vaudevillian circuit! Check them out! Portland’s hit video comedy night, The Kelley and Jason Show, makes it’s Seattle…
When KUOW took over programming of KXOT last year, they promised a station that would help bring new voices to the staid world of public radio. Yesterday, they took a bold step in that direction, announcing a trial run for “The Sound of Young America,” an edgy, irreverent arts & entertainment interview program hosted…
A week ago today the San Francisco SkechFest wrapped up another year’s schedule. Luckily for us, SketchFest Seattle friends and local stand-ups Doug and Rosalie Gale (who, incidentally, happened to be featured in a PI article this past Monday) were in the city by the bay for the festival. Though they only caught one act, the currently-ill Rosalie…
