“…sharp, focused, and riotously funny!”- The Austin Chronicle
*Winner of an Austin Critic’s Table Award*
At 5:00pm on Friday June 6, 2025, eight brave and foolish improvisers will take the Hideout stage and stay there until 5pm on Sunday the 8th, performing 48 STRAIGHT HOURS of improvisational theatre and comedy without sleep or respite.
Each hour of the marathon will be a separate show, featuring classic and upcoming Hideout formats, one-off shows never to be seen again, and guest troupes and players from Austin’s ever-growing improv community.
Each hour of the marathon will cost $5 to watch. An all-access Marathon pass is available for $48, which, if you’re crazy brave enough to see all the shows, is a HUGE savings!
Fri-Sun 6/6-6/8, 4:45pm | Marathon All-Access Pass | An All-Access Pass to the Entire 48 Hours of the Marathon |
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Fri 6/6, 5:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 1: Kids Mixer – featuring kids from our Hideout Summer Camp |
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Fri 6/6, 6:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 2: And They’re Off – The core cast gets to know one another in this anything-goes hour |
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Fri 6/6, 7:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 3: Stay Tuned! – This hour’s show has yet to be revealed. |
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Fri 6/6, 8:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 4: The Big Bash – A special 1-hour version of our hit show! |
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Fri 6/6, 9:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 5: ¡ESCÁNDALO! – an evening of improvised comedy and melodrama with shocking secrets, dastardy villains, and nail-biting intrigue. |
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Fri 6/6, 10:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 6: PGraph – This award-winning, internationally touring group blends humor, drama, and storytelling in unexpected ways. |
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Fri 6/6, 11:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 7: BOO85 – Improv based on middle school memories |
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Sat 6/7, 12:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 8: American Berserk Theatre Presents… – Their Marathon shows are always a blast. This will be something crazy. And awesome. And crazy. |
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Sat 6/7, 1:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 9: The Zoregon Trail – The Oregon Trail in space. A spacefaring crew faces dangers galore on their way to Zoregon. Some will die. |
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Sat 6/7, 2:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 10: The Harold – The 1st hour of the 2nd day… and a brief respite for the core 8 perform by themselves. And for you improvisers out there, they’ll be doing a Harold. |
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Sat 6/7, 3:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 11: The Bat – a strange, soundscape Harold—completely in the dark. |
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Sat 6/7, 4:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 12: Halyn’s Hour – This show will be whatever our guest, Halyn, wants to do. |
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Sat 6/7, 5:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 13: Hometown – Quirky Small town improv |
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Sat 6/7, 6:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 14: Y’honor – Playing with the format of an improvised courtroom drama inspired by shows/movies like Boston Legal, My Cousin Vinny, and Legally Blonde. |
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Sat 6/7, 7:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 15: What A Racket – Tired people “score” each others’ scenes with percussion instruments, Foley equipment and noise makers. |
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Sat 6/7, 8:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 16: The Fancy Pants Mashup – A resurrection of a classic Hideout show! Improvisers wear their fanciest duds for a show full of two person scenes. |
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Sat 6/7, 9:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 17: Good Rap, Bad Rap – “Grammy Award Stealin’ Duo, Good Rap, Bad Rap bring their monoscenic, freestyle flow to the stage.” |
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Sat 6/7, 10:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 18: Stay Tuned! – This hour’s show has yet to be revealed. |
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Sat 6/7, 11:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 19: Minority Report – Minority Report does the “Living MonoPOP”, in which they play themselves in a monoscene, telling true stories peppered with pop outs! |
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Sat 6/7, 12:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 20: Golden – Golden does silent improvised stories, bringing a unique theatrical experience to life every time they grace a stage. |
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Sat 6/7, 1:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 21: Stay Tuned! – This hour’s show has yet to be revealed. |
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Sat 6/7, 2:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 22: Reform School for Wayward Girls – An Improvised Show Set in a 1970s All-Girls Reform School |
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Sat 6/7, 3:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 23: Friends for Now – Friends For Now is ColdTowne Theater’s Thursday night long-form house team, made up of some of CT’s best Teachers and Performers. |
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Sat 6/7, 4:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 24: Glitter Witch – Wild and Weird. |
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Sat 6/7, 5:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 25: Austin Secrets – This show is about you. Your stories. Your fears. Your triumphs. Your failures. Your secrets. |
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Sat 6/7, 6:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 26: The Knuckleball Now – TKN is a faster paced improv, with quick edits, strong characters, and a connection on stage that surpasses the 19+ years of existence |
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Sat 6/7, 7:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 27: VILLAIN: The Musical – A sneak peak at the upcoming musical. It’s gonna be wicked! |
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Sat 6/7, 8:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 28: Horse Girl Dude Ranch – The Adventure of a lifetime for a Girl and Her Horse |
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Sat 6/7, 9:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hours 29 & 30: Maestro- The Hideout’s longest-running improv show. Elimination-style improv games and scenes! |
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Sat 6/7, 11:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 31: Jane Austin Improv – A one-hour improvised Jane Austen play! Rom-Com with more British accents and costumes! |
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Sun 6/8, 12:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 32: Stay Tuned! – This hour’s show has yet to be revealed. |
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Sun 6/8, 1:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 33: SLEEP STUDY – A returning favorite. The marathoners find themselves in a dystopian sleep study where nothing is as it seems. |
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Sun 6/8, 2:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 34: Reason for the Season – The small town parks department is gearing up for the festival of the season! Will everything go to plan? |
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Sun 6/8, 3:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 35: Jurassic Park – What better way to keep the marathoners awake than the wonder/terror of dinosaurs? |
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Sun 6/8, 4:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 36: WHATEVER – The core cast do whatever the heck they want. |
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Sun 6/8, 5:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 37: Stay Tuned! – This hour’s show has yet to be revealed. |
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Sun 6/8, 6:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 38: Puppet Time – LB shows up with a pile of puppets, and chaos ensues. |
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Sun 6/8, 7:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 39: Gothic Romance – Sometimes love can be dangerous… |
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Sun 6/8, 8:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 40: Dubbed Indemnity – Famous movie and TV clips have had their sound removed, and it’s up to the cast to dub new dialogue. Challenging and hilarious. A Marathon Tradition! |
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Sun 6/8, 9:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 41: Wizards of the West – Come on a fantastical journey through far off lands, tales of magic and mystic, creatures of myth, times of medieval, all from their tavern |
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Sun 6/8, 10:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 42: Bad Is Good – Our worst fears about performance woven into gold through improv alchemy. Based on a show from Vancouver. |
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Sun 6/8, 11:00am | Improv Marathon | Hour 43: The Black Lily – Welcome to the ‘The Black Lily’, where luxury and adventure knows no bounds. Inspired by “White Lotus” |
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Sun 6/8, 12:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 44: LakeVale – Return to LakeVale! Drama, intrigue, supernatural and more are afoot again in the actual real midseason finale! |
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Sun 6/8, 1:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 45: Show in Reverse – A mind-bending narrative experiment |
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Sun 6/8, 2:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 46: MUSICAL – An improvised musical as part of a 2-part plan to break the brains of the core team. |
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Sun 6/8, 3:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 47: Fakespeare – Improv in the style of William Shakespeare, and a WILD feat for Marathoners near the finish line to complete. |
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Sun 6/8, 4:00pm | Improv Marathon | Hour 48: Final Countdown – The victory lap of the 8 core Marathoners. They’re free to do whatever they like… except sleep. |
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This year’s marathon improvisers will be Halyn Cameron, Jade Fabello, J.R. Zambrano, Marissa Stubbe, Martha Neil, Mykel Jewell, Natalia Rubio, and Roy Janik
Ordinarily the Marathon serves as a fundraiser for The Hideout Youth Program. But this is no ordinary year!
For the first time in our quarter-of-a-century history, we have to move! In September we will leave 617 Congress Ave. for good. We are still on the hunt for a new home, but one thing is clear: we will need hundreds of thousands of dollars to build the type of theater that our community deserves.
For the entire marathon, we’ll be collecting donations from people like you.
WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK LAST YEAR’S SPONSORS:
Chuy’s, Vic & Al’s, Vigilante Gastropub & Games, Hoboken Pie,