The New Movement Theater

Student Union is a weekly improv jam open to students and alumni of The New Movement. To perform, show up at TNM by 7:30p. Each week will be a different setup depending on the group running the show. Open to audience members and 100% free!

Be sure and stick around for Lights Up!, our 9:00p show featuring brand new student groups, class recitals and up-and-coming house groups.

Lights Up! is TNM’s brand new troupe showcase show! Want to see what TNM has cooking in the comedy oven? These are the newest, baddest, freshest troupes coming out of our conservatory to date. Every week we highlight a new troupe, this week it's TBD.

Hannibal Buress is coming back to TNM Nola!

Tickets are $16 in advance/ $20 at the door. GET YOURS HERE!

Hannibal Buress has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the Late Late show with Craig Ferguson, and numerous other late night TV shows. He has also made prime time appearances on LOUIE and 30 ROCK, and will appear on upcoming Adult Swim series THE ERIC ANDRE SHOW and THE NICK SHOW KROLL. Buress has previously worked on the writing staffs of 30 ROCK and SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, and released his debut album, MY NAME IS HANNIBAL, in 2010 on Stand Up! Records.  His new Comedy Central special HANNIBAL BURESS: ANIMAL FURNACE premiered in 2012.

Though perpetually touring, Buress considers New York City, where he hosts a weekly Sunday comedy night at Brooklyn’s Knitting Factory, his place of residence. He lives with zero pets and an XBOX 360, and has a cable package with the Starz network but never watches it.

"If Steven Wright, Mos Def and Dave Chappelle had a baby, that would be disgusting, but it would sound like Hannibal Buress. The funniest young comic I’ve seen in years.” - Chris Rock

"Hannibal is incredibly funny with a smart, unique style and I am proud to be his father.” - Jim Gaffigan

"I haven’t heard this album, and I never will. But I’ve seen Hannibal do comedy, and if the CD is a recording of him doing comedy, then it’s probably worth getting. I mean, I still won’t get it, but you can. And you might like it.” - Todd Barry

"Hannibal is funny on stage and off stage and right in between, too.” -Demetri Martin

"Hannibal’s debut album is hilarious. Also hilarious - Aziz Ansari’s debut album Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening, now available in stores EVERYWHERE!” - Aziz Ansari

"One of the best joke writers I’ve ever seen. He’s one of the few performers I’ve come across that creates such electricity in a room that I think ‘this guy is going to be a star FOR SURE.” -Mike Birbiglia, star of What I Should Have Said Was Nothing and author of Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories

Machine A takes over The Franchise this week.  Machine A is the team of Chris Kaminstein and Cecile Monteyne.  This duo does shows regularly to packed houses.  It's what happens when theater meets improv and you won't forget it.

Featured opener is Super Computer.  The foursome of Derek Dupuy, Mike Yoder, James Hamilton, and Mike Spara brings an absurd show that will have you shaking your head in disbelief.  Strap in for Suer Computer.

Derek Dupuy is an improv instructor and the artistic director with The New Movement in New Orleans.  He improvises with the groups The Language, Super Computer, and is a regular in The Megaphone Show.  He is a founding member of the nationally acclaimed sketch group Stupid Time Machine. Derek has performed all over the country and has a deep passion for taking apart improv mechanics, exploring how they work, and putting them back together for the benefit of the student.  He is the current level four instructor at The New Movement Nola.

Hannibal Buress is coming back to TNM Nola!

Tickets are $16 in advance/ $20 at the door. GET YOURS HERE!

Hannibal Buress has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the Late Late show with Craig Ferguson, and numerous other late night TV shows. He has also made prime time appearances on LOUIE and 30 ROCK, and will appear on upcoming Adult Swim series THE ERIC ANDRE SHOW and THE NICK SHOW KROLL. Buress has previously worked on the writing staffs of 30 ROCK and SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, and released his debut album, MY NAME IS HANNIBAL, in 2010 on Stand Up! Records.  His new Comedy Central special HANNIBAL BURESS: ANIMAL FURNACE premiered in 2012.

Though perpetually touring, Buress considers New York City, where he hosts a weekly Sunday comedy night at Brooklyn’s Knitting Factory, his place of residence. He lives with zero pets and an XBOX 360, and has a cable package with the Starz network but never watches it.

"If Steven Wright, Mos Def and Dave Chappelle had a baby, that would be disgusting, but it would sound like Hannibal Buress. The funniest young comic I’ve seen in years.” - Chris Rock

"Hannibal is incredibly funny with a smart, unique style and I am proud to be his father.” - Jim Gaffigan

"I haven’t heard this album, and I never will. But I’ve seen Hannibal do comedy, and if the CD is a recording of him doing comedy, then it’s probably worth getting. I mean, I still won’t get it, but you can. And you might like it.” - Todd Barry

"Hannibal is funny on stage and off stage and right in between, too.” -Demetri Martin

"Hannibal’s debut album is hilarious. Also hilarious - Aziz Ansari’s debut album Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening, now available in stores EVERYWHERE!” - Aziz Ansari

"One of the best joke writers I’ve ever seen. He’s one of the few performers I’ve come across that creates such electricity in a room that I think ‘this guy is going to be a star FOR SURE.” -Mike Birbiglia, star of What I Should Have Said Was Nothing and author of Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories

It’s our longest running show and it’s every Saturday night at The New Movement. At each Megaphone Show, we invite a special guest/local celebrity/fun-person-about-town up on stage to share a few of their favorite true stories. We take details of these stories to inspire fast, smart improv comedy. Come see why this has quickly become our most popular show.

$8

To see who this week's guest is, check The Megaphone Show's tumblr and follow The Megaphone Show on Twitter.

What if a show was both scripted and improvised all at the same time?

Come find out this Sunday night when scenes written by local writers and memorized by local actors are completed live on stage with the help of local improvisers. What’s gonna happen, well you just don’t know the half of it.

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