Shows

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Act 1: Beauty Love Truth feat. Nico Brennan

Beauty Love Truth combines live music and heartfelt improv. Performing scenes inspired by original songs, the improvisers bring new meaning to the lyrics through tales of heartbreak, happiness and hope. This format was created by Louie Pearlman (New York City).

About Nico Brennan

Nico is a dynamically gifted singer who has been part of Canada’s professional music scene for over twenty years. The former lead-singer for Calgary’s critically acclaimed “Dino Martini’s”, Nico has emerged as a ukulele-playing singer-songwriter. Her song-writing style infuses a blend of folk, rock, pop, calypso, and Latin sensibilities with thoughtful lyrics and uplifting messages.  She is now the lead singer-songwriter for B4Peace, the host of Cornerstone Music Cafe’s “Sunday School Open Mic”, and a harmonious partner in Nico & Jeff. Her first EP, “The Dream Factory” was released to a sold out crowd in March 2019.

Act 2: The Sketchonauts feat. Short Form Players

The Sketchonauts are the sketch comedy division of the Kinkonauts – this time the content is scripted! Find out what happens when we plan our jokes in advance. It’s going to be a wild ride!

Content advisory: The Sketchonauts is a scripted show that contains mature themes.

This two-act show runs from 8pm to 10pm with a brief intermission.

Tickets are $12 online or $15 at the door.

Online sales end at 6pm day of the show. If sold out online, a limited number of tickets will be available at the door – we open at 7:30pm.

This show is cancelled. Please see our Coronavirus statement.

ACT 1: IMPROV! THE MUSICAL

Gotta sing? Gotta dance? Then you gotta join us for a fully improvised musical show. Our Broadway Babies will get your heart racing so you’ll think you’re in La La Land. If you love the Sound of Music, and catch yourself Singin’ in the Rain, you won’t want to miss these improvisers and their super cool accompanist making up songs and stories and All That Jazz.

ACT 2: MULLIGAN FEAT. BABY TEE REX

Mulligan lets the audience snuggle into their seats before taking them on a wild roller-coaster ride. While rounding long corners they are content and vulnerable; at sharp turns fast and deadly as they rise to a crescendo, creating characters and stories along the way. No fear to be found here- these improvisers are fiery, sharp and witty af!

THIS TWO-ACT SHOW RUNS FROM 8PM TO 10PM WITH A BRIEF INTERMISSION.

Tickets are $12 online or $15 at the door. Students 2-for-1 at the door, with student ID.

Online sales end at 6pm day of the show. Walk up tickets available at the door – we open at 7:30pm.

This show is cancelled. Please see our Coronavirus statement.

WHERE NEW IMPROV TAKES FLIGHT

Join us for the last Launch Pad of the season! Talented Kinkonauts players conquer new frontiers with experimental formats. Witness the boldest and the bravest test their mettle. Some will crash and burn. The mightiest will blast off and soar to new heights.

Tickets $8 online, $10 at the door. Students are 2-for-1 at the door.

Online sales end at 6pm day of the show. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door – we open at 7:30pm.

This show is cancelled. Please see our Coronavirus statement.

Reactor Improv Festival – Opening Show

Sparks fly as the Kinkonauts kickoff the 2020 Reactor Improv Festival!

• Vlad & Vicky: Our favourite vampires show us what eternal love is all about!
• Tinder-Prov:  Are you ready to swipe right on improv?
• Impr007: Improv shaken, not stirred – an Improvised James Bond that’s all thriller, no filler!

Stick around for the 9pm show for free with your ticket to From Improv with Love

Online sales end at 6pm the day of the show. A limited # of walk up tickets will be available. Doors open at 7pm.

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This show is cancelled. Please see our Coronavirus statement.

Reactor Improv Festival – Wednesday 9pm

Sparks fly on opening night of Reactor. Featuring three of our hottest improv acts, this show is bound to get a reaction:

• Are We Not Men: Braving the Wikipedia rabbithole, to find topics to inspire their scenes!
• PSA:  Cool kids sharing life lessons through rap!
• Push Button: Comedy at the push of a button, or maybe it will push your buttons?

Tickets are $5 at the door, subject to availability!

Guarantee a seat by coming to From Improv with Love at 7:30pm.

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This show is cancelled. Please see our Coronavirus statement.

Reactor Improv Festival – Thursday at 7:30pm

It’s Volume 2 of Tales Without a Scrypt! Theatre so terrifying it can only be done without a scrypt.

The incredibly popular show from last year returns with spooky new delights:

• Screamy Linguine:The Lovecraft Twins bring us their latest improvised horror story!
• Outcast:  Improvisers brave the unknown, armed with only a walky-talky and their wits!
• Riddikulus!: Making magic & managing mischief in the world of Harry Potter

Content Advisory: this show will not be suitable for children

Stick around for the 9pm show for free with your ticket to Tales Without a Scrypt.

Online sales end at 6pm the day of the show. A limited # of walk up tickets will be available. Doors open at 7pm.

This show is cancelled. Please see our Coronavirus statement.

Reactor Improv Festival – Thursday at 9pm

The Kinkonauts embark on a quest to combine improv, music & adventure. Take a wild ride through the music of their imaginations  in a show unlike any you’ve seen on our stage before:

• Soundscape: Our improvisers weave a tapestry of sound & rhythm to infuse a medley of wonderful scenes
• The Chronicles of Evermore: Toss a coin to your improviser and join us for an epic fantasy tale! Our bards weave songs of truth & lies in the making of heroic legends.

Tickets $5 at the door subject to availability, or free with your ticket to the 7:30pm show.

Guarantee a seat by coming to Tales Without a Scrypt at 7:30pm.

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This show is cancelled. Please see our Coronavirus statement.

A double-header of two incredible duos!

Non Gratas (Toronto via Argentina & Puerto Rico)

Non Gratas is a latinx improv duo playing what they know best: melodrama and comedy. Patricia Tab (Second City HouseCo, Bad Dog Featured Players) and Mariela Pabon (Instagram sensation @checkinmela) have prepared a list of their favorite karaoke songs. All of them are Hispanic ballads they used to listen when kids. The feelings are so loud you don’t need to speak the language to get them. Those songs are the fuel to improvise characters and approach topics like cultural shock, the intersection between romantic love and womanhood, and the general absurdity of life.

Non Gratas have performed in festivals across Canada including Mprov (Montreal) and the Vancouver International Improv Festival.

Brotha Brotha (Minneapolis – St. Paul)

Brotha Brotha (Denzel Belin and John Gebretatose) is a Twin Cities-based improv duo. Fast. Hilarious. Inspired. Indescribable tbh. And aside from being Black this is NOTHING like 90s TV show Sister, Sister.

Part of the world-class HUGE improv theatre, Brotha Brotha has also performed in improv festivals across the United States, including the Boston Improv Festival and the New Orleans Improv Festival.

Online sales end at 6pm the day of the show. Walk up tickets available for $18. Doors open at 7pm.

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This show is cancelled. Please see our Coronavirus statement.

Beauty Love Truth combines live music and heartfelt improv. Performing scenes inspired by original songs, the improvisers bring new meaning to the lyrics through tales of heartbreak, happiness and hope.

Featuring guest musician Carter Felker

Bio coming soon!

Online sales end at 6pm the day of the show. Walk up tickets will be available at the door for $15.

Want to see all three Friday night shows? Get a  Friday Pass – great savings!

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This show is cancelled. Please see our Coronavirus statement.

It’s law and disorder when improvisers from around the world duke it out on stage! This show explores what happens when we combine courtroom drama with WWE madness.

Online sales end at 6pm the day of the show. Walk up tickets available for $15.

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This show is cancelled. Please see our Coronavirus statement.

Headliner: Blackout Improv (Minneapolis – St. Paul)

Blackout Improv (Denzel Belin, Alexis Camille, Ashawnti Sakina Ford, John Gebretatose & Kory LaQuess Pullam) is a mix of comedy, social justice, and arts access. We seek to put more Black performers on more stages, to create comedic dialogue around serious truths, and to provide improv access for Black people around the world. Blackout is changing the face of comedy stages.

“Swag Hat” is Blackout’s signature format where audience writes topics on a piece of paper before the show for the cast to use as inspiration to talk about. Blackout regularly takes on subjects like race, gender and police brutality, among other things, all the while hoping that laughter can help people in the audience find common ground. We hope.

Featuring a very special opening act: Motion from Edmonton, Alberta!

Motion is a fast-paced, high energy movement based show that explores directed scenes through a specific physical motion. Sometimes sexy, usually funny, always sweaty. WHAT MOVES YOU?

Online sales end at 6pm the day of the show. Walk up tickets will be available at the door for $18. Doors open at 7pm.

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This show is cancelled. Please see our Coronavirus statement.

The Wadsworth Constant is an improvised absurdist one-act play, a chance to laugh and commiserate at our bizarre shared human condition. Veteran improvisors and theatrical clowns Kristen Schier and Nick Gillette cook up a brand new play together, touching upon the existentialist fears and joys at the heart of us all.

Online sales end at 6pm the day of the show. Walk up tickets available for $15.

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This show is cancelled. Please see our Coronavirus statement.

Reactor Festival Closing Show

Ending Reactor on a high note – pun intended! Noteworthy is a giant improvised musical show combining veteran Kinkonauts and all-star guests! They’ve never performed together before, but we know they’ll make beautiful music together!

Online sales end at 6pm the day of the show. Walk up tickets available for $15. Doors open at 7pm.

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