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September’s SuperCollider Lineup!

Join us on Friday, September 14th at 7:30pm at The Omni Center for SuperCollider: Acadiana’s Improv Showcase brought to you by Silverbacks Improv Theatre!

The September 14th SuperCollider will feature:

The Plural Noun – Miraculously emerging from improv classes, perhaps driven by their collaborative Gen X Millennial angst, The Plural Nountakes an innovative approach to traditional improv games and scene structures. In the words of one Noun, “we like to break things and tape them back together, like our combat boots.”
Rag Tag – Girls, Girls, Girls……. doing improv. Rag Tag is an all female improv troupe bringing you high energy free form improv. “They’re hysterical and actually funny” said one testosterone filled man. Rag Tag’s performances are as rare as a phoenix rising from the ashes in the sun, but when it happens it’s majestic. Fully dressed and still entertaining!
The Family Dinner (Baton Rouge) – Performing for 15 years, The Family Dinner out of Baton Rouge is known for their energy-loaded and physical improv. They excel at impossibly hard guessing games and musical games. They perform regularly at the Shaw Center for the Arts in downtown Baton Rouge to full houses.

See all three troupes for the price of one! Only $10 for a night full of fun.
The September 14th show starts at 7:30pm at The Omni Center!

SuperCollider – August!

Join us on Friday, August 17 at 7:30pm at The Omni Center for SuperCollider: Acadiana’s Improv Showcase brought to you by Silverbacks Improv Theatre!

Tickets are $10

This month’s SuperCollider! will feature:

Two for the Road –
“Two for the Road” crafts gripping improv centered on honest and powerful relationships. Lafayette-based improvisers Sarah Mikayla Brown and Nico Zaunbrecher fully embrace the duo dynamic, shaping stories built not from wacky situations and snappy witticisms, but around the always transforming space between “I” and “thou”.

The Weaning Process –
The Weaning Process has been performing in Lafayette for about a year. They have a monthly Artwalk show at Cité des Arts and also perform at local comedy open mics.

Silverbacks Improv Theatre –
You know them and love them! Operating in Lafayette since 2012, Silverbacks Improv mixes special improvised brews for audiences across the U.S.

Silverbacks Improv Theatre to Perform July 25

On Wednesday July 25, Silverbacks Improv Theatre will present a show featuring their signature improvisations – a blend of short, high-energy games followed by a one-act improvised play. Patrons can also enjoy the Omni Center art market and bar!

Silverbacks Improv Theatre Wednesday, July 25
Show begins at 7:30
The Omni Center – 227 Jefferson St, Lafayette, LA 70501
$10 Tickets

Tickets available at the Door

Silverbacks Present: SuperCollider – Acadiana’s Improv Showcase!

Join us on Friday, May 18 at 7:30pm at The Omni Center for SuperCollider: Acadiana’s Improv Showcase brought to you by Silverbacks Improv Theatre!

Tickets are $10

This May, SuperCollider will Feature:
Silverbacks Improv Theatre,
Ragtag (Lafayette’s All-Estrogen Improv Troupe),
And
The Family Dinner from Baton Rouge!

Silverbacks Improv show at The Omni Center!

Silverbacks Improv Theatre is back in action and ready to treat you to an evening of improvised stories, relationships, squabbles, triumphs, failures, or maybe even earth-shattering devastation!

Join us at The Omni Center on Wednesday, May 30th at 7:30pm for a series of short-form games as well as a completely improvised One Act Play! Tickets are $10.

TEACHERS: To show our thanks for all the hard work you’ve put in all year,you can buy 2 tickets to our May 30th show for the price of 1!
(You must present your school/teacher’s ID to purchase your 2-for-1 tickets. Only one member of each duo needs to be a teacher to qualify.)

Silverbacks’ 6th Anniversary!

Long ago, in April of 2012, a group of improv friends held their first official improv show as a brand new improv troupe…. Since then, the group has grown, changed their name, grown some more, traveled, seen familiar faces leave, and watched new faces become familiar.

On Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at 7:30pm, join us at Feed N Seed to help us celebrate 6 years of Silverbacks Improv Theatre! We’ll be playing our favorite games and building alternate worlds!

Tickets are $10 at the door.

All we want for our 6th 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.

Silverbacks Present: Lafayette Famous ft. Amanda Shackelford

Amanda Shackelford, LPSS Middle School Teacher of the Year

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 journey. On Wednesday, March 21, Silverbacks will feature LPSS Middle School Teacher of the Year, Amanda Shackelford!

Wednesday, March 21, 2018
7:30pm at Feed N Seed Lafayette
Tickets are $10

Improv Night at Artwalk with Silverbacks & The Plural Noun

On Saturday, March 10, Silverbacks Improv Theatre and special guests, The Plural Noun, will present a high-energy blend of their audience’s favorite short-form games. (Short-form improv is the style that was made popular by the television show “Who’s Line is it Anyway?”)
The show begins as ArtWalk is wrapping up. A drink from Cliff’s Bar and an improv show are the perfect way to cap off a great night out in downtown Lafayette.

Saturday, March 10, 2018,
8pm at Cité des Arts
Tickets are $10

IMPROV RUMBLE! 2018

Lafayette’s constantly expanding improv community is uniting for one night in February for the ultimate spectacle in competitive improvised theater: IMPROV RUMBLE! 2018!

Improv Rumble! will pit mixed teams of improvisers against one another in an all-out brawl! Everything’s made up, but this time, YOUR VOTES DO MATTER. Who will go home victorious? Who will leave bananaless? These answers depend on YOU.

This year, our Rumble teams will be made up of improvisers fromSilverbacks Improv Theatre, Cult of the Stage Monkey, The Weaning Process – Comedy Troupe, and -INTRODUCING- The Plural Noun*!

So, do yourselves a favor: join us on Friday, February 2, at Cite des Arts (on the main stage!). Tickets are $10, and the show kicks off at 7:30pm! We will pit friends against friends, cast-mate against cast-mate, and even SIBLING against SIBLING!… all for your entertainment, applause, votes, and Hamiltons!

*The Plural Noun is a brand new, Lafayette based Improv Troupe, made up of performers who met in and completed Levels 1-3 of Silverbacks’ Improv Classes in 2017!

Silverbacks’ 6th Annual Improvised Holiday Celebration!

On Wednesday, December 20th, 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. Previous invented holidays were “Paper-Clip Appreciation Day” (2012), “Garden Gnome Day” (2013), Leonardo DaVinci’s Mother’s Birthday (2014), Picasso-Palooza (2015), and “St. Lampshades Day” (2016). Now we need our audience to help us create a brand New Holiday and its many wonderful traditions.

Tickets can be purchased at the door, beginning at 7:00pm on December 20th, for $10 general admission.

Get a Free cookie with your festive wear!!!