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Black Austin Film Festival

August 03 & 04

Celebrating Black Filmmakers with a weekend of screenings, script readings, mixers, panels, and of course, live comedy.

Special Guest Tarik Davis (Late Night with Seth Meyers, Last Week Tonight, The Iliza Shlesinger Show)

DOC: Race, Revolution, Relativity & The Confessions of a Time Traveling Terrorist

August 03 at 4:00

Meet Doc. He’s Black. He’s a time traveler. And he’s the most wanted man on the planet.

Written by Tarik Rashaan Davis

Starring Tarik Rashaan Davis and Ben Jaeger-Thomas

Directed by Tarik Rashaan Davis and Laura K. Nicoll

Black Austin Film Fest Short Films Block

August 04 at 2:00

Films by: Ya’Ke Smith, Chnwe Okorie, Tia Williams, Deborah Valcin, Owokere Benji Unanaowo, Alex Chew, and Ryan Darbonne

Austin Film Fest: The First 3 Pages LIVE!

August 03 at 3:00

Local screenwriters with a Black-Narrative centered story will share the first pages of their newest, unproduced works with the help of ColdTowne Theater’s talented performers.

CHURCH CAMP: CAMPFIRES AND BRIMSTONE

August 09 – 24 8:30 on the Main Stage

From the sketch comedy team that brought you Coming on Christmas comes an all new parody show exploring church camp trials, tribulation, tropes, and trauma.

Frill Shortz

August 02 at 8:00

Fast-paced improv comedy with an all-female cast, Frill Shortz gets the party going with scenes and games inspired by you, created on the spot! Special guest standup comedians fill out the lineup and keep you laughing. Come for the giggles, stay for the once in a lifetime experience. You’ve never seen this show before and you can never see it again!

Hysteria

A Comedy Variety Show
About Bodily Autonomy

Saturday August 03 at 7:00

Audiences have called it “too political” and “an important period piece everyone needs to see” and “don’t ever stop.” You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll help fund safe abortions and trans-affirming care for Texans. Sync up your cycle and save your seat!

THURSDAYS

THE SHOW-OFFS

Graduation July 30 and 31 @ 7:00pm

Two Graduating Classes of ColdTowne Conservatory getting weird on Thursday nights. Good times.

AMOEBA PRESENTS: LAB RESULTS

Thursdays in August @ 7:00pm

Come see what Amoeba’s got cooking up in the lab with some of Austin’s great improv troupes.

Friends For Now

Thursdays @ 8:00pm

Starring familiar faces and new cast members!

FEATURING Veteran Improv Troupes, Up-and-coming performers, and surprise guests.

FRIDAYS

THOSE WHO DARE and ON TIME

Fridays at 7:oo PM

Two totally awesome ColdTowne House Teams co-headline your weekend kick-off.

ALONG FOR THE VIBES

First Fridays Doors at 8:oo in the ColdTowne Cabaret

An evening of Improvised Music and Stand Up Comedy in the ColdTowne Cabaret!

WOKE COWBOY

Second Fridays Doors at 8:oo in the ColdTowne Cabaret

Woke Cowboy is a stand-up showcase that highlights diverse voices in the Austin comedy scene.

THE SWEATY BITS

Fridays at 10:30 PM

Austin’s hottest variety comedy show is back Friday, 10:30pm at ColdTowne Theater to give you more of that sweet sweet offbeat-comedy-perspiration. From stand-up to improv and any oddity in between, we guarantee you’ll be leaking laughter (in a good way!). This show’s got a bottom so soggy it would make Paul Hollywood blush.

SATURDAYS

AM I THE ASSHOLE?

July 27, 8pm

The show that places you in the center of the drama. Inspired by the subreddit thread r/AITA, this show explores personal stories that will leave you wondering- am I the asshole?

Story Starts

Improv Comedy Shows for Kids & Families

Saturdays @ 11am

ColdTowne’s Youth Program, Excused Absence Comedy, is delighted to bring back our weekly Improv shows for kids and families! Story Starts is a fully improvised, interactive, original comedy performed by our adult cast with the help of our audience.

SUNDAYS

The Sunday Harold

Starring All Night, All Night, All Night

Sundays @ 8pm

The best of the best improv comedy theaters around the world perform the Harold, and ColdTowne Theater is pleased to host this evening with some of our city’s finest improv-comedians.

half empty / half full

2nd Sundays at 8:3o pm in the ColdTowne Cabaret

A competition of wits between optimists and pessimists. Hosted by Valerie Nies

Unsolved Conspiracies

4th Sundays at 6:3o pm

In Unsolved Conspiracies, the audience suggestion takes us down a rabbit hole of absurd investigations, preposterous presumptions, and corny queries. Unsolved Conspiracies, in a word, is LAUGHABLE.

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