SFIF2010: Harold Weekend with IO’s James Grace

Crisis Hopkins & The 2010 San Francisco Improv Festival urge Bay Area improvisers to join us for a special weekend workshop with James Grace, Artistic Director of the legendary training center IO West.

Focusing on Harold, the longform improv format developed by Del Close, Charna Halpern, IO & The Upright Citizens Brigade, this pair of workshops will combine to present a comprehensive understanding of the groundbreaking format, as well as applied practice and scenework. While the workshop is best enjoyed in full (2 four-hour workshops), each day will also be available individually.

The San Francisco Improv Fest has also continued its commitment to make its productions affordable. Each individual, four-hour workshop is only $50, with the full program discounted at $85. SFIF2010 will also make the workshop available to auditing, non-participating students at the lower rate to be announced later.

Spots are limited. Buy Now!

The 2010 San Francisco Improv Festival Presents:
Harold Weekend with James Grace
November 14 & 15th, 12-4pm
San Francisco Comedy College
414 Mason, SF
Individual workshops: $50 BUY!
Full Program: $85 BUY!

Next Improv Soapbox November 10th

An open stage for actors, improvisers, and players. Games and longform in an improv jam setting. Designed for maximum play, for all skill levels, and hosted by Crisis Hopkins.

Crisis Hopkins’ Improv Soapbox
Tuesday November 10th, 8pm
at The Climate Theater
285 9th Street at Folsom, SF
$5

Terror at Town Hall

We cant believe it either – it’s been almost four years and we still haven’t done a proper show in the East Bay. This month we’re changing that, bringing our signature brand of improv comedy to the Town Hall Theater in Lafayette. Joining us will be special guests Rebecca Poretsky (Big City Improv), Sammy Wegent & Allison Page.

Crisis Hopkins: Terror at Town Hall
Friday October 30th, 8pm
Town Hall Theatre
3535 School St.
Lafayette CA
tix: $20.00
www.thtc.org

Tsunami Weinstein: Night of the Living Artist

Crisis off-shoot Tsunami Weinstein is performing at Night of the Living Artist, an evening of underground entertainment to benefit The Climate Theater. The evening includes performances by John Gilkey, Tim Barsky, the Pi Clowns, the return of The Dating Game, living sculptures, a zombie make-up station, tarot card reading and much much more. The money you use to buy a ticket supports the theater Crisis Hopkins has made a home base this last year, an important local fixture San Francisco’s independent theater scene. Check it out!

Tsunami Weinstein
improv comedy with Bryce Byerley, Sam Shaw, Jodi Skeris, & Jamie Wright
at Night of The Living Artist
Climate Theater’s 2nd Annual Fundraiser & Art Event
Saturday October 24th, 9pm
Climate Theater
285 9th St. at Folsom, SF
$20-100

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The Boston Improv Festival 2009 (A Photo Story)

We land at Logan International Airport and what should happen as soon as we get out of our cab?  Well, on our way to the smartly appointed Hotel Marlow we passed by the Science Museum and encountered something that only the visionary Steven Spielberg could have conjured up.  Thank god we had all seen the documentary Jurassic Park by Mr. Spielberg and used Jeff Goldblum as bait to lure this giant biped away from our heels.

Sunday Night Improv Jam, FRISCO

We’re performing at FRISCO’s Sunday Nite  Improv Jam, alongside special guest Rick Overton & The FRISCO Company All-Stars. Come check it out at the SF Comedy College Clubhouse!

Crisis Hopkins at FRISCO’s Sunday Nite Improv Jam
Sunday September 20th, 7pm
at The Clubhouse
414 Mason Street, 5th Fl., SF
$10

Hopkins Comes to Beantown

We’re making our second trip to New England to perform at the
Boston Improv Festival. This is a brand new big fest for the city, hosting by one of Boston’s most revered institutions Improv Boston. To make sure we get the local references right, we’re bringing along Maine native, Emerson alum, and newest addition to the Hopkins family Chris Libby. Cannot wait!!

Hopkins Comes to Beantown:
Crisis Hopkins at the Boston Improv Festival
Saturday, September 12th, 1opm
ImprovBoston Mainstage
40 Prospect St., Cambridge MA
$10
BUY!

2010 Here We Come

SFIF 2010 - COMING SOON

Beginning in September 2009, Bay Area improv & sketch comedy troupe Crisis Hopkins will assume full producing responsibilities for the San Francisco Improv Festival, starting with the 2010 production (dates & locations TBD). Festival Producer and Co-Founder Shaun Landry (who is also founder of the newly formed West Coast Improv Alliance and the San Francisco Improv Alliance) offered Crisis Hopkins the producership after Landry’s move to Los Angeles in the Spring.

Presenting: The Temporary Improv Festival

This August, Crisis Hopkins hosts a special event that occurs but once a generation: The Temporary Improv Festival, a comedy showcase that appears and vanishes as quickly as the fog over Twin Peaks or something. For two days, Crisis Hopkins and friends will take over San Francisco’s famous Eureka Theater with six special performances by some of San Francisco’s most beloved and cutting edge comedy troupes. Don’t miss this special weekend.

The Temporary Improv Festival – a performance showcase that occurs but once a generation. Unless we decide to do it again next year.

Crisis Hopkins’ Temporary Improv Festival
With Revolving Madness & PianoFight (Friday August 14th)
and Sammy Wegent, Big City Improv & Un-Scripted Theater Co. (Saturday August 15th)
at Eureka Theater, 8pm
215 Jackson at Battery, SF
Tickets $10

Just Added: Workshop with Dan Klein of Kasper Hauser! BUY!

Double-Bill with Tilted Frame, Aug. 13th

First created in San Francisco during the .dot com era by Combined Artform in 2002,  TILTED FRAME examines the world of technology and entertainmen with comedic improv scenes with technology such as video cameras, projectors, and the internet. The SF Bay Guardian wrote that the troupe ’stretches the boundaries of traditional improvisation…They drop the facile and forced wackiness of comedy club improv for a far more daring and difficult form.’

We’re performing second in a double-bill. Check it out!

Improv Double-Bill:
Tilted Frame & Crisis Hopkins
Thursday August 13th, 8pm
Off-Market, Studio 250
965 Mission St. at 5th, SF
$10
BUY!