A one-day comedy workshop is coming to the Underground Collaborative, and the qualifications of the instructor, Ed Furman could stretch from his former home in Chicago all the way to Milwaukee where he now resides. Ed has performed and taught at the Second City, The Annoyance, and IO. He has improvised with Horatio Sans’ […]
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Somewhere between those nasty storms out east and the contentious battle toward Election Day (Tuesday, Nov. 6), you no doubt need some comic relief. Consider Comedy and Music Night at the Sugar Maple. That’s where a bunch of comics split your side, and a featured band tickles your fancy. It happens at 9 p.m. Thursday,
I’m a sucker for eye grabbers, and this poster caught my eye. It’s for the monthly Comedy Café Open Mic Showcase. The next one is at 8 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 31, at 615 E. Brady St. Consider it your invitation to see some of Milwaukee’s funniest up-and-coming as well as established-and-diligent standup comedians. Sometimes there’s
Accessibility is a distinguishing aspect of improvisational comedy. It’s easier for most people to participate in improv than to stand up in front of an audience and deliver a comedy routine or to learn the lines and blocking necessary to perform in a comedy sketch. Part of the genius of Milwaukee-born ComedySportzis that it’s so
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Talk about ambitious! For their next improv performance, Homegrown Electric Circuscame up with the title “Major League Playoff Spooktacular Election Show.” In a nutshell, that’s a lot of stuff that’s happening right now: baseball, Halloween, politics. The Circus performers – Josh Barto, Scott Heaton, Evan Koepnick and Mike Walker – sure look to be topical with
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Broadminded Comedy, Milwaukee’s longest-running sketch comedy troupe, has announced its next show: Participation Prize. Performances are 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 23, 24 and 30 and Dec. 1, at the new Arcade Theatre, 161 W. Wisconsin Ave. From the website: “Participation Prize features sketches about winning in life, losing in relationships, and showing up for everything
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Gallery Night this Friday features the funny! The Covart Gallery presents The Metal Mask Exhibition & Ball at The Underground Collaborative, its first annual juried exhibition of paintings, drawings, and mixed media collage this Friday, October 19th. The evening will feature art, music, dance and COMEDY! Milwaukee funny folks Damon Millard and Shawn Shelnutt will be
Arrive early for the October Halloween show of The Improvised Musical (T.I.M) and treat yourself to a free improv preview. The ComedySportz Recreational League is showcasing new improvisational comedy games beginning at7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 18, in the garage theater of ComedySportz, 420 S. 1stSt. The Rec League is an organized group of ComedySportz amateurs
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At the same time as the comedy benefit Wednesday for Milwaukee police officer Joshua Albert, a cause of a different color is scheduled. Organizers of the Open Mic Under the Stairs are asking the Milwaukee comedy community to support one of its own – also a recent crime victim. According to Damon Millard, co-founder of
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In high school, Milwaukeeans Joel Boyd and Brock Burczyk improvised against each other in the ComedySportz High School League. Joel was on the team from Rufus King High School. Brock played for Pius XI High School.Then both wound up at Columbia College Chicago. Now they have begun a series of video sketches, the first of which
