A fully improvised 45 minute play that brings the audience to witness the most awkward of family dinners.
An innovative audio-infused improv show featuring live sound design, games, and scenes. Everything in the show is inspired by voicemails from our listeners. Some of whom call and tell us what we want to hear and others who tell us things very far from it… We stylize those listener voicemails into radio-themed audio prompts which are played live for our improvisers who immediately create scenes that are unpredictable, unrehearseable, and unscriptedable!
“The Wednesday Night Scene Jam,” our little gem nestled right in the middle, is the perfect way shake off the TUESDAYS and let your scenes breathe! $5 CASH DOORS 9:15PM NO ENTRIES AFTER 10:00PM MAX CAPACITY: 58 First Come, First Serve
Every THURSDAY, beat Rush Hour and come play! $5 CASH DOORS OPEN @ 5:15pm NO ENTRIES AFTER 6:00PM MAX CAPACITY: 58 First Come, First Serve
Beverly is sketch comedy that is a little raunchy and a lot of ridiculous, performed by six very good looking human beings.
The Slow Burn Jam allows improvisers to settle into scenes by giving the team a form to work with! $5 CASH DOORS @ 9:45 NO ENTRIES AFTER 10:30PM MAX CAPACITY: 58 First Come, First Serve
Find out why people are saying the Feel Good Jam is the best way to start the weekend!
Come see one of New York’s longest running sketch shows! Old School Sketch Show is created from “Pitch to Stage in 7 Days!” Every month features live sketches written and performed by a brand new cast of some of the most up and coming comedians in NYC.
A fun way to practice the art of improvisational comedy for all experience levels! Come to the jam and practice what you've been learning in class!
Too late for coffee, but not too late for comedy! Join Jake Joseph for some late night laughs as he hosts 'Late Night With a Foolish Boy.' This fully improvised show will feature a cast full of PITizens you know and love! So what are you waiting for? Stop by for some late night bits and goofs!
It's not an April Fool's prank! For the second year in a row, Rapid Fire has made their way to the East Coast for some fun and some bagels. Join us for a night of long form improv and also explain to us how public transport works, we have no idea. Featuring: Cara Grasso, Nick Delzompo, Davide Costa, Bennett Cohen, Tobias Echeverria, Ali Janku, Tess Maretz, Marlee Kitchen, Micah Patterson & Caitlin Devenney
Come try out your material, new and old and get a few minutes closer to 10,000 hours! Then participate in the LIGHTNING ROUND, in which each comic will get 10 seconds to tell one final joke! Or you are welcome to come watch a have a few laughs. Hosted by Dan Conroy $5 CASH AT THE DOOR ONLY DOORS OPEN @ 4:45PM NO ENTRIES AFTER 5:30PM MAX CAPACITY: 15 Signups (40 total seats including audience) First Come, First Serve
TRIANGLE OF MADNESS: AN APRIL FOOLS' DAY CELEBRATION NYU's premier sketch comedy troupe brings you a ROCKING APRIL FOOLS' DAY CELEBRATION!!! Joining them is NYU's premier stand-up comedy club Astor Place Riots! In addition, an improvised set from the PIT's very own house team, The New Roommates! Featuring: Sebastian Martinez Julia Krys Holden Lay Juliana Smith Myles Madden Mackenzie Cavagnaro Caden Hengesbach Alexis Bardy Jake Vitarelli Aria Lehri Anthony Kendric Katie Kubiak Max Lenahan Abby Stewart
Short form improv returns to the PIT just in time for April Fools Day! Come see a celebration of rapid fire humor with fresh takes on classic games and some brand new ones, too.
Come watch our brilliant PITizen's work come to life on stage! This is a combined staged reading for Sean Christian Taylor's graduating Level 2 & 3 classes.
All asses are encouraged to take a seat at the PIT and join us for A CHEEKY Sketch Show!
A new fun way get us out of our heads and into our bodies! $5 CASH DOORS OPEN @ 9:00pm NO ENTRIES AFTER 10:00PM MAX CAPACITY: 58 First Come, First Serve
The PIT Musical Jam is THE place to get your sing-prov reps!
All LEVELS welcomed! Come level up by using what you've learned in class. $5 CASH SIGNUPS @ 9:00PM DOOR @ 9:15 NO ENTRIES AFTER 10:00PM MAX CAPACITY: 58 First Come, First Serve
Sketch comedy that changes shape every show!
Designer Baby presents an IMPROV extravaganza with Standup and up and coming Improv teams in NY!
Two veteran performers with over 60 years of improv experience between them! From Second City to Saturday Night Live to a randam bar in Poughkipsie, these two have seen and done it all. Come watch these two old school clowns leave it all on the stage!
You know the movie (The Hateful Eight), you know the man (Tom Waits), now get to know the two combined. Tom Waits (Slaney Rose Jordan) hosts a cast of seedy bums and stinkpot barflies who will improvise themselves to death, based on your suggestions. Featuring: Slaney Rose Jordan, Philip Casale, Langston Belton, Mark Stetson, Rich Templeton, Rachel Bouton, Christian Flynn
"One of the most impressive and absurd long-form improv routines in the city." - TimeOut NY
The FRESH BAKED lineup changes every month, with folks performing improv, standup, music, character sets, dance, and beyond. What stays consistent is the freshness. Actually OutKast wrote “So Fresh, So Clean” 20+ years ago knowing that this variety show would some day come to the PIT. Just take our word for it there’s no need to fact-check that claim.
Come watch our brilliant PITizens take the stage in their class grad show!
Join master improvisers Patrick McCartney & Andrew Chandler for an evening of comedy hours in the making! You won’t know what to expect, because well, neither will we.
Showcasing recent graduates of Patrick McCartney's PIT improv course.....featuring, Patrick McCartney! In this new show, students will pit their skills against their former teacher, in two awesome improv formats!
Join The PIT's premiere improvisors, sketch writers and standups for an evening of comedy!
Baby Dangerous is an ensemble sketch show featuring an amalgamation of up-and-coming PIT comedy writers and performers, each providing their own personal form of chaos! Titled "The most fun I've ever had without needing to complete a captcha" by 4 out of 5 chatbots. In this evening of general tomfoolery, we'll bring you a revue of sketches and comedic segments that explore the most entropic, extra-domestic, and downright dangerous delights of the average Joe. (Est. October 2022.) Featuring: Brian Carrera, Cassandra Briskman, Charles Rivkin, Dan Bevan, Desmond Conwright, Hayley Marks, Ian Harris, Sophia Giovanis and Tim Daly
Two of NYC's finest improv teams go head-to-head in 4 rounds of comedy combat with one victor tasting improv comedy glory! Thrills! Chills! Kills! The M.I.C. has it all--BE THERE!
After hitchhiking all the way from the backwoods of Blank, TX, Teddy Burns made his way to the Big Apple to set the late night airwaves aflame with his own brand of disc jockeying. A late night improv variety show for our fellow insomniacs, Teddy Burns, After Dark will lull you into the night with hearty laughs and good tunes. So saddle up, partners; we’re headed into the midnight indigo…
Join European art sensations Gunter and Oprah for an evening of culture and comedy. Featuring: Audrey Shapiro, Jack Homesley, and more
We have the last movie ever sold by Blockbuster! And you, the audience gets to help us discover exactly what that movie will be.
New York's Hottest dating show! Love could be right around the curtain!
2 girls plus 2 boys come together to make one small guy: CLINT! Come see the antics of Clint and his friends as they perform all the improv you've been craving. Featuring: Carly Lant, Emma Campbell, Andy Vega, and Dom Finseth
Come watch our brilliant students take the stage in their class grad show!
Tonight, the graduates of The PIT’s Level 1 Improv bring their hard work to the stage. The legends of tomorrow show you they’re actually the stars of today!
Come watch our brilliant PITizens take the stage in their class grad show!
Come watch our brilliant PITizens take the stage!
Come watch our brilliant PITizens take the stage in their class grad show!
BABY BUMPER CARS takes the PIT LOFT stage!!!! Join us for a night of rambunctious improv as performers Sebastian Martinez and Santos Aguilar take the stage! They'll be performing two separate sets, inspired by interviews with TWO AUDIENCE MEMBERS! So what are you waiting for?? Get your tickets now!
Creative 2-person Improv where the performers create a magical world in a unique form.
Backdoor Barbecue is a critically acclaimed* NYC-based sketch comedy group that serves up high-energy and tightly-structured shows. Featuring musical performances, character bits, topical monologue joke segments, and more, Backdoor Barbecue cooks up a new sketch revue with some of the funniest folks in New York!
Featuring Mike Brian, Paul Cohen, Chris Migliaccio, and MORE!
EVERY THIRD THURSDAY! Come out and meet other people of color in our improv community here at the PIT! Work on your skills, meet new friends, and practice being on stage.
Each show Chris Griggs (The Baldwins) puts together a cast of artists that will delve into a unique, weird, and surreal performance of improvisation set in a dream state. This daring style is both imaginative and hilarious. There will also be an opening dance number, music throughout and a special appearance by The Sandman.
Welcome to KEPPY'S KINGDOM AKA James' apartment. YOU are the CAT-SITTER when James must leave for the weekend. BEWARE, Keppy tends to invite all his funny friends over to sing, dance, share stories, do improv & more! Be prepared to scoop poop and laugh 'til you pee a little! Prrrrr... Featuring: James Koroni, Maggie Agnes Tully, Pat Monaghan, Peru, Intrusive Thoughts (improv team) and special guests!
This sketch/stand-up variety spectacular finally answers the question, “why is being funny an attractive quality for men to have, but a threatening quality for women?” by giving the hottest and most threatening women in New York City the platform they deserve. No boys allowed, except in the audience where they belong <3 Featuring: Colleen Granberg Caitlyn Letterii Morgan Conley Daphne Moses Izzy Wachtel Dara Weinsteine
For Sure, Shut Up! Is a two women show that encompasses sketch, musical improv, witty commentary, and interactive games to give the world more cackles and wheezes! It’s time to mix mediums again of sketch, weird dance moves, and opinions of 23 year old women living and breathing milk made from nuts!
10:30PM
Characters, Characters, Characters is a new showcase for our up and coming community and the characters within them!
Febster is a sketch show that will make you laugh (hopefully) and cry (hopefully not... unless paired with laughter). Please join us (Only if you want! No pressure though!). Featuring: Matt Ziegler, Kaity Mazart, & More
The 29th Street Film Festival is back in town! Come watch Austin Tytel & Kyle Shamblin perform a completely improvised movie! Inspired by your suggestions, they will make up a movie right in front of your eyes that would make Roger Ebert give two thumbs up from his grave. They've made every time of movie, from Westerns to Musical Biopics to Aaron Sorkin inspired films. Get your tickets to the 29th Street Film Festival today!
“PIT instructor Patrick McCartney performs a variety of characters in this satirical take on the modern liberal." Directed by Dominique Salerno.
The "bastard love child" of vaudeville and burlesque, the Size Matters Cabaret is a variety show that is sure to be profound and provocative in all the best ways.
6 comedians, 6 presentations, 0 knowledge. Each show we invite a group of comics to present an absurd slideshow—some past topics include “Romance Novel Reviews”, “I Freaking Love Volcanoes”, and “Joining A Cult: Is It Right For Me?”—but the performers won’t know what they’re speaking on until they take the stage. It’s educational, it’s embarrassing, it’s all improvised.
Saturday, April 29th, 2023 @ 9:00 PM
Saturday, April 29th, 2023 @ 10:30 PM
Dungeons & Dragons, off the table and onto the stage! Our Dungeon Master and players will weave an epic story before your eyes, letting your suggestions and your (20-sided) dice rolls shape our improvised story. Prepare yourself for a fantastical night of swords and sorcery, traps and treasures, villains and heroes. Some audience members will be given spell scrolls, containing powerful magics that can alter the story. Featuring: Sam Kamenetz, PJ Nally, Maria Schroeder, April Sickler, Rob White, Viki Lenka, Dean Rule, Liam Dick, Teagan Clark.
Every day there is something to celebrate! Don't believe us? Join Space Station Awesome and friends and they chose a "national day" to honor that doesn't come with an month's worth of Hallmark movies and claymation specials. This month, we honor the dearly departed who have not quite moved on for National Paranormal Day! We'll celebrate with seances and silliness as we scare up some laughs for the living and spirits. Help us give #NationalParanormalDay the celebration it deserves! Featuring: The Vole Sisters (aka Double D Improv) & Space Station Awesome
Our top performers have a cathartic experience and we invite the audience to do the same!
Come watch our brilliant PITizens take the stage in their class grad show!
Come see your favorite PITizens perform!
A fully improvised one act play with all the drama of Sam Shepard, the non sequiturs of Mamet and the unrelenting optimism of Shel Silverstein. Featuring : Jennifer Bareilles, Claire Yale-Raynes, Jonathan Desley, Sarah Peele, Paul Gutkowski, David Rysdahl & Jared Smith
Tonight Only Good Times is a comedy variety extravaganza - featuring acts such as stand up, improv, sketch, music, digital content, burlesque, drag, and so much more!
See your favorite PITizens showcase what they've learned!
5:00 PM Our North Coast Class Show will feature hip-hop improv students who have been working for 8 weeks on their freestyle rapping and weaving their rapped verses into their scene work. They’ve been getting in their reps, now it’s time to see their raps!
Come watch our brilliant PITizens take the stage in their class grad show!
The Kids Network brings back all your childhood memories in this sketch show! These sketches will spark the sweetest nostalgia from the schoolyard to your favorite TV shows and movies… with a few haunting twists you didn’t remember as a child. Featuring: Ryan Bender Kayleigh Birch James Caven Robert Daniels Carly Kline Kyle Shamblin Bernie Torres Jessica VanGlad
Common Ground is a sketch team who recently found out they have nothing in common. Join them on their quest to relate to each other through shared hopes, dreams and maybe even... love? Featuring Jess Moukios, Elizabeth Burke, Mark Pump & JR Scordino.
Come watch our brilliant PITizens take the stage in their class grad show!
Come see the students of The PIT perform! Note: there are two Level 2 Improv classes with Patrick McCartney going on concurrently. This is the Grad Show for the Wednesday class!
Prank YOU is a fully improvised live prank call show starring the master of this delicate craft, comedian Meryl Scheinman. Meryl delights audiences taking their requests, making the shape of each show as unique to the crowd. In between audience requests, Meryl targets corporations, celebrities, strip clubs, prayer lines, and whoever the hell else she sees fit. This outrageous performer has been seen at various comedy clubs doing stand-up, sketch, and improv at venues such as The Comedy Cellar, Gotham City Improv and Upright Citizens Brigade.
Close your eyes and imagine it: a huge goddamn bowl of dust just hurling at full speed towards you. Sounds pretty funny, doesn’t it? We think so too, which is why we stole that joke from John Steinbeck. Join us for more crazy sketches, all about fun, antiquated things like threshing ancient grains and Winston Churchill. Don’t worry: by the end of the show, you’ll fulfill all your Roman Colosseum fantasies when you get to choose whether we, your humble performers, “live” or “die.” Featuring: James Caven, Kayleigh Birch, Ryan Bender & Grant McCord
Come see The PIT students perform! Note: There are two Level 2 Improv classes with Patrick McCartney going on concurrently. This is the Grad Show for the Monday Class!
Come watch our brilliant PITizens take the stage! [Chris Griggs' Sunday Class]
A playlist of sketches. Each show in this series is inspired by a musical theme – the playlist could be any genre, from punk, to country, to gospel, to the Original Broadway Cast recording of your favorite musical. Come hear what musically inspired sketches “College Radio” has composed this month!
Tonight, the graduates of The PIT’s Level 1 Improv bring their hard work to the stage. The legends of tomorrow show you they’re actually the stars of today!
Come watch our brilliant PITizen's take the stage in their class grad show!
