“…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!
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.
WHEN VIEWING THE SCHEDULE BELOW, ROTATE YOUR PHONE INTO LANDSCAPE MODE TO SEE DESCRIPTIONS FOR EACH HOUR!
| 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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| Sat 6/7, 4:00pm | Hour 24: Glitter Witch |
Wild and Weird. | |
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| Sat 6/7, 5:00pm | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Hour 32: A Haunting |
Improv inspired by haunted object horror films such as “The Ring,” “Annabelle,” and “Drag Me to Hell.” | |
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| Sun 6/8, 1:00am | 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 | 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 | 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 | Hour 36: WHATEVER |
The core cast do whatever the heck they want. | |
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| Sun 6/8, 5:00am | Hour 37: Stay Tuned! |
This hour’s show has yet to be revealed. | |
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| Sun 6/8, 6:00am | Hour 38: Puppet Time |
LB shows up with a pile of puppets, and chaos ensues. | |
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| Sun 6/8, 7:00am | Hour 39: Gothic Romance |
Sometimes love can be dangerous… | |
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| Sun 6/8, 8:00am | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Hour 45: Show in Reverse |
A mind-bending narrative experiment | |
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| Sun 6/8, 2:00pm | 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 | 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 | 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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| Sun 6/8, 5:00pm | Hour 49(?): Bonus Hour |
Give The Hideout $10,000 to put towards our relocation, and we’ll make these ding-dongs go for one more hour. $10,000. Another hour. (We’re serious.) | |
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WHEN VIEWING THE SCHEDULE ABOVE, ROTATE YOUR PHONE INTO LANDSCAPE MODE TO SEE DESCRIPTIONS FOR EACH HOUR!
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
Check out our Twitch Stream to catch up with the marathon when you’re not at The Hideout. And maybe throw a couple bucks our way while you watch from your couch.
WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THIS YEAR’S SPONSORS:
