ImprovAcadia Press

ImprovAcadia Comedy Club Plans Bar Harbor Debut
The Islander 4/15/04
by Lauren Gifford

With all the hustle and bustle associated with downtown Bar Harbor in the summer, residents and visitors alike often are in need of a good laugh. Jennifer Shepard and Larrance Fingerhut hope they can help. The pair is opening an improvisational comedy theater on Cottage street this June... Click here for full article

Prepare to laugh
BAR HARBOR TIMES 6/10/04
by Nan Lincoln

BAR HARBOR - The cast of Mount Desert Island's newest form of theatrical entertainment, Improv Acadia, had been preparing and rehearsing for its opening night June 10, upstairs at Bayside Landing on Cottage Street. Hold on! you say, isn't that an oxymoron? How can improvisational acting be prepared and rehearsed? Well, by improvising, of course... Click here for full article

Creativity on the spot
Bangor Daily News Friday, June 4, 2004
By Candice Stover

Say a man and a woman walk into a well-known tourist town by the sea. They climb a mountain, visit the museum, down a couple of lobsters, maybe even buy a T-shirt or two for some friends back home in Chicago. "What a terrific day," one says to theother. "Why not finish by checking out that new improv club?" Except at the time, in this particular town, there was no improv club. That was four years ago. Now, thanks to Jennifer Shepard and Larrance Fingerhut, there is one... Click here for full article

BAR HARBOR - Those who were fortunate enough to have been here when the Unusual Cabaret was performing its inspired brand of theatrical nuttiness will be happy to hear that Bar Harbor will, once again, be going a little crazy... Click here for full article

THINK FAST
Bar Harbor Times 07/01/04
by Nan Lincoln

BAR HARBOR - Those who fondly recall those zany, crazy days of summer when the Unusual Cabaret crew brought their strange and wonderful theatrical antics to Bar Harbor will be thrilled to learn that the weird is back. And this time audiences are invited - no, recruited; well, shanghaied, actually - into joining in the fun. It's kind of like a theatrical form of karaoke but without the lyrics: The performers have to make them up as they go along from suggestions from the audience. Click Here for Full Article