June 07, 2008

Sketchfest this Friday!

We’re ramping up big time for this Sketchfest show, and we’d like to whet your whistle with a preview. Check it out after the box.

It’s A Week of Kindness at SketchfestNYC!
Friday, June 13th at Midnight!
At the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre:
307 W. 26th St, near 8th Avenue.
Come see us close out the second night of the fourth annual New York Sketchfest with our show, “Bing Crosby’s Interdimensional Family Hour,” featuring a grand crapload of brand new material.
Tickets are $10 ($5 for UCB students), and you can reserve a seat here:
Also available are Friday evening passes for $40 ($20 for UCB students), and 3-night festival passes for $100 ($50 for UCB students.)
We share this show with Trophy Dad, who we love the crap out of.

And now here’s a preview:

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April 18, 2008

AWOK at Comic-Con tonight!

A Week of Kindness returns to the New York Comic Book Convention as part of Matt Little’s Nerdcore Comedy show on the opening night of the convention!

Matt Little’s Nerdcore Comedy @ NYCC Friday, April 18 7:10 PM on the main stage Jacob Javits Center

Featuring sketches from:
Elephant Larry!
A Week of Kindness!
Fat Penguin!

and stand-up from:
Will Hines!
Dave Kinney!
Mike Drucker!


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February 22, 2008

The A Week of Kindness Show, new video, and more!

The third edition of the A Week of Kindness show is coming atcha real soon, at a much better time this time!

The A Week of Kindness Show!
Monday, March 3rd, at 9:30, at Piano’s:
158 Ludlow St, by Stanton
(Take the F, J, M or Z to Delancey/Essex, or take the F or V to Houston/2nd St.)
Featuring new bits and video.
As well as performances by Becky Yamamoto, Walker and Cantrell, Henry Zebrowski, and more!
This show is free!

And just in case you haven’t seen it on the million places it’s shown up, here’s one of the two new videos we premiered at the last show.

Keep an eye out for the other one to be posted real soon.

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January 25, 2008

The A Week of Kindness Show! February 4th!

It’s the second dodeca-annual A Week of Kindness Show, coming at you real soon!

That’s on Monday, February 4th, at 10:00 PM!
At Pianos: 158 Ludlow (Ludlow and Stanton)
Take the F, J, M or Z to Delancey/Essex, or take the F or V to Houston/2nd St.
Featuring new videos and bits, and special guests, including Patrick Borelli and Livia Scott, with more TBA.
Free!

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December 30, 2007

AWOK Hosts a monthly show!

Ok, so here’s what it’s going to be like in the New Year for A Week of Kindness…..

We’re hosting a monthly variety show starting in just a week, with special guests, music, new AWOK videos, and all kinds of hot newness. You’re going to want to be there.

A Week of Kindness hosts a show! First Monday of the month at 8 PM! At Pianos: 158 Ludlow at Stanton (Take the J, M, Z, or F to Delancey/Essex) Free!

Come and celebrate the 13th day of Christmas at our first show, on Monday, January 7th, at 8 PM!
Featuring Michelle Collins, Greg Johnson, Matt Little, Henry Zobrowski, and the Bing Crosby Family.

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December 20, 2007

Fresh Bing Show Tonight! UCBT Tomorrow!

Hey, short notice, but there’s a show tonight that we’re just announcing, in addition to tomorrow’s show, which is totally still on.

Bing Crosby and Burl Ives with No-U-Ki’in at Muffins in the Window Childrens Aid Society, 219 Sullivan St (near West 4th St. Stop) Thursday, Dec 20th @8pm. FREE AND BYOB with HOLIDAY PARTY TO FOLLOW

And don’t forget the previously announced show at Upright Citizens Brigade on Friday night!

Bing Crosby and Burl Ives at Holiday Dazzles (with Yule Log!) UCBT, 307 W. 26th St. off eighth ave. Friday, Dec 21st @8pm. $8!

Eliza Skinner (I Eat Pandas) and Carolyn Castiglia (VH1) have put together a dazzling holiday show choir of NYC comedians. Together, they’re going to put on a show to warm your heart, “trim” your “tree”, and make you hate your family a little less.

Featuring Adira Amram, Katina Corrao, Jessica Delfino, Shayna Ferm, Shawn Hollenbach, Rob Lathan, Mike Still, and many more!

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December 02, 2007

Correction for tonight!

We are totally excited to be announcing these Crosby Family Christmas shows (and thanks to everyone who came out last night. It was wonderful!), but one of our announcements has been in error. The time of tonight’s show is actually 7:00, and not 9:30. But on the bright side, we have yet another show to add to the list.

SUNDAY, 12/2 AT 7:00 PM (Not 9:30, please!)
THE CROSBY FAMILY HOSTS THE LAFFF SHOW!

With Poykpak and Murderfist
At the Ground Sound:
255 McKibben St in Brooklyn, Suite 103/104 (Take the L to the Montrose Stop). $5

SATURDAY, 12/15 AT 7 PM
THE CROSBY FAMILY AT FEARSOME PRESENTS!

We help kick off the inaugural edition of Fearsome’s new monthly variety show. Also featuring Claudia Cogan
At the Peoples Improv Theatre:
154 W. 29th St, between 6th and 7th Aves. $5

Holiday Dazzles (with Yule Log!)

Eliza Skinner (I Eat Pandas) and Carolyn Castiglia (VH1) have put together a dazzling holiday show choir of NYC comedians. Together, they’re going to put on a show to warm your heart, “trim” your “tree”, and make you hate your family a little less.

Featuring Adira Amram, Katina Corrao, Jessica Delfino, Shayna Ferm, Shawn Hollenbach, Rob Lathan, Mike Still, and many more!

At Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre:
307 W. 26th St, by 8th Avenue
Friday, 12/21 at 8 PM.
Tickets are $8, and can be reserved here.

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November 29, 2007

Look at all these Christmas shows!

So we are totally excited to be bringing back one of our favorite traditions, The Bing Crosby Family Christmas Spectacular! Check it out at any of these times and places (with maybe a couple more TBA!)

SATURDAY, 12/1 AT 9:30 PM BING CROSBY FAMILY CHRISTMAS AT THE MEAN FIDDLER!

AWOK shares the stage with Lolabrigada (Celebrating their second anniversary!) and Murder Fist! The Mean Fiddler: 266 W. 47th St, between Broadway and 8th Avenues. $5

SUNDAY, 12/2 AT 9:30 PM
THE CROSBY FAMILY HOSTS THE LAFFF SHOW!

With Poykpak and Murderfist
At the Ground Sound:
255 McKibben St in Brooklyn, Suite 103/104 (Take the L to the Montrose Stop). $5

SATURDAY, 12/15 AT 7 PM
THE CROSBY FAMILY AT FEARSOME PRESENTS!

We help kick off the inaugural edition of Fearsome’s new monthly variety show. Also featuring Claudia Cogan
At the Peoples Improv Theatre:
154 W. 29th St, between 6th and 7th Aves. $5


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October 17, 2007

Showsmorgasbord

Holy crap, look at this smorgasbord of shows featuring AWOK and its members!

SATURDAY, 10/27, AT 11 PM
SKETCHUBATOR!
Come on out to the PIT to catch a whole bunch of sketch groups working out some great new stuff.
Featuring A Week of Kindness, Buddy System, Don’t Touch Me There, Fearsome, Freedumb, Harvard Sailing Team, and Wunderkind Consortium
Hosted by Party Central USA
At The People’s Improv Theatre
154 W. 29th St, between 6th and 7th Avenues.
Tickets are $10 and can be reserved at the PIT website.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, AT 6 AM
THE LONGEST SKETCH SHOW EVER!
Starting November 9th at 10 PM, The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre is hosting a 24-hour marathon of continuous sketch comedy. $20 passes can be purchased at the event and allow you to come and go as you please for the whole 24 hours.
At The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
307 W. 26th St, between 8th and 9th Avenues.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, AT 8 PM />
PEANUT SULLIVAN AND OL’ SALMON SKUNK AT MUFFIN!
Mike Still and Nate Kushner take their improvised blues show to Muffin. This show is free and features Rebecca DeOrnelas and Ryan Willard, Stephen Michael Rondel presents A is for Amsterdam, and a performance by our house improv team…NO-U-Ki’in
At The New Acting Company Theatre
219 Sullivan Street (between West 3rd and Bleeker)


THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, AT 8 PM />
Songs In The Key of F*%k You
Nate Kushner is contributing to a show of what will surely be some of the most tasteless songs ever performed.
This show is part of Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre’s Offensive Fest and features: Starring Michelle Accorso, Deb Downing, Shayna Fern, Brian Fountain, Fran Gillespie, Peter Gwinn, Peter Grosz, Nate Kushner, Michael Martin, Tricia McAlpin, Marcos Sanchez, Ari Scott, Abby Sher, Eliza Skinner & Kristy Webb
With videos from Stuckey & Murray and Reggie Watts
Hosted by Cracked Out!
At The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
307 W. 26th St, between 8th and 9th Avenues.
Tickets are $5 and can be reserved here

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September 07, 2007

Sketchfest Seattle Update!

We’ve got a little bit more info on the Seattle Sketchfest for you, including a link to a place where you can make online reservations. Hope to see you there!

A Week of Kindness Sharing the stage with Keilly and Roeters Also featuring Scarecrow and Mr. Vogt. Friday, September 14, at 10 PM Sketchfest Seattle Seattle Central Community College Theatre 1524 Harvard Ave. Seattle, WA 98122 That’s $15 for a terrific show featuring three groups. Make reservations here! We will also be performing at midnight, immediately after this show, in the PUSH cabaret, where you’ll be seeing some material that we typically don’t do in the primetime hours.

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August 08, 2007

Seattle Sketchfest!

There’s a cool thing to announce, but first let us please just say thank you for whatever letters you might have written to Julianne Cho at the New York Film Board. Some of them must have hit in the right places because the city is indeed stepping back and rethinking the new filming rules. We will keep you posted as we hear more details. But thanks for fighting the good fight with us.

o we’re happy to announce that in the month of September, we’ll be taking our show on the road!

You West Coasters will finally get a chance to see what the eastern seaboard has been raving about when A Week of Kindness plays at the Seattle Sketchfest!


A Week of Kindness
Sharing the stage with Keilly and Roeters
Also featuring Scarecrow and Mr. Vogt.
Friday, September 14, at 10 PM
Sketchfest Seattle
Seattle Central Community College Theatre
1524 Harvard Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
That’s $15 for a terrific show featuring three groups. Reservation info and directions coming soon.

There should also be some show announcements coming soon that will be more, let’s say, local.

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June 11, 2007

Sketchfest Aftermath. New Show this Weekend!

Thanks to everyone who came to our show at SketchfestNYC this past week. It was a great crowd, a fun show, and the beginning of a really great weekend. On our end, we’re really grateful for all the great shows we got to see, and the new friends we got to make. Cheers!

Anyway, on behalf of AWOK, thanks to Alex, Becky, Biz, Carter, Keith, and Stefan for organizing such a sweet event, and to the amazing volunteers. Thanks to Drop Six for being part of such an awesome opening show, and thanks to all the incredible groups for kicking so much ass. It was an honor to make friends with you this weekend.

Anyway, now that that’s out of the way, here’s this other sketch festival we’re in this weekend:

AWOK in SKETCH-A-THON! Saturday, June 16th at 8 PM, we’ll be appearing in the Sketch-A-Thon, a 4-night comedy festival presented by the troupe Sketch This.
The Sketch-A-Thon runs june 13th through 16th at the Producers Club:
358 W. 44th Street, near the Times Square and Port Authority subway stations.
Shows start at 8 PM and feature three groups.
AWOK plays Saturday, June 16th, with two other groups TBA.
Cover is $10. Call 973-224-5183 for more information.

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March 27, 2007

Comedy Video Night! Also, this video we’re in!

Hey, folks, it’s been a long time since we rapped at ya. But that doesn’t mean we ain’t working on stuff. For example…

Comedy Video night at Galapagos!

Wednesday, April 4th at 7:30
At Galapagos Art Space
70 N. 6th Street, by the Bedford Avenue L stop.
Featuring videos by

Elephant Larry
Will Hines
Matt Little
The Burg
Barehand Wolfchokers
A world premiere video by us, A Week of Kindness!
And more, TBA.

We’ve also been spreading our funny around all over town, selflessly donating our likenesses to our awesome sketch friends Fearsome. We invite you to check out this awesome Fearsome video that all of A Week of Kindness happen to be in. It’s The Inbetweeners:


And the last piece of news…holy crap, we’re playing in the third annual New York Sketchfest! That’ll be in June, and we’ll be giving you specifics real soon!

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February 02, 2007

What are you up to next weekend?

Our new PIT run starts next Saturday!

SATURDAYS AT 9:30 PM
FEBRUARY 10, 17, and 24

We return, with new material and old favorites, to the Peoples Improv Theatre:
154 W. 29th St.
Between 6th and 7th Avenues.
Tickets are $8. Reservations can be made here.
With Drop Six!

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January 26, 2007

Weekend? Try Strongend!

Weekend? More like Strongend! This Strongend, you have two chances to check out AWOK! First, we’re hitting the scene with our old friend Greg Johnson and showing some of our flicks at Rififi.

We’re really psyched about Saturday. Our friends over at theburg.tv are filming the final episode of their first season. Part of the action takes place at a rally at Galapagos artspace in Williamsburg, and guess who will be performing at the rally? AWOK! They will be filming the audience and parts of the variety show, so come on out and you can watch an AWOK performance, as well as possibly appearing in the season finale of theburg! How meta!

SATURDAY AT 7:30 PM
JANUARY 27

Save the Internet Rally(Click here if you don’t know what net neutrality is and why we need it.) Galapagos Art Space: 70 N. 6th Street in Brooklyn

Presented by The Burg Cover is $5, benefitting savetheinternet.com This show also features films by Fearsome, Four Eyed Monsters, Dudershow.com, and the music of Infidels and Sexy Champions!

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…And in two weeks, we return to the PIT for three more Saturday shows of new material and old favorites! Sweeter still, we share these shows with Drop Six!

That’s Saturdays at 9:30 at the PIT:
February 10, 17, and 24.
Tickets are also $8. Reservation coming soon.

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November 27, 2006

Christmas Shows…Also, THE EGG!

New video after these announcements!


THE A WEEK OF KINDNESS CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!

We’ve put together a special set of holiday sketches, and we’re carolling it all over town to the following places:

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7TH, AT 8 PM
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16TH AT 2 PM
AWOK is the special guest at Hot Damn Holiday
At Manhattan Theatre Source:
177 MacDougal Street
(Northwest Corner of Washington Square Park. Click here for directions.)
Tickets for these variety shows are $18, and can be purchased at Theatremania.com

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9TH AT 8 PM
With Slightly Known People
At Rififi
332 E. 11th St. (Click here for subway directions)
Cover is $5.

And now, the video…

This is our very first science fiction epic. It’s a little space odyssey we call “The Egg”


“The Egg”
Written by A Week of Kindness
Story by Phil Lamplugh
Starring Nate Kushner, Mike Still, Dan Hopper, and Matt Brewster

Comments? Leave them at this video’s YouTube page!

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Christmas Shows…Also, THE EGG!

New video after these announcements!


THE A WEEK OF KINDNESS CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!

We’ve put together a special set of holiday sketches, and we’re carolling it all over town to the following places:

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7TH, AT 8 PM
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16TH AT 2 PM
AWOK is the special guest at Hot Damn Holiday
At Manhattan Theatre Source:
177 MacDougal Street
(Northwest Corner of Washington Square Park. Click here for directions.)
Tickets for these variety shows are $18, and can be purchased at Theatremania.com

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9TH AT 8 PM
With Slightly Known People
At Rififi
332 E. 11th St. (Click here for subway directions)
Cover is $5.

And now, the video…

This is our very first science fiction epic. It’s a little space odyssey we call “The Egg”


“The Egg”
Written by A Week of Kindness
Story by Phil Lamplugh
Starring Nate Kushner, Mike Still, Dan Hopper, and Matt Brewster

Comments? Leave them at this video’s YouTube page!

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October 26, 2006

New PIT RUN! New video!

Here’s a video from Our last show, Dances with Wolfshirts. It’s the Trend Institute!

Written and Performed by A Week of Kindness
Featuring Sara Kiener, Ian Ljundquist, and Nick Turner
Like it? Leave a comment on YouTube!


And now a word from the sponsors…

A Week of Kindness returns to the Peoples Improv Theatre in November for a late-night run where anything can happen and some things probably will! Hella new material!

A Week of Kindness with the Barehand Wolf Chokers
Saturdays: November 4, 11, and 18 at 11 PM
At The Peoples Improv Theatre
154 W. 29th St, between 6th and 7th Ave.
$8. BYOB!

And one more….

Video Night at UCB Theatre Walker and Cantrell host a comedy video showcase, where we will be debuting a brand new video! Thursday, November 2 At the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre: 307 W. 26th Street. $5.

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September 07, 2006

Video Night at the East River Bar!

Hello AWOK friends,

We’re pleased to announce our next show! This one is going to be a little different. We’re not going to make you watch living people. Oh no, we are kicking those fleshy bags of meat and ambition to the curb. For our next show, we’ll only be showing videos from the very best sketch comedy groups in New York City! And to top it off, there will be grilling of foods! Where and when will this happen? Check it:

Video Night at the East River Bar
Sunday, September 17
7pm-Grillin’/8pm-Screenin’
97 South 6th Street between Bedford and Berry
(take the L train to Bedford or the JMZ to Marcy)
FREE!

Join New York City’s finest comedy troupes at the East River Bar for an evening of grilling and video comedy sketch screening. The grilling starts at 7pm—it’s BYOBBQ (feel free to bring meats, veggies, and other assorted sundries/the East River Bar will handle the beer), and at 8pm, the patio becomes an outdoor movie theatre.

Lineup Includes:
A Week of Kindness
Fearsome
The Bare Hand Wolf Chokers
TheBurg.tv
Trophy Dad
Dawghaus
Elephant Larry
Favorites from Channel 102
and more!

Sounds like fun? It sounds like that because it will be fun.

See you there!

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August 28, 2006

Last Dance with Wolfshirts

This is the “Stairway to Heaven” of Dances with Wolfshirts. The “A Whiter Shade of Pale” of Dances with Wolfshirts. The “Mickey Mouse Club Closing Theme” of Dances with Wolfshirts if you went to my middle school.

Seriously, though, “Dances with Wolfshirts” is closing, it is advisable to get reservations right here for the last performance, because this performance is very likely to sell right the hell out.

Dances With Wolf Shirts follows the sometimes comic, sometimes tragic story of the rise and fall of a trend, while exploring subjects like conformity, celebrity, honesty, disability, fidelity, liberty, and numerous other words that may or may not end in -ty. AND THIS IS THE LAST ONE!

Tomorrow, Tuesday, the 29th. 9:30

The PIT: 154 W. 29th St.
Between 6th and 7th Ave
$5.

Also, join us afterwards for some DRINKSES WITH WOLFSHIRTS!

We will be at the Triple Crown Inn shortly after 10:30 until shortly after our bodies give up. That’s The Triple Crown, where you can get discounted drinks and food for saying that you just came from seeing a show at the Peoples Improv Theatre.

The address is 330 7th Avenue, between 28th and 29th Streets!

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August 08, 2006

Dances with Sponsors!

Dances with Wolfshirts is now sponsored by the Brooklyn Brewery!

What does that mean for you, intrepid comedygoer? It means that if you come to our show and provide us with your e-mail address, then you will be entered in a drawing for one of the certificates that we will be giving away at the end of each remaining show!

Each of these certificates is good for 10 free beer tokens, redeemable at the Brewery’s public happy hours on Friday evenings. That’s a $30 value.

All three of us can say without irony that we go through a lot of Brooklyn Beer, and that it’s good, and that it’s especially good when it’s really fresh, and you can’t get it fresher anywhere else than at these happy hours.

So come on over to the show, write out your e-mail address (we guarantee that this will not lead to our mailing list e-mails being sent more than once to any e-mail address), and you’ll be eligible. Free good beer is better than not-free good beer, right?

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June 28, 2006

In addition to all those details I gave you in the last post, here’s one more detail…you can make your reservations online now!

Here’s the link where you can order your tickets to any of the 8 nights.

And in case you want to read it again, here’s the blurb about the show again.

A Week of Kindness, New York City’s most merciless sketch comedy group, is pleased to announce the debut of their fifth all-new show, Dances with Wolfshirts at the Peoples Improv Theatre. Running for 8 performances on Tuesdays at 9:30 from July 11 until August 28, Dances with Wolfshirts is, to put it simply, pure damn fun.

Employing AWOK’s usual multimedia blend of high-energy, high-wit live performance and innovative, often-demented short films, Dances with Wolfshirts explores the life cycle and death of trends, while pulling the audience into a world inhabited by soup addicts, frivolous surgery, sexy cats, and of course, lots of awesome T-shirts with huge wolves on them. The show was created and performed by Dan Hopper, Nate Kushner, and Mike Still, with guest appearances by Kevin Haulihan, Phil Lamplugh, Mia Leopardi, Matt Little, Ian Lundquist, Chris O’Connor, Beth Peters, Nick Turner, Becky Yamamoto, and more!

A Week of Kindness Presents:
Dances With Wolfshirts
Tuesdays at 9:30
July 11th, 18th, and 25
August 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th
At the Peoples Improv Theatre:
154 W. 29th St, between 6th and 7th Avenues.
Ticket price is $5, and reservation info will be available soon.


See you there. Maybe see you there 8 times? Maybe?

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June 26, 2006

Dances with Wolfshirts!

Everybody wants to know some more details about the new show, it seems! Well, here’s details!

A Week of Kindness, New York City’s most merciless sketch comedy group, is pleased to announce the debut of their fifth all-new show, Dances with Wolfshirts at the Peoples Improv Theatre. Running for 8 performances on Tuesdays at 9:30 from July 11 until August 28, Dances with Wolfshirts is, to put it simply, pure damn fun.

Employing AWOK’s usual multimedia blend of high-energy, high-wit live performance and innovative, often-demented short films, Dances with Wolfshirts explores the life cycle and death of trends, while pulling the audience into a world inhabited by soup addicts, frivolous surgery, sexy cats, and of course, lots of awesome T-shirts with huge wolves on them. The show was created and performed by Dan Hopper, Nate Kushner, and Mike Still, with guest appearances by Kevin Haulihan, Phil Lamplugh, Mia Leopardi, Matt Little, Ian Lundquist, Chris O’Connor, Beth Peters, Nick Turner, Becky Yamamoto, and more!

A Week of Kindness Presents:
Dances With Wolfshirts
Tuesdays at 9:30
July 11th, 18th, and 25
August 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th
At the Peoples Improv Theatre:
154 W. 29th St, between 6th and 7th Avenues.
Ticket price is $5, and reservation info will be available soon.


See you there. Maybe see you there 8 times? Maybe?

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April 26, 2006

New Show!!!!

Hey, folks, it’s been a couple weeks since we last comedied at ya, so here’s an announcment for a show that’s going to be HOTTTT!!!

A Week of Kindness at Upright Citizens! Monday, May 15th, at 8 PM
At The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
307 W. 26th St (By 8th Avenue)
As part of SPANK!, also featuring Ahna Tessler.
Tickets are $5 and can be reserved here.

So come to that. Also, round one of Band Madness is over. We’ve gone from 512 bands to 256, and the first 64 matchups of round two are live. Click the link for Band Madness.

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March 17, 2006

Phroth Phest 2006!

I know some of the readers here are students at our alma mater, Penn State, so if you’re in State College this weekend, come on by 111 Forum tonight or tomorrow night at 8. It’s Phroth Phest time.

Phroth Phest is what happens once a year when No Refund Theatre, the theatre group of which we are all alumni, and Phroth, the humor magazine of which I was a co-founder and some of us are alumni, get together and put on a sketch show. This year, they’ll be doing some AWOK sketches with our permission. Awesome!

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February 28, 2006

Nate Kushner at the Social Postponed.

The Comedy Social for March 1st is cancelled. I will instead be performing at the same place and time, but on March 29th. Thanks.

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February 26, 2006

A Year of Kindness?

That’s right, we’re coming up on the one-year anniverary of our first sketch show. And we’re celebrating by doing what we do best: a sketch show.


On March 14th at 8PM
Dustin D’Addato, Shayna Ferm, and Nick Turner host Poker Night!
9 Great Jones St., between Broadway and Lafayette (Click here for subway directions.)
Cover is $5.
Featuring:
Andrea Rosen (Stella, Variety Shac)
Liam McEneaney (Premium Blend, Tell Your Friends)
Sean Crespo (Jest Magazine)
And the one-year anniversary show of A Week of Kindness!
Come and make it special with us.

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February 04, 2006

Lords of Time and Space (and other shows)

We’d just like to remind you that our fourth brand-new sketch revue is going up at the PIT in a split show with a fantastic improv group going by the name of Possible Side Effects.

A Week of Kindness: Lords of Time And Space
Those two shows are at the People’s Improv Theatre on February 9th and 16th at 8:00. Tickets are $8 and can be purchased in cash at the door or online.
The People’s Improv Theatre: 154 W. 29th St, between 6th and 7th Avenues.

We are also appearing at the PIT on Saturday the 11th, in a Sketchfight versus Olde English. Also $8. Reservations here.

We will be screening a short film on Valentine’s Day at Galapagos, as part of a variety show hosted by Becky Yamamoto and Tony Carnevale:

“Geniuses of Love”
Featuring Rachel Kramer Bussel, Chelsea Peretti, Patrick Borelli, Lang Fisher, Michelle Collins, Carolyn K. Castiglia, Alan Fessenden, Joe Randazzo, Frank Philbrick, Mike Barry, Gabe Liedman, sketch group A Week of Kindness, and the band Ladystein.
At Galapagos: 70 N 6th Street, Brooklyn. (By the Bedford L stop.)

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December 06, 2005

Reserve Online for Barnyard Jamboree!

Online ticketing for Barnyard Jamboree is now available at Brown Paper Tickets. Click here.

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November 30, 2005

New Video, The Dinner, and one last chance to see Undercover Lover!

Opportunities abound if you’re the kind of person who likes to see AWOK members in non-AWOK shows.

First, there’s one more weekend to see Mike Still in Undercover Lover. Click here for details and ticketing. That’s this Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and tickets are $15.

Secondly, you can catch AWOK member Erica Harsch, and long-suffering AWOK tech helper Matt Little performing in The Dinner, a play by Libby Leonard.
Part of a night of one-act plays at Studio Dante:
257 W. 19th St, between 6th and 7th Avenues
Click here to reserve online. Tickets are $20.

Finally, it’s Dr. Schebb’s, part III! This is the conclusion of what critics have been calling the Trapped in the Cloest of New York Sketch Comedy.


These videos are optimized for those fancy new iPods they just put out, so if you’d rather download it than stream it, right-click here. All files will still play in Quicktime, just like always.

Featuring Nate Kushner
Written by A Week of Kindness

Click here for part I.


Click here for part II.

Enjoy!

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November 05, 2005

Barnyard Jamboree Extended, New Video, AWOK Solo Projects! Wow!

Check this out, people, there’s like 90 things to announce.

First and foremost, thanks to all who attended Barnyard Jamboree in October. The response has been fantastic. So fantastic that we’re being asked to do two more of them in December:

Barnyard Jamboree returns to the People’s Improv Theatre
Saturday, December 10 and 17, at 9:30 PM
154 W. 29th St
$8. Online ticketing coming soon.

Second, check the sidebar for all the details about a million different side projects AWOK members are doing in the month of November. Stand-up shows, musicals…too much to list. Check us out on the right hand side.

Thirdly, Check out this nytheatre.com review of the “Bad Choices,” show, with kind words for all the groups involved. Read it here.

Lastly, there’s a link here and below to this new video that we just posted.

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October 23, 2005

One Last Jamboree

Thanks to Slightly Known People for having us last night at the Bad Choices show. It was a very fun time. A $5 sketch show where all audience members have an excellent chance of being given a free shot of liquor or three? It’s a bargain, and it’s every Saturday at RiFiFi. We hope to continue this relationship with SKP.

But seriously, there’s something a little bit more pressing to talk about.

There is only one last chance to see Barnyard Jamboree!
Tuesday, October 25, 9:30 PM at The People’s Improv Theatre

154 W. 29th St. (between 6th and 7th.)
$6 cash at the door, or with a credit card. online. Click here for subway directions.

Come see it, folks. I mean it. It’s our best show yet, it’s getting bester every week, and it’ll be even bestest if we get to share it with a big sell-out crowd this coming Tuesday.

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October 22, 2005

Choose “Bad Choices” For Your Own Good

Just a reminder.

Our new sketchfriends Slightly Known People have invited us to contribute some sketches and a film to a themed show they’re putting on tonight at RiFiFi

Anyway, it’s going to be a fun show, and a cheap show. $5. Slightly Known People are hosting and headlining, Mavis Jay will do something with singing, Armed and Ridiculous will be there via satellite, and Wicked Wicked Hammerkatz will be sketching it up too. It’s a lot of show for $5.

The theme is “Bad Choices” which is kind of ironic, seeing as how it would be a good choice for you to come check this out. It’ll be a good way to get you through the four days of withdrawal that stand between now and the next Barnyard Jamboree.

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October 11, 2005

Barnyard Jamboree Drops Today, Online Ticketing Now Available.

Well, we just came back from our last rehearsal, and we’re quite sure this show is going to be hot hot hot. Anyway, here’s a reminder of what you’ve got to know about Barnyard Jamboree. Note that the online ticketing is now available from Brown Paper Tickets.

A Week of Kindness returns to the PIT with its third brand-new show, Barnyard Jamboree!
Tuesdays, October 11, 18, and 25, 9:30 PM at The People’s Improv Theatre

154 W. 29th St. (between 6th and 7th.)
$6 cash at the door, or with a credit card online. Click here for subway directions.

Barnyard Jamboree is a multimedia spectacular in which we take you on a guided tour of the proverbial Forbidden Barn to find out what evil lurks within the hearts of animals.

On the agenda:
Natural selection viz-a-viz market forces in the American musical theatre
Ego-defensive tendencies derived from inferiority feelings and overcompensation of the masculine protest
Irish zombie improvisation
“Material Father” vs. “Function of a Father”
A simple recipe for Pasta Pomadorini
How to make wise life-choices
The Red Menace
…and so much more.

Barnyard Jamboree:Created and performed by A Week of Kindness, with appearances by: Antelope, John Constantine, Crocodile, Gannet, Phil Lamplugh, Cody Lindquist, Octopus, Sardine, and Zebra.

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September 28, 2005

Bad Choices

AWOK will be adding its modest contribution to a themed sketch show at RiFiFi on Saturday, October 22nd.

The show, whose theme is “Bad Choices” is hosted by the nice folks of Slightly Known People and will also feature Armed and Ridiculous, Wicked Wicked Hammerkatz, and Mavis Jay.

RiFiFi: 332 East 11th St (between 1st and 2nd Aves). Cover is $5.

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September 17, 2005

Barnyard Jamboree

Daddy, Daddy, what is A Week of Kindness’s 3rd brand-new show going to be called?

Well, that’s easy, son. It’s going to be called Barnyard Jamboree.

The Jamboree gets a hollerin’ on these Tuesdays: October 11, 18 and 25, at 9:30 PM

At the People’s Improv Theatre
154 W. 29th St (between 6th and 7th Avenues)
( Click here for subway directions)

$6 cash at the door. Online ticketing coming soon.

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July 16, 2005

EXTRY, EXTRY: July 19th Show Cancelled, AWOKers Frown About It

Hey, we’re just trying to announce this every possible place we can, so we’ll put an entry here too:
We will not be performing on July 19th, due to circumstances beyond our control. Things are still a go for the other three shows that we’ve got in the pipeline. We’d love to see you at the PIT on the 30th.

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