Detroit Improv Festival Opens Wednesday
By: Julie Musbach
The seventh annual Detroit Improv Festival arrives this Wednesday night with performances, workshops, and more through Sunday, August 13. Tickets for all performances ($5-$25), and registration for improv workshops ($40) are available online at www.detroitimprovfestival.org. Complete schedules follow this release.
Festival activities kick off Wednesday night, August 9 at 7:00pm at the Downtown Detroit Boll Family YMCA with a fundraiser performance benefiting The Detroit Creativity Project. The evening will feature performances from Detroit students and teachers from The Detroit Creativity Project as well as a performance by The 313. Tickets are $15. The week's headliner performance includes Paul F. Tompkins and the cast of Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ Saturday, August 12 at 8:00pm and 10:00pm at The Local Kitchen Ballroom. From the Seeso Network, Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ is a partially scripted, partially improvised comedy, from creator and executive producer Kulap Vilaysack. It follows an ensemble of seven ambitious real estate agents who work at a cutthroat firm in Los Angeles. Along with Tompkins, the cast features Dan Ahdoot, Tim Baltz,Ryan Gaul, Mandell Maughan, Tawny Newsome, and Drew Tarver. Tickets for this event are $25. Tickets for all Detroit Improv Festival performances range from $5-$25 and are on sale now at www.detroitimprovfestival.org.is produced by the Detroit Improv Collective, Inc., (DICo) a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to advancing the art of improvisational comedy in the metro Detroit area. DICo's artistic mission is to promote the benefits of improv to local organizations to encourage team building, goal setting and self-esteem lifting among their members.
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Oliver! The Berman Center for Performing Arts (7/17-7/26) |
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Golden Girls: The Laughs Continue Dow Event Center (9/30-9/30) |
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Women's Glee Concert Spring Concert Hill Auditorium (4/10-4/10) |
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Guys & Dolls Bay City Players (4/24-5/09) |
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SIX Cobb Great Hall (12/01-12/06) |
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THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE THE ENCORE MUSICAL THEATRE COMPANY (2/18-3/14) |
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West Side Story Corson Auditorium (8/06-8/09) |
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Tony Fields and Doug Decker—Miller Live at the Fountain Miller Auditorium (7/30-7/30) |
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Prince of the Pulpit Ford Community and Performing Arts Center (9/19-9/20) |
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The Lion King Wharton Center [Cobb Great Hall] (4/08-4/25) |