Out of Bounds is bigger than ever this year– more improv, more sketch comedy, more stand up, more stages, more classes, bigger venues, bigger parties.
It’s an exciting week and there’s a ton going on. So I try to make some recommendations based on what I’ve seen before, although the festival is so big there’s lots of awesome things that I’m entirely unfamiliar with. And there’s also a ton of excellent shows that are booked at the same time, so there’s some tough choices to make.
Wednesday 9/1
8pm SVT Apples Stage
Midnight Society
Dusk: Improvised Tween Erotica
Get the week started right with some home town heavy hitters. Plus, I’m in Dusk!
Thursday 9/2
7:30pm Hideout Upstairs
Your Terrific Neighbors (ATX)
710 Split (LA)
Covered and Smothered (LA)
Friday 9/3
A Toss up between:
8pm SVT Apples sketch comedy
Tuskegee Experiment(LA)
Pangea 3000 (NYC)
8pm Hideout Downstairs
Improsia (SEA)
Girls Girls Girls (ATX)
Hit and Run (DEN)
9:30pm SVT Apples
Parallelogram-
ophonograph (ATX)
PROJECTproject (TOR)
Get Up (ATX)
Live Man Show (AMST)
7:30pm
Three Falling (ISR)
FrankenMatt [improv set] (LA)
9:30pm
Kevin McDonald’s ‘Hammy and the Kids’ (LA)
8pm
The Reckoning (CHI)
Buddy Daddy (ATX)
Lottery w/ The Reckoning (VAR)
There are lots of great teachers in town for OOB. And I don’t have any Merlin Works classes running simultaneously, so I can whole heartedly recommend them. I’ve heard great things about all the teachers coming this year, but I haven’t had personal experience with all of them. The ones I can personally recommend are:
Jet Eveleth & Eric Hunicutt (The Reckoning)
Noon – 4pm
Hideout Upstairs
Dr. Cacky’s Improv Cleansing
Craig Cackowski (Dasariski)
Noon – 4pm
Hideout Classroom
Sunday, September 5th
Jill Bernard (Drum Machine and SWITCH)
4pm – 6pm
Hideout Upstairs
