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Meet Your Madmen!

November 20th - Meet Your Madmen
Our acclaimed show format featuring the personal stories of special guests from the Portland community returns to the Winningstad!

Jerry Ketel, co-founder of Leopold Ketel & Partners

Kelley Baker, filmmaker and author of The Angry Filmmaker Survival Guide.

Special Musical guest Amy Veltman
8:00 PM
Portland Center for the Performing Arts’ Winningstad Theatre
1111 SW Broadway [...]

PDX Improv-O-rama

November 14th - PDX Improv-O-rama
Two of Portland’s best improv comedy groups take the stage alongside Super Project Lab: Brainwaves Improv Comedy, Portland’s longest running short-form improv group; and The Liberators, purveyors of extremely funny and good-looking improv.

These three masters of spontaneous comedy will delight audiences with instant wit, improvised stories, and on the spot brilliance. [...]

Scary-Ass Improv!

The Brody Theater
October 16th & 17th at 8:00 PM - Scary-Ass Improv
Laugh, scream, and run for your lives! Two nights of improvised stories inspired by audience members’ recollections of frightening characters from their past, either imagined or real, living or dead.
Super Project Lab performs with very sexy and funny special-guest improvisers: The Liberators!

The Brody Theater
16 [...]

Funny Business at Curious!

Saturday, Sept. 19th
8:00 PM

Funny Business, featuring SPL’s own Phil Incorvia, will perform their usual blend of thoughtful and thoughtless, but always hilarious, long-form improvisation.
Sharing the bill with them is the Curious Comedy mainstage cast, who will preview sketches from their upcoming sketch comedy revue, the vaudeville-inspired Hurly-Burly Spectacular.

 
Tickets are $10.00
Curious Comedy Theater.
5225 NE Martin Luther [...]

Portland Creative Conference

 
Don’t miss The Portland Creative Conference on Saturday Sept. 12th. The conference is a celebration of film, television, interactive media and design with an amazing line-up of speakers, including SPL’s own Gary Hirsch.
View Video Highlights from the 2008 Creative Conference!

“Old Flames” at Curious Comedy

Our new show format “Old Flames” debuts this weekend at Curious Comedy Theater, September 11th & 12th at 8:00 PM. Doors open at 7:30 PM.
Special Musical-Improvisation Guest: Canoofle
Old Flames offers a hilarious night of improvised stories that are inspired entirely by audience members recollections of lovers past. Audience members provide a few descriptive details, quirks, [...]

Brody Theater: Theatresports and More!

Theatresports
A wildly fun team improv competition! Two teams of performers create spontaneous scenes from your suggestions and are scored by a panel [...]

Live Wire: September 12th in Salem

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Live Wire! radio, from the Historic Elsinore Theater in Salem. Guests include Governor Barbara Roberts, OSU Basketball Coach Craig Robinson, Portland Cello Project and more.
Confirmed guests for this show include: DAVID GUTERSON, author of Snow Falling on Cedars and most recently The Other, OSU Basketball Coach and The White House’s [...]

Liberators Return to Mississippi Studios

The Liberators are back on Mississippi turf this fall: Sunday, September 27. Come check out some seriously funny and sexy improv at the newly renovated and fabulous Mississippi Studios!
Mississippi Studios
3939 N. Mississippi, Portland, OR 97227

Back Fence PDX: Telling Stories

 
 
ENTERTAINMENT FOR PEOPLE
A night of really fun things, music included
Thursday, September 10th
7 p.m. doors, drinks/8 p.m. show
THE WOODS
6637 Milwaukie Avenue
Portland, OR 97202
21 AND OVER ONLY
$10 online/$12 at the door
(Tickets on sale at www.backfencepdx.com August 26th)
Cold Beer and Naughty Wine will be served
FEATURING
From New York… DAN KENNEDY, longstanding contributor at McSweeneys.net, author of “Loser Goes First” [...]

Youth Rock Radio Goes Live!

Eli Hirsch, the talented musician/producer son of Super Project Lab founder Gary Hirsch, has launched Youth Rock Radio, an Internet-based radio show that features kid rock bands from around the world.

The first episode of Youth Rock Radio aired yesterday. Guests include members from the bands Still Pending (Portland, Oregon) and Blackout 101 (Calabasas, California). The [...]

“Meet Your Poet” Scott Poole

Fresh from playing to packed houses at The Portland Center of the Performing Arts, SPL brings its acclaimed show “Meet Your________!” to the Curious Comedy Fools Festival for one night only: Saturday April 4th at 8 PM
Truth and fiction collide when special guest, Scott Poole (Poet and author of The Cheap Seats and Hiding from [...]

“Curious Fools Festival” Rolls Into Town!

THE CURIOUS FOOLS FESTIVAL
Curious Comedy is hosting a fantastic comedy festival next month! Super Project Lab appears on Saturday, April 4th!
Wednesday - Friday, April 1st - 5th
The Curious Fools festival features West Coast acts such as the Curious Main Stage Players, Super Project Lab, Unexpected Productions (Seattle), Funny Business, Gustafer Yellowgold, and special East Coast [...]

Liberators Return to Mississippi Studios!

The newly remodeled and expanded Mississippi Studios is back and hosting…
The Liberators “Pie Night!”
March 22
Sunday @ 7:30pm $10
with special guest
Jordi Barnes
MISSISSIPPI STUDIOS
It’s Pie Night, M’er F’ers!
Freshly baked home made pie at intermission
compliments of The Liberators
Mississippi Studios
3939 N. Mississippi Ave

Eastland Academy Comes Alive!

EASTLAND ACADEMY COMES ALIVE!
A funny, ridiculous, and smart sketch comedy duo featuring SPL friends Frayn Masters and Shelley McLendon.

 

 
Fridays & Saturdays March 13th - 21st following ‘The Third Floor’ sketch comedy.

The Miracle Theater
525 SE Stark
$8.00 with 3rd Floor ticket purchase
$10.00 for Eastland Academy alone
Reservation hotline: 503.281.0351

Live Wire: Return of Savage & Storm

MARCH “LIVE WIRE!” SHOW: The Return of Savage and Storm
Three years ago, at their February “Anti-Love Fest,” sex-columnist/author and Steven Colbert’s “National Spokes-Gay” DAN SAVAGE was on Live Wire with stunning chanteuse STORM LARGE. Dan talked about sex with people in Nutria costumes, and Storm sang “I Want You To Die.”
So for their 5th [...]

Mississippi Studios Grand Re-Opening!

Mississippi Studios - New and Improved!

After an extensive remodel, Mississippi Studios reopens its doors on Wednesday, March 4th. Don’t miss the star-studded grand-opening celebration!.

Plus Gallery grand opening w/group show (artists TBA)
3939 N. Mississippi, Portland, OR 97227 | 503.288.3895
Doors 6pm - Show 7pm to Midnight
FREE

“Found” Editor Appearing with SPL!

We are thrilled to announce that Found Magazine Editor, Peter Rothbart, will appear with Super Project Lab on March 7th.
Found Magazine “Collects found stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids’ homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, doodles–anything that gives a glimpse into someone else’s life. Anything goes.”
Visit Found Magazine to learn more. [...]

Fakespeare: Portland Improv Group

More Ham Than Hamlet!

PIG, the Portland Improv Group, is proud to present “Fakespeare”, a fully-improvised, long-form Shakespearean play. They base the night’s play on suggestions from the audience, so no two shows are ever the same. Fakespeare runs on Saturdays at 10 pm thru March 7th. At the Shoebox Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave, [...]

“Back Fence PDX” Storytelling - Feb 18

On February 18th at 7 p.m. at the Mission Theater, Back Fence PDX will take the stage with local Portlanders, Jeff Baker, Jon Raymond and others telling unmemorized, true eight-minute stories based on the theme, The Moment After.
February’s storytellers:
Anis Mojgani is a former resident of the Oregon Literary Arts Writer’s-In-The-Schools program and has appeared on [...]

Meet Your Madmen!

November 16, 2009
by: Lab Manager • Events, SPL News

PDX Improv-O-rama

October 30, 2009
by: Lab Manager • Events, SPL News

Scary-Ass Improv!

October 16, 2009
by: Lab Manager • Events, Improv Articles, SPL News

Funny Business at Curious!

September 15, 2009
by: Lab Manager • Events

Portland Creative Conference

September 8, 2009
by: Lab Manager • Events, SPL News

“Old Flames” at Curious Comedy

September 8, 2009
by: Lab Manager • Events, SPL News

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