We said goodbye to our little weekly show at Radio bar in Union this week… But we’ll be saying hello to the Davis Square Theatre for the monthly Encyclopedia Show: Somerville, starting with a show about BEARS on Monday, September 3!
Category: Radio recaps
Radio Recap for Monday, August 21
Comedy! Poetry! Poetry! Comedy! We like to mix it up at New & Improved, so naturally we brought a poetry magazine editor and a nationally acclaimed comic together for last night’s show. Stevie Edwards and Joe Wong rocked it out (figuratively speaking) last night at Radio, following up on a great mix of comics and …
Radio Recap for Monday, August 13
Sometimes the show must go on… Even when a pipe bursts in the bar where you have your show. Robbie Q Telfer and Marlon Carey were gracious enough to bring their words to a little backyard house show last night instead of Radio, and it was a great success! If you missed it, don’t worry: …
Radio Recap for Monday, August 6
Thanks to everyone who came out to Comedy Meets Poetry this Monday at New & Improved! Just as promised, Wes Hazard brought us a troupe of comedic masterminds who were buoyed up by the funny of four additional poets. Good times!
Next week: we’re back UPSTAIRS with a crizazy double feature: nationally acclaimed poet and …
Radio Recap for Monday, July 30
I’ll bet you didn’t even know there was a downstairs venue at the Radio bar, did you? Well, there is: in deference to a previously-booked night of bands upstairs, we meandered down the back stairs to the wood-like-paneling extravaganza that is the basement of our Monday night bar. With just a hint of sound bleed …
Radio Recap for Monday, July 23
Great big doings at New & Improved last night, folks: after a slightly late start we kicked off a packed open mic with at least a few heartbreak themes that led right into Caroline Harvey’s feature. Fans of the poet got all the fierceness and fire we’ve come to expect from Caroline, in a wild …
Radio Recap for Monday, July 16
So maybe we’ve said “all-star line-up” before in some context here, but it’s just possible that all those previous iterations pale in comparison to last night’s Radio pairing. Regie Gibson and Fey Rey & Freedom Sound lit up the stage last night with two incredibly solid, incredibly different sets. Regie wowed the crowd with his …
Radio Recap for Monday, July 9
Perhaps the most fabulous aspect of the New & Improved reading is how it redefines our mission and idea every single Monday. This week was no exception, as poet Porsha Olayiwola got us going with a part-writing, part-improv workshop that drew even the quietest artists into Porsha’s rowdy-sexy-safe-space and pulled surprising work out of everyone. …
Radio Recap for Monday, July 2
Happy birthday, America! At New & Improved, we celebrated it with our first-ever Presidential Smackdown Slam, a head-to-head poetry debate judged by the electoral rabble at the Radio bar. We had a great crowd turn out to see Millard Fillmore, (b)Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Bill Clinton, and a wild cast of founding and …
Radio recap for Monday, June 25
At the New & Improved reading, we like to say that we are encouraging cross-genre collaboration and thinking, not just between poets, but among all kinds of self-directed performance artists. Last night, our wish came true in a beautiful way as storytellers, poets, prose writers, comedians, and who-knows-who-else congregated around workshop leader Michael Mack. Michael …
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