Podcast: Improv Embassy rings in the new year—01.05.19
All proceeds from the show will go towards Improv Embassy’s Inclusion Scholarship, which helps students from underrepresented backgrounds take their improv, sketch, and standup classes.
All proceeds from the show will go towards Improv Embassy’s Inclusion Scholarship, which helps students from underrepresented backgrounds take their improv, sketch, and standup classes.
The Fembassy Comedy Show is a women-identified, non-binary comedy show. The first of their monthly shows is this Friday September 14 at Pressed.
Nick Bachusky: “The audience was loving every minute of this show.”
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It’s the last weekend of January, everybody! Why, that’s almost February. And February, with its relative lack of days, might as well be March. We’ll get through this winter yet, and the events this weekend will help.
Nick Bachusky: “Great chemistry between Vishesh Abeyratne and Laura Sosnow – it is clear that they work very well and have known each other for awhile.”
David Currie: “The show features a great set and excellent tech. The host is great and knows how to keep the show on track and active.”
David Currie: “Two humourless people make about fifteen puns at one another in the first ten minutes and then say sad things in exactly the same tone for the rest.”
Travis Facette: “Though loose and a bit aimless at times, the show was always engaging, and I think the artists’ own description of LUB DUB as ‘an experiment in being together’ was quite apt.”
Travis Facette: “The results were mixed, as is often the case with improv.”
Ottawa’s largest theatre festival opens tonight. See our picks for opening night.
The Improv Embassy is having an open house at 176 Rideau Street this Saturday—and you’re invited to improve your improv.