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Free Open Improv – Wednesday

[su_youtube url=”http://youtu.be/cskFXdtpj7o?list=UUGGRtzGXpe37qM-_8xtIUFw”] Free Open Improv happens every other Wednesday night, beginning July 16.  Milwaukee Comedy is opening the Arcade Theatre, in the Underground Collaborative, for free sessions of open improvised comedy. Members of Sketch Marks will run the 7 p.m. open improv free-for-alls in the lower level of the Plankinton Building, 161 W. Wisconsin Ave. From Facebook: […]

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Sketch 22 July 19

One of our favorite Milwaukee comedy community collaborations happens Saturday, July 19. It’s the 13th installment of the semi-annual Sketch 22 extravaganza, masterminded by Patrick Schmitz. Beginning at 7 p.m., in the garage theater of ComedySportz, 420 S. 1st St., 40 Milwaukee comedy actors will present 10 original comedy sketches created only the night before

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T.I.M. waits for no one

Milwaukee’s ComedySportz arena is still humming from the World Championship and 30th anniversary festivities there last weekend. On Thursday, June 26, The Improvised Musical (T.I.M.) channels that momentum into a full-blown song-and-dance story that’s never been sung or danced before. Yeah. We know. T.I.M. always performs on the third Thursday of the month. Well, never say always.

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ComedySportz: 30 Rocks

Out-of-town participants are landing and anticipation is taking off for the 30th anniversary celebration of ComedySportz, which involves the ComedySportz World Championships, Thursday, June 19, through Saturday, June 21. The extravaganza includes about ComedySportz improvisers from some of the 24 ComedySportz franchises across the country and Europe. Matches begin at 7 p.m. Thursday and culminate

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Two improvisers one-manning it

[su_youtube url=”http://youtu.be/k73js8dOJmI”] As birthdays go, No. 30 is up there as a monumental occasion. And with ComedySportz turning 30 this year, the anticipated events are forming a sort of family reunion for comedy improvisers. For instance, Alex Grindeland, who practically grew up at Milwaukee-based ComedySportz, moved to Seattle a couple of years ago to start

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Tall Boys in, School’s out

Just seven months after raising funds for a high school initiative for Milwaukee’s Tamarack Waldorf School, Milwaukee’s vertical virtuosos of comedic improv are staging a celebration. Tall Boys The improv troupe aka James Boland, Erik Koconis, Robby McGhee and Lee Rowley is performing at the Tamarack Grant Celebration Party. And get this: It’s free! The show starts at 7

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“The broads” benefit Ex Fabula

So I get this email the other day from broadminded Comedy, and it’s offering to have Milwaukee’s premier all-female sketch group perform a true story about myself. Turns out, “the broads” as they call themselves (You can’t call them that.) are part of a fundraiser for Ex Fabula, the Milwaukee-based storytelling community. “The broads” (Note

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