Articles by Roy Janik

Holy 1960s Batman, Batman! is currently playing Saturdays at 8pm. Every show features a guest villain, and the second guest is Mike Kinald, a founding member of Improv for Evil, a master of silly accents, and a 1960s Batman fighting-style expert. So let’s talk to Mike! Roy: I’m particularly excited […]

Shannon McCormick has made a career of playing villains, so it’s only fitting that he is the first guest villain in Holy 1960s Batman, Batman! On the eve of the show, we talk to him about his life of evil

It may not seem that different to you, but doing an entire show with just 2 people is a unique and rewarding challenge. How unique? I’ll let some of the participants speak for themselves.

Roy Janik, the director of Austin Secrets, has never submitted a secret to the show. But that’s about to change.

Our goal is to use nothing but Austin secrets in the Long Center show.

But to do that, we need a whole new crop of secrets to choose from over the next few days. So spread this high and low.

an epic blog post from Kristin Firth, who’s putting together the solo showcase on Saturday, Feb. 26th, 2011. It’s about solo improv in general, and her experience with her own show Revlis.

Peter Rogers, of The Dancy Street D’Orchestra, takes us behind the scenes in this blogpost to tell us all about just how much work and sweat went into his troupe’s current musical headlining run in The Threefer.

But unlike other shows, the suggestions are not random occupations or locations or emotions shouted out as the first thing to enter an audience member’s mind. They are the deep confessions, the silly embarrassments, the hidden intimate truths of people’s lives. They have power that should not be easily discarded.

Somewhere, etched on the surface of a holiday shortbread cookie so dense in could withstand the eminent nuclear holocaust facing late 1950’s America, is the face of a Jerry Mathers as he smushes his face into an inquisitive look that reminds us all that life is complicated, but your approach […]

Apparently it’s the time of the year for awesome videos about The Hideout. We certainly aren’t complaining. In this video, Jessica Arjet, our always smiling co-owner and youth program director, tells us all about why she loves teaching kids and performing in kids shows. This is a behind-the-scenes look at The […]