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Vermont Comedy Arts to Open New Performance Space
1+ hour, 10+ min ago (239+ words) Vermont Comedy Arts has found a home. On Monday, executive director Natalie Miller announced that the nonprofit arm of Vermont Comedy Club will open a new theater at 118 Main Street in Burlington, just across the street from the club. The…...
Jordan Klepper and Steve Waltien On Comedy in the Trump Era | Seven Days
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (1398+ words) When Jordan Klepper and Steve Waltien were aspiring young comedians in the early-2000s Chicago improv scene, they scored a string of gigs that uniquely prepared them for their later careers. “Looking back, it was a good training ground for our…...
Movie Review: John Early’s Foodie Satire ‘Maddie’s Secret’
2+ week, 6+ day ago (339+ words) All this might lead you to expect a broad drag-based comedy, perhaps deliberately designed to offend modern sensibilities. (Making light of eating disorders? Way out of bounds.) But Maddie’s Secret, which premiered last year at the Toronto International Film Festival,…...
Québec Guide: Montréal’s Just for Laughs Comedy Fest
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (684+ words) Stepping out of a purple Lambor-ghini at a hotel valet, a young Hollywood agent proclaims, “JFL is the comedy industry event of the year.” Her colleague agrees, noting that said event, the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montréal, is…...
Comedian Laurie Kilmartin on Death, the Oscars and Clavicular
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (784+ words) Naturally, conservatives went nuts. But for Kilmartin, a mother, it was just another joke — an ironic one, considering she was in her late fifties at the time. Not exactly a woman’s prime childbearing years. Kilmartin, who is based in Los…...
Vermont Comedy Club Launches Nonprofit Vermont Comedy Arts
9+ mon, 22+ hour ago (228+ words) Don’t delay. Nominations are due on Sunday, May 3. Vermont Comedy Club is celebrating its tin anniversary! That’s a decade of laughs at the Burlington venue run by power couple Natalie Miller and Nathan Hartswick. The duo had been booking comedy…...
Standup Gordon Clark Sets the Stage for Younger Comics
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (979+ words) Already signed up for the NOW newsletter? Learn more how to enter the contest. Gordon Clark didn’t let a bad knee stop him from jogging to the stage to open his Wit & Wine Comedy Night at Shelburne Vineyard in December....
‘Hot Priest Sketch Show’ Brings Divine Comedy to Burlington
5+ mon, 7+ hour ago (487+ words) Just in time for Lent, fans of smart and sacrilegious humor might consider checking out Hot Priest Sketch Show from an all-woman cast of veteran Vermont comedians. The one-weekend-only performance, at Off Center for the Dramatic Arts in Burlington, promises…...
Theater Review: ‘The World Is Not Silent,’ Northern Stage
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (377+ words) The Northern Stage production is the regional premiere of a new play by Don X. Nguyen, first performed in 2024, that includes some parallels to Nguyen’s own life. It’s a story of two generations of South Vietnamese men with two different approaches…...
Character Study: Naomi Moser at Extra Special With Cheese
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (107+ words) Alice Dodge joined Seven Days in April 2024 as visual arts editor and proofreader. She earned a bachelor's degree at Oberlin College and an MFA in visual studies at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She previously worked at the…...