Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog LIVE!

In celebrating the works of Joss Whedon, The Institution Theater, the folks who brought you Teen Angst Tuesday and the successful run of The Prom episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, brings you DR. HORRIBLE LIVE, an all singing, all dancing, incredibly super villain-y staged production of Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog. Come out for a live blogging by the infamous Dr. Horrible. Swoon for the intriguingly cheesy Captain Hammer. And fall in love with Penny, the cute, nerdy type. And there's... Moist. He's... moist.

Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog is the best thing to come out of the endless picket line walking of the 2008 writers' strike. While we, the audience, begged for more brilliant writing the Whedon brothers and Maurissa Tancharoen were hard at work writing outrageously funny lines and cranking out toe-tapping tunes. And from that hard work we got a super villain desperately attempting to be accepted into The Evil League of Evil. However, his dastardly plans are foiled by his arch nemesis, the ever popular and dashing Captain Hammer.

With 25 years performance experience, The Institution Theater strives to bring you an array of both the new and the old but, always, with a creative take. They also offer improv and sketch classes for both beginning and advanced students. Check out their website to register for a class or two and come to their new space for a laughing good time had by all. www.theinstitutiontheater.com 3708 Woodbury Dr., Austin, TX 78704

DR. HORRIBLE LIVE stars many of The Institution's rising stars: Kevin Williamson, Brett Tribe, Justin Lavergne, Taylor Overstreet, Aden Kirschner, Carissa McAtee, Chelley Pyatt, David Zimmerman, Allison Asher and Jeremy Logan. Directed by Heidi Caldwell, the woman who brought you Teen Angst Tuesday's wedding episode of Party of Five. Assistant/Musical director is Chelley Pyatt, with Aden Kirschner as co-musical director and costumer, Madeline Chauvin as the technical director and choreography by Carissa McAtee. You can see the show every Tuesday in February (except Valentine's day) at The Highball. We promise a great time... with booze.

DANGER! The Improvised Lifetime Movie

In Danger! The Improvised Lifetime Movie, the cast presents a fully improvised cinematic narrative in the style of perhaps the greatest genre of our time: the Lifetime Original Movie. Following in the footsteps of such films as The Wives He Forgot and Stranger With My Face, we bring you into a world of deception, manipulation, anguish, constant eavesdropping, and excessively dramatic music. How many terrible things can happen to a woman who never has any clue what's going on? Join us and find out.

Directed by Amy Dietze and featuring Amy Carpenter, Madeline Chauvin, Karen Jane DeWitt, Carla Goodman, Clifton Highfield, Ashley Lowe, Nicole McCracken, Michael Pedicano, Lindsey Reeves, David Rosenbaum, Regina Soto, and Luke Wallens.

The Institution Theater CLUSTERFUNK: Too Much Improv

The Institution Theater CLUSTERFUNK is simply too much improv packed into one place with too many special guests to fit, but somehow it does. Join us as we roll out act after act featuring Institution's talented instructors and alums thrown together with guests from all over this fine metropolis of ours.

Our FEBRUARY 4TH show will include the all-latino improv of SHADES OF BROWN, improvised songs from MAX MCCLOUD, Taylor Overstreet and Tyler Reece Booker as the country music duo of Marlena Mae Mercer & Hanklin T. Belle.

Other acts to look forward to:
THE LIVING ROOM. February 4th, 11th, 18th & 25th
The Institution players are joined by guests who spill their guts on an audience-elected topic to inspire improv vignettes.

THE BETTER HALF. February 4th & 11th
Fred, Mitch, and Joe are manly men. They belch, they scratch themselves, and they love big boobs. After a long hard day working at the quarry they love to relax by getting together for some conversation, beer, and cake decorating. Based on the audience suggestion of where you would find a group of women (past suggestions have been the opera, a book club, and a knitting circle), improvisors Madeline Chauvin, Ashley Lowe, and Regina Soto bring Fred, Mitch, and Joe to life to hilarious effect.

iSCREAM SANDWICH. February 11th
The Harold is a vaunted and mysterious but little-attempted longform improv format. iScream Sandwich is a daring team of improvists that include Heidi Caldwell, Bryan Cruz, Erica Lies, Carissa McAtee and Marv Pratt, taking on the Harold in a fight to the death. Will iSS's absurd characters and twisting story arcs tame the Harold's knashing teeth in a feat of improv Zen, or will these five brave comedians plunge into its watery abyss, never to be heard from again?