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May Day is both a distress signal and International Workers’ Day. That may be ironic, but it’s not funny. This year, though, May Day in Milwaukee offers plenty to laugh about. You could go a full 12 hours Sunday getting your fill of comedy ranging from live radio to improv to live theater to standup. […]

The Alchemist Theatre goes sci-fi for three weeks with the V Core Productions presentation of an original comedy, “Natalie Ryan and the Brain Thieves.” Assisted by an oblivious college student and a brain in a jar, whiz kid Natalie Ryan travels across both time and the universe in a quest to save Earth from the

Just as Milwaukee’s comedy community is burgeoning, the Milwaukee Comedy Festival also is expanding – which is why there is an online pledge drive to help accommodate a bigger-than-ever event and to help defray performers’ travel costs (Pump gas lately?). “The Milwaukee Comedy Festival is a wonderful celebration of what’s great about comedy in general

Aiming to emphasize the “good” in Good Friday, the Meanwhile Improv Troupe is taking the stage at 10:15 p.m., April 22 at ComedySportz, 420 S. 1st St., Milwaukee. You’ll marvel and chortle at their comedic improvisations.Like during Meanwhile’s recent cage match against The Midnight Show, when Meanwhile’s Cynthia Kmak mimed hiding herself in a backpack,

The Christian Comedy Blast is back to the Milwaukee area, with shows at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., Saturday, May 7, at Poplar Creek Church, 17770 West Cleveland Avenue in New Berlin. The first such gathering was “phenomenal” says Whit Shiller, of Fish Sticks Comedy, a Milwaukee-based short-form improve comedy group that was one of

Here’s how fast some artists can work. In 22 hours, 10 groups of writers, 10 directors and 40 actors will be conceiving, preparing and presenting a sketch comedy show called: Patrick Schmitz Presents: Sketch 22 (VII). For $7, you can see the results, from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday, April 23, at the Alchemist

Thursday must be Improv Night this week in Milwaukee.Homegrown Electric Circus is engaging in the long-form version of comedy-on-the-fly. The improv and sketch comedy troupe is scheduled to perform with a Chicago-based team called Illocal Comedy. (Check out the video below.) The show starts at 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 14, at the Alchemist Theatre,

You’ve heard Wisconsin Hybrid Theater’s live radio dramas on WMSE Radio (91.7 FM). Now it’s time to grab your mother and take her to see WHT’s “original old-timey comedy” about storied mystery solver Sherlock Holmes. Russ Bickerstaff, of the Shepherd Express, described the show as a “dual-layered comedy” when he saw it this month at

The Milwaukee Comedy Festival is scheduling its sixth summer of events, expanding from sold-out performances last year to 30 groups in seven performances Aug. 4-7. A pledge drive has begun to raise both awareness and funds. For as little as $15, you not only help out Wisconsin’s largest comedy event but you get acknowledged for

The for-sale sign in front of 420 S. 1st St., Milwaukee, emphasizes that ComedySportz is not moving. In fact, it turns out ComedySportz is becoming more entrenched. Turf Theater, a new division of the deep-rooted improv institution has put out a call to teachers in the region to get involved in advancing theater arts through