"Salvation" Press for CCBC Show!

The Cellar Dwellers were featured in today's Weekender in the Beaver County Times! Our show, which debuts tonight, got a great write-up by Times Entertainment writer Scott Tady:

CENTER TWP. - Ripped from the headlines and then filtered through pure silliness, the Cellar Dwellers Comedy Troupe raises a bold theological question: "What if there are immigration guards at the heaven-purgatory border?"

Behold the answer tonight when the Cellar Dwellers debut their new sketch comedy, "Salvation Impossible III: What's the Story Purgatory?"

A mix of original comedy sketches and improvised games, "Salvation Impossible III" will take place in the Allied Health Auditorium on the Center Township campus of Community College of Beaver County.

"This will be our first brand new show since last August," said Mike Rubino, mouthpiece for the nine-year-old improv and sketch comedy group that calls Beaver County home.

Besides pondering the afterlife, this new show includes sketches about a vindictive pet turtle and a 1980s-metalhead startled to discover the girl he met online isn't quite what he expected.

Spectators might smile at hometown references, like a bootlegger struggling to peddle PotteryBarn Hillbillies concert shirts or a guy who acts like he's won the lottery after inheriting Get Go gas perks.

The skit performances last about an hour, followed by an intermission and then an hour's worth of improv games where the audience suggests scenes and participates on stage.

The Cellar Dwellers perform weekly at their "F'N Improv" Friday night workshops at their theater in the Beaver Valley Bowl.

The group has also performed throughout the Pittsburgh area in such shows as "A Thousand Rays of Hype," "Desperate Housewares" and "Sam Spade or Neutered."