“…sharp, focused, and riotously funny!”- The Austin Chronicle
*Winner of an Austin Critic’s Table Award*
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| Hour | Day | Time | Group/Show | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friday | 5PM | And They're Off | The core cast gets to know one another in this anything-goes hour |
| 2 | Friday | 6PM | So You Think You Can? | Grounded improv framed in a game show |
| 3 | Friday | 7PM | Golden | silent improvised stories, a unique theatrical experience! |
| 4 | Friday | 8PM | The Big Bash | A special 1-hour version of our hit show! |
| 5 | Friday | 9PM | American Brass | based off the hit HBO TV series Succession |
| 6 | Friday | 10PM | Rochelle's Surprise | Rochelle McConico has something secret in store for the core cast |
| 7 | Friday | 11PM | Super Black | a supercharged, bad‐talking, highly romanticized, hilarious improvised 70's blaxploitation film |
| 8 | Saturday | 12AM | Austin Secrets | This show is about you. Your stories. Your fears. Your triumphs. Your failures. Your secrets. |
| 9 | Saturday | 1AM | Murder, They Improvised | a locked room, murder mystery comedy in the vein of Clue, Knives Out, and Agatha Christie novels. |
| 10 | Saturday | 2AM | ColdTowne does The Bat | a strange, soundscape Harold—completely in the dark. |
| 11 | Saturday | 3AM | super special magic electric light show | A short form improv show powered by LIGHT. |
| 12 | Saturday | 4AM | Stephanie's Wildcard Show | This show will be whatever our guest, Stephanie Rae, wants to do with the hour. |
| 13 | Saturday | 5AM | Hometown | interwoven stories of a small town, focusing on fast scene setups and grounded, lovable oddballs. |
| 14 | Saturday | 6AM | Minority Report | a “Living MonoPOP”, true stories peppered with pop outs! |
| 15 | Saturday | 7AM | Put Your Lips Together and Blow | film noir improv comedy! |
| 16 | Saturday | 8AM | Hideout Teacher Show | Fun, weird show for the small hours of the night featuring a supporting cast of Hideout teachers. |
| 17 | Saturday | 9AM | What They Do in the Darkness | Supernatural Mockumentary |
| 18 | Saturday | 10AM | Kids Mixer | featuring students from our kids' improv program |
| 19 | Saturday | 11AM | Bah Humbug | Improvised Tales of Victorian England in the style of Charles Dickens |
| 20 | Saturday | 12PM | Good Rap, Bad Rap | this Grammy Award Stealin’ Duo, bring their monoscenic, freestyle flow to the stage. |
| 21 | Saturday | 1PM | Friends for Now | ColdTowne Theater's Thursday night long-form house team, made up of some of CT's best Teachers and Performers. |
| 22 | Saturday | 2PM | Building Connections | Students from the Building Connections improv classes join the Marathoners. This program is what we're raising money for! |
| 23 | Saturday | 3PM | The Knuckleball Now | fast paced improv, with quick edits, strong characters, and a connection on stage that surpasses the 19+ years of existence |
| 24 | Saturday | 4PM | The Halfway Harold | The last hour of the first day... and a brief respite for the core 8 perform by themselves. And for you improvisers out there, they'll be doing a Harold. |
| 25 | Saturday | 5PM | ¡ESCÁNDALO! | an evening of improvised comedy and melodrama with shocking secrets, dastardy villains, and nail-biting intrigue. |
| 26 | Saturday | 6PM | Swashbuckled | A Saucy Rom-Com on the High Seas! |
| 27 | Saturday | 7PM | The Selena Sing-a-long Show | Improvised Jukebox Musical Inspired by the Queen of Tejano |
| 28 | Saturday | 8PM | Fuck This Week | Fallout Theater’s Monday mainstay - a comedic (and cathartic) exploration of your shitty week! |
| 29 | Saturday | 9PM | The Game Show Show | Comedians go head-to-head 70s game show style in this live comedy show! |
| 30 | Saturday | 10PM | Maestro Hour 1 | The Hideout's longest-running improv show. Elimination-style improv games and scenes! |
| 31 | Saturday | 11PM | Maestro Hour 2 | The Hideout's longest-running improv show. Elimination-style improv games and scenes! Hour 2! |
| 32 | Sunday | 12AM | The Amazon and the Milksop | Their Marathon shows are always a blast. This will be something crazy. And awesome. And crazy. |
| 33 | Sunday | 1AM | Hardass Trivia | It's a Hardass Trivia Live Tournament! The questions are hard AF and so are the hosts. The audience gets involved. Surprises and prizes abound as there is never a dull moment. |
| 34 | Sunday | 2AM | An Evening With w Tyler and Chuy ft Tosin | a smooth ride of improvised soul. Stories and songs of lost love and sultry nights. Let us satisfy you. |
| 35 | Sunday | 3AM | Brujajas | Join a coven of brujas as they discuss bruja business such as accidental hexes, potions gone awry, and climate change. |
| 36 | Sunday | 4AM | WHATEVER | The core cast do whatever the heck they want. |
| 37 | Sunday | 5AM | Dubbed Indemnity | Famous movie and TV clips have had their sound removed, and it's up to the cast to dub new dialogue. Challenging and hilarious. A Marathon Tradition! |
| 38 | Sunday | 6AM | Echo Lake | Over-the-top organic heightening (weird noises and witch spellz) |
| 39 | Sunday | 7AM | I'll Take the Physical Challenge | Extra hard challenges! Mind bending games! |
| 40 | Sunday | 8AM | Chips n' Queso | This delightful duo joins the core cast |
| 41 | Sunday | 9AM | The Romantic Rom-Com Comedy Show | A sendup of your favorite romantic comedies! |
| 42 | Sunday | 10AM | Glitter Witch | Wild and Weird. |
| 43 | Sunday | 11AM | Fancy Pants | Improvisers wear their fanciest duds for a show full of two person scenes. |
| 44 | Sunday | 12PM | PGraph | This award-winning, internationally touring group blends humor, drama, and storytelling in unexpected ways. |
| 45 | Sunday | 1PM | Bad Is Good | Our worst fears about performance woven into gold through improv alchemy. Based on a show from Vancouver. |
| 46 | Sunday | 2PM | The Sound of Made Up Music | A musical in the style of Rogers and Hammerstein |
| 47 | Sunday | 3PM | Fakespeare | Improv in the style of William Shakespeare, and a WILD feat for Marathoners near the finish line to complete. |
| 48 | Sunday | 4PM | Final Show | The victory lap of the 8 core Marathoners. They're free to do whatever they like... except sleep. |
At 5:00pm on Friday May 19, 2023, eight brave and foolish improvisers will take the Hideout stage and stay there until 5pm on Sunday the 21st, performing 48 STRAIGHT HOURS of improvisational theatre and comedy without sleep or respite.
Each hour of the marathon will be a separate show, featuring classic and upcoming Hideout formats, one-off shows never to be seen again, and guest troupes and players from Austin’s ever-growing improv community.
Each hour of the marathon will cost $5 to watch. An all-access Marathon pass is available for $48, which, if you’re crazy brave enough to see all the shows, is a HUGE savings!
This year’s marathon improvisers will be Adrian Prado, Cass Gutierrez, J.R. Zambrano, Jess von Schramm, Lahari Dunn, Steph Vasquez Fonseca, Stephanie Rae, and Tyler Groce—our first all-BIPOC core marathon cast!
This year’s marathon will also be a fundraiser to raise money for The Hideout Youth Program. Our goal this year is $5000. For the entire marathon, we’ll be collecting donations from people like you.
Click here to expand and view the COMPLETE, searchable schedule
(rotate to landscape to see descriptions)
| Hour | Day | Time | Group/Show | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friday | 5PM | And They're Off | The core cast gets to know one another in this anything-goes hour |
| 2 | Friday | 6PM | So You Think You Can? | Grounded improv framed in a game show |
| 3 | Friday | 7PM | Golden | silent improvised stories, a unique theatrical experience! |
| 4 | Friday | 8PM | The Big Bash | A special 1-hour version of our hit show! |
| 5 | Friday | 9PM | American Brass | based off the hit HBO TV series Succession |
| 6 | Friday | 10PM | Rochelle's Surprise | Rochelle McConico has something secret in store for the core cast |
| 7 | Friday | 11PM | Super Black | a supercharged, bad‐talking, highly romanticized, hilarious improvised 70's blaxploitation film |
| 8 | Saturday | 12AM | Austin Secrets | This show is about you. Your stories. Your fears. Your triumphs. Your failures. Your secrets. |
| 9 | Saturday | 1AM | Murder, They Improvised | a locked room, murder mystery comedy in the vein of Clue, Knives Out, and Agatha Christie novels. |
| 10 | Saturday | 2AM | ColdTowne does The Bat | a strange, soundscape Harold—completely in the dark. |
| 11 | Saturday | 3AM | super special magic electric light show | A short form improv show powered by LIGHT. |
| 12 | Saturday | 4AM | Stephanie's Wildcard Show | This show will be whatever our guest, Stephanie Rae, wants to do with the hour. |
| 13 | Saturday | 5AM | Hometown | interwoven stories of a small town, focusing on fast scene setups and grounded, lovable oddballs. |
| 14 | Saturday | 6AM | Minority Report | a “Living MonoPOP”, true stories peppered with pop outs! |
| 15 | Saturday | 7AM | Put Your Lips Together and Blow | film noir improv comedy! |
| 16 | Saturday | 8AM | Hideout Teacher Show | Fun, weird show for the small hours of the night featuring a supporting cast of Hideout teachers. |
| 17 | Saturday | 9AM | What They Do in the Darkness | Supernatural Mockumentary |
| 18 | Saturday | 10AM | Kids Mixer | featuring students from our kids' improv program |
| 19 | Saturday | 11AM | Bah Humbug | Improvised Tales of Victorian England in the style of Charles Dickens |
| 20 | Saturday | 12PM | Good Rap, Bad Rap | this Grammy Award Stealin’ Duo, bring their monoscenic, freestyle flow to the stage. |
| 21 | Saturday | 1PM | Friends for Now | ColdTowne Theater's Thursday night long-form house team, made up of some of CT's best Teachers and Performers. |
| 22 | Saturday | 2PM | Building Connections | Students from the Building Connections improv classes join the Marathoners. This program is what we're raising money for! |
| 23 | Saturday | 3PM | The Knuckleball Now | fast paced improv, with quick edits, strong characters, and a connection on stage that surpasses the 19+ years of existence |
| 24 | Saturday | 4PM | The Halfway Harold | The last hour of the first day... and a brief respite for the core 8 perform by themselves. And for you improvisers out there, they'll be doing a Harold. |
| 25 | Saturday | 5PM | ¡ESCÁNDALO! | an evening of improvised comedy and melodrama with shocking secrets, dastardy villains, and nail-biting intrigue. |
| 26 | Saturday | 6PM | Swashbuckled | A Saucy Rom-Com on the High Seas! |
| 27 | Saturday | 7PM | The Selena Sing-a-long Show | Improvised Jukebox Musical Inspired by the Queen of Tejano |
| 28 | Saturday | 8PM | Fuck This Week | Fallout Theater’s Monday mainstay - a comedic (and cathartic) exploration of your shitty week! |
| 29 | Saturday | 9PM | The Game Show Show | Comedians go head-to-head 70s game show style in this live comedy show! |
| 30 | Saturday | 10PM | Maestro Hour 1 | The Hideout's longest-running improv show. Elimination-style improv games and scenes! |
| 31 | Saturday | 11PM | Maestro Hour 2 | The Hideout's longest-running improv show. Elimination-style improv games and scenes! Hour 2! |
| 32 | Sunday | 12AM | The Amazon and the Milksop | Their Marathon shows are always a blast. This will be something crazy. And awesome. And crazy. |
| 33 | Sunday | 1AM | Hardass Trivia | It's a Hardass Trivia Live Tournament! The questions are hard AF and so are the hosts. The audience gets involved. Surprises and prizes abound as there is never a dull moment. |
| 34 | Sunday | 2AM | An Evening With w Tyler and Chuy ft Tosin | a smooth ride of improvised soul. Stories and songs of lost love and sultry nights. Let us satisfy you. |
| 35 | Sunday | 3AM | Brujajas | Join a coven of brujas as they discuss bruja business such as accidental hexes, potions gone awry, and climate change. |
| 36 | Sunday | 4AM | WHATEVER | The core cast do whatever the heck they want. |
| 37 | Sunday | 5AM | Dubbed Indemnity | Famous movie and TV clips have had their sound removed, and it's up to the cast to dub new dialogue. Challenging and hilarious. A Marathon Tradition! |
| 38 | Sunday | 6AM | Echo Lake | Over-the-top organic heightening (weird noises and witch spellz) |
| 39 | Sunday | 7AM | I'll Take the Physical Challenge | Extra hard challenges! Mind bending games! |
| 40 | Sunday | 8AM | Chips n' Queso | This delightful duo joins the core cast |
| 41 | Sunday | 9AM | The Romantic Rom-Com Comedy Show | A sendup of your favorite romantic comedies! |
| 42 | Sunday | 10AM | Glitter Witch | Wild and Weird. |
| 43 | Sunday | 11AM | Fancy Pants | Improvisers wear their fanciest duds for a show full of two person scenes. |
| 44 | Sunday | 12PM | PGraph | This award-winning, internationally touring group blends humor, drama, and storytelling in unexpected ways. |
| 45 | Sunday | 1PM | Bad Is Good | Our worst fears about performance woven into gold through improv alchemy. Based on a show from Vancouver. |
| 46 | Sunday | 2PM | The Sound of Made Up Music | A musical in the style of Rogers and Hammerstein |
| 47 | Sunday | 3PM | Fakespeare | Improv in the style of William Shakespeare, and a WILD feat for Marathoners near the finish line to complete. |
| 48 | Sunday | 4PM | Final Show | The victory lap of the 8 core Marathoners. They're free to do whatever they like... except sleep. |
WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK OUR SPONSORS:
Chuy’s, Vic & Al’s, Vigilante Gastropub & Games, Hoboken Pie,
This year’s featured sponsor is Celzo, Vitamin-Infused Agua Fresca