Upstairs Gallery Bulletin #77 (10/15-10/21) "Pumpkin Space Latte"

Upstairs Gallery Bulletin #77 (10/15-10/21) “Pumpkin Space Latte”

This weekend we’re pretty sure a dude became the only dude to ever drink a Pumpkin spice latte in space!!! hoooooorayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Such a wonderful weekend of shows at the Gallery, and another week of em coming your way! Would love to see you out THIS WEEK AT THE GALLERY:

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#1
Kiss From A Rose RISES @ the Upstairs Gallery!

Monday- October 1, 8, 14, 22, 29 - 8:00pm Free! (Donations Accepted) BYOB
When Chicago succumbs to laughter, you’ll have our permission to die.

Or live.

Wait. This isn’t a thing about death, this is a comedy show!

10/15 - Special Guests Offty Goofty and Wussball!

(Facebook Event)

#2
Potential Boyfriends @ Upstairs Gallery - Featuring BBG, Team Dazzlestaff

Tuesdays- October 2, 9, 16 - 8:00pm Free! (Donations Accepted) BYOB

Potential Boyfriends is Peter Corey, Pat Ivansek, Nick Johnson, and Joey Lesiak.

Come to a show sometime, but don’t expect the boys to buy you a drink or talk to you about anything past the surface level afterwards.

This week:

Shock T’s, doing music comedy.
Carmen Christopher, doing solo sketch.
Potential Boyfriends, doing dumb.

(Facebook Event)

#3
MAKING OUT - OCTOBER

Wednesday - October 17th - 8:00pm Free! (Donations Accepted) BYOB

Wes Perry loves his friends so much, he want to share them!

MEET THIS MONTH’S FRIENDS:

Colin Self
Gary Richardson
Eric Budzynski
Tyler Gillespie
Julia Solomon
Brandon Ogborn
Drrty Sqrlz (Sarah Ashley, Blair Beeken, Christina Boucher, Stephanie Jones, and Irene Marquette)

This month Wes will be telling true stories and singing songs, accompanied by guitarist Adam Cohen-Leadholm and drummer Ross Howard.

(facebook event)

#4
NIGHT OF THE UN-DEAD FORMS!!!!! (Living Room/Bat @ The Upstairs Gallery)

Thursday- October 4, 11, 18, 25 - 8pm, Free (Donations Accepted) BYOB

We’re putting up a run of the rarely performed “Living Room” and “Bat” improv forms every Thursday in October!

Join us as we transform the Upstairs Gallery’s studio room into A MAD SCIENTISTS LAB TO RESURRECT THESE TWO FORMS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE. ITS GONNA GET SPOOOOKY.

Both forms performed by new random assortments of Chicago Improvisers each week.

This week…

—Bat—

Ben Russell
Sarah Ashley
Jared Jeffries
Tim Baltz
Dave Maher
Megan Johns

—Living Room—

Jamison Webb
Kellen Alexander
Christy Bonstell
Ray Gordon
Sara Kaplan
Tyler Parker
Brian McGovern
Walt Delaney

(Facebook Event)

#5
UPSTAIRzzzzzz GALLERY HOUzzzzzzzE TEAM NIGHTzzzzz!

Thursday - October 4, 11, 28, 25 - 10:30pm, Free (Donations Accepted) BYOB

We’ve got house teams! They need audiences! HELP US GOOF OFF FUN STYLE THURSDAYS LATE NIGHT (and one weds early night!)

This week—

Selfish Green Men, Feldmanowski, Formal Apology

(Facebook Event)

#6 Friday- October 19th- NO 8PM SHOW
Walt’s new short film “Small Americans” has its world premiere ELSEWHERE, so the gallery will be close till the late show!

#7
Have you ever had a dream you can do anything hour!

Friday- October 19th- 10:30pm, Free (Donations Accepted) BYOB

HYEHADYCDAH is back! John and Zeph take center stage to bring back the show that puts the ZA in bizarre and the FU in fun.

Anything could happen.

(Facebook)

#8
Tyler Samples is “Lonesome” - A Solo Improvised Western

Saturday- October 6 , 13, 20, 27 - 8pm, Free (Donations Accepted) BYOB

The old west, a dusty, cracked, sepia colored landscape populated by men of few words. Tyler Samples brings it to life by himself.

Opening new opening teams every show!

(Facebook)

#9
The HITMEN & The Hamiltons: A Punmare on Clark St

Saturday- October 6 , 13, 20, 27 - 10:30pm - Free (Donations Accepted) BYOB

The Hamiltons and The HITMEN are coming to the Upstairs Gallery for 4 nights of scary funny improv!

We’ll kill you with comedy and make you laugh until your sides split, your intestines seep out of your abdomen and are lying on the floor in a pool of blood and serous fluid, while life slowly escapes and darkness closes in for the final time. But at least you’ll be having a good time!

Opening this week - Scuba Mission

(Facebook Event)

#10
The Nerdologues Present Your Stories: October - Sport

Sunday - October 21 7:00pm - Free (Donations Accepted) BYOB

Every month, the Nerdologues invite our friends and nerds from the community to come and share their stories. Some people do stand-up, do sketches, play music or sing songs; a lot of people share stories. Then we put it up on a podcast.

The theme of this month is: Sport. Don’t fall into the trap. It doesn’t HAVE to about SPORTS. But it CAN be. (Or anything for that matter).

Check it out past sessions here: http://yourstories.podbean.com/

(Facebook Event)

#11
Improv Sundae

Sunday -October 14, 21, 28 & November 4, 7:30pm - Free (Donations Accepted) BYOB