The Art of Good Filth, by Will Dwyer
There is nothing quite like the feeling of seeing your show get a spot on ColdTowne’s calendar and this is one you won’t want to miss. The one thing we wanted to demonstrate when we were planning this variety show: the bluest comedy that Austin has to offer, displayed at its highest intelligence. A taboo […]
Congratulations B. Iden Payne Nominees
Today, the B. Iden Payne committee announced their nominees for theater and improvisation. We are delighted to announce that several ColdTowne shows, troupes and performers have received nominations. Our July/August 2016 Main Stage production, “Dinner for Six” received several nominations, including: Kristen Samuelsen, Producer Outstanding Improv Production Joseph Dailey Outstanding Direction of Improvisational Theater Aly […]
BettyFest Interview with Patio Talk: A Legendary Improv Troupe who Happen to be Female
BettyFest was founded in 2014 by Patio Talk (Chrissy Shackelford, Juliet Prather, Amy Wright, and Kasey Borger), a comedy team based in New York City that originally formed at ColdTowne Theater in Austin, TX. Their members have been trained at UCB NY, iO Chicago, and of course, ColdTowne. We sat down with the ladies of […]
Congrats Cené, Danny and Dave!
ColdTowne Alumna/Alumnus Get Hired We are late to the party, but are incredibly excited to announce that Loverboy’s Cené Hale was recently hired as a cast member for Boom! Chicago – Amsterdam, joining them in August. She follows in the footsteps of former cast members such as Jordan Peele, Becky Drysdale and Seth Myers, to […]
Interview with Title Fine: We Got Game’s Laura de la Fuente
Title Fine: We Got Game is ColdTowne’s newest MainStage production. Featuring an all-female cast of eight players and one coach who play game-based improv in the off season, the cast is entirely composed of women who played sports in high school or college. We interviewed some of the cast to talk about their athletic experience […]
Movie Riot brings you Spin-Off Summer this August
Every Friday at ColdTowne Theater, the improv team Movie Riot creates a never before seen movie, live on stage. However, for the month of August, Movie Riot is giving their format a little spin. An audience member suggests a movie and Movie Riot will create a spin-off. It’s called Spin-Off Summer and they’re performing it […]
ColdTowne featured on KLRU with Stand Up Empire (June 26th)
The comedy scene in Austin is exploding. With eight comedy theaters (and counting), and hundreds of improvisors, stand ups and sketch comedy performers, Austin is quickly producing talent that competes easily with comedians from larger markets, such as Chicago, LA and NYC. To chronicle the exploding comedy scene in ATX, creators Mike Wilson and Brently Heilbron […]
Visiting Lecturer Series: Rich Talarico
famiLIES, ColdTowne’s latest mainstage production was Originally improvised by LA based improv troupe Dasariski whichtakes it’s name from the three memebrs: Bob DASsie, Rich TalARIco and Craig CackowSKI. ColdTowne presents this new comedic staged play about three brothers and the lives they try to keep hidden from each other and the lies we tell ourselves when […]
Freedom from PowerPoint: Talking Team Building with Michael Jastroch
Michael Jastroch is a founder of ColdTowne and has lead ColdTowne’s corporate training since 2006. We chatted him up about how he got started, his approach and why he thinks improv is a good tool for facilitating team work. How did you get started helping teams? From the age of eighteen on, I stumbled my way into […]
Visiting Lecturer Series: Late Night TV Writing with Rich Talarico
The ColdTowne Visiting Lecturer Series continues with veteran TV writer Rich Talarico. Rich will lead a 3 hour workshop/seminar that discusses writing and creating techniques from improv-based Second City and comedic play famiLIES, to late night shows like Key & Peele, MADtv, SNL and The Tonight Show to high concept shows like Review and The […]