Tim Murray’s Crowd Work Show!
About This Event
Tim Murray’s Crowd Work Show at UCB Theatre presents his form of on-the-spot improv and first-person storytelling. He recounts a 1993–94 Red Sox game when President Bush and Barbara Bush walked out to the Rangers dugout a few rows ahead of him amid a heavy police presence, an anecdote he brings to bear on how public figures and everyday moments intersect.
About Tim Murray’s Crowd Work Show!
Tim Murray’s Crowd Work Show! is a live comedy set at UCB Theatre in New York City, built around real-time exchanges with the audience rather than prepared bits. Murray uses questions, detours, and callbacks to shape the material in the room, so no two performances land the same way. In a city where UCB has helped define modern alt-comedy, the format reads like a study in risk and listening as much as joke writing. The show’s one clear argument is that attention can be a craft.
About the Artist
Tim Murray
Sometime in 1993 – 1994, my friend Tom Gibbons secured two tickets to a Red Sox game behind the visitors’ dugout. The Red Sox were playing the Texas Rangers. Shortly after the game started several large Boston Police Department motorcycle officers, followed by several plain clothed officers appeared around our seats.