Sea Tea Improv Announces Their Summer of Trash, Geeks, Sex, and Breweries

The livin' is easy but the work is coming fast and furious for Hartford's favorite comedy improv troupe, Sea Tea Improv. This summer, the troupe of eleven players will perform at many special events around New England.

After a highly successful spring season including shows at Liquid Lounge, the Butler McCook House, Playhouse on Park's Improvaganza, and many private performances, the troupe is energized ready to rumble.

Each one of Sea Tea Improv's shows will be completely different-- their on-the-spot comedy is created entirely out of audience suggestions. This summer promises a huge variety of themes and audiences.

On the docket:

JUNE 24th: Providence Improv Festival- The Perishable Theater, Providence, Rhode Island.

This highly selective festival of improvisational comedy will feature Sea Tea Improv's short form set at midnight on Friday, June 24th, sandwiched between the Magnet Theater's Borealis and the Upright Citizens Brigade's Badman. Sea Tea Improv was the only Connecticut Troupe selected to perform. $10. www.providenceimprovfest.com.

JUNE 30TH: Trash Fashion Show- CRRA Trash Museum, located at 211 Murphy Road, Hartford.

Sea Tea Improv partners with Evergreen Design Company's first annual fashion show, "Forever Young Fashion", to be held from 7pm -10pm at one of Hartford's award-winning museums. The troupe will perform a garbage-themed show to help raise funds for sustainable clothing. $15. www.evergreendesignco.org

JULY 8TH: Connecticon- Connecticut Convention Center, Hartford.

Geeks, nerds, and fanboys will flock to Sea Tea Improv's Comics and Anime themed performance from 5:00-6:30. The games, scenes, and songs at this show will be the dorkiest you've ever seen (in a good way!). Tickets available through connecticon.org.

JULY 17TH: Hartford Children's Theatre Barbecue Fundraiser- 360 Farmington Avenue, Hartford.

Sea Tea reprises its hit family show in partnership with the Hartford Children's Theatre. A rare opportunity to see The Players draw on inspiration from cartoons, kids' music, and the trials and tribulations of childhood. Fun for the whole family. Preceded by beer and burgers outside the Carraige House Theatre. 6:00 pm. $10.

JULY 24TH: Sea Tea Improv at City Steam- 942 Main Street, Hartford.

The troupe's monthly free show at City Steam Brewery's Brew Ha Ha Comedy Club. See why the Hartford Advocate chose Sea Tea Improv's monthly dinner show as one of the top 25 things to do in Hartford. Enjoy City Steam's menu and locally brewed beers (and root beer!), or try Sea Tea Improv's own martini, the Sea Tea-ni, while the performers take suggestions from you, the audience, and weave them into impromptu scenes, characters, and games. Comedy Club doors open at 6PM for seating and food. The improv show will begin at 7PM. The event is free but performances have been consistently selling out for the past year: please call ahead to City Steam at 860-525-1600 to reserve your table. Free.

AUGUST 5 & 6th: R-Rated Twain-- Hole in the Wall Theatre, New Britain.

R-RATED TWAIN was unleashed on an unsuspecting audience in January and we're ready to shock and awe a whole new audience with Twain's filthiest, bawdiest, nastiest and downright dirtiest writings. Journeying to hard-hittin' New Britain's Hole in the Wall Theatre, Sea Tea Improv exposes Twain's naughty-bits including never-before published items sure to make Becky Thatcher blush. Includes a performance of West Hartford-playwright David Ryan Polgar's new short comedy "Mark Twain: Ladies Man!" In partnership with The Mark Twain House & Museum. Friday, August 5th & Saturday, August 6th at 8 p.m. ADULTS ONLY! $15. Call (860) 229-3049.

AUGUST 19 & 20TH: Sex and the Sea Tea-- Hole in the Wall Theatre, New Britain.

Oh, relationships. Whether you're single, mingling, dating, married, or "it's complicated," the pursuit of love has twists and turns worthy of both high and low comedy. Sea Tea Improv understands. Come see an entirely improvised episode of "Sex and the City" based on audience tales of woe and wonder. Bring us your horrific or happy tales, or just come to watch and laugh. 8 pm. $10! Call (860) 229-3049.

 

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