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The Winnipeg Fringe

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While the Winnipeg if... Improv Festival is coming soon, right now we have a little theatre festival in Winnipeg that is coming even sooner.  The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is a time to finally enjoy theatre in Winnipeg. It is the time when everyone drops everything and focuses on theatre. Much like during the Winnipeg Folk Fest everyone gets really into folk music or during the Winnipeg Jazz Fest every gets really into jazz. The Fringe festival is when theatre artists can enjoy audiences! The improv and comedy scene here in Winnipeg welcomes the Fringe as a time to really stretch and try out new shows, to gain new audiences and to do a whole bunch of shows in a great environment. The Fringe is the best! Here are a couple shows to check out: Stephen & Caity make sure the Winnipeg Improv Festival happens, they also do a show themselves. This year it will be a sequel/part two/re-working of their hit last year. " Comedy Isn't Funny Anymore " becomes " Com...

The Big Stupid Improv Festival

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The Winnipeg IF... Improv Festival is proud to present the Big Stupid Improv Show. In association with The Probable Cast and CRUMBS and Mama Cutsworth and many many special guests. The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is coming and so that means that there will be many many shows and many many great performers in Winnipeg and many many emails in your inbox and many many event invitations in your notifications. The Big Stupid Improv Show Venue #21      MTYP - Mainstage 2 Forks Market Rd. (The Forks) Wed July 15 6:30pm Thu July 16 12pm Fri July 17 9pm Sat July 18 5:15pm Sun July 19 12pm Mon July 20 4:15pm Wed July 22 9:45pm Fri July 24 2:45pm Sat July 25 5:30pm Sun July 26 7:15pm LINK to buy your advanced tickets! This show has been a Fringe staple since 1999. It would be a classic move to state that this year the show will be BIGGER and STUPIDER than EVER! But that would be a lie, the sh...

Improv at the FRINGE!

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The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is almost here and to celebrate improvisation we have the longest running improv jam show in Winnipeg to help us out. The Big Stupid Improv Show is an improv jam show that runs in Winnipeg, Edmonton, Toronto, Vancouver and anywhere else that cares to use the name and throw random comedic actors onstage with improvisers for a Big Stupid Show! The show was first formed in Edmonton as a last minute fundraiser and was named by Wes Borg (of Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie fame). The first one in the Winnipeg Fringe happened in 1998 and has been running practically every year since then. The idea is to bring all the great local improvisers and comedians and throw them onstage with all the great touring performers that are in town for the Fringe. The result is some of the best impromptu, ad-hoc, jams of comedy and theatre possible. Join the "Probable Cast" each night they do their show and see it turn out different each night. The shows ...

THE BiG STUPiD iMPROV SHOW

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Is at the 2011 Winnipeg Fringe Festival at the Planetarium Auditorium and will be featuring the very best in improv with the very best improv players from all across the wonderful world of ours (mostly from Canada though). Order tickets HERE Find out how to get to the theatre HERE