Out of Bounds Comedy Festival

[ august 31st- September 6th]

Festival to Include over 500 Comedy Performers From Around The World

This Labor Day weekend, over 500 improv, sketch and stand up comedy performers from all over the world will descend on the Austin metro area for The Out of Bounds Comedy Festival. Now in its 9th year, the festival will take place across 7 days and 7 stages and include 4 international acts.

In 2010, OOB has experienced exponential growth, nearly doubling in size for the second year in a row and adding three additional venues. As in years past, shows will take place at the Hideout Theatre, the Salvage Vanguard Theater and the ColdTowne Theater, whose schedule has expanded to include shows on Thursday night. To accomodate the growing number of of stand ups showcased at the festival, the Velveeta Room has been added as a venue. The Independent, site of last year's sold out headlining shows, has also been added as a venue to accomodate overflow. The Sunday night headlining venue will be announced soon.

With over 500 comedy performers playing to packed houses all over Austin, there will be a lot to take in. Notable acts and headliners appearing in this year's festival include iconic sketch comedian Kevin McDonald (Kids in the Hall), political satirist Will Durst (NPR), Second City's FrankenMatt (Reno 911, The Office, MadTV), Isreali improv troupe Three Falling (Israel), not to mention improv legends Craig Cackowski (Second City), Jill Bernard (Drum Machine), Aphasia and the Reckoning. Also appearing will be local comedy favorites Parellelogramophonograph, Available Cupholders, the Frank Mills, ColdTowne, Get Up and Dusk.

The Out of Bounds Comedy Festival and Miniature Golf Tournament was founded in 2002 by Well Hung Jury's Jeremy Lamb, as a way to get troupes from Texas and beyond to come and enjoy the Austin comedy scene. In the intervening years, the festival has expanded from a handful of troupes, mostly from Texas, performing on one stage for a couple of days, to a seven-day festival at several venues featuring troupes from across the world. Besides being the live music capital of the world, the Austin improv and sketch comedy community is growing at an explosive rate. Austin is currently home to five different improv venues, four conservatories, the Out of Bounds improv and sketch festival, the Ladies Are Funny Festival and the Austin Sketch Festival. This year's Out of Bounds Comedy festival will continue to lead the way towards making Austin a comedy destination.

For press inquiries, contact Michael Jastroch at jastroch@gmail.com or (512) 423-4209. Visit outofboundscomedy.com for more information!

For Tickets, Visit http://www.outofboundscomedy.com/tickets/

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Trouble Puppet Theater Company Presents 'Frankenstein'!

[ september 16- october 3rd thurs-sun at 8pm ]

Trouble Puppet Theater Co., the Austin puppet troupe that won critical acclaim in 2009 for The Jungle, performs their adaptation of the Frankenstein story (for grownups) at Salvage Vanguard Theater Sept. 16-Oct. 3, 2010. Puppet design and direction by TPTC Artistic Director Connor Hopkins. Original music by Justin Sherburn.

For Tickets, and info visit: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/122760

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Rubber Repertory, in Association With Salvage Vanguard Theater Proudly Presents: BIOGRAPHY OF PHYSICAL SENSATION

[ october 14th-30th, thurs-sun at 8:00pm]

Directed by Josh Meyer and Matt Hislope
Based on the life of Jamie Damon
Set Design by Lisa Laratta
Lighting Design by Megan Reilly
Featuring Jenny Larson, Katie Van Winkle, Matt Hislope, Josh Meyer, and Marcella Garcia.

Tickets: Order online here, or call 1-800-838-3006.

YOU PICK YOUR PRICE $15-$25
Very limited seating. Advance purchase recommended.

“Rubber Repertory reduces life’s mysteries down to essences.”
-Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman

In their first new show since The Casket of Passing Fancy, Rubber Repertory pushes the limits of audience participation to even more fateful extremes. Each night, an audience of 40 will be given the chance to experience a human life through actual tastes, touches, smells, and sounds. This reinvention of the traditional biography forgoes narrative in favor of pure physical experience, placing audience members in the center of over a hundred pivotal moments of perception.

Everyone who attends the show is invited to choose from seats of three different sizes. The size of your seat dictates the intensity of sensations you're willing to receive. Those in the smallest seats will receive low-intensity sensations--the smell of lavender and stale cigarettes, for instance--while those in the larger seats expose themselves to far livelier thrills.

Once the show begins, it's a fast and feely ride through puberty and pork chops, gunshots and tetherball, party whistles and old pianos, tonsillectomies and lemon cake. In other words: life itself.

BIOGRAPHY OF PHYSICAL SENSATION is based on the life of Jamie Damon, a Cedar Creek resident who was one of over 50 people who interviewed for the opportunity to be the subject of the show. Upon being selected, Damon turned over extensive personal archives to Rubber Rep--a literal truckload of letters, journals, photography, scrapbooks, videos, and memoirs.

ABOUT RUBBER REPERTORY
Since 2002, Co-Directors Josh Meyer and Matt Hislope have created some of the most unique theatre in Texas. With shows such as The Casket of Passing Fancy (2007 Rockefeller MAP Fund grant), RED CANS, At Home With Dick, and the American premiere of Wallace Shawn's notoriously "unstageable" A Thought in Three Parts, Rubber Rep constantly pushes boundaries and creates work that's high on invention and surprise. Their productions have garnered B. Iden Payne and Austin Critics Table Awards for "Outstanding Theatrical Innovation," "Outstanding Direction," "Unique Theatrical Experience," and "Outstanding Late-Night Adventure."

For more information, visit www.rubberrep.org or www.salvagevanguard.org.

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Gnap Theater @ SVT

[ fridays and Saturdays at 8pm & 10pm ]

Each week the maestros of improv, sketch, and original theater present an array of theatrical events. For dates, shows, tickets and more visit GNAPTHEATER.org.

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Church of the Friendly Ghost Music Series

[ sunday nights, Ongoing ]

For dates, acts, and more info click here.

Church of the Friendly Ghost is a growing community organization dedicated to the proliferation of creative musics, future-minded expressions, experiments in sound, and cutting edge jazz.

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DANCE AT SVT, Featuring:

Spank Dance's Monthly Butoh

[third thursdays of each month 7-7:30pm ]

Every third Thursday of the month enjoy a free treat of improvised movement from the wizzards behind Spank Dance.

Tapestry on the Fringe

[third thursdays of every month at 8pm, ongoing]

*Tapestry on the Fringe***

3rd Thursday of each Month at Salvage Vanguard

In this series of experimental performances Tapestry Company Dancers are given free creative reign to push the limits of experimental dance and rhythm.

Come and be a part of the future of Dance.

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Lila Flow Yoga Led by Leigh Fisher, RYT500

[ Tuesdays & Saturdays - ongoing]

Tuesdays 5:30- 6:30pm & Saturdays 10:15- 11:15am. One 8 week session: $60 | Both 8 week sessions: $110 | Drop-in: $12. Email eclecticyoga@hotmail.com to register. Leigh Fisher is a Registered Yoga Teacher at the 500 hour level with yoga alliance. Leigh has been practicing yoga since 1998 and teaching since 2004.

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Directions to Salvage Vanguard Theater

To get to The Salvage Vanguard Theater take IH-35 to the Manor Road exit. Take Manor Road eastbound. Go past East Side Café and SVT will be on your right hand side before Airport Blvd. The address is 2803 Manor Road.