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This pseudo-square offers two entertainment options. The first is Improv Boston, which has performances Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 8 and 10:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. The other is Ryle's Jazz Bar, which is billed as a neighborhood jazz bar, although top acts occasionally appear to secure its reputation as a top jazz venue in the city. A jazz brunch is offered on Sundays form 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Another night spot is the requisite Irish pub: the Druid. Its decor pleases the eye as much as the Guinness slakes the thirst...
Though the script has been in existence for over fifteen years and has traveled several continents, it continues to have about it an air of freshly improvised parody. As with improv, the humor has an underdeveloped quality--potential jokes are left unexploited while the existent ones lack the sharpness of revision. Like the movie Wag the Dog, the premise of Compleat Works is loaded with humorous potential that remains largely unmined. Lines like "a nose by any other name would still smell" are funny but pale when compared to the sardonic text-twisting of Tom Stoppard's comparable Rosencrantz...
Couldn't push your way into last weeks jam-packed OTI performance? Satisfy your comedy craving and drop by the Improv Asylum. 8 and 10 p.m, Tonight and tomorrow, 216 Hanover...
...Julius Caesar and knew he had found his calling. Two years later, he wrote his first poem, influenced by early "big word" rapper T La Rock. But it wasn't until grad school that he attempted to meld his dramatic training with spoken-word performances. Kicking around the improv poetry circuit in Manhattan, he met Levin and landed the main role in Levin's loosely scripted, no-budget feature about victims of unjust drug laws...
...levels and bolgias too, but we don't have time to get into that. Let's just say that in the first circle are comics negotiating TV deals; in the second are comics whose agents claim they're negotiating TV deals; then there are comics playing clubs like the Improv in Los Angeles and Catch a Rising Star in New York City; and at the bottom, comics who play the other clubs, which don't pay them money. There are no comics who don't want TV deals, only comics who say they don't want TV deals because they...