Gary Austin has ushered countless comedians to everlasting fame and been thanked in more Oscar speeches than Chad Lowe, and he’s the man when it comes to improv classes. Find out where this Groundlings founder developed his lust for performance in his one-man show “Church and Oil,” a wry, comedic diatribe about growing up in the rocky oil fields of Texas among scorpions, preachers and Halliburton hypocrites who bled the earth for fossil fuels. You might want to take the Prius, rather than the Escalade, to this outing.
7307 Melrose Ave., Melrose District; 8 p.m.; $12
