Upcoming Events!

A New PIT Show where everything that happens from the moment people walk in, to the second standup performance, gets improvised upon by two brilliant teams Centralia’s style.

GLEE CLUB IS BACK FOR SEASON 2! Join A SHARP as they put together an evening with some of NYC’s finest cabaret performers- 90 minutes worth of your favorite tunes and an intimate, heart-warming show that’ll feature some of your favorite songs from Glee. For more information including cast lineups, check out @asharp_theaterco on Instagram!

Sketch comedy that changes shape every show!

Our HOUSE TEAMS bring audiences the exhilarating, supportive and one of a kind experience of long form improvisation!

Get ready for a showcase of super stupid improv games performed by stupid good improvisers! In this high-energy comedy showdown, quick-thinking performers dive headfirst into ridiculous challenges and whirlwind scenes. With wild audience suggestions and unpredictable twists, every game is a test of creativity, speed, and pure absurdity. No two performances are the same and only the sharpest fools will survive the madness. Come for the nonsense, stay for the brilliance, leave in a stupor!

The error404_ faction commits exactly 404 errors weekly, in a rotation of satirical plays (lots of mashups), audience plants (lots of crying), and concerts (so much dancing). House band Blink Floyd/ Pink 182. Sopranos and Snakes on a Plane the Musical 3 and Curb Your Texas Chainsaw Massacre the Musical 2 coming soon.

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!

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

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

The Artist Formerly Known As: CRUD!, is bringing late night television live on stage to West 29th Street. Forget Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon--We’ve got a different spin on things. After watching CRUD! Live’s topical social commentary, musical guests, and performances from your favorite improv and sketch groups around the city, you’ll never watch a late night talk show the same way again. Let’s get cruddy!

The Artist Formerly Known As: CRUD! is a mostly queer improv team. Formerly a house team at the PIT, they've performed at Baltimore Improv Festival and regularly spread their crud all over NYC. Follow @crud_improv for more shows and more CRUD!

There’s a bit of a horse in all of us. So what do you do when that horse is feeling envious? Improvise a musical, of course! Voted “Best Musical Improv Team” in a Gallop poll.

Several NYC improvisers fall prey to Tom Waits (Slaney Rose Jordan), a raspy voiced free spirited troubadour who preys on improvisers in their dreams. Featuring a stellar cast that will haunt your nightmares. Will they survive the night in this improvised slasher mystery?

Student Driver: Indie Road is The PIT's longest running indie improv show and is finally back a multi year hiatus caused by some serious "traffic" in the world.

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…

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.

A dissection of ytness through the lens of Godzilla Starring Uncle Dick, this piece unfolds a family trauma through the apologetic and reformed racist Uncle Dick. Through his obsession with Godzilla he begins to understand the monstrosity of ytness, bigotry, and oppression that lives inside himself. Using a homemade Godzilla puppet Uncle Dick fuses bombastic physical comedy, audience interaction, and song to skewer white people's relationship to their ytness and schmear the truth of it's origin for all to remember.

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.

Hell's #666th Best Talkshow is back!

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.

The Sotto Voce & Friends show is a complete night of story and song . Our hand picked and curated group of storytellers set the mood for the show. Then Sotto Voce presents an improvised musical that is completely sung through with no spoken dialogue!

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

Ali and Matt will begin by talking to the audience to get the temperature of the room. Then they will do some improvisation from that conversation. Well over  a half a century of Improvisation between them.

Screaming Crying Throwing Up is a sketch show by fangirls for fangirls (and anyone who wants to dip their toe into fandom). Our sketches explore the brilliance and complexity of fangirls, along with our current obsessions. Everything from K-pop, to Disney, books, tv, movies, fanfic, and everything in between. Let’s get delulu! #SketchShow!AU   FEATURING: Alyssa Briddess Cahlia Walton Becky Davidson Nicole Matarese

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

A Comedy Show providing temporary relief for all, it's...Gauze! Catharsis awaits at this comedy variety show hosted by Diana Aydin, Ian Goldstein, and Ali Levin. Gauze! features storytelling, standup, improv and so much more from performers living with visible and invisible disabilities, chronic illness and more. All are welcome. Gauze!

Comic Sans now enters its tenth year of goofing around.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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!

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

Join LaLaHaHa for a night of music, laughter, and both at the same time! LaLaHaHa is a musical sketch group based in New York City.

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.

Charlotte finds that nothing brings her joy. So she must desperately try things to see if anything makes her happy. She tries getting a dog, joining the army, getting married, and many more things. Will Charlotte find happiness or just die miserable like all of us?

Do you have steamy hot tea to spill? Come dish at Hot Goss – an improv show inspired by your gossip. Vent about a coworker. Trash talk your ex. Tell us about your weird cousin. You spill, we do scenes. Everyone leaves a little lighter.

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!

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

Join A SHARP in celebrating one year of Growth, Theater, & all the friends we’ve made along the way! Featuring our Greatest Hits, and a special edition of “Musical Match Game!"

Welcome to Keppy’s Kingdom...

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.

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

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

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

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

Come experience an improvised musical never heard of before! The Unheard Of cast brings the cutting edge of Broadway right to your front door. They experiment with new musical structures that will tickle the ear of any trained musical improvisor, and will knock the socks off of the first timer, so bring an extra pair, because when the venues are this intimate, every seat is in the metaphorical “splash zone”.

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

Quintin Tarantino may have scrapped plans to make his long-awaited 10th film, but our intrepid team of nosy Letterboxd influencers dug in his trash and found the ACTUAL script! A cast of improvisers who each read this script come on stage one at a time to share a crazy detail from this movie. And once we've all shared, we show you the movie, as it was written, unabridged.

Red Flag(s) is not just another one-woman show. It's a comedic journey toward self-empowerment, resonating with anyone who has ever felt undervalued or pigeonholed. The play offers a hilarious and relatable exploration of modern dating, leaving audience members laughing, reflecting, and ultimately, cheering for the protagonist's strength and growth

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.

BadProv is the show that takes “bad improv”- the fumbles and mortified moments of our improv journey- and reinvents it into comedic fun!

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.

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!

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!

Brisk air, leaves falling, it’s always dark, it’s coming — cuffing season. And you won’t buy me a salad? What am I to you… Chopt Liver?

Join us for an unforgettable night with the Little Miss Diva 2024 Pageant. This unique, two-person clown-based comedy show takes you on a hilarious journey through the highly competitive child pageant. This isn’t just a show—it’s an interactive experience where your laughter and involvement are integral to the fun.

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

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

Monkey Don't Know, Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Wondering...why am I doing something I know nothing about and how did I find myself in this endless cycle, at least I can go watch a sketch comedy show and laugh and forget this dread.

“High School: Part 2” is an improv show that poses the question: “what would you do if you woke up and had to start over as your 16 year old self but with all the knowledge of your current self?” Each show, the audience will interview one member of the ensemble about their high-school self. The cast will then improvise a Back to the Future-style time-warp sending them back to high school, giving them the opportunity to do it all over again.

Two Deciduous Gals is a dark comedy that will have the audience laughing while wondering if they should! TDG examines toxic masculinity, relationships with mother, and breaking patterns of abuse. Can Lisa, a small town gal, love labias and Jesus? Can Michelle, a big town gal, find her feelings after learning to hide them? Come find out! Content Warning: sexual violence, suicide, gun violence.

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!

Court is in session! 

Real cases, real judgements, really good show. 

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.

The 100 Sketches Per Hour Players are delighted to attempt this feat of comedic endurance as they perform 100 sketches in under 1 hour. Will they succeed? Will they fail? One thing's for sure, they're leaving everything out on that stage.

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

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

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.)

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!

Edgewood Avenue, where puppets take the lead in this unique variety show! It’s like the charm of the Muppets smashed together with the comedic styling of Saturday Night Live. Featuring a mix of sketch comedy, improv, live music, digital shorts, and stunning acts ranging from stand-up to magic! Designed to spotlight local artists and introduce audiences to new performers, Edgewood Avenue is your ticket to a night filled with laughter, puppets, and unforgettable performances.

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.

It’s time to pop out and show out with The Black Coalition!!! An all BIPOC Impov team ready to make their grand debut. Come join us for some long form improv by some of the best BIPOC improvisers The PIT has to offer. See our show and join the COALITION!!

New York City's Trashiest Talk Show

What better way to celebrate your 32nd spin around the sun than packing a lineup with your favorite friends and performers and selling tickets to it? Come on out to see Some Pulp Fiction and friends as they celebrate their very own Annie! The show will feature standup comedy, improv, sketch, and hopefully cake!

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