Tag: Curious Comedy

PFLAG Portland Black Chapter’s 4th Anniversary Celebration ~ at Curious Comedy

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Celebrate the Four Year Anniversary of PFLAG Portland Black Chapter hosted by Alexis Campbell Starr;  featuring inspiring performances, and several special guests!

Date: Sunday, February 24, 2013
Doors: 5:30pm
Location: Curious Comedy Theater
5225 NE Martin Luther King Blvd
Portland, OR 97211
Tri-met accessible

Space is limited – Buy Tickets on line today!
$10 in advance, $15 at the door
Admission includes buffet & program, cash bar available for 21 and over.
This is an all ages event and wheel chair accessible.

Today’s Groupon: Curious Comedy Theater

At the groupon.com website:

 

$15 for Two Tickets to a Weekend Main-Stage Show at the Curious Comedy Theater


If laughter were a school supply, it would be an eraser, magically and instantly absolving all past and present regrets. Rub out unpleasantries with today’s Groupon. For $15, you get two tickets to any weekend main-stage performance at Curious Comedy Theater (a $30 value). This Groupon is not valid for rental shows or performances on Friday March 25, Friday April 29, or Friday June 10. Reservations are encouraged.

In a courageous crusade to reverse of the advance of gloomery and doldrumage, the Curious Comedy Theater puts up hilarious sketch and improv comedy shows in an intimate, bistro-style performance space with a full bar. This non-profit theater was the first of its kind in Portland devoted exclusively to comedy, and the second of its kind to incorporate a 4-D ride experience. Though the schedule frequently rotates, current main-stage offerings include Unexpectations (March 26-April 23), a show in which Curious co-founder Stacey Hallal performs stage-borne shenanigans following an opening act of stand-up comedians or fellow Curious performers, Apocalypse Now and Later (April 30-June 4), a frolicsome expose into America’s love affair with dollars and doll hairs, and the Curious Comedy Cover Show (June 24-July 30), featuring comedy covers from Charlie Chaplin, Bob Newhart, Mitch Hedberg, and more.

Curious co-founders Stacey Hallal and Bob Ladewig both received their comedy training in Chicago, which is to improvisation what Philadelphia is to cheesesteaks and Detroit is to dolphin-themed water stunt shows. Having trained with Second City and iO—world-famous comedy institutions known for alumni such as Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and Steve Carell—Stacey and Bob, along with the theater’s cast of performers, know how to elicit chuckles, chortles, and even seldom-heard cachinnations from Portlanders. The Curious Comedy Theater’s canon of comic styles will find a way to tickle all sorts of funnybones, regardless of the amount of mirth-marrow contained therein. Make a reservation for a night at the theater that’s actually meant to be funny.


Hurry, hurry, buy now! The sale ends at midnight.

 

Check out Curious Comedy for info on all the shows they’re running.

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free passes to Curious Comedy available!

I’ve got three Groupon coupons for ‘weekend mainstage performances’ at Curious Comedy at Vanport Square, 5225 NE MLK … they expire October 13th. Do you want them? Leave a comment on the blog with some sort of contact info, and they can be yours!

While you think on it, watch this clip of Joanie Quinn at Curious Comedy:

(Therapy notebooks for children… not a bad idea.)

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Two links: a photoblog, & some comedy-video.

Community Warehouse has a photoblog for its used-items store on MLK  – check it at www.estatestore.org… you won’t regret it. It’s a blog about items for sale in the store – but it’s so much more than that. I get a kick out of it.

Also, Curious Comedy has a vimeo page with lots of comedy videos produced for its comedy festivals. Here’s a very short clip showing the small waterfall in Vanport Square’s courtyard: Magic!

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‘Queer Comedy Showcase’ and Parallax @ Curious Comedy this weekend.

Local and non-local comediennes will headline a fundraiser for the Q Center. More information on the show can be found at the PDX Comedy Blog! Curious Comedy is at 5225 NE MLK, in Vanport Square.

After an eventful night of sleepwalking, a man wakes to find himself covered in ink, pants ripped to shreds and the love of his life no where to be found.

The Berger-Duffy Institute cordially invites you to analyze the case study of Lawrence Phillips.

One Horn Goat Presents a multi-media theatrical production, integrating film, animation, live action and live music. A romantic absurdity. You’ll laugh.

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Suck My Flick @ Curious Comedy this Sunday.

A whole slew of recurring events are hosted at the Curious Comedy Theatre, 5225 NE Martin Luther King Jr. in Vanport Square; I thought I’d take a moment and highlight one of them: Suck My Flick, hosted by the multi-talented chanteuse and organizer, Tamara J. Brown, with help from portlandfilm.org:

Per the Suck My Flick website:   Suck My Flick is a screening of short movies that are submit at sign-up time (7:00 PM). we will give a trophy to the filmmaker who’s movie received the most votes from the audience. We supply the space, the Projector, and a place to buy beer. The event is FREE to enter and FREE to watch.

You can view some past winning submissions here!

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