Kriksciun Family Confessions — Papa’s Basement 585
I’ve known the Kriksciuns for a long time, since I was shoved into a gifted and talented class at age eight with their son, Al. This past Christmas, I spent […]
Upright Citizen’s Brigade NY has closed its UCB East location in NYC, and the theater has given countless other clues that its fortunes in the city are failing. Perhaps more alarming, though, is that the market as a whole for the bevy of talented performers that the theater churns out seems to be shrinking. On the other side of that coin, the theater doesn’t pay its performers, a practice which I’m more than happy to call into question. I’m joined by improv theater owner / veteran Shawn Westfall and very tall man Brian Duss to discuss what UCB owes its grads that wish to keep performing in its ecosystem, if improv in general is nowhere close to the pipeline to entertainment success that it once was, and whether the world is an all-consuming abyss and we’d be better off blowing a T-1000-sized hole through our heads. If you enjoy the show, please like, share, follow and tattoo my own face over your own.
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