Gnap! Theater Projects

07/23/2021

Gnap! Theater Projects updated their address.

Gnap! Theater Projects updated their address.

05/13/2015

Get Up with Bad Boys opening!

It's been a while! Get Up will be performing with Bad Boys this Friday at Salvage Vanguard Theater. Ticket links for ya right here.

Get Up: Get Up is two veteran improvisers from Austin, Texas presenting narrative long form at its best. Expect multiple characters, quick edits, and sophisticated comedy as they make up a complete story on the spot. Winner: Austin Critics Table Award Winner: "Best of the Fest" FronteraFest Officia…

01/06/2014

The Return of the Blue High Machine

We're matching donations on this project through the rest of the day. You can double your money to help this awesome show!

A legendary rock and roll wrestling league is making it's triumphant return to the Off Center in February 2014. Co-produced by Gnap!

12/17/2013

The Return of the Blue High Machine

We're very stoked be helping this legendary Austin theatrical event return to the squared circle! We're a quarter of the way there.

A legendary rock and roll wrestling league is making it's triumphant return to the Off Center in February 2014. Co-produced by Gnap!

06/05/2013

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06/05/2013

Get Up will be there. How about you?

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04/04/2013

False Matters
False Matters headlines the April Threefer

03/29/2013

Just a reminder! Gold Dust: The Play, tonight and tomorrow! $5! Cheap! Plus, you KNOW you love Fleetwood Mac.

03/20/2013

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02/13/2013

Physical Truth In Physical Comedy with Caitlin Reilly

Very excited to be offering this class, coming up in just a few weeks!

Learn to be funny from the neck down! In this physical comedy class, you will learn how to use your whole body and all of its quirks to be funny. Go beyond the stereotypes and use the skills of clowning to fine tune your comedic self. Challenge your assumptions, condition your body, and analyze var...

01/02/2013

Not Just Some Clown from New York City

Wonderful write up about a really special show (and some classes to boot!)

Mark Gindick brings his 'Wing-Man' to Austin

12/26/2012

Classes coming up next week during the day. Hoping to celebrate the New Year with you.

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12/21/2012

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11/01/2012

The Dead Are Speaking with the Tongues of the Living?

Delightful little write up about Seance! Come check out the show!

Yes, and it's all because of those creepy Blackbower Mediums

10/31/2012

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10/27/2012

"Seance! a meeting of the Secret Society of Blackbower Mediums"

Come get spooked on this Halloween party weekend with the folks of Seance. Genuine scares here, people.

Join the Secret Society of Blackbower Mediums, a circle of spiritualists bound together by the touch of hands, as they invoke spectral visions spawned by audience suggestions. Through incantation, the mediums will communicate with the spirits of the dead. Together with the audience, Blackbower's spi...

10/26/2012

"Seance! a meeting of the Secret Society of Blackbower Mediums"

Come get spooked out with Seance, opening this weekend. It's the last Gnap run of prime time original improv programming. Don't miss it!

Join the Secret Society of Blackbower Mediums, a circle of spiritualists bound together by the touch of hands, as they invoke spectral visions spawned by audience suggestions. Through incantation, the mediums will communicate with the spirits of the dead. Together with the audience, Blackbower's spi...

10/19/2012

Saturday Night Special: In Our Prime and The Knuckleball Now

The Knuckleball Now and In Our Prime, Saturday at 10!

In Our Prime: Four Improvised Story Tellers finding the tale from your suggestions with Gloria Rabil Bankler, Ryan Hill, Jessica Arjet and Paul Normandin. See us at a stage near you! The Knuckleball Now: The Knuckleball Now is an improv troupe dedicated to high speed, ...

10/18/2012

Last weekend of 44 Plays for 44 Presidents. Come on and check it out. Tonight is pay what you wish!

10/10/2012

Looking for a box office person for Thursday 10/11 (tomorrow!) Hit me up if you're able to help out.

10/10/2012

44 Plays for 44 Presidents, back at it tomorrow night! Thursdays are officially Pay What You Wish, but you'll have to do that at the door.
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10/04/2012

'The Best Man'/'44 Plays for 44 Presidents'

Hey some press!

10/04/2012

When you do a play with 44 little plays inside of, man are there a lot cues. But, as of after midnight last night, they are all programmed. Someone give the creator of QLab a Nobel Prize, ok? Oh, and Buzz Moran and Amy Lewis, too.

10/03/2012

Old Things and New: I liked it, but what was it?: Some Thoughts on Directing Pocketful of Posies

Gnap! Theater Projects already misses Liz Brammer. Sweet write up of her experiences directing one of our more out there shows.

09/26/2012

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09/07/2012

Gnap! Theater Projects Presents the 787s and friends!

Late addition to the Gnap! line up now that we're back after the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival! The The Seven Eight Sevens and friends. Do come check them out.

Gnap Theater Projects presents the 787s and friends for a weekend of multiple troupe performances. Friday: In Our Prime Big Beautiful Warlock The Seven Eight Sevens Saturday: Wait OK NowNugefieldThe Seven Eight Sevens

08/29/2012

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08/24/2012

The Derby!

This is tonight at $10. For exactly $0 on the barrel.

Watch as four teams of talented improvisers compete in games, scenes and chicanery to attempt to win the prized personal possessions of the other players. There will be solid improv comedy, strange bonus round challenges, and a "Chance Bucket". How could this get any better? Well how about it being ...

08/24/2012

Gnap! Theater Projects Presents False Matters

Tonight! A special return presentation of False Matters in advance of their show in the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival. The Escorts open up the show!

Gnap Theater Projects presents False Matters, stories improvised in the style of Philip K. Dick. Friday and Saturday at 8, August 24th and 25th, in advance of our appearance in the Out of Bounds festival the following week.

08/18/2012

Saturday Night Special: Stone Airplane and The Knuckleball Now

Last night of Pocketful of Posies tonight before it's gone forever. Then at 10, Stone Airplane opens for The Knuckleball Now!

Stone Airplane: The Knuckleball Now: The Knuckleball Now is an improv troupe dedicated to high speed, high risk comedy. http://theknuckleballnow.net All SNS shows $5. Presented in association with Merlin Works.

08/15/2012

The Theft Forum

The cast of Pocketful of Posies did an episode for local improv podcast The Theft Forum. Chegg it out!

Scott Hearne sits down with Kristin Firth, Brad Hawkins, Elizabeth Ruby Willmann, and Ryan Austin to discuss the Gnap Theater Projects's production: Pocketful of Posies. Plus, a feature performance of Pocketful of Posies improv!

08/04/2012

Tonight at 10pm, after Pocketful of Posies, it's Get Up and the newest house troupe, Buckets of Buckets making their debut.

08/02/2012

'Pocketful of Posies': A New Wave Garden of Delights

Hey thanks Austin Chronicle and Brenner for writing about our show! And yes, Věra Chytilová is brilliant and an inspiration.

Perhaps they'll strike a pose that's not unlike François Truffaut's?

07/28/2012

Thanks Steve Rogers Photography! Great shots from Pocketful of Posies opening night!

07/27/2012

The Derby!

And then there's the Derby! Tonight at 10 pm. FREE!

Watch as four teams of talented improvisers compete in games, scenes and chicanery to attempt to win the prized personal possessions of the other players. There will be solid improv comedy, strange bonus round challenges, and a "Chance Bucket". How could this get any better? Well how about it being ...