MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 LIVE! First Wave of National Tour Stops Announced for Time Bubble Tour

By Tom Stockman | July 6, 2021

Alternaversal, the production company responsible for the “100 percent Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000 on Netflix, today announced its nationwide tour of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) LIVE: Time Bubble Tour, with the first 27 of an expected 80 nationwide dates, taking the tour through spring 2022. The long-running series (34 years old next Thanksgiving!) has also garnered the Peabody Award for Broadcast Excellence and multiple Emmy award nominations.

The “Time Bubble Tour,” supervised by series creator Joel Hodgson, will launch in October of 2021 in York, PA, and feature the beloved returning cast of the 2019 “Great Cheesy Movie Circus Tour,” Emily Marsh, Conor McGiffin, Nate Begle, and Yvonne Freese, along with the world’s only movie-riffing robots, Tom Servo, Crow, and GPC. The show features the film Making Contact and will include all the tour signatures: hilarious riffing, wisecracking robots, and silly sketches. The show will be directed by Tim Ryder, an alumni of the Second City Mainstage cast and writer and performer from the MST3K TV series.

“I’m thrilled to announce that the MST3K live show is back on the road for audiences to enjoy together again, especially after a year that’s been tough on all of us. I’ve learned to never underestimate the power of hanging with friends and watching a cheesy movie while bots yell stuff at the screen,” said series creator, Joel Hodgson.

Making Contact (1985) is the Roland Emmerich directed film that Emily and the Bots will riff, featuring animated toys and an evil ventriloquist dummy in an overcrowded childhood during the eighties.

Tickets to the first wave of tour stops go on sale on Friday, July 9 at 12 Noon Eastern with the exception of the performance in Chicago. Ticket on sale date information for the Chicago performance on December 11 will be announced at a later time. For a complete list of currently available tickets and additional information, visit mst3klive.com.

FIRST WAVE
10/30/2021                         York, PA                                The Pullo Center

11/2/2021                            Cleveland, OH                     Mimi Ohio Theatre

11/4/2021                            Cincinnati, OH                     Taft Theatre

11/6/2021                            Rochester, NY                     Auditorium Theater

11/7/2021                            Washington, D.C.               Warner Theater

11/10 & 11/11/2021         Boston, MA                          The Wilbur

11/12/2021                          New Haven, CT                   Shubert Theatre

11/15/2021                          Milwaukee, WI                   The Pabst Theater

11/16/2021                          Kalamazoo, MI                    State Theatre

11/20/2021                          Detroit, MI                           Masonic Theater

11/21/2021                          Indianapolis, IN                   Clowes Memorial Hall

11/23/2021                          Des Moines, IA                    Hoyt Sherman Place Theater

11/24/2021                          Omaha, NE                           Orpheum Theater

11/26 & 11/27/2021         Minneapolis, MN               Pantages Theatre

11/28/2021                          Cedar Rapids, IA                 Paramount Theatre

12/11/2021                          Chicago, IL                            CIBC Theatre

12/18/2021                          Seattle, WA                          The Moore Theatre

12/20/2021                          San Francisco, CA               The Warfield Theatre

12/22/2021                          Los Angeles, CA                  The Theatre at Ace Hotel

12/26/2021                          San Diego, CA                      Balboa Theatre

1/15/2022                            Dallas, TX                              Winspear Opera House   

2/5/2022                              New York City, NY              Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center        

CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR THE TOUR

“If the tour is coming anywhere near your town, and you consider yourself an MST3K fan, you absolutely owe it to yourself to get a ticket.” – Geek.com

“MST3K contains some of the HIPPEST, deepest SATIRE of the generation.” – Los Angeles Times

“30 years later, that INGENIOUS B-movie spoof is STILL GOING STRONG.” – The New York Times

ABOUT ALTERNAVERSAL

Alternaversal is the production company founded by Joel Hodgson after bringing the series back with a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign in 2015, raising over 6 million dollars! The series currently resides on Netflix with 20 feature-length episodes and is one of the platforms highest-rated comedies. Last May, Hodgson sponsored a second Kickstarter campaign that broke the previous record by raising $6.5 million, funding a new season of shows and shorts that will premiere on its very own platform, “The Gizmoplex,” next December!

ABOUT “MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000”

Premiering in 1988 on KTMA-TV in Minneapolis, MST3K, the long-running and original “talk back” show has earned its place in history as one of the Top 100 TV Shows of all time, according to Time, Rolling Stone, and Entertainment Weekly. Set on the Satellite of Love, the series follows a hapless host trapped by mad scientists on a satellite in space, who is forced to watch some of the most outrageously cheesy movies the world has ever seen.