Where can you find 3 shows and 1 incredible return?
- HERE ASLA will be performing with ALL FOUR MEMBERS – The beautiful, talented, kind, loving, wonderful, and all things magical, SHYLA will be returning to the stage!
Rogue Improv will perform the SPEED HAROLD on very small amounts, I mean traces if at all – really, we don’t do any drugs…
Finally, we’ll have the biggest and best from Austin come into Houston to WRECK SHOP with us!
Come see long lost faces, every week faces and faces you’ve never seen before!
Rogue Improv (i’ll leave this “best of houston” here) takes the stage again with their speed harold – it’s exactly as drug addled as it sounds!
The New Movement’s MEGAPHONE SHOW will be up next and this week we’re featuringJIM MEYERS from JIM AND THE TOMS - and, check this out Houston - JIM AND THE TOMS are playing RIGHT AFTER all this funny IN THE SAME PLACE! This week rules, and we want to help you get ALL the things! Come out at 8, stay until you can’t stay no longer!
This is something we are extraordinarily proud of. We’ll have the following amazing sets on this VERY SPECIAL Thursday night at Rudyard’s:
Level 1 Recital
Level 2 Recital
Level 3 Recital
GRADUATION – These guys are so very special and wonderful and attractive in all the ways. We call them all friends, badass improvisers and above all else, pterodactyls that glitter in the moon light.
Improv Zero – Free class for introductory improv (7 – 8)SHOOTAROUND – Come one, come all! Let’s all play together in a jam! ALL HOUSTON IMPROVISERS COME ON OUT! Even our newest of new – Improv Zero participants! (8- 8:30)ROGUE IMPROV – Taking the stage again, Houston’s “BEST OF” Rogue Improv, TNM Houston’s House Troupe! (8:30 – 8:55)
THE MEGAPHONE SHOW – TNM’s Staple show – Come help us welcome a special guest (details later this week) as they share stories and we breathe new, wacky life into them! ♥ (8:55 – 9:30)
Hey, did you know the Improv Wins website is now live. You should totally go visit it!
This weekend is also the first ever Improv Wins Conference in Austin, Texas. This first of it’s kind event will feature full days of workshops, panel discussions, and improv educational fun with special shows at night. If you are interested in learning more about the conference, CHECK IT OUT!
Several of Houston’s own will be teaching at the conference, which also features instructors visiting from New York, Las Vegas, Austin, New Orleans, and Chicago.
Shyla and Tami are officially launching their Shyla & Tami Are Your New Husband Tour TONIGHT in Houston!
Wednesday night we’ll be doing a private sesh with Rice University then we’re off to TNM New Orleans, Atlanta’s Basement Theater & Charleston’s Improv-a-Thon at Theatre 99 this weekend. Want to tell your friends in NOLA, Atlanta or Charleston to come see us? Tell them to come and freak us out with some strange information that they shouldn’t know so that we can spend our long car rides trying to solve mysteries!
This month performers from The New Movement embarked on what could only be described as a 14 day voyage into a frightening scene on the Midwestern front punctuated with bouts of risky behavior, euphoric stretches of survival, and terrifying fictions of sleepless nights in the unknown that is not their beds. Nine cities. Two Weeks. One spotted owl. Seven performers.
Here are some of the harrowing accounts:
“So far, I’ve had the most fun in Kansas City. The people were really open and welcoming and the city was gorgeous.” Cris Skelton bellowed! TNM OcTourber is the triple cities of The New Movement combined to form a Comedy Megaphone to be heard nationally featuring Antoine Culbreath (Houston), Ariel Greenspoon (Austin), Cris Skelton (Houston), Derek Dupuy (NOLA), Jesse Spots (Austin), Kate Adair (NOLA) and Mike Spara (NOLA).
In trying to keep positive TNM Houston’s Cris Skelton expanded what it can be like in the scary Midwestern part of the country. “The best thing is pushing and challenging yourself to do your best show every time. Being in a van with six other improvisers raises the stakes; it’s like a 24-hour show.” Terrifying.
Left to fend for themselves the performers have begun to mix up cities and drink weird organic fare.
“In Kansas City, you have to go to Oklahoma Joe’s BBQ. We also had great breakfast at the Beacon in Witchita and some awesome fair trade coffee and organic food at the Black Bear Bakery on Cherokee St. in St. Louis.”
After almost two soul clenching weeks Skelton is clearly proud of the feats accomplished yet and optimistic they will survive to see Houston again.
“We’ve combined talent from three cities to form an insane comedy juggernaut the likes of which has never been seen before. We’ve lit the Midwest on fire and now we’re headed your way. Get excited, we’re coming for you!”
Crazy. Motherfuckers.
Sponsored by Studio8.net and The New Movement: TNM OcTourber.
Tuesday October 11th:
8:30p @ The Howlin’ Wolf Den, New Orleans
907 South Peters
Wednesday October 12th:
8:00p @ Hal & Mal’s, Jackson
200 Commerce Street
Friday October 14th:
9p @ The Improv Trick, St. Louis
2715 Cherokee Street
Saturday October 15th:
7:30p @ Lucky’s Brewgrille, Kansas City
5401 Johnson Dr
Sunday October 16th:
8p @ Rock Island Live, Wichita
101 North Rock Island
Tuesday October 18th:
8p @ The Ghostlight Theater Club, Oklahoma City
3110 N. Walker
Wednesday October 19th
8:30p @ The Dallas Comedy House, Dallas
2645 Commerce Street
Thursday October 20th
8p @ Rudyard’s, Houston
2010 Waugh Drive
Friday October 21st
9p @ The New Movement, Austin
1819 Rosewood Ave
The Houston Press just may be sweet on us. First they came out and reviewed our student show in June and concluded:
The ambiance is warm and casual, and a patron gets the pleasure of discovering a hidden gem, one that can be shared with friends, and revisited often, to savor again.
And today the Houston Press’ Art Attack recommended tonight’s Wednesday show with lovely words like these:
TNM’s approach to the craft has been to highlight the “irrational or bizarre” with an experimental and absurdist nature. If improv were an animal, TNM might just be a platypus. Up until recently, Houstonians had to travel to distant lands (Austin and New Orleans) to learn improv The New Movement way. Beginning this summer, however, TNM has opened classes up to the Houston community
