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Shows at ColdTowne Theater
Green Tuna
ColdTowne Theater's Jared Stepp satirizes science fiction nerd stuff.
This show is smart, dry and funny.
Turn of the Century Paris
Is like the movie Three Men and a Little Lady, except it's four
dudes originally from Boston and a full grown woman. Also, it's a comedy.
Fresh, absurd and manic, this show has recently completed its first
run at ColdTowne Theater.
Stag
The hit Alamo Drafthouse show, Stag Comedy, makes its ColdTowne Theater
Debut. Members Joe Parsons (Master Pancake Theater), Scott Chester (Comedy
Sportz, MPT: Forrest Gump) and Ben Bartley (MPT: Jurassic park + the
Matrix) are teaming up with the kids from Mascot Wedding Productions
(MPT: Transformers, winners of multiple Filmmaking Frenzies) to bring
you a seamless mix of live and video sketches.
Shows at ColdTowne Theater
Poor Life Choices
Life is full of choices, and none make more impact than the ones made
out of impulse, passion, and plain stupidity. One woman shows us all
the sage and disastrous advice that has guided her to make some supremely
poor life choices. With a little song and dance for good measure. Staring
Leah Moss.
Dear Frailty Written
over a five-year span of artistic wandering, Dear Frailty is a mix of
darkly comedic character monologues and absurdist performance pieces.
Sifting through his own thoughts and the lives of personalities that
“may as well exist out there,” Simone revels in the utter failure
to find any degree of meaning in the predictability of human nature.
Material ranges from his own perverse vision of what the future holds
for capitalism as well as a pyromaniac grocery store clerk with a profound
dislike of the elderly. This is the runaway hit show that garnered Arthur
Simone a Best of Austin Award! Don't miss it!
Shows at ColdTowne Theater
The P! Company performs
a blend of live and taped comedy, on a regular basis. Featuring material
about sci-fi, UFOs, comic books, video games, and other alt fare, there’s
something for every kind of nerd out there – even cool nerds. (Geeks
need not apply).
ColdTowne
Mainstage presents... Shanty Town Lake
The economy is in shambles. Young professionals are losing their jobs,
relationships are disintegrating and society is falling apart at the
seams. Only one person can save us all from ourselves, but no one seems
to know who that is. Will the new homeless mayor reform city hall in
time? Will Regan return from the grave long enough to smite his enemies?
Will we pull ourselves together long enough to get off the couch and
apply for a job? ColdTowne Theater’s Main Stage cast returns for their
second full-length comedy revue, SHANTY TOWN LAKE
– a mix of social and political satire, music and straight up
nihilistic comedy. Shanty Town Lake features a
cast of writers/performers made up of multiple Best of Austin
and B. Iden Payne Award winners. The revue is helmed by veteran
performer and former Second City director Dave Buckman.
Shows at ColdTowne Theater
Your Terrific Neighbors
are friends that write down the strange things that give them joy and
amusement and then perform those things in spaces where people are allowed
to come and watch them. Widely regarded among Austin's best sketch groups,
YTN can be seen every first Sunday at the HideOut Theater Downtown.
Midnight Society
For nearly two years, Midnight Society has been writing and performing
sketch comedy at ColdTowne Theater. In that time, they've gone through
37 gorilla suits, 168 banana peels, and 1 working time machine, all
in an attempt to craft the perfect sketch show. The result a full hour
of the best sketch comedy Austin has to offer.
Shows at United States Art Authority
Ghetto Sketch Warlock
Bryan Roberts (ColdTowne Theater Mainstage, Guilds of Steal, No Shame
Theater) wreaks havoc on the mic. Ghetto Sketch Warlock is a mix of
sketch comedy and comedic hip hop. Attitude coming out of the mouth
of a man who looks 12 and sounds like he's 70.
Audience of Two is a
two-man sketch comedy duo from New York City, specializing in painfully
honest portrayals of their ongoing struggles with adulthood. They
also offer cheerfully bizarre songs about such trenchant topics as ghost
neighbors, lobster thermidor, and James Joyce’s secret identity (a
dinosaur gifted with intelligence and speech). They were named one of
the Top Five Live Shows of 2008 by The Apiary. Their latest sketch
comedy show, We Know What’s Up, recently completed a sold-out run
at the People’s Improv Theater. In 2009 they again appeared
in the PIT’s SketchProv Festival, as well as the Sarasota Improv Festival
and the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival. They were recently selected
to perform in the 2010 Los Angeles Comedy Festival, Austin Sketchfest
2010, and SketchFest NYC 2010
Shows at United States Art Authority
Dave Holmes and The Friday Forty The game show world is obsessed with useless trivia. Remote Control probed its contestants for 1970s TV facts, The Price is Right – makes sure you know the price of Sue-Bee Honey, Jeopardy tests your knowledge of the Peloponnesean War or whatever goddamn hoity-toity thing Alex Trebek’s got on his cards. But who’s there to make sure you’re paying attention to what’s going on in the world – right now? – The Friday Forty is the weekly game show that rewards your knowledge of the news of the last seven days. Contestants sit back, sip a 40-ounce, and face a fearsome 40 questions about the events of the last week, fired at them by our hosts and a cast of Los Angeles – best comics. At stake, their reputations and fabulous prizes maybe! The Friday Forty are Jill Alexander, Nick Armstrong, Scott Gimple, Dave Holmes, Julia Wackenheim, Neil Garguilo.
