andyschneeflock:

In exactly one week from today, Beauty Love Truth will be performing at the Standard Toykraft in Williamsburg Brooklyn.  It’s gonna be the best show yet.  Don’t miss it

TRUTH! This show is on Saturday! Coooooome!!!!!

andyschneeflock:

If Beauty Love Truth is being advertised at John’s Pizzeria of Bleecker Street it must be an awesome improv show! Beauty Love Truth, 8 pm on June 8th at the Standard Toykraft in Williamsburg. Be there. John’s Pizza encourages you!

Hey! I produce and direct this! I might be in this too. Yeah! I am in it!

fastcompany:

Improv emphasizes showing over telling, a principle that often manifests in a technique known as “the invisible game” on Key & Peele. The central joke of these scenes is ladled out, beat by beat, but never spoken of. “The audience loves to figure things out,” says Key, who has extensive professional acting experience and a unique physicality honed by emulating silent masters such as Chaplin and Keaton. “They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and they get to participate in the comedy.”

Innovation through improvisation: How Key & Peele busted the forumla and created something new

This is one of the better comedy-process articles I’ve read in a while.

Hey guys! Only time for a quick update. Did four shows this week! All for kids, all really fun. But whoo! Got some No Place Like Home at the Magnet Tomorrow, you should all come.

davebluvband:

Del Close gives an interview about the type of improv he likes to see.

There's No Place Like Home

Tomorrow at 10PM I’m improvising in this show at the Magnet Theater! Come! It’ll be fun!

Also - I just got asked to do some improv at the Magnet Theater on Monday at 10 at No Place Like Home. Click here for tix!

I’m Hosting and Performing in the City’s Best Queer Improv Show This Monday!

It’s a brand new year, and what better way than to kick it off with a proper kiki! The Magnet Theater hosts this Time Out NY Critics’ Pick of homo hilarity with a rotating cast of queer improv stars, and new faces to keep an eye on. Special guest monologist, founder of Talkingstick, Rick Patrick!

Monday, January 14th, 10PM @ Magnet Theater (254 W29th St.) Tickets $5

Click Here For Tix!

Hey Pals! Just wanted to let you know that I am hosting There’s No Place Like Home at Magnet Theater (254 W29th St) this Monday Dec 9th 10-11PM. Show is only $5!

There’s No Place Like Home is a Time Out NY Critics’ Pick of homo hilarity with a rotating cast of queer improv stars, and new faces to keep an eye on.

With Special Guest: Tiara from Lucky Cheng’s!

Tiara is a full time artist and drag queen show-hostess at Lucky Cheng’s. She has performed all over the world - Berlin, Dubai, Indonesia, Thailand, and her native Singapore.

Featuring Improv From: Henry Russel Bernstein, Justin Born, Kevin Gilligan, Emily Schorr Lesnick, Michael Lutton, Michael Martin, Jenice Matias, Noah Minick, Andy Moskowitz, Louie Pearlman, Roman Rimer, Lauren Ashley Smith and Laura Weinblatt

Click here to make a reservation!

Just had a great rehearsal with Lauren Sharpe, who I’ve never had the pleasure of working with before. She’s great. I think she’s going to add a lot to Thursday. But so will the whole cast. Something I enjoy about the process of putting together the show is what kind of combinations of people we always get. Hope some people can come - I think this is going to be a special one.

beautylovetruththenworldpeace:

Hello Beauty Love Truthers! Our show with Bob Dorough (Schoolhouse Rock!) at The PIT is only two days away! Here is a Q&A from Lauren Sharpe, a new player with Beauty Love Truth. Enjoy, and get tickets to the show here!

3 things you have done, invented and/or thought!

 

1. In grade school I created a very realistic Marie Curie puppet for a presentation and insisted on doing all subsequent projects that year on her life.
 

2.  I once rode in a boat pulled by dolphins during a show at SeaWorld.
 

3.  I have yet to invent anything of note yet, but when I do, I know the protocol.  I’ll write down the idea and send it to myself via USPS or something.
 

3 things in the future (immediate or far) that you’re looking forward to:

 

1.  I’m always looking forward to my next meal.  Always.
 

2.  It’s strange, but even as I appreciate moving through this summer, I’m already having pangs of longing for autumn weather.
 

3.  I hope to have an exciting overseas adventure very, very soon.  To where, I’m not sure, but somewhere green.
 

What springs to mind when you hear:

 

1. BEAUTY! - an open field
 

2. LOVE! - a hand on my back
 

3. TRUTH! - hearts exploding (in a good way)
 

Anything else you want to share with your adoring public?
 

See you this week!

There's No Place Like Home: A GLBTQ All-Star Event

Tomorrow at The Magnet Theater 254 W29th St - 11:30PM!

I’m part of an ALL STAR Cast of queer improvisers performing for Pride Month! Come and let your gay flag fly!

beautylovetruththenworldpeace:

Manchester-born, NYC-based singer-songwriter Warren Malone’s bio is something else. Not only does he source his musical beginnings at four years old to hearing a Hank Williams record, he also drops—buried there in middle—that his parents met while his father was in prison. It’s a fact of his past that, he says, “is a whole other story. It would be a great movie, actually.”

Unique beginnings make for unique doings, and so it’s no surprise that Malone strays from a common path in his life and work. While the town of his extraction more readily brings to mind the sounds of the almighty Factory Records (Joy Division, et al), Malone’s music—like its maker—flies far from that scene. Malone makes lovely, immediate, folk music; his latest record, And the Ants Ate the Bee, came out last October. BLT sat him down for a Q&A before his appearance in Beauty Love Truth at the PIT on May 31 at 8pm. Even after answering all our favorite questions, he’s still a mystery. We like that about him.

Tell us something you think is beautiful.
The sound of guitar and mandolin together.

What’s something/someone you love that would surprise people?
Dolly Parton

Tell us something true.
I own 57 copies of Grapes of Wrath. One day I will have a party for the book, and I will use them as invitations. And everyone will come in work clothes. The band at the party will be called The Angry Raisins String Band.

What do you love most about making music?
It makes me feel like I have something to offer, and it makes me feel good.

When did the truth get you in trouble?
Today, yesterday and probably tomorrow.

Have you known other people who have done Beauty Love Truth? What are you expecting? What are you looking forward to?
I know a couple of people who have done it. They speak highly of it. I only expect to have fun playing to new people in a different setting.

Tell us a truth told in your lyrics.
“Daddy was a singer, Daddy was a drunk/ Just a drunken singer, he was murdered in a flophouse/ Broke and drunk, now he’s broke and drunk forever.”

Do you still think of yourself as English? What part of you?
No, I never did. I saw Elvis on a beach in the movie Blue Hawaii when I was four years old, in Manchester, with the rain falling hard and thought to myself, “This is not right.”

Finally: The aliens have landed and one asks you to explain beauty, love, and truth. How do you explain?
I’d say: “A whop Bop a Loobop A Whop bam Boom,” and they will know instantly what I’m talking about.

Warren Malone joins Beauty Love Truth live at the PIT in NYC Tomorrow, May 31 at 8pm.

(Please help us spread the word via the Facebook event, and link to Facebook Fan Page,Twitter, Tumblr, or your preferred buttons below.)

Kaitllin Fontana is a Beauty Love Truther who is also the author of “Fresh at Twenty: The Oral History of Mint Records,” out now on ECW Press.

Magnet Theater - There's No Place Like Home: A GLBTQ Event

Whoah! Just added! I am doing improv tonight at The Magnet Theater @ 10PM with There’s No Place Like Home. Yay!

The PIT 123 E 24th BTW Park & Lex (new location!) Tickets here. PDF Press Release May 31 here.

WARREN MALONE will play his music to inspire improvised scenes. Nothing is planned; it’s all improvised. You will never see this show again!

This month’s IMPROVISERS include:

Bradford Jordan (Story Pirates, PIT)
Shannon Manning (Second City, IO, UCB, “Conan”)
Doug Moe (UCB’s MOTHER, “30 Rock,” “Conan”)
Justin Moran (Spidey Project, Pope the Musical, Miranga Island)
Louie Pearlman (Story Pirates, The Spidey Project, Buckshot N Benny)
Mary Regan (UCB, Magnet, PIT)
Natasha Rothwell (Oh Boy!, Hodapp and Rothwell, The Story Pirates)
Lauren Ashley Smith (Story Pirates, Magnet)

Featuring an INTRODUCTION by STEVE HEISLER (Onion AV Club) who will speak on the subject of Beauty Love AND/OR Truth.

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PDF Press Release May 31 with Warren Malone

MORE ABOUT WARREN MALONE:

New York Based Singer/Songwriter Warren Malone
Is Originally From Manchester England. He Loves To Sing,
He Loves To Write Songs And He Loves To Play Guitar.
He Loves Traditional Folk Music As Much As He Loves A Great Pop Song.
He Loves His New Album And He Doesn’t Care Who Knows It.
He Does Not Love Writing Bios And Pretending To Be A Third Party.
He Loves A Good Audience, He Hates Stupid Pop Stars With Shades,
He has A Fear Of Being Falsely Accused, He’s Done Some Bad Things,
He Tries To Be Good, He Loves To Sing, He Sings All Day Everyday,
The First Record He Ever Put On Was A Hank Williams Record He Was 4 Yrs Old,
As A Kid He Loved Elvis, He Used To Draw And Sometimes Still Carries A Sketchbook.
He Loves Mexican Food, He Lived In San Francisco For 5 Years And It Changed Him Forever,
He Can Cook But Only If It Involves Just 1 Pan, He Loves Beer But Tries Not To Drink It
He Loves Fiddle Tunes, He Loves Duets With Mandolin And Guitar,
He Loves To Hear Great Harmony singers And Has Fantasized About Being The High Lonesome
Singer In A Bluegrass Band, He Has Been High and Lonesome
He Has Made Some Promises He Knew He Couldn’t Keep
He Knows He Has Some Secrets But He Can’t Remember What They Are
He Hates Cool People, He Will Let You Know If He Likes You
He Loves His Family
He Remembers Things From His Past But Doesn’t Know If They Really happened,
He Loves To Sing
He Can’t Believe he Didn’t End Up In Jail, He’s Played A Lot Of Gigs, He’s Played A lot Of Street Corners
He’s Had To Talk To A Lot Of Strangers, His Parents Met When His Father Was In Prison
That’s A whole Other Story, It Would Be A Great Movie Actually
Youth, Violence, Crime, Singing, Prison, Love, Jealousy, Family, Murder And More Singing
He Loves Repetition, He Loves His New Album And He Doesn’t Care Who Knows It.

http://warrenmalone.com

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/warrenmalone2

http://www.youtube.com/user/Malone67?feature=watch

http://warrenmalone.bandcamp.com/

This show is produced and directed by Shannon Manning and Louie Pearlman of Sparkle Television.

Hey pals. We are now casting guests for our new regular run of Beauty Love Truth (last Thurs of the month at 8 The Peoples Improv Theater). If you have a favorite musician or band you’d like to see us celebrate via improv, answer this post.

Also authors, artists, comics, drawers, scientists you’d like to see present on the topic of beauty, love and/or truth-I love new suggestions! Out-of-town friends, let me know when you’ll be in NYC!

More cool announcements coming soon! http://beautylovetruthtv.com/