HTA wins Best of Fest @ the WPG Fringe (again).
July 22nd, 2010
We're thrilled to announce that for the second year in a row, Hot Thespian Action has been awarded "Best of Fest" for selling the most amount of tickets in our venue... Which means we have the awesomest fans ever.
As a result, you now have an extra opportunity to catch our show (or see it again). An extra Best of Fest show time for "Look Ma, No Hands!" has been added to Sunday the 25th at 2:30pm. 100% of tickets are available for purchase in advance (unlike normal show times where they reserve half for walk-ups), and typically, Best of Fest shows all sell out, so if you plan on coming to that show, we definitely recommend that you buy your tickets in advance.
Buy your tickets to our Best of Fest show here
Tickets are $10 as per usual. For those of you that don't know, Best of Fest is a fundraiser for the Winnipeg Fringe Festival itself; half the proceeds go to the festival, and half to the troupe.
If you are one of the many who have come to see "Look Ma, No Hands!" already, thank you SO MUCH for your support, and thank you for helping make us Best of Fest!
"Look Ma, No Hands" opens with a bang!
July 16th, 2010
"Look Ma, No Hands" opened on Wednesday to HTA's biggest crowd yet. We were thrilled to finally be able to share our new baby with the appreciative opening night audience!
The first review (by the Winnipeg Free Press) is already out and calls "Look Ma, No Hands" "hilarious and perfectly performed."
We're excited for the rest of the run and looking forward to getting back at it on Saturday night.
If you don't have your tickets, get them now! We had only a handful of seats left on Opening Wednesday, which is typically one of the least attended nights of the festival. So don't miss out!
Get your tickets now for HTA's Fringe Show!
June 23rd, 2010
Lo and behold, Winnipeg Fringe Festival is right around the corner, and HTA is busy putting the finishing touches on this year's comedy extravaganza "Look Ma, No Hands!"
Tickets are now on sale. Last year we had the good fourtune of selling out every single one of our shows, including the extra "Best Of Fest" show at the end of the festival. If you don't want to be one of the unlucky ones who misses out, we highly recommend you buy your tickets now!
Buy Your Tickets Before They Sell Out!!!
You have three ways you can buy your tickets in advance.
1) Online (Click here, or select a showtime below)
2) By Phone: Call 942-6537 or 1-877-446-4500 (MTC Box Office)
3) In Person: At Fringe Central, 174 Market St. (MTC Box Office)
Remember when you buy advance tickets, you have to pick them up at Fringe Central before you come to the venue.
If you want to risk it, you can also buy your tickets at the door, they hold half the tickets for "walk-ups" but make sure you line up early!
Tickets are $10, $8 for students.
Here are the showtimes:
Wed, July 14 9:00 PM
Sat, July 17 6:00 PM
Tue, July 20 4:15 PM
Wed, July 21 1:00 PM
Thu, July 22 3:30 PM
Fri, July 23 12:00 AM
Sun, July 25 8:45 PM
For more information on the show check out our Facebook event page here (you don't have to be a Facebook member to see it).
We look forward to seeing you there!
Thanks for making Comedy Fest a huge success!
May 2nd, 2010
Thanks to everyone who came and checked us out at the CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival. In spite of being plucky up-and-comers we were actually the FIRST act to sell out our show at the whole festival! The show (which was opened up by the amazing Greg Morton) was lots of fun and it seems like the audience enjoyed themselves too... To say the least.
But no time to dwell on the past! We've got many more projects coming our way. We're putting the finishing touches on five sketches for CBC Radio for their Saturday Night comedy show Laugh Out Loud. We're excited for you to hear them. Expect to hear those scattered throughout LOL shows from late May through the summer. More details to come.
We're also about 75% done writing and about two weeks away from the start of rehearsals for our brand new Fringe spectacular coming to the Winnipeg Fringe in July called "Look Ma, No Hands!" It's going to be a very new and very interesting (and of course, very funny) show with some intriguing breaks from our typical ways of doing things. We think you'll like it a lot. Again, we'll give you more details (venue, showtimes) as soon as we find them out.
Lastly, HTA is FINALLY getting some YouTube content! Expect to see some of your favourite sketches properly filmed for YouTube appearing before Fringe!
The best way of staying in the loop on all our goings-on is by becoming a Fan of us on Facebook!
Thanks for the continued support and we can't wait to see you very soon!
Get your tickets for our Comedy Fest show now!
March 8th, 2010
The Ticketmaster site is up and running for Hot Thespian Action's CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival show. You can get your tickets now by clicking here. We're really excited for this show and we hope you are too. An hour of HTA's best, most popular sketches of all time, mixed with a few teases of the all-new content that's to come this summer at the Fringe Festival. If you have a favourite sketch that you've been telling your friends about, you can guarantee we'll be doing it at this show. So bring your friends and help them understand the ridiculousness you tried to explain to them so many times before! It's gonna be a Hot Thespian Action show like no other. Don't miss out.
HTA to Headline at the Winnipeg Comedy Fest
February 23rd, 2010
It was announced officially yesterday that Hot Thespian Action will be headlining our very own show at the Gas Station Theatre this April as part of the CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival. We will be joined by comedian Greg Morton. Please check out the Comedy Festival website for further details. The link to purchase tickets will be posted as soon as it is available. Come join us for an assortment of old favourite sketches and songs along with a smattering of fresh out of the oven new ones! We look forward to seeing you there!
We're Back
November 21st, 2009
Hot Thespian Action is back from Sketch Fest in Toronto! We had an awesome time, met lots of other cool troupes, and we got to show what we do to a new, larger audience. We got tons of really great supportive feedback from lots of first time viewers. All in all the trip (aside from being a heck of a good time) was a huge success.
Now, noses back to the grindstone. Over the coming months we'll be churning out all sorts of fun exciting stuff for you. The best way to stay current with what we're up to is to become a Fan of ours on Facebook. But if you are not Facebookally inclined, then make sure you bookmark this site so you can check back here often for updates and new content coming up over the winter months! Thanks again for visiting!
-HTA
Welcome!
November 6th, 2009
At long last, HTA has a website! Thanks for visiting! Take some time to look around. For now, the site is modest. But rest assured, in the coming months, we'll be stuffing a ton of new content and features into this thing. We're talking pictures, messages, new links, and most excitingly: brand new YouTube videos MADE for YouTube! Like, not just performance footage, but real filmed sketches. Ya! It's true. It's gonna be awesome!
But you have LOTS of stuff to keep you busy for now. Check out three separate Picture Galleries. Two galleries of shots taken in performance, and one gallery of our spanking new publicity shots (taken by the brilliant Ronnie Abelada (www.abelada.ca). (In fact, you're looking at his work already in the banner at the top).
We also have a Video section featuring five of our favourite sketches from years gone by.
If you've heard of us but don't really know what we're all about, or just stumbled upon this site, the About Us section is for you. You'll find Bios and some Reviews from our previous performances.
If you are a member of the media and want some background info on us, check out the Press Kit page under the About Us bar.
The Links section is a place where we'll post links to things we think you should check out; other sketch comedy troupes we like, websites we find funny etc...
And finally, the Contact Us page lists all the different ways you can get in touch with us.
If you haven't already, make sure to become a "Fan" of ours on Facebook, and/or Subscribe to our Channel on YouTube. Those are the two best ways of staying in the loop as to when new content is going up on the site and to hear about any shows or performances we have coming up.
Thanks for checking out the site!
-HTA