“…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 | 6PM | Teen Mixer | featuring teens from our HIdeout Summer Teen Intensive |
| 2 | Friday | 7PM | And They're Off | The core cast gets to know one another in this anything-goes hour |
| 3 | Friday | 8PM | The Big Bash | A special 1-hour version of our hit show! |
| 4 | Friday | 9PM | Girls Girls Girls | An improvised Broadway-style musical by the award-winning, long-running group. |
| 5 | Friday | 10PM | Y'all We Asian | Austin’s (and Texas’) first all Asian-American improv troupe. |
| 6 | Friday | 11PM | Fuck This Week | Fallout Theater’s Monday mainstay - a comedic (and cathartic) exploration of your shitty week! |
| 7 | Saturday | 12AM | Roll to Improvise | It's a multi-layered D&D based show |
| 8 | Saturday | 1AM | The Fancy Pants Mashup | A resurrection of a classic Hideout show! Improvisers wear their fanciest duds for a show full of two person scenes. |
| 9 | Saturday | 2AM | I'll Take the Physical Challenge | Improv + Torture! Double Dare meets Dystopia! This game show pushes the limits of what improvisers can take, both mentally and physically. |
| 10 | Saturday | 3AM | To Be Announced | |
| 11 | Saturday | 4AM | The Canadian Video Project | Luminaries and improv friends in the Great White North (Canada) give the players setups with a Canadian spin. DO THE SCENE, EH? |
| 12 | Saturday | 5AM | Yichao's Hour | This show will be whatever our guest, Yichao, wants to do with the hour. |
| 13 | Saturday | 6AM | The Grizzly | Inspired by "The Bear" |
| 14 | Saturday | 7AM | Jane Austin Improv | A one-hour improvised Jane Austen play! Rom-Com with more British accents and costumes! |
| 15 | Saturday | 8AM | Our Terrific Neighbors with Your Terrific Neighbors | Meet the folks in the Neighborhood on this live podcast recording |
| 16 | Saturday | 9AM | Minority Report | Minority Report does the “Living MonoPOP”, in which they play themselves in a monoscene, telling true stories peppered with pop outs! |
| 17 | Saturday | 10AM | Good Rap, Bad Rap | “Grammy Award Stealin’ Duo, Good Rap, Bad Rap bring their monoscenic, freestyle flow to the stage." |
| 18 | Saturday | 11AM | Building Connections | Students from the Building Connections improv classes join the Marathoners. This program is what we're raising money for! |
| 19 | Saturday | 12PM | Golden | Golden does silent improvised stories, bringing a unique theatrical experience to life every time they grace a stage. |
| 20 | Saturday | 1PM | Glitter Witch | Wild and Weird. |
| 21 | Saturday | 2PM | Te Quiero Mucho | I Love Lucy inspired harold/sitcom style show |
| 22 | Saturday | 3PM | The Knuckleball Now | TKN is a faster paced improv, with quick edits, strong characters, and a connection on stage that surpasses the 19+ years of existence |
| 23 | Saturday | 4PM | ¡ESCÁNDALO! | ¡Escándalo! - an evening of improvised comedy and melodrama with shocking secrets, dastardy villains, and nail-biting intrigue. |
| 24 | Saturday | 5PM | Garage | Garage is a hilarious and acclaimed improv troupe with all women and non-binary performers |
| 25 | Saturday | 6PM | Friends for Now | Friends For Now is ColdTowne Theater's Thursday night long-form house team, made up of some of CT's best Teachers and Performers. |
| 26 | Saturday | 7PM | To Be Announced | |
| 27 | Saturday | 8PM | The Black Lily | Welcome to the ‘The Black Lily’, where luxury and adventure knows no bounds. Inspired by "White Lotus" |
| 28 | Saturday | 9PM | Maestro Hour 1 | The Hideout's longest-running improv show. Elimination-style improv games and scenes! |
| 29 | Saturday | 10PM | Maestro Hour 2 | The Hideout's longest-running improv show. Elimination-style improv games and scenes! Hour 2! |
| 30 | Saturday | 11PM | The Recently Deceased | 2023's October mainstage full of moody, goth people in the underworld. |
| 31 | Sunday | 12AM | Crucibullsh!t: A Witch Trial Comedy | An improvised take on The Crucible if the Salem Witch Trials had taken place in a dumber, weirder town. |
| 32 | Sunday | 1AM | SLEEP STUDY | A returning favorite. The marathoners find themselves in a dystopian sleep study where nothing is as it seems. |
| 33 | Sunday | 2AM | Literally Twilight | The Marathoners (with a little help) recreate Twilight, literally. |
| 34 | Sunday | 3AM | The Bat | a strange, soundscape Harold—completely in the dark. |
| 35 | Sunday | 4AM | TED Walks | The Marathoners have to give presentations based on slides they haven't seen before! |
| 36 | Sunday | 5AM | WHATEVER | The core cast do whatever the heck they want. |
| 37 | Sunday | 6AM | Murder, They Improvised | Aspen, one of our Marathoner's, directed a murder mystery show a while back. And now it's alive again! |
| 38 | Sunday | 7AM | To Be Announced | |
| 39 | Sunday | 8AM | Spy Another Day | Improv: Shaken, Not Stirred |
| 40 | Sunday | 9AM | 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! |
| 41 | Sunday | 10AM | BOO85 | Improv based on middle school memories |
| 42 | Sunday | 11AM | The Amazon and the Milksop | Their Marathon shows are always a blast. This will be something crazy. And awesome. And crazy. |
| 43 | Sunday | 12PM | Kenny/Rogers | Kenny/Rogers is half improv-show, half-audience interactive hurricane of improv. |
| 44 | Sunday | 1PM | PGraph | This award-winning, internationally touring group blends humor, drama, and storytelling in unexpected ways. |
| 45 | Sunday | 2PM | Bad Is Good | Our worst fears about performance woven into gold through improv alchemy. Based on a show from Vancouver. |
| 46 | Sunday | 3PM | MUSICAL | An improvised musical as part of a 2-part plan to break the brains of the core team. |
| 47 | Sunday | 4PM | Fakespeare | Improv in the style of William Shakespeare, and a WILD feat for Marathoners near the finish line to complete. |
| 48 | Sunday | 5PM | Final Show | The victory lap of the 8 core Marathoners. They're free to do whatever they like... except sleep. |
At 6:00pm on Friday August 2nd, 2024, eight brave and foolish improvisers will take the Hideout stage and stay there until 6pm on Sunday the 4th, 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 Courtney Hopkin, Symply Courtney, Aspen Webster, Mickey May, Allie Maldonado, Kenny Madison, Norman Scott, and Yichao.
This year’s marathon will also be a fundraiser to raise money for The Hideout Youth Program. Our goal this year is $3000. 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 | 6PM | Teen Mixer | featuring teens from our HIdeout Summer Teen Intensive |
| 2 | Friday | 7PM | And They're Off | The core cast gets to know one another in this anything-goes hour |
| 3 | Friday | 8PM | The Big Bash | A special 1-hour version of our hit show! |
| 4 | Friday | 9PM | Girls Girls Girls | An improvised Broadway-style musical by the award-winning, long-running group. |
| 5 | Friday | 10PM | Y'all We Asian | Austin’s (and Texas’) first all Asian-American improv troupe. |
| 6 | Friday | 11PM | Fuck This Week | Fallout Theater’s Monday mainstay - a comedic (and cathartic) exploration of your shitty week! |
| 7 | Saturday | 12AM | Roll to Improvise | It's a multi-layered D&D based show |
| 8 | Saturday | 1AM | The Fancy Pants Mashup | A resurrection of a classic Hideout show! Improvisers wear their fanciest duds for a show full of two person scenes. |
| 9 | Saturday | 2AM | I'll Take the Physical Challenge | Improv + Torture! Double Dare meets Dystopia! This game show pushes the limits of what improvisers can take, both mentally and physically. |
| 10 | Saturday | 3AM | To Be Announced | |
| 11 | Saturday | 4AM | The Canadian Video Project | Luminaries and improv friends in the Great White North (Canada) give the players setups with a Canadian spin. DO THE SCENE, EH? |
| 12 | Saturday | 5AM | Yichao's Hour | This show will be whatever our guest, Yichao, wants to do with the hour. |
| 13 | Saturday | 6AM | The Grizzly | Inspired by "The Bear" |
| 14 | Saturday | 7AM | Jane Austin Improv | A one-hour improvised Jane Austen play! Rom-Com with more British accents and costumes! |
| 15 | Saturday | 8AM | Our Terrific Neighbors with Your Terrific Neighbors | Meet the folks in the Neighborhood on this live podcast recording |
| 16 | Saturday | 9AM | Minority Report | Minority Report does the “Living MonoPOP”, in which they play themselves in a monoscene, telling true stories peppered with pop outs! |
| 17 | Saturday | 10AM | Good Rap, Bad Rap | “Grammy Award Stealin’ Duo, Good Rap, Bad Rap bring their monoscenic, freestyle flow to the stage." |
| 18 | Saturday | 11AM | Building Connections | Students from the Building Connections improv classes join the Marathoners. This program is what we're raising money for! |
| 19 | Saturday | 12PM | Golden | Golden does silent improvised stories, bringing a unique theatrical experience to life every time they grace a stage. |
| 20 | Saturday | 1PM | Glitter Witch | Wild and Weird. |
| 21 | Saturday | 2PM | Te Quiero Mucho | I Love Lucy inspired harold/sitcom style show |
| 22 | Saturday | 3PM | The Knuckleball Now | TKN is a faster paced improv, with quick edits, strong characters, and a connection on stage that surpasses the 19+ years of existence |
| 23 | Saturday | 4PM | ¡ESCÁNDALO! | ¡Escándalo! - an evening of improvised comedy and melodrama with shocking secrets, dastardy villains, and nail-biting intrigue. |
| 24 | Saturday | 5PM | Garage | Garage is a hilarious and acclaimed improv troupe with all women and non-binary performers |
| 25 | Saturday | 6PM | Friends for Now | Friends For Now is ColdTowne Theater's Thursday night long-form house team, made up of some of CT's best Teachers and Performers. |
| 26 | Saturday | 7PM | To Be Announced | |
| 27 | Saturday | 8PM | The Black Lily | Welcome to the ‘The Black Lily’, where luxury and adventure knows no bounds. Inspired by "White Lotus" |
| 28 | Saturday | 9PM | Maestro Hour 1 | The Hideout's longest-running improv show. Elimination-style improv games and scenes! |
| 29 | Saturday | 10PM | Maestro Hour 2 | The Hideout's longest-running improv show. Elimination-style improv games and scenes! Hour 2! |
| 30 | Saturday | 11PM | The Recently Deceased | 2023's October mainstage full of moody, goth people in the underworld. |
| 31 | Sunday | 12AM | Crucibullsh!t: A Witch Trial Comedy | An improvised take on The Crucible if the Salem Witch Trials had taken place in a dumber, weirder town. |
| 32 | Sunday | 1AM | SLEEP STUDY | A returning favorite. The marathoners find themselves in a dystopian sleep study where nothing is as it seems. |
| 33 | Sunday | 2AM | Literally Twilight | The Marathoners (with a little help) recreate Twilight, literally. |
| 34 | Sunday | 3AM | The Bat | a strange, soundscape Harold—completely in the dark. |
| 35 | Sunday | 4AM | TED Walks | The Marathoners have to give presentations based on slides they haven't seen before! |
| 36 | Sunday | 5AM | WHATEVER | The core cast do whatever the heck they want. |
| 37 | Sunday | 6AM | Murder, They Improvised | Aspen, one of our Marathoner's, directed a murder mystery show a while back. And now it's alive again! |
| 38 | Sunday | 7AM | To Be Announced | |
| 39 | Sunday | 8AM | Spy Another Day | Improv: Shaken, Not Stirred |
| 40 | Sunday | 9AM | 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! |
| 41 | Sunday | 10AM | BOO85 | Improv based on middle school memories |
| 42 | Sunday | 11AM | The Amazon and the Milksop | Their Marathon shows are always a blast. This will be something crazy. And awesome. And crazy. |
| 43 | Sunday | 12PM | Kenny/Rogers | Kenny/Rogers is half improv-show, half-audience interactive hurricane of improv. |
| 44 | Sunday | 1PM | PGraph | This award-winning, internationally touring group blends humor, drama, and storytelling in unexpected ways. |
| 45 | Sunday | 2PM | Bad Is Good | Our worst fears about performance woven into gold through improv alchemy. Based on a show from Vancouver. |
| 46 | Sunday | 3PM | MUSICAL | An improvised musical as part of a 2-part plan to break the brains of the core team. |
| 47 | Sunday | 4PM | Fakespeare | Improv in the style of William Shakespeare, and a WILD feat for Marathoners near the finish line to complete. |
| 48 | Sunday | 5PM | 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 LAST YEAR’S SPONSORS:
Chuy’s, Vic & Al’s, Vigilante Gastropub & Games, Hoboken Pie,
Last year’s featured sponsor is Celzo, Vitamin-Infused Agua Fresca