#audience-participation

#audience-participation

Foreboding music begins. A scary green witch announces her arrival with a cackle. It's the opening of Wicked Witches, a British holiday-time play known as a "pantomime," at a North London theater. But soon after she walks on stage, it's clear the witch isn't happy with the audience. She says the audience is being too quiet, and should boo her as loudly as they can, because she is the "villain" of the pantomime.

If you're an American Taskmaster fan who watches the five competitors on the British comedy series struggle onstage to come up with a steady stream of five-letter words, humanize drawings of sausages with their own doodles, or pop balloons with darts - no, not that balloon, the other balloon - and think you can do better, your time has come.

The most savage comedy competition is coming to SF! At 3 Strikes Comedy Competition, YOU-the audience-hold the power! Comedians get 5 minutes.After 2 minutes, you can raise red cards to give them STRIKES! ❌ 3 STRIKES = ELIMINATION!Winner gets $150 & headlines next month's showcase! October 24 | 8 PM | FAME VENUE, SF$20 online | $25 at the door → Scan the QR code & grab your tickets NOW!

One night in early September, something seemingly strange happened at New World Stages in Midtown Manhattan: the entire audience at Heathers: The Musical, in a direct rebuke of standard theater decorum, was singing along with the actors onstage. In most cases, such flagrant rule-breaking would be a nightmare for the cast, but it turned out the event had been fully sanctioned and carefully planned.

The Marsh has postponed all in-person shows until further notice, but that won't stop Monday Night Marsh from continuing to bring you the unique stories we all love. Monday Night MarshStream is our new Monday Night Marsh with a few twists. Every Monday at 7:30pm, we bring you 4 live pieces from performers, both familiar and new, via zoom. Audience members who attend the live stream will also get the chance to perform a short 5 to 10 minute piece!

As many of you know, The Marsh has postponed all in-person shows until further notice, but that won't stop Monday Night Marsh from continuing to bring you the unique stories we all love. Monday Night MarshStream is our new Monday Night Marsh with a few twists. Every Monday at 7:30pm, we bring you 4 live pieces from performers, both familiar and new, via zoom.

This highly physical comedy about two competitive swimmers begins at the beginning not with a referee's whistle but a stand-alone aquatic opus racing through humans' evolution from fish. In caps, goggles and bathing suits, Alexander Burnett and Ellie Whittaker recount our abiding passion for the water, from the earliest forms of life to Napoleon diving into an especially wet misremembering of Waterloo,

During a performance, Billie Joe Armstrong had a fan join him on stage to play 'Good Riddance.' However, the fan mistakenly began playing 'Wonderwall' instead.