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I just got my invitation to Meanwhile Improv Troupe’s latest show. So I’m passing it along. From the Facebook: “Meanwhile performs an hour of completely unscripted, improvised comedy. The scenes they act out are inspired by real-life stories as told by local celebrity guests. The group features the talents of six Milwaukee comedians: Vince Figueroa, […]

As autumn nips the air and stadium lights shine on high school football playoffs, some creative teens are cultivating other pursuits, including – don’t laugh – comedy. Plenty of professional performers in the Milwaukee area got their starts via youth-oriented workshops and classes and the ComedySportz High School League, which has been around for 25

Milwaukee’s Renaissance Theaterworks has begun a four-week run of Don Nigro’s comic clash between two aging rival film divas cast as murderous sisters in a B horror movie. In its review of “Gorgons,” starring Jennifer Rupp and Marcella Kearns, The ThirdCoast Digest cites “brilliant performances and cutting wit.” Tap Milwaukee calls the play a “comic

Funny. I was just wondering the other day when broadminded, the all-female comedy sketch group, would have another performance. Here’s the answer: Soon. The witty quartet is preparing its next show around the title “Encyclopedia Broadtannica: complete and abridged.” From the news release: “Broadminded has successfully written an unbiased, humor-based revision of history that will

The very next show of T.I.M., The Improvised Musical, is already scheduled for 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 20. This monthly performance features a never-before-seen Broadway-style musical made up right before your very eyes – and ears. And noses, I suppose. The cast includes some of Milwaukee’s best at improvisational comedy, and there’s a three-piece

As if what happens in the world isn’t funny enough, you’ve got comedians making a living from ginning up current events on “Weekend Update,” “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” “The Colbert Report” – and now Milwaukee’s own “Talking Points.” Each month, a crew of veteran performers delivers extemporaneous humor on contemporary issues chosen by

Sports fans are used to seeing game officials on the sidelines or otherwise staying out of the way. At ComedySportz, the ref is also the ringmaster – controlling both the audience and the stagecraft, while still keeping a lower profile than the players. Later this month, Turf Theater is offering a four-week workshop on ComedySportz

And now a word from our friends at Wisconsin Hybrid Theater: Thursday. That’s when you’re more likely to get admitted to the theatrical experience known as “Faust: An Evening at the Mephisto Theatre.” From the Web: “The only way to see “RadioFaust” is to purchase a ticket to “Faust: An Evening at the Mephisto Theatre”

How are you celebrating Columbus Day? The usual? Well, Potawatomi Bingo Casino has a show called “Leave the Gun…Take the Canoli.” From the Web: “This Columbus Day, take your ‘buddies’ to a laugh-out-loud collection of true Italian stories that will leave you needing clean underwear. Featuring (in order of appearance) the talents of these fabulous

Ticket sales start this week (with pre-sales Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 5 and 6) for the Dec. 2 Riverside Theater appearance of Lisa Lampanelli. Comedy roasts love this woman. Maybe her mother does, too. Lampanelli is the empress of insults. As she tells Jimmy Kimmel in the interview below, she once took such a nasty