Fantastic Voyage Improv

Normally, our shows in the B-Side Lounge at Broken Clock Brewing Cooperative are the third Monday of the month, but due to scheduling conflicts this month we’ve moved it to Wednesday the 28th. Tickets are just $10 ($5 for our Patreon Supporters and Broken Clock members). Doors open at 6:30 for a 7pm show.

Look, we get it. Mondays (and some Wednesdays) are hard. Let’s make them less hard by laughing together!

Facebook event link.

New Venue Announcement!

Our first show at Padraigs was a great success, and we’re looking forward to many more!

Fantastic Voyage Improv brings UnProv to the Cellar Event Space at Padraig’s Brewing in Minneapolis the first Wednesday of the month. Tickets are just $10 ($5 for our Patreon Supporters). Doors open at 6:30 for a 7pm show.

Our next show in the Cellar Event space is Wednesday June 4. Seating is limited so arrive early!

Zach is truly a powerful performer. Audiences and fellow performers can count on him to sing, dance, and invent zany characters. Anything to get not just a laugh, but to evoke real emotional responses. Watching Zach perform is truly seeing the joy of improv brought to life.

FVI: How long have you been involved with FVI?

Zach: I believe I joined in January of 2015 during a blizzard. The cars were all buried in snow. If you weren’t careful you could lose your niece in a snowbank, but we didn’t. Instead we were playing improv in the basement of good ole MaGillycuddy’s in Anoka.

F: You’ve been involved in theater most of your adult life. What is one role you’d love to play?

Z: I’d love to play the ghost of Christmas present in A Christmas Carol. There is something so attractive and compelling about playing “present” always now. I imagine it being a wonderful thing to play. 

F: Now that spring has sprung, what puts a spring in your step?

Z: I love to get out there and do some gardening. I’m really excited about my sunchokes this year! It is my first time growing them, and I can’t wait to see how they taste. I’m told they are similar to a potato. Oh and the rhubarb! My one rhubarb plant is so big already!

F: Where else can people find you?

Z: They can find me holding hands with my beautiful and charming wife Suzanne.

I also play with Jesters Comedy Improv. The next show I’ll be in is at Rustic Roots Winery on June 6th.

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Jester’s is excited to announce that they’re planning a Father’s Day game show at Can Can Wonderland! Local celebrities and their children, or maybe their fathers, will be performing with audience members! It’s sure to be a great time. Bring your children, or your fathers, or your children’s fathers!

They also have shows coming up at Torg Brewery, New Hope Cinema Grill, Rustic Roots Winery, Railwerks Brewing Depot, and Can Can Wonderland.

Soundwave 2025

FVI is proud to help sponsor Soundwave 2025

A full day of live local music, vendors, food, and fun! If you see us hanging out come say hi!

Visit the Broken Clock page to learn more.

Live music and food trucks every Friday and Saturday night, and great beer every night of the week. Now serving food too!

Also, Art-A-Whirl is coming up the weekend of May 16-17. This means drinking and socializing on Padraig’s great patio while listening to great live bands.

Visit their events page for more information.

Their public tours are always changing with new stories and new venues to visit.  If you haven’t taken a tour, go join them.  If you have taken a tour, come back again, as the story is always engaging and evolving! Tour formats include walking, bus or trolley

See tour descriptions HERE.

Do you know a child looking for something fun to do this summer that wants to explore performing arts through storytelling and puppetry? Pangea is offering a week long, all-day summer camp for ages 7 to 12.

In addition to theater skills, students in our camps will learn the following:

• Refining personal artistry
• Confidence and interpersonal communication
• Team and ensemble building
• Creative collaboration with a diverse groups of peers

Visit Pangea’s website for more information!

“We envision a vibrant neighborhood where the arts welcome, heal, transform and build power for the people of Frogtown and Rondo. The vision for the future of the Victoria Theater Arts Center is captured through authentic community engagement.”

Currently running at 825 Arts: Niizh

A love-letter to the joy of first romance, the vibrancy of reservation communities, and the joy of Indigenous family, Niizh is the inaugural production of Mni Giizhik Theatre Ensemble and features an all-Ojibwe cast, directed by Sequoia Hauck (White Earth Ojibwe/Hupa). 

In this interview with Frank Zappa from 1984 he talks about the joy of spontaneity and improvisation in his guitar solos. His comments don’t just apply to music, but to comedy as well. People often conflate improv with stand-up. There’s something wonderful about watching a good stand-up comedian. Their routines are generally very practiced; every joke, every movement, every facial expression is repeated night after night until it’s as perfect as they can get. That is an impressive skill to have. While in improv, we are able to practice the mechanics of comedy, but we rarely get to make the same joke twice. It’s gritty, raw, and magical when it works.