CRUMBS at the Fringe

CRUMBS returns to the Winnipeg Fringe Festival. How many times is it now? 10? 20? 30? Who knows? 
*the first CRUMBS fringe was in 1998 so this would be number 20

CRUMBS is going to do the improv show they do with DJ Hunnicutt. People are going to go to the show and be entertained. The show is NOT going to be at the King's Head, don't go to the King's Head, that's not where we will be. Poor King's Head. 

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When:

Wed July 19 10pm

Fri July 21 3:30pm

Sat July 22 9pm

Mon July 24 1:30pm

Tue July 25 9:15pm

Thu July 27 12 noon

Fri July 28 5:15pm
Sat July 29 11pm

Where:

Venue #4 The Pantages Mainstage

What:

An improv show with a duo who has worked together for over two decades. Fully improvised comedy theatre with a live DJ.

Why:

Because it's a good show and it's the longest running show at the Winnipeg Fringe.

What else?

Is there another show I should you see? Well check out this link here:

HERE IS THE LINK I JUST MENTIONED

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The Winnipeg Fringe!

With summer in Winnipeg comes the hot hot heat. No it isn't just a time for escape to the cabin or the beach. No it's not just a time of fighting mosquitoes and other pests. No it's not just a time to remember that it isn't winter. It is also a time of great improv and comedy. Live shows are not only a winter sport.


The Winnipeg Fringe Festival? What fringe shows should you really be getting excited about? Is the Fringe happening in Winnipeg July 13th - 24th?

Winnipeg Fringe Website LINK!

CRUMBS
Every Night it's the same... It's Different!
(Every night at the King's Head pub at 8:45pm)

CRUMBS returns with the already sold-out run of already hilarious shows. It's crazy, the tickets aren't even on sale yet and they're sold out. It's ridiculous, the show hasn't even been created yet and it's already hilarious. A fully improvised show scored by DJ Hunnicutt and created by the power of imagination. All in the comfort of the King's Head Pub. Get your tickets early, because as we've already mentioned, they're already sold out.

Advanced Tickets on sale NOW

CRUMBS Facebook event LINK


The Big Stupid Improv Show
Asper Centre for Theatre (at the U of W)

The Big Stupid Improv Show returns in all it's Big and Stupid improv glory. This is the now legendary improv jam show that gathers improvisers, comedians, and fringe performers and throws them onstage together. The show has been running at the Fringe since 1999. Who will you see this year? What will you see this year?

July 13 6:30pm

July 15 1pm

July 17 2:45pm

July 19 4pm

July 21 10:15pm

July 23 12 noon

July 24 7:30pm

Advanced Tickets on sale NOW

Big Stupid Improv Facebook Event Link


Comedy Isn't Funny Anymore
Onstage at the Pantages Playhouse Theatre (Venue #4)

Comedy Isn't Funny Anymore is a post-modern take on 

the golden age of comedy.

Stephen Sim is funny. Caity Curtis is funny. They want you 

to laugh. More than that, they want you to laugh at the 

right parts of the show. How will you know when to 

laugh? How will you determine when the funny is 

happening? Is comedy even funny? Good luck, Audience 

People. 

These are two comedians. (CRUMBS, The Winnipeg 

Improv Festival, The Winnipeg Comedy Festival, The Big 

Stupid Improv Show, King’s Head Comedy Knights, The 

(Improvised) Bachelorette, Vancouver Sketchfest, TEDx 

Winnipeg, general international fame…)

july 14 11:30pm

july 16 3pm

july 17 5:45pm

july 19 1:45pm

july 20 7pm

july 22 12 noon

july 23 5pm

Advanced Tickets on sale NOW

Facebook Event Page






Are there more shows to see at the FRINGE? You bet. In fact, you should go see them all!

Next Act 2016 is coming to Winnipeg, Manitoba! 

From August 2 – 6 improvisers from all over Canada will be joining the Next Act ensemble for 5 days and 5 nights of intense improv training and performances.

Winnipeg is known internationally for its unique style of long form improv. The Next Act Ensemble can expect to be challenged and charmed by the ‘Prairie Style’ improv experience. The Ensemble will be directed by Winnipeg improv legends, Aaron Merke (BUCKO), Stephen Sim (CRUMBS) and Caity Curtis.

CRUMBS again

Let's CRUMBS again. Let's keep CRUMBSing together shall we? CRUMBS is returning to the Fringe to perform at the King's Head pub again. You love it, we love, everybody loves it.

"It takes a lot of practice to be this good at making stuff up."   -CBC 2015 (5 STARS)

Here are the dates and times for you to program into you phone or write into your calendar:

Wed July 15 8:45pm

Thu July 16 10:30pm

Fri July 17 7pm

Sat July 18 10:30pm

Sun July 19 10:30pm

Mon July 20 7pm

Tue July 21 8:45pm

Wed July 22 7pm

Thu July 23 10:30pm

Fri July 24 10:30pm

Sat July 25 8:45pm

Venue #14 King's Head Pub

Here is the LINK to buy advance TIX

Here is the LINK to the facebook event page

Here is the link to a map to the King's Head

LINK to the 5 star review on the CBC website

But what other Fringe shows do you need to know about?

The Big Stupid Improv Show

The improv jam show hosted by CRUMBS and featuring all of your favourite fringe performers and improvisers and comedians together on one stage. An improv show that is so big and so stupid we were required by fringe laws to name it what we did. 

"Put it at the top of your list if you're looking for a laugh and are unafraid to put your best and worst ideas into action."   -CBC 2015 (4 STARS)

Wed July 15 6:30pm

Thu July 16 12pm

Fri July 17 9pm

Sat July 18 5:15pm

Sun July 19 12pm

Mon July 20 4:15pm

Wed July 22 9:45pm

Fri July 24 2:45pm

Sat July 25 5:30pm

Sun July 26 7:15pm

Venue #21

MTYP - Mainstage   2 Forks Market Rd. (The Forks)

The LINK to buy your advance tix

The LINK to the facebook event page

The LINK to the CBC review for 2015

What Could Go Wrong?

Hold on, you get a comedy show written AND performed by Caitlin Curtis AND Stephen Sim? What could go wrong?  

Thu July 16 9pm

Sat July 18 1:45pm

Sun July 19 7:15pm

Thu July 23 12pm

Fri July 24 5pm

Sat July 25 3:30pm

Sun July 26 5:30pm

Venue #2

MTC Up the Alley    174 Market Ave.

Enter from back alley (John Hirsch Pl.)

The LINK to buy your advance tix!

Facebook Event Page LINK

Revenge of the Meek

Andrew Lizotte has crafted a comedy play about religion. Hilarious right? Throw in a stellar cast of performers and some comedic and production guidance from Stephen Sim, and you have a very fringy play with a brain a heart and an everlasting soul. It's a comedy, we swear to God!

Wed July 15 10pm

Sat July 18 Noon 

Sun July 19 7:15pm

Mon July 20 6:15pm

Wed July 22 2:30pm

Fri July 24 4:45pm

Sat July 25 7:15pm

Venue #6    Tom Hendry Warehouse

LINK to get your advance TIX

LINK to the facebook event page

What other shows are coming up before the Fringe?

June 24th
HUNKS & Big Stupid Improv Show

See Winnipeg's newest improv troupe do their 3rd show at the Park Theatre and then take part in an improv show guided by the improv mastery of the Big Stupid Improv Show!

Facebook event LINK!

Tuesday, June 30th
Fringe Preview at the King's Head

The Comedy Knights last show of the season will be a Fringe Preview show! Come and get a free tasting menu of all the comedy and improv shows at the Fringe. Then when the Fringe comes along in July you'll know exactly what gourmet shows you'll want to gorge yourself on. (Metaphors)

CRUMBS, The Big Stupid Improv Show, DnD Improv, Hot Thespian Action, Revenge of the Meek (Thin Lizotte Productions), What Could Go Wrong? (Stephen Sim & Caitlin Curtis), Turned (the Zombie Improv Show), Biggest Little Child Star (Melanie Dahling), The Unchosen One (Cathy Herbert), and maybe even more.


Thank you, and we will see you at the shows.


p.s. Hi Dad

And it's summertime.

Lovers of reading things on the internet and probably lovers of the live improv and live comedy and live lively things. Here is what is coming up on you in Winnipeg!

The whole next season of Comedy Knights happening at the King's Head Pub. This means that Tuesday, Sept 2nd at 9PM we re-launch and you'll be able to enjoy the FREE comedy show. And then, every TUESDAY NIGHT after that!

The Winnipeg IF... Improv Festival happening at the GSAC Sept 30th - Oct 4th. You will want to watch th live international improv happening right in Winnipeg. Guests from as far away as Germany, plus improvisers from as close to you as your neighbour.
Details Link


In the meantime, here are pictures of summer time things. It is still summer.

Welcome to the summer of times. Wherever you are reading this, it is summer. Except you "downunderers" and you "kiwis", though it could be that you wait for several months to read this. 

Everyone is of course gearing up for their favourite sumer time things. Like for instance:

-Growing your flowers and vegetables. (see above pictures)

-Going to the cabin, the lake or camping.

-Hiding at home, inside and avoiding all things.


Other highlights you might see or might have seen or wish you had or wish you would see?

Ray "2 the Limit" Fenwick performing at the Yellow Dog.

Free art installations in the Exchange District. (can you spot which one of the installations isn't art but is corporate advertising?)


Keep enjoying your season, whatever your season, and keep playing safe.

Be safe.

Be very very safe...

Hospitals are great for broken collarbones. Broken collarbones are great for killing all the fun.

CRUMBS at the Fringe!

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen,

The Winnipeg Fringe Festival is almost here, heck, maybe it is here by the time you are reading this.



CRUMBS performs the amazingly hilarious make'up improv comedy freestyle awesome show at the King's Head Pub upstairs. Ladies and Gentlemen, Stephen and Lee have been touring this show all over the world and people keep inviting them back for more. They have been touring and doing their shows with Dj Hunnicutt, who just happens to be an amazingly amazing Dj and he enhances the already awesome show to higher levels of awesome.


Wed, July 14th at 9:30 pm we kick things off.

Thu, July 15th at 10:15 pm
Fri, July 16th at 10:15 pm
Sat, July 17th at 10:15 pm
Sun, July 18th at 10:15 pm
Mon, July 19th at 10:15 pm
Tue, July 20th at 10:15 pm

Wed, July 21st No Show! Don't Go!

Thu, July 22nd at 10:15 pm
Fri, July 23rd at 10:15 pm
Sat, July 24th at 10:15 pm

Then it is all over! But folks don't just line up like everyone else... buy your tickets in advance. The last few years people have been pretty pissed that they have lined up hours early and still were denied entry. We sell out fast folks, fast. So go online and get your tickets now, yes NOW.

Get your advanced tickets here.



Here is some information about the Fringe in Winnipeg.

#1 It is the best one in North America. It isn't the biggest (that distinction belongs to Edmonton's Fringe) but it is the best one. It has people who are really interested in seeing the shows and there really is a buzz in the city while the festival is going on. Winnipeg has a nice fountain while Edmonton has a waterpark inside their mall... Edmonton is always out bigging us.



#2 It is where you can see shows shows shows and more shows. Anyone can apply and anyone can get pulled in the lottery. That means you can see a show from a pro group and an amateur group. You can see a dance show from China or a real live play from England. You can see a local company perform an original work or a theatre company from America perform Shakespeare... You can see almost anything at almost anytime for a whole 12 days.


#3 People are around and Winnipeg feels like an actual city with an actual downtown with actual cultural life. This alone is worth seeing.

#4 CRUMBS puts on a show every night just for you. Seriously, it's just for you.

*plus
Don't forget about the CRUMBS live radio show on every Monday at 5 pm CST on 101.5 umfm... you can even tune in over the internets.

Listen online here.

Download Podcasts here.



*double plus
Don't forget to continue to go see live comedy in Winnipeg.

Sunday nights at the Cavern in Osborne Village

Tuesday nights at the King's Head Pub

Thursday nights at the Standard