ColdTowne Theater During Out Of Bounds!
The Out of Bounds Comedy Fest is nigh! In just about seven days, 500 comedians from across the country will begin flocking to Austin to participate in the largest comedy festival in the south. From August 31st to September 5th, seven different venues will host improv, stand up and sketch comedy shows from New York, […]
Bring Your Weird Family Baggage in September!
Thursdays at 8:30 in September, Coldtowne Theater wants you to bring your baggage. Watch as Family Tides takes your dysfunctional family and shows you just how funny they really are. Share your story or just watch others share theirs. Laugh as this mischievous group explores what it really means to be dysfunctional. Need family therapy? […]
IFL Week 1 Recap, One Week Late!
Week 1 of the 43rd year of IFL had was a hard fought battle fought with bits. Bits welded by Goths, Yuppies and the elderly who try to keep trim by walking indoors. During free agency at the top of the show, The Highland Mall Walkers and their supporters outbid the Greenbelt Gentrifieds and 66Sixth […]
Mainstage Sketch Show Has a Name, September Debut!
Murderers and con artists. White collar fraud and suicide bombers. Bernie Madoff and Rupert Murdoch. There’s a crime wave sweeping the nation, and it has absolutely nothing to do with any of those things. The real crimes against humanity are being perpetrated every day by the very people that birthed you. Your parents are guilty […]
ColdTowne Theater Heads To NYC!
Hello, what’s this? Half of ColdTowne Theater is emptying out of Austin next weekend, just in time for the heatpocalypse. We’re all headed for New York City for the 13th annual Del Close Marathon. The Marathon is three days of non stop long form improv put on by the UCBTheater at four different venues all […]
The Radio Smoking Jacket Comedy Hour debuts Thursday, August 18th!
Greetings and salutations, stout yeomen and consumers of infotainment! In bold defiance of scripture, ColdTowne Theater and McCormick Lint Seed Oils proudly present a gluttonous buffet of comedy bits, recorded live for the slothful pleasures of the housebound and the lustful indulgences of widows! (Also: wrath! envy! greed!) Each month, The Radio Smoking Jacket Comedy […]
Yo, Austin! Fall Comedy Preview at ColdTowne
Hey guys, now’s as good a time as any to go ahead and formally announce some big-time schedule changes happening at ColdTowne Theater. Austin comedy nerds rejoice! We’re moving to seven nights a week of live comedy as well as offering a broader range of special events and runs of shows with better production values. […]
Stool Pigeon Moves To Tuesdays! Pay What You Want!
The cast of Stool Pigeon reads like a Who’s Who of ColdTowne improv, a collection of our most prodigous graduates and teachers. Each week, a special guest will be the “Stool Pigeon”. The pigeon relates several stories from their (real) life, providing a bevy of details and thematic do-dads for the others to take and […]
Bad Boys Present: Sin
Thursdays at 8:30pm in August, join Bad Boys as they mine sin for all of the laughs it can yield. What causes people to commit adultery? Overeat? Cut you off in traffic when you’re late to a movie? Bad Boys will get to the root of these daily transgressions and then blow them out of proportion to discover […]
Improv Fantasy League is Go!
Saturdays in August! Mom’s apple pie. The Lincoln Memorial. Making out. None of these things are nearly as quintessentially American as a good old fashioned football. The old gridiron. The pigskin. Two teams of hot sinewy dudes matching wits on a field of battle. And nothing’s more quintessentially hilarious than people fantasizing about playing football. […]