Event List

Homo Ha! An Evening with Ant

One night only at Curious Comedy Theatre! Homo Ha! Is the 4th annual GLBT Pride comedy showcase, co-produced by Belinda Carroll Comedy and Kitty Moshpit Productions. This year we are excited to bring you the comedian ANT! Along with ANT, Belinda Carroll will be featured and Manuel Hall will be hosting. A portion of this [...]
A Day in the Life of Miss Hiccup

Yanomi, a critically acclaimed Japanese Comedian and performer is bringing her one woman show “A Day in the Life of Miss Hiccup” to Curious Comedy theater for one night only! “Shoshinz” is anglicized Japanese for “shy, timid people,” but this surreal Tokyo Comedian is subservient to nothing and no one. Yanomi started Shoshinz and has [...]
Asaf Ronen Workshop

Getting Out of Your Own Way There are a hundred things that you end up doing on stage instead of what you want to be doing. Your brain is clouded with all sorts of things that you think you are supposed to do instead of what you are inspired to do. Learn to throw all [...]
Attack of the Flix

Show your film short in both virtual and physical spaces. Watch films produced by your peers and their film buddies. Join us for a fun monthly movie night called “Attack of the Flix” that features only locally produced, original content. And yes, with awesome food and unique adult bevies. Submissions at 5pm and films start [...]
Baby Ketten Karaoke

Have a special song in your heart? Come sing it at Baby Ketten Karaoke for FREE! Baby Ketten Karaoke features the best book in all of Portland. Have a rare track that you can’t find anywhere, but you are desperate to sing? Chances are, the Ketten has it! Check out the website for the full [...]
Cameron Esposito

Cameron Esposito couldn’t get enough of Curious Comedy Theater when she was here in October for All Jane No Dick All Women’s Comedy Festival, and will be back for one night only and this time she is bringing along Rhea Butcher! Oh & they are dating, It’s just your run of the mill touring dating [...]
Cinema Curiouso

Welcome to your feature presentation! A double feature of cinematic improvised hilarity. First, sit back, relax, and spill your popcorn laughing as the Curious Comedy House ensemble performs The Pitch – an improvised comedy where the players alternate between pitching and enacting scenes from a film titled by you, the audience. In the end, you [...]
Confidence Men

Legendary American playwright David Mamet has a certain way with languagerapid fire dialogue, unfinished sentences, meaningful pauses, raucous cursing, jazz symphonic rhythms . . . meanwhile, Confidence Men: Improvised Mamet have a certain way of lifting that style and making it their own. In the realm of improvised theatre. Every show is a wild testosterone-fueled [...]
Curious Comedy Cover Show

It’s the Curious Comedy Cover Show – a show where Portland’s most original comedians perform classic comedy routines. Performers include Portland’s finest in a rotating cast! Don’t miss your chance to see some of your favorite classic comedic routines LIVE on stage!
Curious Comedy Open Mic

Curious Comedy hosts a free night of stand up comedy every Sunday. Open mic comics get three minutes. Audience gets a free sneak peak at Portland’s up and coming talent. Sign ups start at 7:30pm – show starts at 8:00pm. FREE!
Curious Comedy Presents Instant Comedy

From the twisted minds of Curious Comedy comes another bold new show, Instant Comedy, a comedy mash up between improv and stand up comedy. First, a selection of Portland’s best stand up comics are given a set list made entirely of suggestions from the audience. Then, the comics go off to write their totally new [...]
Curious Comedy Spring Auction

Curious Comedy Theater is excited to announce its Spring Auction on April 27th, 2013. The event will include passed appetizers a two-course dinner, live entertainment provided by the Curious Comedy Playas, as well as a silent and live auction. VIP cocktail hour begins at 7pm and general admission at 8pm. $450 Table Captain 6 tickets for [...]
Curious Comedy Stand Up Showcase

A delicious sampler of Portland’s best stand up comedy. Every first and third Saturday at 10pm. $5
Curious Comedy: A night of Stand up featuring Susan Rice

Curious Comedy is pleased to present a fun filled night of stand up Comedy featuring one of our most favorite local talents, Susan Rice!! Susan has appeared on comedy shows on Comedy Central, Showtimes, PBS and more, and we have her here on our very own stage, just for you!! Also with Bri Pruett, Shane [...]
Curious Garden

The Curious Garden is back! Come see our old friends Razzie the Fairy, Daisy the Flower and Jojo the Lawnjockey – and meet our new garden friends Ribbit the Frog, Dottie the Ladybug and Flappy the Chicken! The Curious Garden is a show for all ages – especially kids 0-8. Every month on the second [...]
David Saffert’s Birthday Bashstravaganza! Die More Hard

by David Saffert Directed by David Saffert Choreography by Lucas Threefoot, Stephanie Cordell & Stephanie Seaman —– As part of the 2013 Fertile Ground Festival, David Saffert, pianist and comedian, invites you to an entertaining and somewhat devious show filled with music, comedy, dance, and secrets. Guests this year include Oregon Ballet Theatre’s Lucas Threefoot, Portland [...]
Director’s Cut

For one weekend only, the Curious Comedy Players present, Director’s Cut! – an improv comedy show where you determine the course of the action! Five directors take the stage, but only one will make it to the end. You vote on which director’s story you want to continue to it’s glorious finale! A fun and [...]
Double Header: Fit to Print! & Instant Comedy

For one weekend only Curious Comedy Theater is excited to put on two of our favorite show!! A comedy mash up between improv and stand up comedy. First, a selection of Portland’s best stand up comics are given a set list made entirely of suggestions from the audience. Then, the comics go off to write their [...]
Flying Fruitcake

Treat yourself to a delicious slice of comedy fruitcake with the Curious Comedy Players as they improvise hilarious comedy inspired by your holiday stories. Add a dash of aerial acts from Night Flight and enjoy! 8pm, $15 door. $12 on-line. (Curious Comedy Theater has no age restrictions for it’s performances)
Friday Night Fights

Friday Night Fights is a improv Cagematch-style show happening every 1st and 3rd Friday of every month. Two improv teams will battle it out for more stage time! Winners play the next show versus a new challenger and the audience votes. Teams range size from 1 to 100. All times are welcome to submit to challenge via [...]
Hip.Bang! & Charles!

Two hilarious comedy duos! One hilarious price! Charles is a sketch comedy duo from Seattle whose surreal, smart style has generated laughed throughout the US and Canada. Hip.Bang! is a two-man long form improv duo from Vancouver, whose absurd, playful scene work has delighted audiences at comedy festivals around North America. Charles won “Best Writing” [...]
Introduction to Improv Workshops

Introduction to Improv This introductory workshop is designed for beginners. It focuses on teaching the basics of the all-important fundamentals of improvisational theater. Great way to dip your toe in the water! Come play with us! in this introductory workshop you can learn about improv at Curious Comedy Theater. Try improv while also getting to [...]
Introduction to Sketch Writing – 1

Character and Conflict – Students will spend seven weeks working on idea generation, structure and character, leaving with an understanding of how to write a well-structured, dynamic sketch. Participants will emerge with three sketches that they’ve rewritten and seen up on their feet. Weeks 1-3 will focus on brainstorming ideas, creating unique characters, sketch structure and developing the [...]
Introduction to Stand Up Comedy

Learn the fundamentals of stand up comedy including stage etiquette, joke structure, writing habits and more while generating material for your own three-minute stand up routine. This course will consist of writing exercises, watching stand up masters, and classroom performance to help you explore different stand up styles, connect to your own unique writing process [...]
It Takes Two

IT TAKES TWO Join us for an intimate afternoon of music from life and the Broadway stage combined with short stories to inspire the senses and heal the heart. All net proceeds benefit wellarts.org. Featuring Susan Jonsson (42nd St, Anything Goes, Nunsense) and Mike Arseneault (Into The Woods, Secret Garden, Miss Saigon). Directed by Gretchen Rumbaugh. [...]
Jeff Gladstone Workshop

Jeff Gladstone will be at Curious Comedy Theater teaching two incredible workshops. Join him to learn and grow in the amazing realm of Short Form Games or the impressive world of Music Improv… or take both for double the fun! 11am – Fun with Short Form Games 2pm – Musical Improv $30 advance/ $40 at the [...]
Level 1: Improv Fundamentals

This fun and exciting level uses short form games and improv exercises to help students master the all-important fundamentals of improvisational theater. If you have some improv experience, you will build skills and master the basic by revisiting them with a fresh perspective. If you have never been on a stage before in your life [...]
Level 2: Scene Work Skill Building

Now that you understand the improv fundamentals, Level 2 will give you time to practice and develop your skills in longer scenes while being introduced to scenic short form games and basic long form improv formats. You will also receive more specific individual diagnostics, feedback, and challenges throughout this level. This level is great for [...]
Level 3: Ensemble and Performance

You have mastered the fundamentals of improv and scene work and you understand the basics of long form improv – so what next? Now it’s time to become a member of an ensemble and rehearse long form formats specifically to perform shows in front of a general audience. In this level you still receive individual [...]
Lez Stand Up

Curious Comedy theater is excited to partner up with Lez Stand Up for a fun, new, and exciting show at Curious. LEZ STAND UP may be the first comedy show ever that is lesbian, feminist, AND funny. Hosted by Kirsten Kuppenbender, who performs along with regulars: Jes Rega, Diane Gasperin and a rotating roster of [...]
Match Game: A Comedy Game Show

Match Game is a unique, unpredictable theater experience that will present the area’s finest comedic personalities like you’ve never seen them before. How unique? It will replace that cat you saw walking down the street in a raincoat as the highlight of your week. Panelists will complete sentences and phrases to help two audience members [...]
Mixology

Come watch an exciting mix of comedy styles and performers. Includes improv, sketch, stand-up and so much more! $5
Neutrino Project

The Neutrino Project is an improvised movie – we have three groups each with a camera, cast and runner. They go off and shoot scenes inspired by audience suggestions, the runners run them back to the theater and you watch the movie while it’s still being shot. It’s absolutely insane and something you have to [...]
One Full Beard Tour

Keith Jensen - From absurdist knock-knock jokes and personal observations to cultural commentary and more, Jensen delivers hilarious bits in his signature idiosyncratic style. A co-founder of the Coexist? Comedy Tour and Ha Ha Heathens, Jensen’s known for performing comedy from an atheist perspective. An internationally touring comic, he’s released three albums, 2009′s To the Moon and 2011′s Cats Made of [...]
Open Court

What happens when improvisers of all levels of skill and experience, from all different theaters and troupes around Portland and beyond, come together to perform longform improv for each other and the audience? FUN! Everyone is welcome to play or watch whether you have been playing for years or have never been on a stage [...]
Pipes Les Revolutions – An Improvised Musical

The Curious Comedy improvised musical ensemble – Pipes – is back! If you haven’t seen Pipes perform yet, then you have been missing out on one of Portland’s most amazing improvised shows. Inspired by a suggestion from the audience, this ensemble of seasoned improv professionals will create an entirely improvised musical comedy right before your [...]
Ruby Rocket, Private Eye

In Ruby Rocket, Private Eye, Stacey Hallal plays Ruby Rocket, an intoxicating intoxicated private eye who’ll solve any crime for the right price — no matter what danger it puts her in. A lover of drink, men and breaking all the rules, Ruby may be her own worst enemy, but in the end, she always [...]
Sketch Writing – 3

Linked Sketches – For students who have already worked with and have an understanding of the medium of sketch, this class will give them the opportunity to workshop and develop a series of linked or thematic sketches to use as building blocks for a longer show. Starting with student concepts and using brainstorming and improv [...]
Sketch Writing 2: Forms and Point of View

Once you have the hang of a five-page sketch, it’s time to kick it up a notch and explore different kinds of sketches from your point of view as a comedy writer. Out-of-class work required. Tuition: $195 for each eight week session. (Early registration – $175)
State Fair of the Union, An Original Sketch Show!

An original sketch show written by your very own Curious Comedy Playas and writers, and YOU are all invited! Doors 7:30, Show at 8:00. $12 advance. $15 at the door.
Student Showcase

The Curious Comedy Training Center is proud to dedicate a night to our students so they can showcase the skills they have learned in class over the last 7 weeks. $5 Suggested Donation.
Valentine’s Day Show

My Funny Valentine – 7:30pm Looking for a memorable Valentine’s Day filled with love and laughter? Curious Comedy has it all! In My Funny Valentine, the Curious Comedy Players improvise side-splitting scenes inspired by your love stories! Buy the dinner package and you will get the show plus a mouthwatering three course meal prepared by [...]
Whiskey Tango

Whiskey Tango… gentlemen doing gentlemen’s improv. Formed in the rain of Portland, Oregon, this group of improvisers takes your suggestions and weaves an elaborate tapestry of scenes, environments, and relationships that will keep you smiling in any weather. Whiskey Tango are 6 time winners of Friday Night Fights, Improv Cage Matches, and just generally great [...]
Writing the Sitcom Spec

An episode of an existing series on TV is called a spec script, and they are calling cards for anyone who wants to work in television. This courses focuses on breaking down a series and understanding its rhythms, working within the sitcom structure, and outlining your episode. Students will come in knowing the series they [...]