Pittsburgh City Paper: Mike Rubino, one of the Arcade Comedy Theater’s co-founders, recalls that, soon after the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust gave him and his team their original space at 811 Liberty Ave., they scrappily got the theater ready for business.
“We built a little stage, and we hung lights, and we got curtains donated and got some chairs from, like, a barn in Beaver County,” Rubino tells Pittsburgh City Paper. “The space was put together in this homemade way.”
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I have wanted to see this theater group for the longest time. It has always been something that has been on my Pittsburgh bucket list. I have always been especially cautious when it comes to comedy, I am extremely critical of comedy and whether or not it is any good. I see comedy as the benchmark for a good entertainer and I believe very firmly that being funny can make up for a LOT of deficits in a person. So if someone is not funny and is trying to be, I find it one of the most uncomfortable experiences in the world. But the Arcade Comedy Theater has been around for so long through so many trials and tribulations, I see that as passing a kind of test. I find it so admirable that they were just able to start doing it, they wanted a theater so they made a theater. I find that to be highly aspirational.
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