Upcoming Events!

You’ve watched this show for seven years and finally and now it’s coming to an end. Dragons, meth, weddings, who knows what will happen. You suggest the title and we’ll show you how it ends.

Witness a team of improv comedians turn your audience suggestion into a full fledged musical with live accompaniment, original songs, characters, and dance numbers never before seen and never to be seen again.

Comic Sans now enters its tenth year of goofing around.

This one goes out to all the lovers of the world! College Radio is paying homage to some of music's greatest love songs and breakup anthems.

Waddle down to one of the funniest stand-up comedy showcases this side of the pond! 

The silliest musical duo this side of Texas creates original music right in front of your ears, and hosts an evening of 2prov that will have you hollering for seconds!

Theatresports™ is the fast-paced improv show where two teams of improvisers will compete against each other, taking your suggestions to perform hilarious scenes, songs, games and more!

There will be no promises that you will like the show because comedy is ultimately subjective, much like one's preference of ice cream flavor.

Error404boy_ is somehow allowed an hour to do what he wants. Which could be ill advised, but we like to challenge our audience. Usually it’s some videos and sketches, then Error404boy will perform a rock concert that would make Led Zeppelin jealous.

Join Anthony Allocca (Director) and Sawyer Whitted (Music Director) as they put together an evening with some of NYC’s finest cabaret performers- 90 minutes worth of fabulous tunes and an intimate, heart-warming show that’ll feature some of your favorite songs across all genres of music. For more information including cast lineups, check out @asharp_theaterco on Instagram!

People go about their day all over the world…meanwhile, in NYC, watch as a cast of improvisors take you on a journey of characters - both locals and tourists - throughout our amazing city.

Not just another indie showcase. SuiteTalk is a show that makes YOU the star!

Welcome to the improvised documentary — a longform improv show filled with talking heads, found footage, re-enactments, and more!

PIT instructors Jenny Bareilles and Patrick McCartney improvise together as a duo.  

Dive into a night of absurd hilarity with Jupiter Squid, where each sketch plunges you into the depths of side-splitting comedy!

Your Intrusive Thoughts are at it again with an improvised set that is sure to flood your brain. Get ready for improv, standup, characters, and more!

Completely comprised of students of the Peoples Improv Theater, this improv variety show will feature different improv formats performed by students from different levels. Come support the improv community!

We'll ask an audience member about where they grew up: the oddball characters, the local haunts, the myths and legends. Then we'll make ourselves at home doing some good ol’ fashion long form improv!

From the creator of the ultimate sketch comedy competition "Bragging Rights" comes the comedy gauntlet, where actors find themselves having to flex their comedy muscles by earning enough points in sketch, improv and standup games and scenes to outlast their competitors.

You don’t need to know any Shakespeare to be moved and entertained by this monologuist’s tale. It’s about a prep school crush he had in 1975, and the shocking thing that happened to him just this past September! (It’s all made up, by the way, using a Shakespeare sonnet as a story-starter.)

The hottest up and coming comedians in NYC! Get ready to laugh, have fun and GET LIT!

A musical improv comedic hour all about the trials, tribulations and delights of being a parent. A seasoned cast of improvisors who also happen to be parents of little humans will take suggestions from the audience and make up a musical anyone can relate to!

AS SEEN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES: The World’s FIRST: A.I. vs Human Comedy Roast Battle.

A BoogieManja Production to showcase new solo characters from some of the best writer-performers in NYC.

Join us for an evening of laughter, tears, and song, right out of a Sondheim fever dream.

Exhilarating, supportive and one of a kind improvisation.

Come one, Come All!! Fresh off their win at PIT's MARCH MADNESS 2024, Really, Chef? is back and ready to serve up some fresh Improv Comedy in this brand new show!

So come on out to our show and bring you troubles with you. We’ll be sure to give to the best BAD ADVICE you’ve ever had.

Court is in session! 

Real cases, real judgements, really good show. 

Comedian and podcaster Robbie Nunes hosts improv show Love is Embarrassing.

Expecteth the unexpected, for no two performances shall be the same. Verily, thou shalt be swept away on a journey of laughter and tears, as the players improvise their way through the labyrinthine tunnels of a story in the the style of William Shakespeare!

Chimp Cocktail is composed of the most brilliant sketch comedy minds of the post-World War II, pre-World War III generation.

“Two Much with Peter & Matt” is a half short form, half long form improvised show featuring Peter Bisgaier and Matt Pozzuolo

Robot, Pirate, Ninja describes the behaviors and tendencies of different types of improvisers. In this show, we take 3 of each performer type and put them onstage in different combinations to see just how vital each role plays within a team.

Are you tired of all of the noise out in the real world? Well come see a show where the improvisers are completely silent!

The Character Annex invites you to a night PACKED full of the newest and best NYC character comedians in the game. Come for a night of laughter with this rapid fire display of character comedy!

Join Kim Alu for this once a month show that showcases the various improv teams that she coaches here in NYC (and sometimes beyond!) Audiences are invited to sit back, relax, and laugh at different long form, short form, and experimental sets from the best and brightest teams in the comedy world!

The Headliners features a rotating cast of New York’s finest improvisers in a hilarious show inspired by the audience’s suggestion.

Coming up Roses is a mother-daughter two-prov team. But why stop there? We’re introducing you to the whole family. Come witness the glorious dysfunction of family dynamics through sketch, song, dance, and of course, long form improvisation. Bring your know-it-all older sister, conspiracy theory cousin, and drunk uncle…or, maybe just bring a friend.

It's like a game of Telephone, but with a movie!

Seasoned ensemble Improv Dot Gov is excited to make their PIT debut, but shh, this show is highly classified! One lucky audience member will be interviewed about various aspects of their life, which will then fuel the improv scenes to follow. This audience member might even be offered a top-level position in the CIA, but we can't make any promises.

Judy Pryor was an assistant director of education, barista, mixologist, public nuisance, etc. etc. etc. But now, she brings to the stage a sketch show that will enlighten, frustrate and castrate your weekday blues, all under an hour. Prepare yourself for the production that critics have been calling (fill in the blank).   Written and performed by: Analyse Capodiferro, Jason Tyus Smith, Austin Tytel and Ava Whiteley.

Zany chaos ensues! We hope you join us for this wild ride of satire and foolery!

The cruddiest variety show in town! Your favorite improv group, The Artist Formerly Known As CRUD!, is bringing together talent beyond your wildest dreams! Featuring improv, standup, music, drag, and more... 

"One of the most impressive and absurd long-form improv routines in the city." - TimeOut NY

Mercy Santos (God's Favorite Improv Team) performs the Improvised Movie (God's Favorite Improv Form) for YOU (God's Favorite Audience)!

The Placeholders team with other indie teams and stand ups for an hour of laughs.

Are you a fan of pop divas, game shows, or musicals? Then this star-studded evening is the show for you!

The fantastical and totally true story of how John Hughes, John Mayer and Jon Bon Jovi inspired a black woman from the south at pivotal moments to go where she felt terrified to go thereby significantly altering the course of her life.

For one night only author Austin Olson takes the stage to discuss life, love, culture, and to answer all your burning questions!

The Better Binness Bros. are business-bettering brothers from other mothers. They delight audiences with outrageous characters, aggressively silly presentation bits, and absurd video sketches.

From the mind of a Director whose primary education was received at a place called “The Barnyard School” comes a knee-slapping sketch comedy hour featuring writers and performers trained at the PIT, Second City, BCC, and UCB.

Real-life improviser parents and their children create magic and adorable mayhem on stage.

An improvised musical featuring old-timey bluegrass tunes and a rotating cast on traditional instruments like banjo, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, washboard, egg shakers and kazoo…

Come see the material that did NOT get our performers a spot on SNL, JFL, or KGL! Okay, we made that last one up.

Two socially stunted college freshman attempt to comfort their friend in her time of need.

SEX, SOBRIETY, AND PROFOUND STUPIDITY… the horrors are indescribable, but you’ve still got to serve!

Fifth Floor Walkup is a fever dream of hysterical weirdness. It's madcap, what-the heck-just-happened, screwball sketch comedy with a motley cast of PIT-trained performers. Playing in the liminal space between sketch and improv, Fifth Floor stitches together a brand new show every time with high-production sketches, original music, and digital shorts that'll leave you in stitches and maybe thinking a little differently about how you see the world!   Special Guests: Taxi Cab Comedy! a NYC sketch comedy team that takes you a ride with hilarious sketches inspired by a single location. @taxicabcomedy Featuring: DW Ardern, Curtis Stevens, Camillo Stone, Amir Kianpour, Obi O’Brien, Laura Lynn Lester, Graham McClanahan, and Taxi Cab Comedy

Witness the future of stand-up, sketch, and more at break-neck speeds, all under the watchful eye of the beautiful, female mouse Stacey Little.

The worst part of censorship is [REDACTED]. Join a diverse line up of stand up and musical comedians as they make you laugh without making you cry.

Using audience suggestions of blunders, bummers, hiccups, slip-ups, etc., the No Duds explore the obvious downsides and secret silver linings of failures big and small.

LaLaHaHa is a musical sketch group that specializes in making silly songs with our best friends, as it is vital for one's mental and physical health to laugh while you sing and sing while you laugh.

It’s 1995. Adam Sandler and Norm Macdonald are about to get SNL cancelled forever, in this, the lost episode they’ve been hiding for almost 30 years. Surprise host and musical guest.

Improv duo Style (Steph Jacobson & Kyle Shamblin) invites another improv duo to be In Style each show. Fashionably funny. Stylishly silly. Comfortably chaotic.

Digital comedy team Fritz & Babs hosts this indie sketch showcase of New York City's finest writers and actors, trained at the PIT, UCB, and Second City.

Everybody hates NYC's DMV's. Long lines. Impatient customers. Indifferent employees. Except for that one Tuesday when five strangers, waiting an eternity to renew their licenses, are bitten - completely against their will - by the musical bug. These five strangers turn the drab DMV to a fab musical scene in this irreverent musical comedy.

Your Father and I would like to show you something. It is an expression of joy and of sorrow, of pleasure and pain, and, if you do it right, it takes about an hour.

Sketch comedy that changes shape every show!

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

Hell Yeah! creates high-energy, fully-improvised musicals.

New York City's Trashiest Talk Show

Yelling at Pigeons is a sketch comedy group that features PIT writers and performers, who are up-and-coming-and-unwell. With an emphasis on finding hilarity in the lives of the mundane, Yelling at Pigeons presents a revue of sketches, characters, and musical performances that explore the most bizarre and downright dangerous delights of the average Joe.

"It's a bird!....It's a plane....Nah, man. It's the Bjjörks!!"

Frog Boyz Presents a night of stand up, animation, and sketch comedy by Sketch Team 6.

You know the movie (Pirates Of The Caribbean), you know the man (Tom Waits), now get to know the two combined.

Stupid Hot apologizes for…well.. a variety of things. Everything that’s their fault and everything that isn’t. It’s a variety show featuring sketch comedy and a hot new stand up comedian talking about apologies -because someone needs to an apologize for it all.

Katie Hammond and Robert Z Grant create a fully improvised musical experience based on suggestions from the audience. What will happen? It's all up to you!

Tony’s on a trip to Italy again. But what kinda kingda ka’s in the zupa this time? The third installment of an epic musical, including numbers by Paulie Walnuts and Samuel L. Jackson.

Are you a life-long (live) Swiftie with a 13 drawn on your hand? Or are you someone dipping your toes in The Lakes of the 18 years worth of lore of today's biggest pop superstar? Either way, this show is for you! We will ̶i̶n̶i̶t̶i̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶o̶ ̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶c̶u̶l̶t̶ introduce you to the inside jokes of our fandom with educational segments leading into Taylor-themed sketches spanning topics from Jake Gyllenhaal's scarf to the Eras Tour.

In “Bird and Friends – Cosmic Unity”, seasoned improv veteran Michael Bird takes the stage solo and crafts an exhilarating improv show in collaboration with the audience.

Step into a world where the bizarre meets the spectacular! Join us for a mind-bending journey into the cult classic phenomenon that is The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Sing along to iconic tunes like "Time Warp" and "Sweet Transvestite" as our performers dance and lip-sync in perfect sync with the film. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a seasoned Rocky Horror enthusiast, our shadowcast adds an unforgettable twist to the beloved story of Brad, Janet, and the mysterious Dr. Frank-N-Furter. Come dressed in your wildest costumes and bring your props (no water or open flames, please!) to fully immerse yourself in the Rocky Horror experience and compete in our costume contest! Expect laughter, surprises, and a night of unabashed fun as we celebrate the timeless appeal of this cult classic. And of course, if this is your very first time seeing the Rocky Horror Picture Show with the shadowcast and prop bags, then you will get to compete in the Virgin Games! Don't dream it, be it! Grab your friends, embrace the weird, and join us for an evening of delightfully dark comedy, infectious music, and a celebration of being whoever you want to be. Let's do the Time Warp again! Frank N Furter - Aaron Shapiro Brad - PJ McMahon Janet - Kim Alu Riff Raff - Kyle Shamblin Magenta - TBD Columbia - TBD Eddie - Bibek Gurung Rocky - Rob Hicks Dr. Scott - TBD Lips (Opener) - TBD Criminologist - TBD

Kevin Turner is the 4th of 5 kids, a military veteran in a divided country, and has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Come join the battle inside his brain. In his debut hour, Kevin balances his silly life and dark struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. His goal is to make you laugh at one joke—but isn’t sure you will. Come find out!

Febster is a sketch show that will make you laugh (hopefully) and cry (hopefully not... unless paired with laughter).

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!