Podcasts about unified scene theater

Sweet Payne starts off on an awkward step as it connects various threads in Almost Killed Me and in the Hold Steady mythology. But it rises from those beginnings to a glorious finish, revealing some of Craig Finn’s best lines and some of the album’s best ensemble playing. It also introduces the idea of the Unified Scene, a defining aspiration and mantra for The Hold Steady, and digs into the Twin Cities as much as anything in the Hold Steady’s discography. To understand this, we have Shawn Westfall, writer and comedian and founder of The Unified Scene Theater, join us to explain how Sweet Payne fits in, how the dissonance between sunny harmonics and lyrical darkness plays out for the Hold Steady, what hardcore can teach us about the Cityscape Skins, the importance of community, and more. We also bust out a last Map Corner for this season to get deep into the Minneapolis roots. Check out show notes here: https://shortmanstudios.com/a-positive-jam-track-9-sweet-payne/

Mt. Rushmore of DC's improv studs. The past three years of my life have been defined by immersing myself in DC’s improv comedy scene, and I have spent the large majority of my time in that scene in some way, shape, or form with Shawn Westfall. He’s been my teacher, my friend, and his theater’s toilet was one of the few places I knew I could crap in sanitary peace if my day job took me into DC. Sadly, Shawn has shuttered his Unified Scene Theater as of this August, and is moving to Portland, OR with his wife, Kathy, pretty much as I write these words. Like most members of DC’s comedy community, I’m both heartbroken to lose the guy and excited for the awesome new opportunities the future has in store for him. But most of all, I’m really gonna miss that goddamn toilet. It was my distinct pleasure to play host to Shawn Westfall one final time in the Papa’s Basement studios, flanked by his comedy wife, Mikael Johnson, and the latest in his long line of bastard improv children, Joe Gagliardi. Shawn, from all of us, all the best. And, if you can remember, what toilet paper did you stock the theater with? That stuff felt like you were wiping with a double-ply dream. Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram! Shawn Westfall - Twitter - @ShawnWestfall, Instagram - @ShawnWestfall Mikael Johnson - Twitter - @MikaelLJohn, Instagram - @MikaelLJohn Joe Gagliardi - Twitter - @TheMightyJoeyG, Instagram - @TheMightyJoeyG John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser or here to open and listen in iTunes (you can also use the embedded player below). And, if you want to see our faces that very clearly are fit for radio, you can watch videos of our episodes on YouTube

The right advice can change a life. Shawn Westfall's Unified Scene Theater in Washington, DC, plays host to another episode of WTF Is Wrong With You?, a live advice podcast starring the aforementioned theater proprietor and Papa's Basement Podcast host John Papageorgiou, giving both funny and meaningful advice to all of your life questions. Recorded live on 4/24/19 in front of a beautiful audience that was not harmed during the making of the episode. Follow this episode's cast on Twitter and Instagram! John Papageorgiou - Twitter - @PapasBasement, Instagram - @PapasBasement Shawn Westfall - Twitter - @ShawnWestfall, Instagram - @ShawnWestfall Unified Scene Theater - Twitter - @UnifiedSceneDC, Instagram - @UnifiedSceneDC Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser or here to open and listen in iTunes (you can also use the embedded player below). And, if you want to see our faces that very clearly are fit for radio, you can watch videos of our episodes on YouTube

Unified Scene Theater co-owner and performer Shawn Westfall talks about his comedy journey. Find out more by listening to his interview. The post Shawn Westfall Wants to Give You Space to Play appeared first on Comedic Pursuits.

Fairy Tales, nursery rhymes, and parables...oh, my!  We're talking about the short lived cartoon Mother Goose and Grimm today and Sean is bring back Chris Ulrich and Joe Randazzo to talk about themes and influences from today's cartoon.         Want to find our guests online? Joe Randazzo Performing improv comedy with Double Date on April 15  Look for tickets on WITDC.org Performing with Jive Turkey at Busboys and Poets - https://www.busboysandpoets.com/ Directs and performing in an upcoming Fringe show called 'The Heist' in July 2019 - find more https://www.capitalfringe.org/ Chris Ulrich Performing improv comedy with Jive Turkey (with Joe) at WIT Look for tickets on WITDC.org Performing improv comedy with Double Date on April 15  Look for tickets on WITDC.org Learn more about body language - http://www.cuinthemoment.com/ Chris is a teacher at the DC Improv Performing in the show 'Frenemies'  at The Unified Scene Theater - http://www.unifiedscenetheater.com   If you are digging our show and want to help you out, then you can do so in the following ways: 1. Recommend a cartoon to us:  Click here for the Google form to recommend a cartoon to SMC or, call us and leave a message at 202-681-4406.  If you call then we will 100% review you recommendations if we haven't watched the cartoon yet. Click here to see what we've watched. 2. Leave a review on iTunes with the following message titled “Grimmy“ with the review, “I'm gonna name my next dog Grimmy.  I can't want to yell 'GRIMMMMMYYYYY' at the dog park.  Thanks for the great idea." 3. Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SaturdayMourningCartoons/ 4. Follow us on twitter @MourningToons 5. Check us out on Instagram @SaturdayMourningCartoons

Fairy Tales, nursery rhymes, and parables...oh, my!  We're talking about the short lived cartoon Mother Goose and Grimm today and Sean is bring back Chris Ulrich and Joe Randazzo to talk about themes and influences from today's cartoon.         Want to find our guests online? Joe Randazzo Performing improv comedy with Double Date on April 15  Look for tickets on WITDC.org Performing with Jive Turkey at Busboys and Poets - https://www.busboysandpoets.com/ Directs and performing in an upcoming Fringe show called 'The Heist' in July 2019 - find more https://www.capitalfringe.org/ Chris Ulrich Performing improv comedy with Jive Turkey (with Joe) at WIT Look for tickets on WITDC.org Performing improv comedy with Double Date on April 15  Look for tickets on WITDC.org Learn more about body language - http://www.cuinthemoment.com/ Chris is a teacher at the DC Improv Performing in the show 'Frenemies'  at The Unified Scene Theater - http://www.unifiedscenetheater.com   If you are digging our show and want to help you out, then you can do so in the following ways: 1. Recommend a cartoon to us:  Click here for the Google form to recommend a cartoon to SMC or, call us and leave a message at 202-681-4406.  If you call then we will 100% review you recommendations if we haven't watched the cartoon yet. Click here to see what we've watched. 2. Leave a review on iTunes with the following message titled "Grimmy" with the review, "I'm gonna name my next dog Grimmy.  I can't want to yell 'GRIMMMMMYYYYY' at the dog park.  Thanks for the great idea." 3. Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SaturdayMourningCartoons/ 4. Follow us on twitter @MourningToons 5. Check us out on Instagram @SaturdayMourningCartoons

Let the intellectual spit roast begin! Shawn Westfall's Unified Scene Theater (DC's finest improv comedy establishment) hosts a second evening of him and John Papageorgiou of the Papa's Basement Podcast dispensing wisdom, Loveline-style, to an audience that came to share their personal problems and, hopefully get them solved. The answers range from funny to wisdom-laden (words that look a lot more like "bin Laden" than I'm comfortable with, come to think of it), and we hope that everyone who came got something out of it. For those of you that didn't, enjoy the audio from the evening, and we hope to see you at the next WTF is wrong with you in lovely Bloomingdale, DC! Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser or here to open and listen in iTunes (you can also use the embedded player below). And, if you want to see our faces that very clearly are fit for radio, you can watch videos of our episodes on YouTube

I own multiple Taylor Swift books and a cat that looks like a melon covered in a raccoon pelt: I'm more than qualified to dispense advise. Most of you who have listened to the show in the past year are familiar with Shawn Westfall, my improv teacher, friend, and the owner / operator of DC's Unified Scene Theater. Shawn got it into his head that we should do a live podcast show, titled "WTF Is Wrong With You?", where we would get the audience to come on stage with us, share their demons, and we would try to help them out. As it turns out, every audience member's demon was "alcohol" and the demons won. Hard. But that made for a pretty funny live event, if I do say so myself. We plan on doing more of these in the DC area, so if you have been a fan of the show and want to get in on an episode, please check out social media for the next live taping at the Unified Scene Theater of WTF Is Wrong With You? Follow this episode's cast on Twitter! John Papageorgiou - @PapasBasement Shawn Westfall - @ShawnWestfall Unified Scene Theater - @UnifiedSceneDC If you truly love the show and realize money talks more than kind words (fine, we like kind words, too), donate on a monthly basis to the show via our Patreon. Some of the rewards aren't bad! Or buy a shirt at Redbubble so people you walk past in the mall can ask you what a Papa's Basement is. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Papa's Basement in your browser or here to open and listen in iTunes (you can also use the embedded player below). And, if you want to see our faces that very clearly are fit for radio, you can watch videos of our episodes on YouTube

Episode 19 features DC Improv Legend Shawn Westfall of the Unified Scene Theater and we chat about "Upper-Class Twit of the Year" by Monty Python and "Numberwang" by That Mitchell and Webb Look. Sketch Nerds is a podcast about our favorite comedy sketches. For more info visit: https://badmedicinecomedy.com/sketchnerds/ Here are links to the sketches we discussed - Upper-Class Twit of the Year and Numberwang

It's all happening, FINALLY. Your hosts Chase and Zazi sat down with DC Improv Legend Shawn Westfall to talk shop about his studio The Unified Scene Theater, talk barios- Bloomingdale to be specific, and Chase and Zazi even got to play some improv games with the master. We think we are naturals, but it is for you to decide. This one is a doozy folks- nearly an hour and a half, but worth every bit and has some breaking points every half hour or so if you need to hit pause and pretend you are doing work. With that length, and because occasionally Chase and Zazi do other things including comedy and music shows that you can see on our facebook page, it actually has been about two months since this interview took place. So, upcoming shows at The Unified Scene Theater (which were awesome) have already happened, but you can see what available workshops and shows are available at: unifiedscenetheater.com