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Primetime

Have a Good Time for a Good Cause

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The Primetime Variety Show is raising money for WARM (Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry)! WARM helps low-income homeowners with house repairs and accessibility updates. They gather resources and an army of volunteers to do good work in the community.

Primetime is a monthly variety show at TheatreNOW. Our featured artists this month are comedians Cordero Wilson and Lew Morgante, spoken word artist Israel and rapper Ken X! There’s also an open mic sign-up and all artists are welcome to perform.

The show is Wednesday, October 24th at TheatreNOW. Visit www.warmnc.org to learn more about their mission and how to help them. Tickets for the show are available HERE!

Primetime

Primetime Variety Show to raise money for refugees

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The Primetime Variety Show & Open Mic returns to TheatreNOW on July 18th, this Wednesday night.

This monthly showcase features live music, stand-up comedy, poetry and more. The program is a blend between booked featured artists and open mic sign-ups.  All artists are welcome to sign-up and perform. This month’s featured artists include.

Sarah Rodriguez

Sarah Rodriguez, Hula Hooper Extraordinaire. It’s pretty friggin’ awesome.

 

 

 

Mat Millner

Mat Millner, Stand-up comic and bandit with a heart of gold.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drew Harrison

 

Drew Harrison, Stand-up comic and inspiration behind the Academy Award-winning drama “Rookie of the Year”

 

 

 

 

 

The show is hosted by Wills Maxwell. Maxwell is best known for the comedy news segment “What Did We Miss?” and least known for feeding birds at the park while dressed as Uncle Drew. Open mic sign-up is at 7pm and the show begins at 8pm. This month we are splitting the proceeds from the door with Interfaith Refugee Ministry. Interfaith helps refugees settle and rebuild their lives in the Cape Fear region. It’s a $5 minimum donation to watch the show.

Late Fear

Watch the Final Episode of ‘Late Fear with Wills Maxwell’

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On January 25th, 2018, Wilmington’s Late Night Talk Show celebrated the end of it run with some amazing guests. You can whole the whole episode above or watch the selected clips posted below. While this was the final show taped it won’t be the final one posted online. Keep an eye out for some retro Late Fear episodes coming soon!

My final monologue

John Wolfe caught us up on his sailing adventure to St. Thomas

Khalisa performed original poetry from her book

Alli Coleman’s stand-up killed

Phill Antonino told us about directing “The Weir” and played our news quiz game

Griffin Limerick and Michelle Collar ended the show with an original song

 

Thank you, Wilmington.

Late Fear

Tonight at 8! Late Fear turns 3!

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FREE SHOW | 8PM | THEATRENOW

Tonight I’m going to celebrate 3 years of the greatest honor of my life. I love hosting this show and tonight is going to be amazing. Late Fear is Wilmington’s Late Night Talk Show and we make sure each episode has incredible guests.

Tonight we’ll have local poets The 5th Horseman and Israel! They’ll join me at the desk to talk about their upcoming Black nerd podcast. Ryan Higgins is coming in from Raleigh to with some stellar stand-up. Returning to the show is Volume! This band is awesome and you can catch their last performance here.

This show is free! I’ll be joined by co-host Jonathan Schwartz and house band D&D Sluggers!

Thank you all for supporting this for 3 years or less. Here’s a look back on our 3 years set to frequent guest, Griffin Limerick’s “Concrete Sky”