Time is running out to assemble comedy improv teams for the next season of the ComedySportz Recreational League. Beginning Sunday, March 11, teams of qualified players begin two weeks of workshops and then engage in weekly competitions as only ComedySportz does them. Team fees are $350 for the season. Spectators watch for free. For more […]
If you happened to catch him at the Caste of Killers Comedy Collective Halloween bash, then you already know that Harry Loeffler-Bell is a Milwaukee songster with a sense of humor (or a Milwaukee comic with a musical bent). If you haven’t heard him before, here’s your chance.
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Besides being improvisation coach at First Stage Children’s Theater and organizer of Organized Chaos, a student improv troupe, Patrick Schmitz has written and directed two plays, written and performed for the improv/sketch group The Gentlemen’s Hour and is founder and creative director of the guerilla sketch comedy event known as Sketch 22. So it’s with
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If you are where you play, expect these comics to have dry and prickly humor. Standup Ryan Holman has assembled a lineup for 9 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 29, at the Cactus Club, 2496 W. Wentworth Ave., in Milwaukee’s Bay View. The talent includes Ryan, Lara Beitz, Jason Hillman, Ryan Lowe, Mario Robinson and Tony Tudor.
As fate would have it, Milwaukee actor and playwright Jeffrey James Ircink approached Jim Sorenson about possibly screening Ircink’s short film “Pass the Salt, Please” at the Horny Goat Hideaway. The Horny Goat just so happens to be trying to distinguish itself as an entertainment venue in addition to a brewing company, said Sorenson, who’s
The Comedy Conclave: A Discussion Group For Comics, About Comedy. When: The last Sunday of every month, beginning at 6pm, going until the open mic starts. Where: Rounding Third Bar and Grill, 63rd and Bluemound. A wonderful thing happened a couple of weeks ago. Erik Koconis suggested that entertainers of the comedic sort might enjoy
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Friday, March 2, is the birthday of Dr. Suess. So why not celebrate the occasion by attending the semimonthly Milwaukee Stand-Up Comedy Showcase? The showcase features Anthony Washington and includes Matty Field, Jesse Silva, Collin Bullock, and Ryan Mason. Aaron Weaver is the headliner. Once again, there are two shows on the same night: 8:30
Two years is a long time, when you think about it. Consider it in terms of serious relationships or complete sobriety or egg salad. So it’s impressive that a group of individuals who met through ComedySportz workshops are still together performing their own brand of comedy improv on a regular basis for two years running.You
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a moving picture with someone talking must be worth at least 1,304 – even more if the person talking is Tim Higgins. So, forgive the verbosity in this notice of an international short film festival at 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday, March 2 and 3, at the
The Milwaukee Stand-up Comedy Showcase is becoming such a regular routine, we barely have to remind anyone anymore. The semi-monthly “underground comedy showcase” from the Caste of Killers Comedy Collective is up again this Friday, Feb. 24, at Karma Bar & Grill, 600 E. Ogden Ave.From Facebook: “This week’s headliner, Drew Michael, a hilarious comedian
