SHOW TOMORROW

Swiped and reposted for maximum laziness:

WBEZ Dueling Critics Kelly Kleiman and Jonathan Arbarbanel will take the audience through memorable moments in Chicago’s rich theater history along with a panel of experts. Stitching the evening together, five local theater companies will perform a few of these moments with tongues firmly in cheeks.


To attend you must purchase tickets at wbez.org/events.

On stage:

...- Kelly Kleiman is a freelance writer on the arts, feminism, travel and social justice.
- Jonathan Abarbanel is theater critic for WBEZ and the weekly Windy City Times newspaper.

Also:

Critic Albert Williams, Broadway actor Kate Buddeke, and Victory Gardens' founder Dennis Zacek

With:

Sketch comedy group Robot vs. Dinosaur, spoken word troupe BoyGirlBoyGirl, fringe theater companies The Plagiarists and RoShamBo Theater, and southside educational theater company Tofu Chitlin' Circuit

Tickets

$15/general admission
$12/WBEZ members
$10/students (with valid ID)

More information: http://chicagopublicradio.org/Event_Detail.aspx?eventID=2099

ON THE DOCKET

On the off chance that anyone still reads this thing and wants to know what RvD is up to in the new year, here are a couple of projects we're woring on:

1. Writing and performing a piece for WBEZ's Alternative History of Chicago Theatre (Abridged) on Wednesday, March 2nd.
2. An eBook version of our first show, The Greatest Stories Never Told... Told!
3. A fundraiser evening called "St. Drunken's Day."
4. Our as yet untitled Spring/Summer show about mutant animal sketch comedy performers in futuristic Nazi Illinois.
5. Cake for everyone!

So, we have that to look forward to.  Hope to see some of you people out at one or all of these.

SHOW SHOW SHOW *SKETCHFEST* SHOW SHOW SHOW

Let the New Year’s pluggery commence!

Next Friday, January 14th at 7:00 PM, your favorite Chicago sketch comedy group named Robot vs Dinosaur PERFORMS at Chicago Sketchfest!

Come spend an hour with us as we relive our short lived glory sketches in an ‘unplugged’ environment. There will be sketches and songs and even a staged reading of something too inappropriate to be staged. And as always the show ends catastrophically.

See? Unplugged! Like Aerosmith!

CHICAGO SKETCHFEST 2011

@Stage773

1225 W Belmont Ave

Chicago, IL 60657

Robot vs Dinosaur

Friday, 1/14 @ 7:00 PM

South Theatre

For more information and ticketing, go to www.chicagosketchfest.com/

Congratulations Are In Order...

...to one Mr. Joe Janes for completion of his 365 Sketches project.  Here is Joe, on the right, in a t-shirt featuring the outline of his head and glasses.

Talking to Joe while he's wearing this shirt is a strange experience.  I don't know where to look.  Do I look at actual Joe or outline Joe?

Writing 365 Sketches was a monumental accomplishment.  Producing them was also a monumental accomplishment.  And now, you can have a monumentally sized book with all 365 sketches by clicking here.  It is the funniest collection of outhouse paper you've ever owned!

I kid.  Naturally.  Who uses an outhouse anymore?

If I had my druthers, that t-shirt would be for sale too.  I would wear it to bed everynight.  Yes, that's creepy.  But it's true.

So, now that that show is over, we have 12 Angry Sketches to occupy your plugging needs!  We basically sold out this last Friday, and there are only two Fridays left, so get your tickets now.

AND, we're gonna be performing at the Neo-Futurists come July 29th for Film Fest IX: The Perils of the Neo-Futurarium.  More information to follow as we get closer, but we will be performing:

The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent )as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Great Sea Serpent)

So we all have that to look forward to.  Hooray shows!