Esther's: Touch Baseball (STL) · The Blade (ATX) · The Lottery w/Jiavani, Oscar Montoya & Zeke Nicholson

Sunday, Nov 8, 2026 @ 9:00 PM CST • Multiple prices


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TOUCH BASEBALL (St. Louis, MO – improv)
Touch Baseball is a two-person improv team featuring longtime St. Louis improvisers Ryan Myers and Ashley Rube, performing a monoscene with almost voyeuristic intimacy: a brief window into lives that existed before the audience arrived and will continue long after they leave. Small discoveries accumulate until the empty stage begins to feel like a fully realized world. After hundreds of performances together, Ryan and Ashley have developed a chemistry that allows their shows to move effortlessly between the absurd, deeply funny, and unexpectedly moving. What emerges feels less constructed than it is unearthed: human, surprising, somehow inevitable. A show that lingers with audiences long after the window closes.
CAST:  Ashley Rube, Ryan Myers.

THE BLADE (Austin, TX – improv)
Two men of equal height and age take the stage. Somewhere in the universe, a single-cell organism takes its first steps to becoming its planet’s master and ultimately, its destroyer. A mother tells her child about Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, true love. The full moon, night’s false king, throws its stolen light on the earth. Are you ready to laugh?? Join real-life best friends Kyle Irion and Andrew “Andy” Miculka as they create live, unscripted comedy onstage, with wit as razor sharp as… you guessed it… a BLADE!
CAST: Andrew “Andy” Miculka, Kyle Irion.

THE LOTTERY SHOW with JIAVANI, OSCAR MONTOYA & ZEKE NICHOLSON - improv
The Lottery Show
is an Out of Bounds tradition where anyone in the community can put their name in the hat for an opportunity to improvise alongside our guest headliners.
CAST: Jiavani, Oscar Montoya, Zeke Nicholson, and maybe YOU?!

JIAVANI is an improviser from Dropout TV and can be seen on the streaming platform in shows such as Game Changer, Make Some Noise, Very Important People and more. Jiavani performs live in Los Angeles at the UCB Theater, as well as in London, New York and all over the globe. Film/TV credits include Between Two Ferns: The Movie and Dead to Me on Netflix, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO, Reno 911!, and more. Voice credits include Digman! on Comedy Central, We Baby Bears on Cartoon Network and guesting on podcasts such as The Neighborhood Listen and Comedy Bang Bang.

OSCAR MONTOYA is an actor, comedian, and hip hop dancer living in Los Angeles. He won a Critics Choice award for his work as Richie in the HBO/Starz series Minx, and played Oscar the Garbage Man in the A24 film Dicks: The Musical. He is also a host of the podcasts “Inside the Disney Vault,”, “Eurovangelists”, “Spanish Aquí Presents”, “Drag Her” and “Podcast Killed the Video Star.” He is a teacher and performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and performs in improv teams Pisces and Rita Repulsa.

ZEKE NICHOLSON is a writer/actor/improvisor from a small town in upstate New York where people go leaf peeping for fun. He’s written on shows like Marvel’s “Wonder Man” (Disney +), “Loot” (Apple TV+), “A.P. Bio” (NBC), and the DC Studios Jimmy Olsen spinoff (HBO). As an actor he’s been on “The Good Place” (NBC), “Miracle Workers” (TBS), “The Sex Lives of College Girls” (HBO), and more. Zeke won the Special Jury Award in the Independent TV Pilot Competition at SXSW in 2024 for his short “Halfrican American,” which he wrote, directed and starred in. He’s also a regular performer on Dropout TV and at the UCB Theater in LA.

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Location

Esther's Follies - 525 E 6th St

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