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Behold! Two improv teams, Loser Boy and Space Station Awesome, are charting a course to undiscovered improvisation! Loser Boy performs new/rarely-done improv forms for ‘prov nerds and noobs. Space Station Awesome performs an original team created form called The Bonnet. Join us and enjoy a show of fresh-out-the-box improv forms!

It's Friday night and it's time to celebrate improv together like it is the very first time!

Ring! Ring! Time for Phone Tag to bring you an hour of improv and comedy you’ll wanna call home about. Most shows say to put away your phones but we might need yours! Join us and our surprise guests for an evening where we give Alexander Graham Bell and yourself a few well deserved laughs.

Did you make the mistake of leaving your house when you’d really rather be watching TV? Skip Intro is the long-running improv team you won’t be able to stop watching. One lucky audience member tells us about their favorite tv show, and we reenact it (whether we’ve seen it or not).    

Wake up from your disco nap! WILDEST DREAMS kicks off your Saturday night at 10 with an indie improv double-header. Princess Bleach conjures up a completely improvised set from the dream of a volunteer audience member. Then hop on board as the "charismatic weirdos" of Emails from Hawaii take you on a guided tour of their hilariously twisted collective mind. Whatever you do, don't hit snooze! (btw, your dream came true: Not Your Average Slumber Party sits in for PB on April 29.)   Princess Bleach (5/27 & 6/24 only): Nick Curley, Alice Fishbein, Ryan Lind & Kerry Ann McCaffrey Emails from Hawaii: Henry Camacho, Sophia Caressa, Andrew Chandler, Robert Davenport, Julian Green, Joseph Huffman, Nathan Orton & Michael Wallis

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.

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!

Hell Yeah! creates high-energy, fully-improvised musicals. With a blank stage, a piano, and a burning desire to sing about our feelings, we build an entire narrative based on a simple audience suggestion. In Hell Yeah! & Friends, special guest performers join us in creating a show that’s never been seen before, and will never be seen again. Hell Yeah! includes: Taylor Feldman Tony Harkin Maria Schroeder PJ Nally Ruth Angus And Rob White on the keys Follow us on Instagram at hellyeahmusicprov

An affordable night of teacher-led programming that includes 2 jams, 3 shows, and a mixer at Pios to end the night. All for just $5 each!

4:30pm Warm-up Jam hosted by Kihresha Redmond

6:15pm SKETCH hosted by Mike Fogarty

7:15pm MUSICAL IMPROV hosted by Mac Gostow

8:15pm STANDUP hosted by Stephanie Holmes

9:30pm Level-up Jam hosted by Langston Belton

10:30pm Mixer at Pioneers!

**$5 CASH ONLY**

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!

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!

Have you ever seen an improviser break on stage? Well in this show if you laugh you get eliminated! 8 improvisers will go head-to-head and try to make the other laugh and knock them out of the round using any tool in their improv arsenal. What do they get for surviving the night? Glory, bragging rights, and a shoutout on the PIT’s Instagram!

PIT instructors Patrick McCartney and Jenny Bareilles improvise together as a duo with special guest, David Rhysdal. Adult themes.

An exciting new improv group formed by PIT Improvisers! Give us the name of a town and we will transport you to a world full of laughter, drama, possible betrayal, and maybe...even...shennanigans? Featuring: Battle Scrabble & Choking Hazard

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, Jason Tyus Smith, Rich Templeton, Donna Steele, Christian Flynn

The Devonshire Players and The Slim Pigeons bring you the finest improv ever produced in the universe as we know it. We are all approaching light speed, and acquiring infinite mass. It's better you join us. The Devonshire Players: Michael Iannantuono, Amy Powell The Slim Pigeons: George Simmons Andrew Kirk James Kriz Mike Maxwell Cameron Pierce Steph Jacobson

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

Featuring guests of the Say Good Say Better Podcast, Ari Shield presents an hour of fresh comedy from some of New York's hottest up-and-coming performers, plus one guy from Worcester, Massachusetts. You want stand up? We got it. Character bits? We got that too. What about music and poetry? We got you babyyyy. LINEUP: Ari Shield Jacob Williams Matthew Silver Ross Belsky CW Headley Sarah Galvin Jon Fletcher

Short form improv is back, baby, with a new show and a new name. Fool Party brings together some of the best improvisers in New York City for an hour of games, songs, weird characters, bad jokes, and, most importantly, laughs! Fool Party is your new Saturday night destination for comedy. FEATURING THE FOOL PARTY PLAYERS: Surriiya Ahmad Lauren Arnett Kristin Elliott Richard Gottesman Jared Olkin Valerie Sachs Aaron Tabackman Mark Viera Musical Accompaniment by Amber Reynolds Hosted by Eric Buscher

Every day there is something to celebrate! Don’t believe us? Join Space Station Awesome and friends as they choose a “national day” to honor that doesn’t come with a month’s worth of Hallmark movies and claymation specials. This month, we honor the fluffy four-legged little jerks some of us just can't help loving on National Hug Your Cat Day! We'll show affection to our favorite cats without fear of getting scratched, bitten, or gifted a dead mouse for our troubles. (No actual cats are permitted in the theater) Help us give #NationalHugYourCatDay the celebration it deserves! Featuring: Redshirts - Musical Star Trek Improv Kathryn Fabbroni Space Station Awesome

Sketch comedy that changes shape every show!

After nearly a decade of making up musicals together, veteran musical improv team Vern returns to The PIT, the place where it all started, perform a a fully improvised musical from Vern. Join us for an evening of laughter, tears, and song, right out of a Sondheim fever dream.   VERN is Rachel Bouton, Daniel Tepper, Kiki Mikkelsen, Julie Feltman, Jeff Scherer, Katie Hammond, Matt Giroveanu & Mikey Montalbano.

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

Not a fan of Star Trek? No problem!

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

Join Help Me I’m Drowning for an hour of improv structured around a loose Harold, drawing on experimental roots. As the show progresses, relationships develop, themes emerge, and unique characters are explored. With an emphasis on theatricality, grounded emotion, and playful comedy, the show weaves together storylines and games to arrive at a satisfying emotional and comedic conclusion. Featuring: McKenzie Fleischer Ethan St. Germain Robin Fierberg  

Sketches, Music, Improv, Standup, you’ll get everything at this variety show on the world’s most famous carnival-adjacent cruise line. We think you deserve a vacation, don’t you think you deserve a vacation? Come see veteran comedy duo Carney & Cruz perform with their favorites and friends on a Friday night! Featuring: CW Headley (@c.wheadley) - Music Winnie Stack (@winniestack2.0) - Characters Adam Hmada (@adamhcomedy) - Standup and Carney & Cruz (@maxcarney & @curlyqcruz) - Improv

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

It's the big bang improv show baby!!!!! Come one come all!!!!! Do a little dance make a little love get down tonight, get down tonight. Let's get freaky! Southpaw: Tanner Sands, Jake Joseph, Jonny Muldano, Justin Alejos Table For Three: Karla Mellett, Snubh Panda, Dean Rule

Welcome to The Character Annex - we like to show the works in process, the very developed and, the flat out HILARIOUS characters. From the stars of tomorrow and the stars of later next week, we got it here. Join us for a night of character comedy!   The cast is ever-changing so come for a different cast each month!

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

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

A full hour of aMUSEment! Watch as we pull inspiration from a stand up comedian’s set and a musician’s original songs to create two fully improvised sets, then enjoy as that inspires the worlds to all collide at the end of the show. Leave inspired!

Our PIT/SNL Scholars will be presenting their SNL style audition. So come see some of our best and brightest swing for the fences and give it all they've got!

"Brainy, outrageous and razor-sharp improviser and actor Jet Eveleth" - Timeout Chicago

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!

GlamourPuss, social media's leading pet influencer agency, is holding auditions for their next star client! Join them for a night of improvised animal magnetism, along with special guest Kitten Solloway!

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!

Christian Flynn leads a merry band of zoomers through three experimental improv sets in the most based show at the People's Improv Theater.

Come watch Queer performers get into the “Yas, and!” spirit as they spread the LGBTQIA+ agenda through improv comedy! It’ll be a gay ole time!

Writers and producers at The Drew Barrymore Show, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon come together (like the United Nations) for Time to Kill: A Sketch Comedy Show

A variety show so goofy, that even Jeans can’t be blue!

JERICHO is a fresh new three-prov team consisting of Brandon Seidman, Jake Wallace, and Cole Ortiz-Mackes. Their evocative style of improv is irreverent, relationship driven, and while funny and packed full of goofiness, strives to go beyond traditional improv and take you on a unique theatrical journey. You don’t wanna miss the Jericho experience.

The year is 3023: robots have taken over EVERYTHING in this surreal sketch 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!

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

Backdoor Barbecue is a NYC-based sketch comedy group that serves up high-energy shows that makes audiences say, “That was a comedy show.” Since its founding in 2016, they have been one of the PIT's long-standing sketch comedy teams, and have been featured in New York City SketchFest, The Second City Network, The PIT’s Pilot Season and House Teams, and NYC SketchBlock, and have hosted a number of podcasts across the vast interweb.

Backdoor Barbecue is Mike Brian, Paul Cohen and Chris Migliaccio.

A night of sketch comedy from Lemon Hands Comedy and Adam and Eve and Steve. 

Want to see some of the finest improv in New York City? Then come down to Bizzo!, an hour of pure improv joy featuring some of the top improv teams from the 4 boroughs (Sorry SI). It’s hosted and starring rising stars Bizzo, one of the hottest teams around. What are you waiting for? Get Bizzo!

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

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

A one-of-a-kind immersive motivational comedy show and inspirational seminar where absurdity and hilarity are one and the same. Come be part of the experience and unleash your inner power! Antonio Robbinstinez fancies himself an inspirational speaker, and he will not hear otherwise. Through his thick, nearly incomprehensible accent, seemingly disjointed act, and outright contempt for his audience, he delivers an unforgettable comedic performance unlike any you've seen. Antonio makes you an active participant in the journey to find power and inspiration by letting the audience choose the order of the act. Every hysterical performance is unique, and the best part; he won't even know why you're laughing.

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!

NYC actor and comic Michael John Ciszewski’s LOVEFOOL is a dazzling and deliciously silly romp through his flings, flirtations, and first loves that brims with heart and hilarity. A *very* gay hour that bridges stand-up comedy and confessional, LOVEFOOL has packed raucous, rapt houses in New York City (Asylum NYC), Boston (The Rockwell & New Rep Theatre), and New Jersey (Jersey City Theater Center), earning raves from critics and audiences who call it “exactly the audacious celebration of queer love that we need in this moment!” Learn more at xomichaeljohn.com