Home of the Silverbacks Improv Theatre, Lafayette, Louisiana
Come to the 2nd Stage at Cité des Arts on Friday, June 21st at 9pm for a Late Night edition of SuperCollider: Acadiana’s Improv Showcase brought to you by Silverbacks Improv Theatre!
Audiences will get a taste of 3 different groups performing short sets. June will feature:
Tempo Tantrums Musical Improv,
Splorange!,
& Two For The Road!
Tickets are $10*
*($8 for Students, Teachers, and Seniors (60+). ID is required for discount)
Come to the 2nd Stage at Cité des Arts on Friday, May 3rd at 9pm for a Late Night edition of SuperCollider: Acadiana’s Improv Showcase brought to you by Silverbacks Improv Theatre!
Audiences will get a taste of 3 different groups performing short sets.
May’s SuperCollider will feature:
The Family Dinner,
The Plural Noun,
and The Weaning Process – Improv Troupe!
Tickets are $10*
*($8 for Students, Teachers, and Seniors (60+). ID is required for discount)
You spoke up and we listened: We’re throwing it waaaaay back to The 90s again!
Friday, May 17th, 7:30pm @ 2nd Stage at Cité des Arts
$10 general admission
($8 with ID for Students, Teachers, and Seniors!)
On Friday, May 17th at 7:30pm, Silverbacks Improv Theatre will revisit its popular “90s Sitcom” format. The group will improvise a one-act play inspired by classic 90s television shows, such as Full House, Family Matters, Home Improvement and more.
You could call it: Step by Step Family Improvement Full of Ties in the Wonder Years when a Boy Meets World – “A 90s Sitcom” – Featuring MONIQUE (not that Monique).
Costumed in their best 90’s apparel, the performers will embrace the golden age of family sitcoms (or the lowest sitcoms of all time, depending on your perspective). Family hi-jinks, wacky neighbors, precocious kids, blended families, and coming of age – all are ripe for the picking!
We invite you to relive the decade of TGIF and slap bracelets with us and come dressed up in your most stylin’ 90s threads!
In anticipation of our 7th Anniversary Celebration, Aren & Monique took to the streets to see what the general public thinks of Silverbacks Improv Theatre. And… well…
In anticipation of our 7th Anniversary Celebration, Aren & Monique took to the streets to see what the general public thinks of Silverbacks Improv Theatre. And… well…
On Friday, April 12, 2019, at 7:30pm, join us at Cité des Arts to celebrate 7 whole years of Silverbacks Improv Theatre! We’ll be playing our favorite games and building alternate worlds!
As a special gift from us to you, we invite you to **Pay What You Can** at the door!
All we want for our 7th birthday is for YOU to be there (and to bring a friend or two to the show) to inspire us in whatever crazy hi-jinks we get up to.
Come to Cité des Arts on Friday, March 15th at 9pm for a special Late Night edition of SuperCollider: Acadiana’s Improv Showcase brought to you by Silverbacks Improv Theatre!
Audiences will get a taste of 3 different groups performing short sets. Groups will be comprised of local favorites, traveling troupes, and exciting genre specific formats such as horror and musical improv.
March’s SuperCollider will feature:
Rag Tag,
Tempo Tantrums Musical Improv,
and Splorange!
Tickets are $10* Buy Yours Today!
*($8 for Students, Teachers, and Seniors (60+). ID is required for discount. This ticket option is only available at the door.)
Who’s ready for a Rumble!?
Join us as Lafayette’s improvisers unite for the ultimate spectacle in competitive improvised theater!
The Improv Rumble will pit teams of improvisers against one another in an all-out brawl. Everything’s made up, but YOUR VOTES REALLY COUNT. Who will go home the victor? The answer depends on YOU. Audience members will vote on their favorite performances to determine a team winner.
This show will feature over 30 improv comedy performers, all from South Louisiana. These include Lafayette groups Silverbacks Improv Theatre, Cult of the Stage Monkey, Weaning Process, The Plural Noun and members from The Family Dinner and LATco in Baton Rouge. Improvisers will form mixed teams and compete against each other for the audience’s vote.
This show will focus on short and high energy improv “games” not unlike the popular show “Whose Line is it Anyway.” The Improv Rumble is sure to be full of high energy, big laughs and friendly sportsmanship. See performers who don’t normally perform with each other outside of their element and having a blast.
Come on down and see us Rumble on Friday, February 8, 2019, at 7:30 pm, at Acadiana Center for the Arts. Tickets are $12.
On Friday, December 14th, at Club 337 (in DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Lafayette), Silverbacks Improv Theatre will present their traditional “Holiday Show.” Each December, Silverbacks interpret their signature improvisations through the lens of a Holiday – a brand new, completely made up Holiday, that is! With the audience’s help, Silverbacks will create their very own annual celebration – think “Festivus for the Rest of Us” from Seinfeld.
For this show, each of the performers will be wearing a Holiday Sweater and invite the audience to do the same. ANY Holiday themed items are welcome – the audience is invited to wear their finest Christmas, Easter, Mardi Gras, or even Groundhog Day sweaters to add to the fun. Previously invented holidays were “Paper-Clip Appreciation Day” (2012), “Garden Gnome Day” (2013), “Leonardo DaVinci’s Mother’s Birthday” (2014), “Picasso-Palooza” (2015), “St. Lampshades Day” (2016), and “Structural Support Day” (2017). Now we need our audience to help us create a brand New Holiday and its many wonderful traditions.
Tickets are $10* at the door!
*($8 for Students, Teachers, and Seniors (60+). ID is required for discount)
Good ol’ Saturday Night Live surprised Lafayette, LA residents the other night with this little number:
We see you, Saturday Night Live. Here’s our response:
Silverbacks Improv Theatre‘s “Lafayette Famous” features a mix of improvisation and storytelling. In this format, a local celebrity prepares 3 true stories from their life. The improvisers create scenes based on themes from the stories, bringing performers and audience alike on a humorous journ
ey. This month, we are excited to welcome Rob Kirkpatrick to the Lafayette Famous stage!
Rob Kirkpatrick isn’t originally from Lafayette, but he likes to say he got here as quickly as he could. He hosts Acadiana’s Morning News weekday mornings on NewsTalk 96.5 KPEL. It may surprise you that someone who reports news doesn’t take himself too seriously. Rob says it takes a sense of humor to handle everything that comes across his desk in the KPEL newsroom every day. Rob first started in radio while studying at UL-Lafayette. His first TV job was working alongside the KATC’s “BIG THREE” Marcelle Fontenot, Jim Hummel and Rob Perillo. In 2010, he took his show on the road and set out for roles in national newsrooms at FOX in Dallas and CNN in Atlanta. He grew up in Mandeville, and made the best decision of his life turning down LSU for the Mass Communication program at UL-Lafayette. Rob’s smile is infectious at the Townsquare Media Studios in Lafayette, where he has proven himself to be a force both on-air and behind the scenes when working for clients. Rob Kirkpatrick is married to Sarah and has two daughters.
Join us for Lafayette Famous at The Omni Center on Friday, October 26th at 7:30pm! Tickets are $10 at the door ($8 with ID for Students, Teachers, and Seniors!)
