The 43 Hour Improv Marathon

Comedy worth losing sleep over

"...Well, sure, running a marathon demands a lot from you, but at least no..."

June 1, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Hideout Improv Marathon

Eight players improvise for 40 hours straight to help save their artistic home

"...If ever you questioned the degree to which Austin improvisers love to make shit up, swing by the Hideout..."

June 26, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Hideout Improv Marathon

In hour 40, these improvisers were still in top form: fresh, focused, and incredibly funny

"...Going to an improv show at the crack of dawn on a Sunday..."

July 3, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Hideout’s 48-Hour Improv Marathon Returns!

This grueling yes-and fest won’t put you to sleep, citizen

"...Yes, the Hideout Theatre's 48-Hour Improv Marathon is back after a four-year hiatus...."

May 16, 2023 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin's Improv Comedy Marathon 2014

Supposedly sane people, totally making shit up for 45 hours straight

"...going pretty much as they please … while eight improv stalwarts stick around hour after hour after hour to..."

June 18, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Who Does 46 Hours of Comedy Improv Nonstop?

Eight stalwarts of the scene flirt with exhaustion and insanity

"...Hideout Theatre & Coffeeshop has been running this annual improv marathon for six years now, each year adding another..."

June 17, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

47 Nonstop, Unsleeping, Possibly Hallucinatory Hours of Improv This Weekend

The Hideout is doing that wild thing they do every year

"...troupes from the Hideout and all the other Austin improv venues joining in the madness...."

June 16, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Guide to Austin Improv

The venues, events, troupes, and individuals who have transformed Austin into a "Yes, and" boomtown

"...adepts of spontaneity, practitioners of the unpredictable. They are improvisers, and Austin is overrun with them...."

Aug. 26, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Film Review: Thank You Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon

The late improv master finally gets his close-up

"...A legendary improviser and coach gets some overdue acknowledgement in Thank You,..."

March 13, 2016 Screens Post by Sean L. Malin

Wide Awake and Brilliant

Eyes open on the Hideout Theatre's 48-Hour Improv Marathon

"...husks of humanity self-destruct? Not at Hideout Theatre's 48-Hour Improv Marathon; their eight were so whip-smart and quick-witted, they..."

July 4, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Improvising All Night Long! Twice!

The Hideout's annual improv marathon extends to 48 hours

"...to is breathing. But eight of Austin's most intrepid improvisers will spend 48 consecutive hours this weekend making stuff..."

June 21, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Who Says You Can't Do These Things If You Want To?

Not us, chief; contrariwise, this weekend.

"...the whole local stand-up scene, of course, and the improv scene, and the sketch scene … so you're pretty..."

May 31, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Unscripted: Sexy Future Space Lady

What says summer fun more than out-of-this-world lovin' with a Sexy Future Space Lady? Especially improvised!

"...Lady. That's because this is another of the Hideout's improvised productions, shows that use existing films, plays, TV shows,..."

May 18, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

All Over Creation: A Brief History of Laugh Riots in Austin

As April overflows with comedy festivals, an overview of Austin's celebrations of funny

"...and the Velveeta Room, plus about a hundred other improv and sketch shows – the month boasts the biggest..."

April 13, 2012 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Critics Name Cream of the Cultural Crop

The nominees for the 2017-18 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...of work by companies outside of Austin proper, and Improvised Production, recognizing mainstage projects by area improv troupes...."

May 14, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Hell Yes Fest

Austin's newest comedy festival wants to get it 100% correct

"...the Excellence in Comedy New York City Awards; and improvisers Tim & Micah (Chicago), Stupid Time Machine (New Orleans),..."

April 8, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

We Have an Issue: 100 Summery Things on the Horizon

Pick up this week's issue for The Austin Chronicle's summer events guide

"...Wayne Alan Brenner previews the Hideout Theatre's epic 48-Hour Improv Marathon, returning Friday, May 29, after a four-year hiatus...."

May 19, 2023 Column by Kimberley Jones

Robert Faires' Top 10 (+1) Theatre Riches of 2017

From monsters to mountains, wolves to wild horses, the year came alive with figures boldly created onstage

"...10) HIDEOUT IMPROV MARATHON, HOURS 46-48 (Hideout Theatre) The Hideout's annual endurance..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Class

The 2009-2010 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...The Hideout's 40-Hour Improv Marathon..."

June 11, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

ColdTowne Heroes

Help the ColdTowne Heroes get out of town (to hit a batch of comedy fests around the country) at Fun-Razor, an evening of improv, sketches, and films

"...them since has been anything but. The New Orleans improv troupe was 6 months old and just finding its..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Livin' Lavaca Loca

In the early Eighties, back when Jay Leno was still funny, he and a number of now-big name comics told jokes at a little place on Lavaca called the Comedy Workshop. Being there changed the life of one person, who recalls what it was like.

"...most Fridays and conducted informal (and free) classes in improvisation at the club. At the time, I was working..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Arts Feature by Angela Davis

TV Eye

Couch Potato Pie

"...new film, catch the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends marathon, which starts at 8am. Good Wilt Hunting tops off..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Austin Sketch Fest

Rise of the planet of the skits

"...Quick, while the stand-ups are still exhausted from their marathon battle for punch line supremacy (see elsewhere on this..."

May 18, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

115 Comics Walk Into a Bar ...

"...of the driving forces behind the Big Stinkin' International Improv & Sketch Comedy Festival, worked his way down the..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...Don't Think Twice Director/Screenwriter: Mike Birbiglia An improv group loses the lease on their home theater at..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

Not Coming to a Network Near You

Q&A with ATX panelist & 'NTSF:SD:SUV' star Paul Scheer

"...Paul Scheer: The show is improvised kind of like Curb Your Enthusiasm. So we just..."

May 29, 2012 Screens Post by Leah Churner

Off the Record

Commemorating the 20-year anniversary of the Saxon Pub and talking business with Kalu James and ME Television

"...could have a personal connection with." Inspired by DirecTV's marathon coverage of South by Southwest, James moved to Austin..."

June 11, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Because Weekends Were...

Summer nights are engorged

"...the United States Art Authority and support three local improv troupes who've been accepted to the Del Close Marathon..."

July 17, 2008 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Second Coming

Tia Carrera's Jason Morales takes out the Lysol and sprays down the Melvins

"...garden in the shade, a stairway to heaven. One improvised jam at a time, Austin metal trio Tia Carrera..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Mr. Creeptastic

Every day is Halloween when you're Professor Griffin.

"...Umpteen Halloweens later, Fotinos, a former member of improv troupe Monks Night Out, can rattle off Vincent Price..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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