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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.

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

“High School: Part 2” is a scripted/improv hybrid 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?”

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

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

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

The Peoples Improv Theater is thrilled to present the 12th Annual INDIE-pendence Day Fest. The longest running Indie Improv Festival in NYC was originally created by Student Driver & hosted by The PIT.

The Peoples Improv Theater is thrilled to present the 12th Annual INDIE-pendence Day Fest.

The longest running Indie Improv Festival in NYC was originally created by Student Driver & hosted by The PIT.

The Peoples Improv Theater is thrilled to present the 12th Annual INDIE-pendence Day Fest.

The longest running Indie Improv Festival in NYC was originally created by Student Driver & hosted by The PIT.

The Peoples Improv Theater is thrilled to present the 12th Annual INDIE-pendence Day Fest. The longest running Indie Improv Festival in NYC was originally created by Student Driver & hosted by The PIT.

The Peoples Improv Theater is thrilled to present the 12th Annual INDIE-pendence Day Fest. The longest running Indie Improv Festival in NYC was originally created by Student Driver & hosted by The PIT.

The Peoples Improv Theater is thrilled to present the 12th Annual INDIE-pendence Day Fest. The longest running Indie Improv Festival in NYC was originally created by Student Driver & hosted by The PIT.

The Peoples Improv Theater is thrilled to present the 12th Annual INDIE-pendence Day Fest. The longest running Indie Improv Festival in NYC was originally created by Student Driver & hosted by The PIT.

The Peoples Improv Theater is thrilled to present the 12th Annual INDIE-pendence Day Fest. The longest running Indie Improv Festival in NYC was originally created by Student Driver & hosted by The PIT.

The Peoples Improv Theater is thrilled to present the 12th Annual INDIE-pendence Day Fest. The longest running Indie Improv Festival in NYC was originally created by Student Driver & hosted by The PIT.

The Peoples Improv Theater is thrilled to present the 12th Annual INDIE-pendence Day Fest. The longest running Indie Improv Festival in NYC was originally created by Student Driver & hosted by The PIT.

The Peoples Improv Theater is thrilled to present the 12th Annual INDIE-pendence Day Fest. The longest running Indie Improv Festival in NYC was originally created by Student Driver & hosted by The PIT.

The Peoples Improv Theater is thrilled to present the 12th Annual INDIE-pendence Day Fest. The longest running Indie Improv Festival in NYC was originally created by Student Driver & hosted by The PIT.

The Peoples Improv Theater is thrilled to present the 12th Annual INDIE-pendence Day Fest. The longest running Indie Improv Festival in NYC was originally created by Student Driver & hosted by The PIT.

The Peoples Improv Theater is thrilled to present the 12th Annual INDIE-pendence Day Fest. The longest running Indie Improv Festival in NYC was originally created by Student Driver & hosted by The PIT.

An onstage comedy adventure, where YOU create the heroes, YOU cast the spells, and YOU roll the die! For this night only, adventuring alongside a mighty improv team, Rent-a-Friend!

Two veteran performers with over 60 years of improv experience between them! From Second City to Saturday Night Live to a random bar in Poughkipsie, these two have seen and done it all. Come watch these two old school clowns leave it all on the stage!

With her co-star unaccounted for, ever-positive Lizzy Sunshine carries a vaudevillian two-person show alone...because THIS is a show that GOES ON! Optimism can fix anything, right?!

A silly and gritty collective led by Chester Pollard perform sketch comedy that is quite disgraceful, but in a suitable way. The material contains surrealist and sadistic humor, along with some musical comedy mixed in!

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!

Come along for an evening filled with uproarious laughter as Taylor crafts a brand-new show exploring the challenges of juggling multiple jobs as an artist. Meet an eclectic cast of characters, witness outrageous mishaps, and yes, even explore the unexpected pangs of loss and pain – all tempered with a healthy dose of comedic relief. It'll be relatable and "So Fun".

This is a hilarious and harrowing true story about the journey of a woman who was working at the CIA and how she became an energy healer/comedian.

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.

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.

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

A Stand - Up show that will feature up and coming NYC comics

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

The PIT presents a month of fresh sketch groups from our very own sketch class graduates.

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

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.

Join them for a night of original sketch comedy as they take small moments of everyday life and blow them out into surreal dreams/nightmares (depending on who you ask)

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!

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

We've all seen improv class shows... This is an improv after school show. Students, teachers - maybe even admin - get together, throw out the rulebook, and just play.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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!   Featuring: DW Ardern, Curtis Stevens, Camillo Stone, Amir Kianpour, Obi O'Brien, Laura Lynn Lester, and Graham McClanahan

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

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

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.

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!

In order to catch a killer who pokes his victims to death, a horny loner detective is forced to partner up with an upstart female cop.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Leatherface Larry has had enough of Ted Danson. And Susie. And Jeff. And Leon. Someone has to save Cheryl, and maybe all of Texas. A musical of epic proportions, including numbers by spirit guides Marty Funkhouser and Richard Lewis.

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.  

Together they create a one act play on the spot that oscillates between a swift kick in the groin and a west kiss on the mouth.

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!

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!

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!

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!

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

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

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

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.

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... 

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

The audience suggests the vacation destination and The Cusamano’s take care of the rest! Capiche?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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!