MAGNET NEWS:

+ Get your student ID in class or at the office during office hours or shows. This will give you five free shows. ALL IMPROV REVUE, SLOW COMEDY, and MAGNETOSPHERE shows are also currently FREE to students. Just show your ID at the door. (This is in addition to your five free shows.) Part of the learning experience is the opportunity to see the shows you will soon be doing, so come check them out! (For shows that sell out please give up your seat to a paying audience member, or pay if you want a guaranteed seat.)

MAGNET PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES:

+ The Magnet is thrilled to announce THE REP, our process for show development.

+ ASH WEDNESDAY variety show is coming to Magnet in January, Wednesdays, of course. Sketch, improv, standup, yay! For bookings, please email ashwednesday@magnettheater.com

+ STORYTIME!, the Magnet's monthly reading series, is interested in your stories, for a potential slot. Please send short stories (no more than five single-spaced pages) to producer Dave Serchuk at storytime@magnettheater.com. All stories are welcome, although comedic stories are especially welcome. (And no poetry.)

+ Interested in performing as a duo in AMPERS&ND? Contact producer Furf via the website.

+ Magnet Mixer every Saturday at midnight. Magnet graduates play with newer students and audience members in an amazing supportive and fun environment.

OTHER COMMUNITY NEWS & SHOWS OTHER PLACES:

+ Submit your writing and graphics to PIPE UP! Magazine, edited by Shannon Manning. Pipe Up!

+ CABLE TV WANTS YOUR SKETCH COMEDY VIDEOS A prominent music cable network, that prefers to remain nameless, is seeking the work of sketch comedians and filmmakers for a new show that is set to air this spring. SHOW SYNOPSIS: It’s late. Really late. It’s that time of night/day, between the late night talk shows signing off the air and the alarm clock about to go off. It’s when Cable Access is at its prime and insane late night commercials and programming appear. However, we want to celebrate this type of entertainment. Our three animated hosts flip through the channels desperately trying to find something that will hold their attention. What they watch is strange, twisted, edgy, and low budget. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR: Animations, webclips, short-short films, all encompassing low budget infomercials and anything else that might appear when surfing the millions of channels in the early hours when most people are sleeping. Email links to your videos at: oblongvideos @ yahoo.com. Don't have your videos uploaded on a website? Send us a brief synopsis of your work. Do not email pitches. We want actual work that actually exist and that you own the rights to.

+ Bad Musicals Festival.

+ Check out this wonderful program on WBAI (Dec 26 show) "Reflections on Richard Pryor" by Janet Coleman (author of The Compass) with his daughter actress/writer Rain Pryor; novelist Cecil Brown, screenwriter on "Which Way Is Up?" currently Professor of Black Studies, Univ. of California; and novelist and poet Al Young.

+ The LAUGHING LIBERALLY is a political comedy incubator for established and emerging comics to develop and present new work. Every Wednesday at 8pm and Friday at 11pm at The 45th Street Theater - more info visit www.laughingliberally.com. Laughing Liberally—Saving Democracy One Laugh At a Time.

Please submit your items to: info@magnettheater.com.