Ian Roberts News

Do you dream of a comedy career on SNL? or just want to entertain at the next bar mitzvah? Artistic Director Laura Ekstrand and The DREAMCATCHER REPERTORY THEATRE, the marvelous professional Theatre in Residence at the Baird Center in South Orange, will offer a new class in Improvisational Comedy for Adults beginning March 10.

The stage in the Loeb Experimental Theater is dark. A dimly lit figure approaches the audience slowly until people can clearly recognize the figure asa a banana.

I had no idea Upright Citizens Brigade co-founder Matt Walsh was making a star-studded improv comedy, but now that I know of its existence, I can't wait to see what kind of brain-scrambling absurdity he's captured.

We just saw a hilarious skewering of the food world at L.A.'s U.C.B. called "Pig: A Restaurant." Actress Lauren Adams tackles everyone from Gael Greene to David Chang in this play written by Leila Cohan-Miccio and directed by Caitlin Bitzegio.