Winnipeg Improv

13th Annual Festival Offers Improvised Game Show, Theatre in Complete Darkness and Dungeons & Dragons   The Gas Station Arts Centre is proud to present the 2012 Winnipeg if... Improv Festival, November 6 to 11, 2012. This year's festival - while experiencing the early symptoms of puberty - boasts performers from Chicago, Montreal, Toronto and Edmonton for six nights of world-class improvisational theatre. Thirteen is an awkward age. A new body is developing, hormones are racing, and body hair on an improv festival? The awkward festival will rebel so, please, keep your eye on your drinks. Read more...   Photo: Janet Shum

This year's Winnipeg IF... Improv Festival is happening November 6-11, 2012. So mark that down in your calendars. Guest performers, ticket information and more details on our 13th edition of the IF will be announced very shortly! In the meantime, get a load of this: We have a VIDEO CONTEST. Make us a video and you might win a really cool prize. The Rules: Your video will be 13 seconds long (we know, that's incredibly short, but that's the challenge). Your suggestion is the number 13. Your deadline to post your video to the Winnipeg Improv Festival facebook page is October 31, 2012 at 1 pm (aka 1300 hours). The video with the most likes, most comments and most awesomeness wins. Tell your friends to like your video, we don't mind. The Prize: 2 front row tickets to all of the 2012 Winnipeg IF shows (non-transferable). And your video could end up on REAL TV — on Week Thus Far ! Pretty great, right? So think about how to win this contest and then do ...

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 ...