Kickstand Comedy News Today

The Barbie truck tour is making a pit stop near the Regal Cinema at Bridgeport Village.

Kickstand Comedy just announced the first show in its new brick and mortar space.

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The first two years of Kickstand’s Comedy in the Park summer series were impressive, but 2023 blew them both away, with Portland Parks & Recreation staff counting approximately 4,700 people on a recent Friday in August. That’s people-protesting-against-Donald-Trump numbers. But while anger frequently provides the motivation of our moment, Kickstand brought all those people out to make them laugh, and in doing so, to showcase and support local comedians and community. Now, as Port...

It's fucking beautiful out today—would be a good day to have Comedy in the Park, right? Well, there's less than a month until Portlanders get to do just that. Local nonprofit Kickstand Comedy announced Friday that the third year of the Laurelhurst Park comedy pop-up—which they began during the pandemic—kicks off on June 23 and will run weekly all summer until Sep 1, with one exception on July 21. Kickstand also dropped a some incredible...

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Since mid-February, the Siren Theater has been quietly teaching stand-up and improv classes at their new location of 3913 N Mississippi. It's right next door to Sunlan Lighting Inc, which—with its ever changing window displays—feels like a dream fit, in terms of what you want to look at while waiting in line for a show. Up until the end of January, the small, comedy-focused venue lived in Old Town Chinatown, on Northwest Davis. However, following...

The deadline for Portlanders to pay their arts tax is around the corner and many people might be wondering what the money is used for as they place their $35 check in the mail. 

When we go out to see art, we go for the art. We love to see it, interact with it, be changed by it. But second best to the art is the talking about the art. Like food, wine, or a big bag of candy—art is better when shared. This year's Spring Arts Preview contains profiles of art and performance shows you'll want to go out to see and discuss, and an even more vast...

A collective "oh no!" rose up from the crowd gathered within the Historic Alberta House. They drew out the expression of dread, letting it fall into a murmur. Onstage, Chris Williams, the founder of Front Porch Sessions, joked about people running for the doors. "That's usually the response, when an audience first learns that they're gonna talk to people," Williams told the Mercury in a later interview. "Most people, someone would have told them what's...