Reasonably Priced Babies Birthday Bash!
ALL AGESSEATED SHOWLIMITED NUMBER OF PREMIUM SEATING TICKETS AVAILABLEREASONABLY PRICED BABIES Celebrate 13 years of making it up as we go along! Asheville’s premier improv group – Reasonably Priced Babies (RPB) – are turning 13 this year and these troubled teenagers want to celebrate with YOU! About RPB: Reasonably Priced Babies have been building improvised comedy to Asheville stages for 13 years now, but they are no toddlers to the art of improv. With over 140 years of combined experience the Babies are no strangers to bringing laughter to audiences both in Asheville and around the world! The Babies include Tom Chalmers (formerly Gotham City Improv, Second City, Improv Olympic), Mondy Carter (Dead Ale Wives, LaZoom), Karen Stobbe (Executive Director- In the Moment, Comedy Sportz), Kim Richardson (award-winning Singer/Songwriter), Josh Batenhorst (former CEO Bright Star Touring Theatre) and the musical stylings of Aaron Price (formerly of oCollapsible Records,Wham Bam Bowie Band, etc.). What to Expect: RPB will bring 2 hours of improvised entertainment (with a brief intermission). Combining short form “games,” medium length scenes and musical improv – RPB can’t wait to celebrate their birthday with YOU. Come early and grab some food from the Taqueria and be sure to grab a libation from the fully stocked Grey Eagle bar! Tacos + beer + laughter = Asheville’s Favorite Choking hazard! (Don’t worry, we know the Heimlich). Bring your appetite for food, drink and comedy and be sure to wear your birthday bash best (not just your birthday suit – *pro tip* there just may be prizes!).
ABSFest Brunch: Church of Decadence
FULLY SEATED SHOW (GA)The brunch show is back! Join us for a breakfast buffet of empowered debauchery with burlesque, contortion, and creativity galore. Guaranteed to be uplifting, sexy as heck, and more fun than your usual churchgoing experience. Feel free to wear your Sunday best, party hats, or your pajamas. Raffle benefits Sister Kitten animal rescue.
ABSFest & Charming Disaster’s Journey Through the Underworld
FULLY SEATED SHOWLIMITED NUMBER OF VIP TICKETS AVAILABLE – VIPS enjoy preferential seating, VIP Underworld Survival kits, and a special VIP show with doors at 7pm.Join us for an epic evening of immersive burlesque, variety arts, and live music as goth folk geniuses Charming Disaster weave an otherworldly tale of magic, myth and monsters. General Admission doors open at 7:30pm.
THE MOTH Presents: Asheville StorySLAM – “GUTS”
– PARTIALLY SEATED SHOW- GA SEATING IN FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED. THE MOTH resumes their recurring monthly Asheville StorySLAM at The Grey Eagle at 7:30pm! This month’s theme is…. GUTS: Prepare a five-minute story about moments of boldness and courage and the peaks and pratfalls of a daring spirit. Scaling mountains or admitting to mistakes. Being the first in line to try a never before tested remedy or the last diver at the safety stop in shark infested waters. Tell us about your nervy-est (or most nervous) experiences.
THE MOTH Presents: Asheville StorySLAM – “SNOOPING”
– PARTIALLY SEATED SHOW- GA SEATING IN FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED. THE MOTH resumes their recurring monthly Asheville StorySLAM at The Grey Eagle at 7:30pm! This month’s theme is…. SNOOPING: Prepare a five-minute story about being nosy. Eavesdropping, meddling and sneaking around. Seemingly harmless questions or internet stalking. Flipping through a sibling’s diary, hiring a private eye, or peeking at someone’s browser history. Intrusive neighbors, overnight stake outs, or facial recognition surveillance. Or, tell us about your own prying and spying. Mind your own business!
THE MOTH Presents: Asheville StorySLAM – “GREEN”
– PARTIALLY SEATED SHOW- GA SEATING IN FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED THE MOTH resumes their recurring monthly Asheville StorySLAM at The Grey Eagle at 7:30pm! This month’s theme is…. GREEN: Prepare a five-minute tale involving verdant fields, blades of grass, tree-huggers or leprechauns. The bubbling envy over the childhood friend whose sneakers always shone brighter than yours. The excitement of passing “GO” and collecting $200. Stories of the unripe and inexperienced. The time when nature nurtured you, or when you were lost in the forest at nightfall with no flashlight. The grass is always, well… you know.
THE MOTH Presents: Asheville StorySLAM – “DAZZLED”
– PARTIALLY SEATED SHOW- GA SEATING IN FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED. THE MOTH resumes their recurring monthly Asheville StorySLAM at The Grey Eagle at 7:30pm! This month’s theme is…. DAZZLED: Prepare a five-minute story of a time you sparkled. Drippin’ in diamonds down the red carpet, smooth cruisin’ in a Corvette, or cosplaying as Marilyn Monroe. Share your shiniest, knock out memories that no one believes or the moments that prove that all that glitters is gold.
THE MOTH Presents: Asheville StorySLAM – “FIRST IMPRESSIONS”
– PARTIALLY SEATED SHOW- GA SEATING IN FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED. THE MOTH resumes their recurring monthly Asheville StorySLAM at The Grey Eagle at 7:30pm! This month’s theme is…. FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Prepare a five-minute story about initial encounters. Blind dates, fixer-uppers, catfish, and long lost twins. When your gut instincts were proven right, or when you unfairly judged a book by its cover. Day one at a new job, new school, or new city. The stinky cheese that was actually scrumptious. The singer with the gravelly voice that you grow to love. The indelible mark made upon meeting somebody for the first time.
THE MOTH Presents: Asheville StorySLAM – “LOVE HURTS”
– PARTIALLY SEATED SHOW- GA SEATING IN FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED. THE MOTH resumes their recurring monthly Asheville StorySLAM at The Grey Eagle at 7:30pm! This month’s theme is…. LOVE HURTS: Prepare a five-minute tale about a love that made you go OUCH. The agony of deferred love! The misery of good love, gone bad! The anguish of one-way love! Bring stories of your heart, kicked to the curb by the people or places or things you love…or used to love. Love that “Hurts So Good” also welcome.
TJ & Dave
– ALL AGES- SEATED SHOW- LIMITED NUMBER OF PREMIUM SEATING TICKETS AVAILABLETJ & DAVE TJ Jagodowski and Dave Pasquesi bring their award winning show to Asheville. A miraculously improvised one-hour play at every performance. Get ready to be entertained by the incredible wit and spontaneity of these two talented performers. It’s the perfect opportunity to experience something like you’ve never seen before. Enjoy some great food and drinks, and have a fantastic time with friends. Don’t miss out on this hilarious and one-of-a-kind experience! ‘One of these guys is the best improviser in the world. And the other one is better.’ – Stephen Colbert ‘The comics TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi miraculously improvise a one-hour play at every performance. This is an impressive feat of mental athletics, but the results are also observant, complex and frequently enormously funny.’ – The New York Times “BRILLIANT, HEARTBREAKING, MIND-BLOWING, INSPIRING! The best 50 minutes of improv comedy that we’ve ever seen. But we wouldn’t want to insult their effusive skills by speaking so simplistically. Also, it’s funny. Drink their Kool-Aid.” – Time Out New York “TJ Jagodowski and Dave Pasquesi, two of the world’s finest practitioners of the art of long-form improv, create an hour long one-act play. They’re both great actors and have amazing improv chops, but it’s always hard to notice these kinds of things when you’re peeing your pants laughing.” – Time Out Chicago LEARN MORE ABOUT SPEAKEASY IMPROV HERE!
