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Dynasty Typewriter at Hayworth Theater’s Soft Opening Weekend Is Just a Few Days Away

January 10, 2018
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OK, it’s time take LA’s newest comedy venue “for a drive”. 

The Hayworth Theater, operated by Dynasty Typewriter, will be having a “Dawn of the Dynasty” soft opening weekend this Friday and Saturday featuring the likes of such performers as Rory Scovel, Dana Gould, Laurie Kilmartin, Beth Stelling, Jermaine Fowley, Alice Wetterlund, Tony Sam, Sara Schaefer, Scot Nery, Steve Simeone, and, of course, Jamie Flam and Vanessa Ragland.

This will be the first official show put on the beautifully restored theater and you really ought to not miss the soft opening/inaugual weekend. 

Catch these first shows on Friday, Jan. 12th and Saturday, Jan. 13th at 8PM. Tickets are $20 and really ought to get them here and here respectively. 

Also, it might be worth it to follow what they’re doing @jointhedynasty or check their upcoming events page often here.

December 26, 2017
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The newly minted Hayworth Theater with the keys in the hands of its new stewards Dynasty Typewriter will be having its very first show this New Year’s Eve. 

They a variety of wonders and delights in the form of comedy, games, music, etc. etc. and, at $5, it might be your best deal in LA for NYE. 

Get tickets here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Kickstarter for Hayworth Theater and Dynasty Typewriter Is Sucessful and LA Comedy Will Be Getting a New Venue Soon

November 17, 2017
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After all was said and done, Jamie Flam’s Dynasty Typewriter raised $102,997 for the opening of the gorgeous, restored Hayworth Theater last night. This comes in just with perfect timing as LA has just lost two venues Cinefamily @ The Silent Movie Theatre and Trepany House @ Steve Allen Theater forever over the last few weeks.

Congratulations to Flam and company and Dynasty Typewriter AND The Hayworth!

Now, we have this timeline and whatever else Jamie has up his sleeve to look forward to. You might want to follow Dynasty Typewriter on Twitter, FB, Instagram to see exactly what’s coming.

Hayworth Theater To Be Revived as a Multi-Purpose Venue by “Dynasty Typewriter” and Former Hollywood Improv Booker Jamie Flam

October 25, 2017
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Though LA is losing the Steve Allen Theater in a few weeks and Cinefamily is closed indefinitely pending an internal investigation of the extent of sexual harassment and assault, the city is gaining two new venues where primo comedy will get to live. 

Yesterday, we tipped you off to the rebirth of Echoes. Today, we can tell you about the revival of The Hayworth Theater as restored classical theater (restoration done by building owners Jenji Kohan and Christopher Noxon architect Linda Brettler) near MacArthur Park that is aiming to bringing premium comedy, music, podcasts, variety shows, screenings, etc. to LA’s Eastside. 

Thanks to Jamie Flam, a former booker of the Hollywood Improv and one of the most fun loving people we know, and his Wes-Anderson-esque fake company Dynasty Typewriter, a whole new wave of live shows is set to come in the next few months.

See Jamie tell you himself in this pretty swell Kickstarter video and read Julie Seabough’s write-up of the whole affair in LA Weekly. 

Speaking of Kickstarter, “Dynasty Typewriter” is looking for $100K by November 16th to spend on A/V installation, operation costs for the first 3 months, and staffing via this Kickstarter campaign. Knowing what Jamie is capable of and having been to the space throughout the years, we definitely think it’s worth backing.

Join the Dynasty (and support what will be a great indie venue) here.

This Town is Big Enough for the Both of Us… and Even More

March 15, 2011
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Much of what we feature and write about here at the Comedy Bureau often takes place in a out of the way bars, coffee shops, garages, or even someone’s living room, in a few cases, as those are the places where we go to find our particular taste in comedy (also, most of the shows are free, which is a great incentive).  Yet, I understand that might be an intimidating notion for some people to go to a show where there is no stage, where the couch that you’re sitting on is perhaps where someone sleeps or where “the magic happens”.   Perhaps, you might think that it’s just a bunch of no-talent open mic’ers doing their own show on their “own turf”.  Rest assured that is not the case as plenty of comics on “those” line-ups are regularly on TV, paid to perform on the road, and are a part of an ultra-competitive comedy scene.

Thanks to both Jamie Flam, the new manager of the Hollywood Improv Lab, and Chris Hardwick, Jonah Ray, Matt Mira, and everyone else over at the Nerdist podcast for slowly, but surely revamping the back room of Meltdown Comics in Hollywood into the Nerdist Theatre, this really unique and specific problem has been now solved.

Over the past month and in the month to come, there has been a nice streak of shows popping up at both venues.  First off, brilliant comedians Eddie Pepitone and Glenn Wool did their own special shows at the Improv Lab and while the back room of Meltdown Comics has had the fantastic Meltdown with Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani (recently profiled on Last Call with Carson Daly) for awhile, the Nerdist Podcast has taken to sponsoring several comedy events from a special screening of Black Dynamite, a comedy art show, and a special night of Pop and Politics with comedian Jimmy Dore.  

Not too long ago, the awareness of both rooms was largely peripheral as shows and events, especially the kind featured here at the Comedy Bureau, would take place sporadically.  Being at the Improv Lab and the back room of Meltdown was largely viewed by a number of people as sort of an abstract idea, almost as if it was weird to put on a show there.  Last year, I heard a show producer at the Improv say, “Wait, we’re not at the Lab, right?  If we are, we’re screwed.  No one’s going to come.”  At that time, approximately two years earlier, there would be, in a given week, only one or two shows at the Lab and maybe zero happening at Meltdown Comics.  In a city where a line-up at the South by Southwest Arts Festival is a typical Monday night, anyone from normal people who love to laugh and comedy fans didn’t think much of a show taking place at either venue.

Now, the legitimacy for the two institutions keeps growing as solid establishments for live comedy as many of their shows and line-ups are not unlike those of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre considered by many to be one of the most popular venues in LA.  Instead of the occasional stand up comedy showcase that used to rarely take place, the Improv Lab is now having variety shows, interview shows, sketch and improv shows, and one show where some of LA’s best do their first five minutes they’ve ever written. The Nerdist Theatre might even have a weekly open mic in the works hosted by their very own Matt Mira (details to come as the Comedy Bureau receives them) in the coming months.  According to the Comedy Bureau “standards and practices”, those are bona fide comedy theatre that need to be attended regularly, not only to keep their doors open, but also because where you can see, in this humble blog’s/site’s opinion, where live comedy is going.

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