The Obie Award-winning Ice Factory Festival (Artistic Director Robert Lyons) has announced hosts and guest artists for "Fridays on Ice," its late-night performance salon that includes a diverse and distinctive lineup of writer/performers creating work not usually seen in downtown theatre spaces, but more typically found performing in nightclubs, bars, and private apartments.
On Thursday July 13th, a new monthly variety show hits the New York circuit. The Comedy Blender is 75 minutes of nonstop laughs, giving some of the brightest names in the business a chance to bring you a night of their best sketches, stand up and comedic performances!
On June 5th, 2017, the New York-based OSFUG: The Fast f**kin' Sketch Show will perform their monthly hour-long show at UCB Chelsea (307 West 26th Street in Manhattan) at 8:00 PM.
On May 17th at 8:00pm, The Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre presents Let's Make a Website, a $7 hysterical interactive computer-based comedy show where Mark Vigeant (Seriously.TV, The AV Club) builds and launches a website based on audience suggestions.
Nat Towsen's Downtown Variety Hour continues the fourth year of its run at UCB Theatre East Village on Monday, May 1, at 8 PM. Host Nat Towsen (VICE, Nickelodeon) combines the disappearing, eclectic lower Manhattan culture in which he grew up (around the corner from the theatre, in fact) with interviews, informative presentations, and the best of the NYC comedy scene. The show features native luminaries as well as a few welcome New York transplants.
On April 28th at 7:30pm, The Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre presents Let's Make a Website, a $12 hysterical interactive computer-based comedy show where Mark Vigeant (Seriously.TV, The AV Club) builds and launches a website based on audience suggestions.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Rachel Bloom, star of CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND, is currently in the process of writing a book. The publisher describes the book as 'hilarious, irreverent, and deeply relatable personal essays, fictional stories, poems, opinions, and more.'
QUEERBALL, the LGBTQ+ comedy variety show that has been keeping East Village audiences gagging on their comedy eleganza, is back for another month at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre on April 10th, 2017 at 11pm.
On April 7th at 7:30pm, The Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre presents Let's Make a Website, a $12 hysterical interactive computer-based comedy show where Mark Vigeant (Seriously.TV, The AV Club) builds and launches a website based on audience suggestions.
Nat Towsen's Downtown Variety Hour continues the fourth year of its run at UCB Theatre East Village on Monday, April 3, at 8 PM. Host Nat Towsen (VICE, Nickelodeon) combines the disappearing, eclectic lower Manhattan culture in which he grew up (around the corner from the theatre, in fact) with interviews, informative presentations, and the best of the NYC comedy scene. The show features native luminaries as well as a few welcome New York transplants.
BOBBY MOYNIHAN will voice the title role of Happy the Horse -- a goofy little blue unicorn with a relentlessly cheerful personality. Together, Happy and Nick Sax (Chris Meloni) make the oddest of oddball buddy double acts.
Tonight, March 2nd, at 8:00pm, The Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre presents the premiere of Let's Make a Website, a $7 hysterical interactive computer-based comedy show where Mark Vigeant (Seriously.TV, The AV Club) builds and launches a website based on audience suggestions.
Next Wednesday, March 1st, composer Jaime Lozano's new Song Cycle, 'A Never-Ending Line,' will have its world premiere at Broadway au Carre in Paris, France.
On March 2nd at 8:00pm, The Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre presents the premiere of Let's Make a Website, a $7 hysterical interactive computer-based comedy show where Mark Vigeant (Seriously.TV, The AV Club) builds and launches a website based on audience suggestions.
The 2017 FRIGID New York Festival presents Mr. Long, written by Manning Jordan and directed by James Wyrwicz at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th St., btw 2nd Ave & Bowery, New York, NY 10003).
On February 20, 2017, the New York-based OSFUG: The Fast f**kin' Sketch Show will perform their bi-monthly show at UCB Chelsea (307 West 26th Street in Manhattan) at 8:00 PM. Tickets are $7. Every month OSFUG puts on a new half hour of super short, wildly funny sketches for a refreshingly brisk yet polished show.
In Maria DeCotis's absurd, new play, a lonely flight attendant seeks a worldly explanation for happiness aboard an empty, airborne plane. Adapted from DeCotis's experiences traveling abroad, Unfaced explores how thoughts and actions from childhood reveal our present sense of purpose.
Jackie Jennings and James Dwyer -- co-hosts & creators of A BIG DUMB THING -- will stage for the FIRST TIME EVER a comedy show of astronomical proportions that they are asking the press refer to simply as 'PLEASE ARREST US'!! The show will TEST the limits of FREE SPEECH in America as we immerse ourselves in the bottomless hell of a Trump Administration presidency by presenting the audience with the most degraded, offensive, and bizarre acts of comedy targeted at THE MAN WHO HOLDS THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE LAND (and ALL who are associated with him).