ImprovBoston does the ol’ ‘Let’s put on a show,’ but streamed starting June 5 in 40-hour stretch
The ImprovBoston comedy club plans a 40-hour fundraising marathon of live streamed performances starting 8 p.m. June 5, featuring improv, sketch and standup comedy, music, interviews, absurd late-night bits and more.
Dana Jay Bein wrote a Covid-19 Queen parody, and a country of stir-crazy singers sent it viral
At noon Wednesday, comedian and frequent Twitter user Dana Jay Bein – appropriately socially distanced in his Cambridge apartment – posted a thread online with a complete rewrite of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” customized for the coronavirus crisis. Things have been wild ever since.
Before the Netflix specials and ‘Mrs. Maisel,’ Kirkman was smoking on Cambridge stages
Jen Kirkman, coming to Boston’s Wilbur theater on Friday for a brand-new hour of comedy, kills in her Netflix stand-up comedy specials, bestselling books and as the comic voice behind two seasons of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” But she started in Cambridge.
Comedy Studio relaunches in Union Square, home at last after 21 years as guests in an attic
Though Mayor Joe Curtatone did a ribbon-cutting for the Comedy Studio’s reopening Thursday in Somerville’s Union Square, the real start for the club 22nd year took place about an hour later, when owner Rick Jenkins took the stage (with a tie cut in half by Curtatone).
New Year’s Day ‘100 First Jokes’ tradition stood test of time, now takes on weather
Sure, New Year’s Day is expected to hit a low of -1 degrees – but by then Cambridge and Somerville will already be acclimated to a seemingly relentless cold snap, and staying in would mean missing the sixth year of “100 First Jokes” at ImprovBoston.
Comedy Studio is leaving Harvard Square, taking laughs to Somerville’s Bow Market
Cambridge is losing The Comedy Studio to Somerville, where the comedy club plans to open in spring in Bow Market in Union Square – a former storage space being turned into a complex of more than 30 small storefronts for food, retail and the arts.
Comedy Studio seeks new space for 2018, ending a 21-year run atop Harvard eatery
After more than 20 years, the Comedy Studio is seeing out the year and then shutting down atop Harvard Square’s Hong Kong Restaurant. By that time, club founder and owner Rick Jenkins hopes to have found another home for comedians in 2018.
Allegations of sexual assault, harassment leveled at former director of comedy club (update)
Public controversies that contributed to a 2013 resignation at ImprovBoston, the Central Square comedy theater and school, seem minor compared with what’s happened since Zach Ward returned to leading the improv theater he owns in North Carolina.
Comedy Studio loses Wednesday shows during summer in prep for rent increase
Harvard Square’s Comedy Studio is cutting back its schedule, going to four days a week – losing Wednesday to run shows only Thursday through Sunday. The issue: rising rents.
Three new comedy shows to sample starting in January in Central Square
From monthly variety and sketch comedy showcases delivered by the Women In Comedy Festival and a Second City Chicago alum to weekly shows focused on improv, there’s a bunch of fresh work coming to the stage in Central Square in early 2017.
