All LEVELS welcomed! Come level up with 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
“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
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.
Every FIRST THURSDAY! The Slow Burn Jam allows improvisers to settle into scenes by giving the team a form to work with! $5 CASH DOORS @ 10:15 NO ENTRIES AFTER 11:00PM 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!
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!
Dungeons & Dragons, off the table and onto the stage!
We invite a group of comics to present an absurd slideshow —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.
A one man show filled with glorious stories of love affairs and wild adventures is disrupted by his terribly unattractive long lost son.
An onstage actual dating game show. Love could be right around the curtain!
A camp and loving homage to the soap opera genre, and featuring a dynamic cast of the independent theatre pros, IT’S GETTING TIRED MILDRED hooks audience members to come back month after month to see what happens next. Each episode of IT’S GETTING TIRED MILDRED is performed only once at this late-night, once-a-month event, and is followed by a cast party that the audience is invited to stay for.
COME WATCH OUR BRILLIANT PIT STUDENTS TAKE THE STAGE!!!
Sydney Duncan invites you into the inner workings of the mind of an angry black woman. This cathartic experience will give you a glimpse into how a black woman feels when she is not trying to code-switch, be polite, or less intimidating. This show is about the freedom and liberation of being one's self.
A new fun way get us out of our heads and into our bodies! $10 CASH DOORS OPEN @ 9:00pm NO ENTRIES AFTER 10:00PM MAX CAPACITY: 58 First Come, First Serve
We provide the MIC, you provide the jokes! Every Monday right here at the PIT!
The PIT Musical Jam is THE place to get your sing-prov reps!
Backdoor Barbecue is a 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 critically acclaimed* sketch revue with some of the funniest folks in New York!
Join The PIT's premiere improvisors, sketch writers and standups for an evening comedy!
Every SECOND THURSDAY on the month - 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.
PIT instructor Patrick McCartney and the hilarious Jenny Bareilles improvise together for 40 minutes and holy moly it’s nuts.
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.
Tonight our brilliant students will share their talent and dedication to showcase what they have learned in class.
Watch Our brilliant PIT students take the stage!
Fresh (adjective): having original strength, vigor, quality, taste, etc. Colloquially: a term to describe that which is good, stylish, and attractive. All acts in the FRESH BAKED variety show meet these qualifications. They’re also hot and funny and you definitely want to see them perform.
Legendary improv group Centralia performs their unusual brand of improvised theatrical comedy.
Characters, Characters, Characters is a new showcase for our up and coming community and the characters within them!
In this ensemble sketch show, we explore a community where beings of the night and your average joe have mixed into a neighborhood of supernatural and extra-domestic delight!
Comic Sans has been blessing the NYU community with laughter since 2014. In 2017 Comic Sans was voted the most hated font in the world. Unlike the font Comic Sans the group is universally loved. Comics Sans writes and performs sketch comedy several times a semester both on and off campus! Alumni have gone on to work on shows such as Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and The Late Show with Seth Meyers!
Our top performers have a cathartic experience and we invite the audience to do the same!
Your team has your back, Jake has your side! $5 CASH DOORS OPEN @ 10:15pm NO ENTRIES AFTER 11:00PM MAX CAPACITY: 58 First Come, First Serve
Watch our brilliant PIT students take the stage!
Women. Non-binary folks. Jokes. GOLD Comedy is stepping out from behind their screens and joining the New York scene to debut their brand new GOLD digital productions teams! This show will feature digital shorts, live sketches, and some of NYC's hottest standup comics. It'll be like combining a slumber party with a bachelorette party and an open casket funeral for your least favorite aunt! Sounds fun!
Sketch comedy that changes shape every show!
15 Minutes Away is about to be New York City's premiere sketch team. Out of the ashes of UCB, BoogieManja, and the pandemic; this team is a mashup of some of the best actors and writers in the sketch scene.
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!
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?
$35+Fees In this workshop, you will learn:
Get ready for a night with laughs as NYU's improv team, Home Improvment, takes the stage at the PIT Loft!
NYC Comedian Sunny Outlaw dives into his personal story of growing up as a first generation Indian American and the struggles of trying to become the world's next great Comic! Expect Stand Up Comedy with theatrical elements.
High-energy, fully-improvised musicals. A hilarious, touching show that’s never been seen before, and will never be seen again.
Just when you thought you were safe from the f*cked up humor of The Walking Juxt, they’ve been unleashed with a twisted new show that will make you say, “Ooookay.”
AN ALL BLACK SHOWCASE! Come see IMPROV, SKETCH and MUCH MORE from some of the best up and coming comedy performers and writers in NYC. A celebration and showcase of people who are all funny as hell!
Watch Our brilliant PIT students take the stage!
A ghoulish gay time is upon us! Join Grandmas Favorites for a Halloween comedy sketch show!
Get ready to scheme and scream at this Rock the Bells Comedy Halloween bashment party! Costume or naw it's guaranteed to make you laugh, cry, scream and whine ya body. One night only filled with some of NY's hottest talents in these comedy and musical streets.
A fun and freaky adventure with standup, characters and sketches …oh MY.
Lauren will be performing between 6-9 songs that the audience will select from a hat.
"One of the most impressive and absurd long-form improv routines in the city." - TimeOut NY
We, as Clint, present an improv show so quick and so fun that – by the end – you will see us as our true form: a singular little guy.
A variety comedy show hosted by PIT instructor Patrick McCartney that celebrates laughter while living in recovery from alcoholism and addiction. Stand up, Improv, storytelling and more!
Beverly is sketch comedy that is a little raunchy and a lot of ridiculous, performed by six very good looking human beings.
Beverly is sketch comedy that is a little raunchy and a lot of ridiculous, performed by six very good looking human beings.
We have the last movie ever sold by Blockbuster! And you, the audience gets to help us discover exactly what that movie will be.
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
The Not So Late Late Show is a live monthly late night show featuring NYC's favorite LGBTQIA+, women, and BIPOC comedians bringing a fresh take on the news of the day. It's a new kind of late night, made for you. Yes, you.
Watch our brilliant PITizens take the stage in their class grad show!
A fully improvised 45 minute play that brings the audience to witness the most awkward of family dinners.
Celebrate Model Majority's 4th Birthday for an evening of music/musical -related sketch comedy and musical performances. Special guests tbd.
Come watch our brilliant PITizens take the stage!!
Come watch our brilliant PITizens take the stage!!
Watch our brilliant PITizens take the stage!
Watch our brilliant PITizens take the stage!
Come watch our brilliant PITizens take the stage in their Class Grad Show!!!
Come watch our brilliant PITizens take the stage!!
Watch our brilliant PITizens take the stage!
Watch our brilliant PITizens take the stage!
Watch our brilliant PITizens take the stage!
Come watch our brilliant PITizens take the stage!!
