Fanatic Salon Theater

Family Affair - Feat. Roz Browne
2024-09-29 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
Enjoy a Great Night of Comedy!
Feat. Roz Browne

$15

Backyard Improv
2024-10-11 19:30 - 22:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
Backyard Improv presents another great improvised event with 5 wonderful groups!

We start earlier than normal, first set at 7:30, with doors at 7:15!
You can pay in advance or at the door. Online ticket sales close at 7pm on Friday, October 11. You can also purchase at the door (and avoid the Eventbrite fee) using cash, Venmo, or credit card, even if you arrive a little late!
==FIRST TIME BUYERS==
If you haven’t been to one of my events @ fanaticSalon (Backyard Improv, ReCeSS, SING!), send me an email (cody.l.saunders@gmail.com) for an early bird code you can use for a $10 ticket if you buy before the end of October 9, 2024.
Doors at 7:15pm with refreshments served in the courtyard before, during intermission, and after the show.
==LINEUP==
7:30pm – Space Heater – This Backyard Improv staple has been keeping the space warm since 2021!
8:00pm – Requiem for a Scene – We explore dramatic, abstract, and comedic themes with a unique, music inspired format.
8:30pm – Explorations Volume 1 – An experiment from Chris Alvarado Improv Workshops.
==Intermission==
9:00pm – Singing in the Range – A fully improvised musical accompanied by musical director Ryan Brookshire. For the very first time we are introducing our Action Movie format!
9:30pm – Copycat – Beginning with a suggestion, a chain of interconnected scenes unfolds, repeating, gradually evolving and adding complexity, until ultimately circling back to the original starting point.

Are You Dressed For the Apocalypse?
2024-10-18 20:00 - 21:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
Join internationally-acclaimed, award-winning comedian Alicia Dattner for her newest comedy show, “Are You Dressed for the Apocalypse?”

In this standup comedy show, Alicia explores what’s so funny (and not) about climate change, instagram influencers, spiritual appropriation, earthing, self-love, the mustachioed men of Valencia, dog people, authentic relating, the big bang, and ants carrying cheetos. It’s raw, uncensored, apocalyptic, non-dual, post post-feminist trauma-informed comedy at its finest! Plus, there’s a ukulele.

Alicia brings a light heart to dark times. You’ll leave this show having laughed, maybe cried a little, and feeling oddly hopeful.

Are You Dressed for the Apocalypse – First World Problems from Alicia Dattner on Vimeo.

$20

Trans4merz feat. Bucket o' Snakes, Waterbrains and Mr. Johnson
2024-10-19 20:00, 2024-11-16 20:00, 2025-01-18 20:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
Trans4merz feat. Bucket o’ Snakes, Waterbrains and Mr. Johnson

$15

43 White Men Audition
2024-10-20 15:30 - 17:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
COME SEE WHAT DEB HAS BEEN UP TO.
HER LATEST PERFORMANCE ART PROJECT IS
43 WHITE MEN AUDITION
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2024, 3PM – 5PM
(ONE DAY ONLY)
(HERE ARE JUST SOME OF THE WHITE MEN YOU’LL SEE)

43 WHITE MEN (plaster, acrylic, fabric) is inspired by Honoré Daumier’s small satirical political sculptures, the hand puppets Paul Klee created for his son, and a dash of Andy Warhol’s screen tests.

Off the Wall & Mostly Organic
2024-10-20 20:00 - 22:00
Off the Wall and Mostly Organic with Carol Weiss on the piano.
With Special Guests Rick Overton, Miranda Shade and Barbera Howard
$15

Vegan Variety Hour
2024-10-23 20:00 - 21:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
With your host, Jennie McNulty

Redeeming the reputation of Vegans, one show at a time…

Kathryn Schorr's Saturday Night Comedy Club
2024-10-26 20:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
Stand Up Featuring
Karen Forman
Ebar
Jamie Hendrix
Roz Browne
Darrell Goss
Karen Vasquez
and
Ben Thompson

8pm
$15
Free parking, free wine and snacks, Party on the patio!

If the World is on Fire, Make Smores
2024-10-27 19:00 - 21:00
Starring
Joe Canaale
Rob Janas
Brendan Mccay
Rebecca Sonh
Amanda Blake Davis

The Jailbait Chronicles
2024-11-03 19:30 - 21:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
(A Not Solo Solo Show) 7:30pm
Written and performed by Clara York. Directed by Jane Morris. Featuring Laura Ralston, Teruko Mitsuhara, Connie Chen.
$20

Backyard Improv
2024-11-08 19:30 - 22:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
Backyard Improv presents another great improvised event with 5 wonderful groups!

Backyard Improv presents another great improvised event!
Doors at 7:45pm with refreshments served in the courtyard before, during intermission, and after the show.

==LINEUP==
8:00pm – The Gordons – Formed in 2017 in Los Angeles, CA. The Gordons have been performing since they were hand selected at iO West (RIP) to form a comedy bond that has now made them family. Character driven with a mix of emotion and play, each show is fun and unexpected.
8:30pm – Singing in the Range – A fully improvised musical accompanied by musical director Ryan Brookshire!

==Intermission==
9:00pm – Songs of Pitches – This musical improv group have studied and performed at UCB and the Clubhouse and recently performed at SING! here at fanaticSalon. They also will be accompanied by Ryan Brookshire!
9:30pm – Coca~Lola – We are Laura and Cody. We perform whatever it is we do to a pre-recorded soundtrack we rehearse with a few times.

Comedy n Chill
2024-11-09 20:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
Fanatic Salon & Comedy n’ Chill presents:
A night of stand up
Hosted by Maria Bruggere

$15
Doors 7:30, show 8:00

A Night of Dual Journeys
2024-11-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
Influences
When Nothing Goes Right, Go Left
by Mattie Singleton
and
Tracing My Lineage
A Story of a Puerto Rican Spitfire
by Ada Luz Pla

Hosted by Doug WIlliams

$20

Recess
2024-11-22 19:30 - 22:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
Recess is back at fanaticSalon!
We are bringing a long form improv class show, live music, sketch comedy, and fresh performance art to Culver City!
Doors at 7:45pm with refreshments served in the courtyard before, during intermission, and after the show.
LINEUP
8:00pm – Chris Alvarado Improv Workshop – A class show performing long form improv. I’ve got friends in this!
8:30pm – Daisy Spanks – A couple of songs from a wonderful musician.
Intermission
8:50pm – Recess Sketch – A repeat of our last performance, but this time with our good friend James Heaney back in the cast!
Cody, James, Katrina, Kristin, Laura, Ted and Vickie are Recess Sketch. Frank Caeti is our director, with Jane Morris helping us adapt to fanaticSalon and running tech in the booth along with Melanie Guo on Friday.
9:35pm – Coca-Lola – We welcome Katrina Lofgren, James Heaney, and two puppets. Or are we all puppets?
Tickets
You can pay in advance or at the door. Tixtree ticket sales close at 7pm on Friday, April 25. You can also purchase at the door (and avoid the Tixtree fee) using cash, Venmo, or credit card, even if you arrive a little late.
FIRST TIME BUYERS
If you haven’t been to one of my events @ fanaticSalon (Backyard Improv, ReCeSS, SING!), send me an email (cody.l.saunders@gmail.com) for an early bird code you can use for a $10 ticket if you contact me before the end of April 23, 2025.
$15

Off the Wall & Mostly Organic
2024-11-24 20:00 - 22:00
Off the Wall and Mostly Organic with Carol Weiss on the piano.
With Special Guests Shelly Goldstein, Aoife Carty and Barbera Howard
$15

Improv & Stand Up for Good
2024-12-06 19:30 - 21:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
Improv and Stand Up Comedy Show For Good
Your $10 Ticket = 40 Meals for Neighbors in Need
Stand Up by

Blake Wilding
Dyani Rejoe

Improvised Music by

Erin Persicoe
Ryan Brookshire

$10

Comedy n Chill
2024-12-07 20:00, 2025-01-08 20:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
Fanatic Salon & Comedy n’ Chill presents:
A night of stand up
Hosted by Maria Bruggere

Featuring

AJ Faji
Audrey Stewart
Jorge Lopez
Zane Helberg
Mike Muratore

$15
Doors 7:30, show 8:00

WPA Christmas Party Show!
2024-12-15 20:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
Have as much fun as we do!
At the WPA Christmas Party Show

Featuring
Val Kuhns
Kathryn Schorr
Bernadette Birkett
Suzanne Brown
Anne Wally
Roz Browne
George Kessler

$15

The Fanatic Salon Christmas Party
2024-12-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
All players, comics and fans are welcome!

BYO — something or other.

FREE

Off the Wall & Mostly Organic
2025-01-19 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-03-23 20:00 - 22:00
Off the Wall and Mostly Organic with Carol Weiss on the piano.
With Special Guests Rick Overton, Aoife Carty and Barbera Howard
$15

Vegan Variety Hour
2025-01-29 20:00 - 21:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
With your host, Jennie McNulty

Redeeming the reputation of Vegans, one show at a time…
$15

Backyard Improv LA Fire Relief Benefit
2025-01-31 19:30 - 22:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
On January 31 we are holding our LA Fire Relief Benefit show.

As the host of Backyard Improv, I will be personally donating $50 for every $5 ticket purchased for this show to the following funds:

CORE: https://www.coreresponse.org/southern-california-wildfires/
DirectRelief: https://www.directrelief.org/emergency/california-wildfires/
Pasadena Community Foundation: https://pasadena.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=6192
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles: https://www.habitatla.org/how-to-apply/disaster-relief/
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank: https://www.lafoodbank.org/fire/
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation: https://supportlafd.org/

After you buy your ticket, you can specify which of the charities you want the $50 donation benefits, or it will be split evenly among all 6. Instead of paying a fee, you can send the $5 directly to my venmo (@cycle23x), and specify the charities, or reach me via email (cody.l.saunders@gmail.com) or in person to do the same.
In addition, I’ll be applying for 50% matching funds from my employer. Note, this portion of dontaion may take a bit of time to process, whereas I’ll be making my direct donations over the weekend after our show.
And of course, anything further you venmo me the night of the show, eg: for drink donations, will go directly to these funds.
Make Cody spend his money on a good cause! If we sell out I’ll be sending $2500 to these causes!

And hey, it’s going to be a pretty bad ass show:
Singing in the Range will be led by Branson NeJame on keyboard, who will also play the keys for the opening act, BeeBoiz, the latest mashup from Bryan Saunders! More below!
Doors at 7:45pm with refreshments served in the courtyard before, during intermission, and after the show.

LINEUP
8:00pm – BeeBoiz – Bryan Saunders pulls together a bunch of dudes to open our show, despite my insistence that we don’t just have all dude groups. That guy. Anyway, I’m in it, too.
Also: Brock St. Clair, Cris Skelton, Jeremy Weinrich, Luke Lutz & Nick Kaufman!
8:30pm – Singing in the Range – Musical director Branson NeJame accompanies this delightful musical improv group.
Intermission
9:00pm – Space Heater – This Backyard Improv founding group has been keeping the stage warm since 2021!
9:30pm – Coca~Lola – Just vibe to the music, yo. Boycott Coca-Cola.
Tickets
You can pay here (but there will be a fee), or you can buy directly from me by sending $5 to my venmo (@cycle23x), along with any donation specifications.
You can also purchase at the door using cash, Venmo, or credit card, even if you arrive a little late!

==Tickets==

You can pay in advance or at the door.

$15

Backyard Improv Welcomes Headbanger's Balls
2025-02-07 20:00 - 22:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
Headbanger’s Balls and Chairs join our “Backyard” Improv regulars Singing in the Range, with Branson NeJame on keys, and Space Heater!
Doors at 7:45pm with refreshments served in the courtyard before, during intermission, and after the show.

LINEUP
8:00pm – Headbanger’s Balls – Nick Kaufman and Bryan Saunders present a brand new duo format guaranteed to be metal AF.
8:30pm – Singing in the Range – Musical director Branson NeJame accompanies this delighful musical improv group.

Intermission
9:00pm – Chairs – This great improv group, one of our favorite repeat guests, returns again to fanaticSalon!
9:30pm – Space Heater – This Backyard Improv founding group has been keeping the stage warm since 2021!
Tickets
You can pay in advance or at the door. Tixtree sales close at 7pm on Friday, February 7. You can also purchase at the door using cash, Venmo, or credit card, even if you arrive a little late!

FIRST TIME BUYERS
If you haven’t been to one of my events @ fanaticSalon (Backyard Improv, ReCeSS, SING!), send me an email (cody.l.saunders@gmail.com) for an early bird code you can use for a $10 ticket if you buy before the end of February 5, 2025.

$12

Comedy n Chill
2025-02-08 20:00 - 22:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
Fanatic Salon & Comedy n’ Chill presents:
A night of stand up
Hosted by Maria Bruggere

Featuring

Christian Senrud
Subhah Agrawal
Sam Salem
Maxi Witrak
&
Torio Van Grol

$15
Doors 7:30, show 8:00

SING
2025-02-28 19:30 - 22:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
SING! is glad to be back at the theater this Friday, starting at 8pm!

First, we feature Super Super Cool Musical Improv!
Then Singing in the Range perform our monoscene style musical set.
And as the night reaches its peak, join in the fun as audience members take the spotlight in improv karaoke, guided by the brilliant accompaniment of the incomparable Branson NeJame!
Doors at 7:30 with refreshments served in the courtyard, the full show starts at 8!
SHOW STARTS @ 8PM
8:00pm – Super Super Cool Musical Improv – I mean… the name explains it all.
8:30pm – Singing in the Range – Our group has been performing at fanaticSalon and other venues for a year now, and we are excited to bring our musical monoscene performance back once again!
INTERMISSION @ 9PM
9:00pm – Improvised Karaoke Jam – Never before heard songs suggested by the audience, with names drawn to sing songs made up on the spot as solo, duo, or groups including backing vocal support and accompaniment by Branson NeJame!

Tickets
You can pay in advance or at the door. Online ticket sales close at 7pm on Friday, February 28. You can also purchase at the door using cash, Venmo, or credit card, even if you arrive a little late!

FIRST TIME BUYERS
If you haven’t been to one of my events @ fanaticSalon (Backyard Improv, ReCeSS, SING!), send me an email (cody.l.saunders@gmail.com) for an early bird code you can use for a $10 ticket if you buy before the end of February 26, 2024.

$15

Backyard Improv
2025-03-14 19:30 - 22:00 | Fanatic Salon, 3815 Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90066, United States
Backyard Improv presents another great improvised event with 5 wonderful groups!

Family Meeting join our “Backyard” Improv regulars Singing in the Range, with Branson NeJame on keys, Space Heater, and Coca-Lola!
LINEUP
8:00pm – Family Meeting – First time performing at fanaticSalon, this UCB trained improv group wants you to bring your grocery lists, your gratitude, and your grudges… because it’s time for a Family Meeting! linktr.ee/FamilyMeetingImprov
8:30pm – Singing in the Range – Musical director Branson NeJame accompanies this delighful musical improv group.
Intermission
9:00pm – Space Heater – This Backyard Improv founding group has been keeping the stage warm since 2021!
9:30pm – Coca-Lola – Just vibe to the beat, yo. Boycott Coca-Cola.
Tickets
You can pay in advance or at the door. Eventbrite ticket sales close at 7pm on Friday, March 14. You can also purchase at the door (and avoid the Eventbrite fee) using cash, Venmo, or credit card, even if you arrive a little late.
FIRST TIME BUYERS
If you haven’t been to one of my events @ fanaticSalon (Backyard Improv, ReCeSS, SING!), send me an email (cody.l.saunders@gmail.com) for an early bird code you can use for a $10 ticket if you buy before the end of March 13, 2025.

$15
