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MAIN CHARACTER MIC

Friday 2/21 – Friday 3/28

Discover your main character energy! Develop the strong characters in your comedy, or try it out for the first time. Perform a character monologue, or open yourself up to audience questions!

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CRUD! presents…

Friday 2/21 – Friday 6/27

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 show details and more CRUD!

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WORD OF MOUTH

Friday 2/21 – Friday 3/28

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.

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FRIDAY NIGHT MAKE A WISH IMPROV JAM

Friday 2/21 – Friday 6/27

$5 CASH Max Capacity 58 (First Come, First Serve) Join our Founder, Ali Reza Farahnakian, and Matt Higgins, to Make a Wish and jam at 11:11PM on Fridays Nights!

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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 Briddes Becky Davidson Helene Dubois Rhys Febles Nicole Matarese Taylor Sniffen Cahlia Walton Scott Kidwell

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Ladies Stand-Up! (Men Sit Down) Open Mic

Saturday 2/22 – Saturday 6/28

Hey gals & gender minority friends, come on down to the PIT every Saturday at 6:30pm to laugh it up in an inclusive, no pressure environment!
 
$5 CASH
DOORS @ 6:15 PM at Global Comedy Studios!
NO ENTRIES AFTER 6:45 PM
MAX CAPACITY: 20; First Come, First Serve

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New York's best up-and-coming comedic actors audition for the biggest comedy festival in the world. The Characters show at the Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in July is where the comedy industry flocks to find the next stars of late night sketch shows, TV sitcoms, movies and more. Come watch undiscovered talent perform original characters, impressions, parodies, musical acts, monologues and other surprises.

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The Wednesday Show MIC

Wednesday 2/26 – Wednesday 6/25

It’s a VARIETY SHOW! Bring it ALL and we literally mean ANYTHING. We want your best five or bring your teams for a solid eight. Stand-Up, Variety, Musical Performance, Characters, Clown, Digital, Improv & Sketch, or surprise us. For one hour you are the star!

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Michael John Ciszewski: TGIF

Friday 2/28 – Friday 6/20

TGIF (TESTING GAY IDEAS, FUNNY)!! PIT favorite and NYC comedian Michael John Ciszewski (Edinburgh Fringe, Off-Broadway) makes his return to 29th Street after sell-out smash hits LOVEFOOL and IF MEMORY SERVES for a Friday night Spring 2025 residency exploring BRAND NEW MATERIAL for his upcoming, as-yet-untitled, masterpiece-in-the-making FIFTH solo hour of comedy about his unbearably iconic mother, the way we build our own legacies, and the blistering stupidity of falling in love again and again. At every date, he’ll be joined by his favorite comics, drag artists, and queer performers. How’s that for divine comedy?!

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Sotto Voce & Friends

Saturday 3/1 – Saturday 6/7

The Sotto Voce & Friends show is an evening of story and song . We partner with public school music programs to increase awareness of the need for arts education in public schools. Opening for us is a musical ensemble of students from the NY public school system who will perform a short set. Then Sotto Voce presents an improvised musical that is completely sung through with no spoken dialogue!

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Improv Drop-Outs

Saturday 3/1 9:30 pm

New York’s craziest characters take an improv class! A normal improv class takes a turn when some of the wildest characters from the NYC Comedy scene show up to take the class. This show takes the best characters from around the city and puts them in an improv class where they are taken through warm-ups, exercises, and scenes. Watch as the best characters from around the city try to learn things such as “Yes, And,” “Follow the fun,” and “No, don’t kill your scene partner at the start of every scene.”

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Hot Goss

Saturday 3/1 – Friday 6/6

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.

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YELLING AT PIGEONS

Thursday 3/6 – Thursday 5/8

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.

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CABIN FEVER: CAMPFIRE

Thursday 3/6 – Tuesday 4/8

Cabin Fever is throwing together a shindig, and you're invited! Join us for a night with our hilarious friends as we regale you with some quality laughs and wholesome moments! Come sit around the campfire with us while we tell stories, make jokes, and come closer together. It's a night you won't want to miss! (S'more may or may not be offered as well)

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Great Gatsby!

Friday 3/7 – Friday 6/6

"GREAT GATSBY!" is a parody jukebox musical of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel featuring pop hits from the early 2000s. This un-faithful retelling is this year's (Third) Best Musical (Based on "The Great Gatsby").

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BREAKING NEWS: THE PIT announces the Peoples Sketch Revues’ TOPICAL TEAM! This team will present their comedic take on the hottest political and topical stories happening in the world today. Our Topical Team is directed by Makena Reynolds and will feature sketch comedy from: Reagan Allen Sebastian Martinez Sydney Kaehler Santos Aguilar Moureen Karim Lisa Naso   PEOPLES SKETCH REVUES is a new series featuring SKETCH HOUSE TEAMS built by our theater, for our theater. These teams showcase the best of the best by presenting all forms of sketch comedy including MUSICAL, POLITICAL/TOPICAL and ABSURD/GONZO! These teams are representation of all the Peoples Improv Theater strives to achieve in the NYC comedy community.

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SCOTT & FLYNN

Saturday 3/8 6:00 pm

Kevin Scott and Dion Flynn bring their years of experience and skewed point of view to the PIT for a not-to-missed hour of hilarious improvisation. Kevin (Centralia, The Second City) and Dion (The Tonight Show) are a guaranteed good time.

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THE DUOS OPEN MIC

Saturday 3/8 – Saturday 3/29

This is your chance to step into the unknown—on stage! Sign up together as a duo to practice with your partner OR sign up as a solo improviser and we’ll randomly match you with a partner for an unforgettable improv experience. It’s all about testing the waters, experimenting with new formats, or playing games you’ve never tried before!

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Is This Normal?

Wednesday 3/12 – Friday 5/30

Ansa Edim's one woman storytelling show explores modern romance through the eyes of a fat Black woman boldly navigating a world of dating disasters, confusing societal expectations, and the cringey road to self-discovery.

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New Bits

Friday 3/14 8:00 pm

New jokes, no safety net! Comics test fresh material—some will kill, some will bomb, and some might spark an identity crisis. Laugh, groan, enjoy the chaos. ✨.

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Theatre Sports!

Friday 3/14 – Friday 6/13

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!

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The Sigmund Special

Saturday 3/15 6:00 pm

The Sigmund Special is a sketch show centering some of Freud’s favorite things: therapy, sex, and humor as a coping mechanism! Written by a woman with varying levels of experience in all those areas!

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Backdoor Barbecue

Saturday 3/15 – Saturday 7/26

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!

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Secular Church

Sunday 3/16 7:00 pm

For people who want a Church-like community, without the serious religion stuff. Secular Church is a thoughtful mix of stand-up comedy, music, and improv inspired by our many religious upbringings and communities. Take an hour to reflect and laugh at our spirituality, traditions, how they influence in our day-to-day lives, and more.

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The Understudies

Tuesday 3/18 – Tuesday 6/10

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.

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The Series Finale

Thursday 3/20 – Thursday 6/12

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.

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Does the winter feel never ending? Have the horrors got you down? We’re right there with you! Stupid Hot presents a brand new sketch comedy show where we can all laugh or banshee wail into the void together. Hooray!

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The Awakening

Saturday 3/22 – Saturday 5/24

Each show Chris Griggs (The Baldwins) puts together a cast of artists that will delve into a unique, weird, and surreal performance of improvisation set in a dream state.  This daring style is both imaginative and hilarious. There will also be an opening dance number, music throughout and a special appearance by The Sandman.

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Girl Theory

Saturday 3/22 – Saturday 6/28

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

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That’s Our Show!

Thursday 3/27 – Thursday 5/22

Join the That’s Our Show ensemble for a variety spectacular in the style of classics like The Muppet Show, The Carol Burnett Show, and many others! We’ve got it all- singing, jokes, sketches, dancing, and a boat load of fun! Looking for an incredible night like no other? My friends, That’s Our Show!

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PattiLuPone Improv

Friday 3/28 8:30 pm

PattiLuPone is on her farewell tour, and singing some of her favorite songs from her long and luscious career for the last time.* Come join for one final performance you won't want to miss.
*Patti LuPone will not be there.  

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Fowl Play

Friday 3/28 – Friday 5/30

A showcase of brand-new sketch comedy from a brand-new sketch comedy group! Fowl Play, founded by a group of odd ducks, produces comedy that's both playful and cutting, melding absurdist humor with sharp satire. There will be someone dressed as a giant razor blade.

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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”.

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Freshly Squeezed

Wednesday 4/2 – Wednesday 4/30

We're a ragtag gang of Spokaniacs, exploring the outer reaches of the absurdiverse. If a rock looks unusual, we're going to pick it up and see what's underneath. (But don't worry. We always put rocks back where we found them.)

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A lonely husband desperate for friends writes to Keith Urban after forming an imaginary connection after buying is 30 Songs in 30 Days instructional guitar DVD from an infomercial. The letters release Michael, me, the husband’s most intimate desires for connection as a stay at home dad who married into money.

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The Black Coalition and Crew

Saturday 4/5 – Saturday 6/7

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!!

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Lady Paper Presents

Tuesday 4/8 – Saturday 5/10

The premier papery improv team, Lady Paper, presents their original form, The Estuary.   FEATURING: Josh Ellman, Jack Homesley, Justin Alejos, Jo Hoskins, Amanda Figueiredo, Alex Rood, Casey LaMountain, Victoria Narayan

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SOLOCOM NYC has launched over 400 new solo comedies that have gone on to longer runs, tours and festivals around the world (including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.)   SOLOCOM NYC is a festival of new solo work. All shows presented are 75% 100% new material, and are created specifically for the festival. SOLOCOMs goal is to push artists to create a show that is meaningful, personal and to follow the fear.

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SOLOCOM NYC has launched over 400 new solo comedies that have gone on to longer runs, tours and festivals around the world (including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.)   SOLOCOM NYC is a festival of new solo work. All shows presented are 75% 100% new material, and are created specifically for the festival. SOLOCOMs goal is to push artists to create a show that is meaningful, personal and to follow the fear.    

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SOLOCOM NYC has launched over 400 new solo comedies that have gone on to longer runs, tours and festivals around the world (including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.)   SOLOCOM NYC is a festival of new solo work. All shows presented are 75% 100% new material, and are created specifically for the festival. SOLOCOMs goal is to push artists to create a show that is meaningful, personal and to follow the fear.

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SOLOCOM NYC has launched over 400 new solo comedies that have gone on to longer runs, tours and festivals around the world (including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.)   SOLOCOM NYC is a festival of new solo work. All shows presented are 75% 100% new material, and are created specifically for the festival. SOLOCOMs goal is to push artists to create a show that is meaningful, personal and to follow the fear.

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SOLOCOM NYC has launched over 400 new solo comedies that have gone on to longer runs, tours and festivals around the world (including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.)   SOLOCOM NYC is a festival of new solo work. All shows presented are 75% 100% new material, and are created specifically for the festival. SOLOCOMs goal is to push artists to create a show that is meaningful, personal and to follow the fear.

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SOLOCOM NYC has launched over 400 new solo comedies that have gone on to longer runs, tours and festivals around the world (including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.)   SOLOCOM NYC is a festival of new solo work. All shows presented are 75% 100% new material, and are created specifically for the festival. SOLOCOMs goal is to push artists to create a show that is meaningful, personal and to follow the fear.

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Fifth Floor Walkup

Saturday 4/12 – Saturday 6/14

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!

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SOLOCOM NYC has launched over 400 new solo comedies that have gone on to longer runs, tours and festivals around the world (including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.)   SOLOCOM NYC is a festival of new solo work. All shows presented are 75% 100% new material, and are created specifically for the festival. SOLOCOMs goal is to push artists to create a show that is meaningful, personal and to follow the fear.

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SOLOCOM NYC has launched over 400 new solo comedies that have gone on to longer runs, tours and festivals around the world (including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.)   SOLOCOM NYC is a festival of new solo work. All shows presented are 75% 100% new material, and are created specifically for the festival. SOLOCOMs goal is to push artists to create a show that is meaningful, personal and to follow the fear.

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Love’s a Funny Thing

Friday 4/18 – Friday 6/13

It's 1980 and one of the most popular shows on television is Love's a Funny Thing, the program where young couples come on to live television and reenact their most unbelievable stories (how they met, how they fell in love, etc.).

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People don't know what they want till you give it to them. Hence Suitably Disgraceful. In a world where art sucks and no one knows better, we become part of the problem in the form of 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!

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Corn Fed Sketch

Thursday 4/24 – Thursday 6/26

Corn Fed Sketch, the corniest sketch show in the west. What happens when you when you put a bunch Midwesterners with big dreams on a stage??? They write a sketch show! You can see the Titanic, a masked killer, and big ole glasses of whole milk. And if you’re lucky maybe you’ll get to meet The Donner Party.

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Scripts on Stage

Saturday 4/26 – Saturday 6/21

Join us as a group of talented actors perform LIVE two never-before-seen comedy pilots written by some of the most hilarious storytellers in the city. Come catch these shows before they make their way onto your television screen! Presented by Peter Clark-Deutsch

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It’s a Lifestyle

Sunday 4/27 – Saturday 6/21

It's a Lifestyle is a high-energy, offbeat musical comedy that dives into modern relationships and the chaotic world of swinging. Betty and Richard, a 1920s couple stuck in a marriage rut, stumble into the swinging lifestyle through free-spirited Wilma and Otis. What begins as an attempt to reignite their spark becomes a whirlwind of wild parties, blurred boundaries, and unexpected encounters. Chaos escalates when flamboyant mob boss Tony Zamboni mistakes their gatherings for a rival gang operation, sparking misunderstandings and musical mayhem.

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An American (not) in Paris portrays the experience of loneliness, the inimitability of youth, and the reality check of growing up in a relatable, heartfelt, and ultimately laughter and smile inspiring way. You’ll leave hating Americans and Gen Z a little less (no promises, I guess).

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Shotgun Theater

Saturday 5/3 – Saturday 11/1

What happens when a team meets for the first time hours before they take the stage? 6-8 highly skilled performers come together and forced to commit... for one night only to create a never-before seen narrative. Anything can happen in this evening of experimental theater, almost as chaotic as a shotgun wedding.

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Two beautiful women are BACK in the BIG CITY of Manhattan, and they're ready to give the world what it's been asking for: A NON-DENOMINATIONAL WINTER HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA! Get ready to see some incredible digital sketch comedy, outstanding stand up, and we're going to also try to learn that jingle bell dance from the Mean Girls the Musical Movie. I can't think of a better way to ring in the new year...can you?

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BITE

Friday 5/23 7:00 pm

Choosing your culinary comedic experience from an eclectic, limited seasonal menu was a bold move by current service industry employees, Kate Jarecki and Analyse Capodiferro. But the ingredients at BITE are fresh and funny, with absolutely no preservatives. We aim to provide a variety of laughs for every diet.

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College Radio

Saturday 5/31 7:30 pm

A playlist of sketches. Each show in this series is inspired by a musical theme – the playlist could be any genre from punk and party anthems to 70s classics and Broadway musicals. Come hear what musically inspired sketches College Radio has composed!

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Swiftie 101

Tuesday 6/17 8:00 pm

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.

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