Winnipeg Improv

Next Winnipeg IF... Improv Festival is happening OCT 11th - 15th, 2016 Thank you to all the staff at the Gas Station Arts Centre for helping produce this amazing festival. Be on the look out for some AMAZING and BIG news about the upcoming improv festival this FALL! The Big Stupid Improv Show at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival is happening! Advanced Tickets on sale NOW Big Stupid Improv Facebook Event Link Thank you to all our performers. The local improv stars who took the time to grace our stages. The out of town performers who came to Winnipeg to impress us with their style and be impress by our town. Thank you to all the crew of volunteers the festival has, our improv community, that makes all the gears work and makes the festival run smooth. Thank you to all the audiences who come out to the shows, laugh at the jokes, gasp at the stories and applaud at the art we make up only once.  opening night packed at the King's Head (this is where Step

Kevin McDonald, used to have a TV show in the '90s; and not just any TV show, a good TV show. In fact, a seminal Canadian comedy sketch show. I'll stop beating around the bush and come right out and say that it was of course the much-loved "The Kids in the Hall." Kevin McDonald will be guest starring in the Big Stupid Improv Show on the  Thursday  night ( October 3rd ) at the Gas Station Arts Centre. The show will be in the tradition of the "Armando Diaz Experience" and the ASSSSCAT 3000, which are improv shows that feature a special guest telling true stories. The cast of ensemble improvisers will then use this as inspiration to improvise scenes of hilarity. Get your tickets NOW! Call the Gas Station Arts Centre at (204) 284-9477 or click here to order online . 

 The Winnipeg if... Improv Festival ends. The curtains close. The mimed objects get packed up in the mime boxes. The D&D show hangs up their swords. The lights go up on the Bat and the lights go down on stage. The CRUMBS get swept up. Outside Joke goes inside. Everyone gets on a plane and flies to their homes. And everything is good. What a tremendously successful festival. Thank you to everyone who came to the shows, were in the shows and helped make the festival run smoother than ever. Thank you: Sarah Michaelson for holding the fort down while I was gone and for finding all typohs. Hunnicutt and Mama Cutsworth for Dj so well and so much. Angela for taking everyone's money with a smile. Tristan and Luke for curtains and projecting. Joe Bill for inspiring everyone. Mark Little for taking a chance on improv again. Kirsten for rocking the stage. Jules for not dying and for "killing it". Jessie for forcing Lee

Photo: Janet Shum The Winnipeg IF... Improv Festival starts tonight! With a FREE show, no less. Join us at the King's Head Pub for a free sampling of what this year's festival has to offer: CRUMBS, Mark Little, Kirsten Rasmussen, and more! With music by DJ Hunnicutt and Mama Cutsworth! "The Festival Sampler Platter" King's Head Pub, 120 King St.  |  9 p.m.  |  Free Speaking of free, download the complimentary episode of "Joke's On You," CKUW's weekly comedy show. Stephen Sim of CRUMBS was a guest on the November 5th episode, which you can download here . Put some comedy in your headphones and warm yourself up for a week of hilarity at the IF. The Winnipeg IF... Improv Festival runs from today to Sunday, November 11th. For a full festival line up, click here .

The Winnipeg iF... Improv Festival keeps experimenting with improvisation and with the calendar of when we even have a festival. This year's festival will be Nov 9th - 14th at the Gas Station Arts Centre right in Osborne Village. Soon we will be releasing who will be coming and what will be going on... exciting right? And while you wait for more festival information... how about a creepy picture of a giant baby.