Winnipeg Improv

The Winnipeg Improv Festival returns again. Bringing you the best of improv, comedy and theatre live on a stage. Players from across Canada and the USA collaborate with locals performers bringing you the the MOST DANGEROUS FORM OF THEATRE!   Stay tuned for more details. Full schedule and guest announcements are coming soon!

While the Winnipeg if... Improv Festival is coming soon, right now we have a little theatre festival in Winnipeg that is coming even sooner.  The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is a time to finally enjoy theatre in Winnipeg. It is the time when everyone drops everything and focuses on theatre. Much like during the Winnipeg Folk Fest everyone gets really into folk music or during the Winnipeg Jazz Fest every gets really into jazz. The Fringe festival is when theatre artists can enjoy audiences! The improv and comedy scene here in Winnipeg welcomes the Fringe as a time to really stretch and try out new shows, to gain new audiences and to do a whole bunch of shows in a great environment. The Fringe is the best! Here are a couple shows to check out: Stephen & Caity make sure the Winnipeg Improv Festival happens, they also do a show themselves. This year it will be a sequel/part two/re-working of their hit last year. " Comedy Isn't Funny Anymore " becomes " Com

The Winnipeg IF... Improv Festival is proud to present the Big Stupid Improv Show. In association with The Probable Cast and CRUMBS and Mama Cutsworth and many many special guests. The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is coming and so that means that there will be many many shows and many many great performers in Winnipeg and many many emails in your inbox and many many event invitations in your notifications. The Big Stupid Improv Show Venue #21      MTYP - Mainstage 2 Forks Market Rd. (The Forks) Wed July 15 6:30pm Thu July 16 12pm Fri July 17 9pm Sat July 18 5:15pm Sun July 19 12pm Mon July 20 4:15pm Wed July 22 9:45pm Fri July 24 2:45pm Sat July 25 5:30pm Sun July 26 7:15pm LINK to buy your advanced tickets! This show has been a Fringe staple since 1999. It would be a classic move to state that this year the show will be BIGGER and STUPIDER than EVER! But that would be a lie, the show has in fact gotten smarter and and h

The dates for the 2015 Winnipeg IF... Improv Festival have been announced.  Look for us from Sept 29th to Oct 4th at the Gas Station Arts Centre. GSAC LINK More details to be announced soon. Go improv!

The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is almost here and to celebrate improvisation we have the longest running improv jam show in Winnipeg to help us out. The Big Stupid Improv Show is an improv jam show that runs in Winnipeg, Edmonton, Toronto, Vancouver and anywhere else that cares to use the name and throw random comedic actors onstage with improvisers for a Big Stupid Show! The show was first formed in Edmonton as a last minute fundraiser and was named by Wes Borg (of Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie fame). The first one in the Winnipeg Fringe happened in 1998 and has been running practically every year since then. The idea is to bring all the great local improvisers and comedians and throw them onstage with all the great touring performers that are in town for the Fringe. The result is some of the best impromptu, ad-hoc, jams of comedy and theatre possible. Join the "Probable Cast" each night they do their show and see it turn out different each night. The shows

The Winnipeg iF... Improv Festival (version 9) Nov 3rd - Nov 8th Monday Nov 3rd The special CRUMBS radio show on 101.5 umfm at 5pm Soap Scum at the Park theatre at 8pm the live improvised soap opera. The Park Theatre show is at 698 Osborne Street and costs $5 Tuesday Nov 4th The special King's Head Festival jam show featuring special guests and improv awesomes 9pm and free (yes FREE) The King's Head Pub is located at 120 King Street. Thursday Nov 6th The first main stage show of the Festival at the Gas Station Theatre Featuring special guests and OUTSIDE JOKE Friday Nov 7th The second main stage show of the Festival at the Gas Station Theatre Featuring special guests and CRUMBS Saturday Nov 8th The third and final night of the Festival at the Gas Station Theatre Featuring a live improv movie (yes live!) The Gas Station Theatre is great (and produces the Festival) The Gas Station Theatre is located in the heart of Osborne village at 445 River Ave (call 284-9477). The Gas Station