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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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Join Big Cup & friends the first Friday of the month at the PIT Loft April, May, and June, as they boldly ask: can friendship make comedy stronger? Does love conquer all? Join us for laughs from improv, characters, and stand up, and stay for poignant realizations that your friends really ARE your biggest strength. Peace, love, and Big Cup ✌️☮️☕️

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CHARACTER COUNTS OPEN MIC

Friday 4/4 – Friday 6/27

CHARACTER COUNTS is a Character Open Mic where you can workshop current characters AND/OR develop brand new ones! Every Friday we'll start with a quick refresh of the 'Pillars of Character' from host Liz Coin, followed by YOUR 5-minute sets. Come early to sign up - beginners, character improvisers, and clowns are welcome! Join us for this Friday mic, where Character Counts!   HOSTED BY LIZ COIN   $5 CASH AT THE DOOR SIGNUPS IN-PERSON FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE

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Great Gatsby!

Friday 4/4 – 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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Crowdsource

Friday 4/4 – Friday 6/6

5 stand ups take the stage, but the one thing they can’t take with them is prepared material. The comics will engage with the audience and will also have the opportunity to get topics given to them at random. What ensues is anyone’s guess, but the one thing that is sure is that we will all have an absolute blast!

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Hot Goss

Friday 4/4 – 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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Sotto Voce & Friends

Saturday 4/5 – 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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Ladies Stand-Up! (Men Sit Down) Open Mic

Saturday 4/5 – 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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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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Ross Belsky Presents….

Saturday 4/5 – Saturday 6/28

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.

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Austin Olson Presents…

Monday 4/7 – Monday 4/28

Austin Olson Presents is a unique comedy experience every Monday night at The People’s Improv Theater, showcasing a variety of improv, sketch, and theatrical performances that will leave you in stitches.

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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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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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The Wednesday Show MIC

Wednesday 4/9 – 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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The Understudies

Tuesday 4/15 8:00 pm

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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Night Shift presents "Nothing to See Here,” an improv comedy show blending humor with unexpected twists in a reality-bending narrative. Get ready for clever storytelling, surprising turns, and a unique mix of grounded emotion and absurdity. Join us for a great evening!

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PIT ENSEMBLES

Thursday 4/17 – Thursday 9/25

Experience live, long-form, and musical improvisation with our HOUSE TEAMS!
 

4/17 PREMIER LINEUP!

Team - "Penalty Boxxx" 7PM

Team - "Bodega Butter" 7PM

Team - "Pyramid Scheme" 8PM

Musical Team - "WhimSync" 8PM

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The Series Finale

Thursday 4/17 – 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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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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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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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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The Dale and Mary Show

Friday 4/18 – Friday 5/9

Dale and Mary are a rural couple that are real good at making simple life real complicated. They just can’t seem to see eye-to-eye but their foibles are the dysfunctional glue that bonds and keeps them plodding on!

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Theatre Sports!

Friday 4/18 – 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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Premier Pit

Friday 4/18 – Saturday 6/14

CONGRATULATIONS! You’re invited to the world premier of the next great improv teams! Join us as we welcome our new friends into the brutal cut throat arena of indie improv comedy! Two teams enter the pit, and both teams will leave just fine and hopefully leave us a good review on the internet!

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Fifth Floor Walkup

Saturday 4/19 – 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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It's Tea Time at the PIT Fishbowl, and you're invited! Join Noa and Raquel for an evening of goofs, gaffes, tea, and treats. Enjoy a dazzling array of New York City's funniest comedians, musicians, and variety acts surrounded by friends. Tea and cookies will be offered as well, with all proceeds going back to the performers.

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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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Midwestern Delicacy

Friday 4/25 8:00 pm

The best of the midwest gather for a delicious comedy casserole! This variety show will feature stand-up, characters, music, and more. The only rule? Every artist is MIDWESTERN and a DELICACY.

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Michael John Ciszewski: TGIF

Friday 4/25 – 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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To Drop A Dime

Saturday 4/26 8:00 pm

You’re invited to a sit down meeting where you, the audience, are members of most powerful mafia families in nyc. But here’s the catch: one of you is wearing a wire. And were about to find out!

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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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2prov Mayhem

Saturday 4/26 9:30 pm

A night where some of NYCs finest 2prov duos take the stage with their own style, comedic flair and infectious energy. Come hang with us while we take you on the wild ride of 2prov!

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It’s a Lifestyle

Saturday 4/26 – 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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Freshly Squeezed

Wednesday 4/30 6:15 pm

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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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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Maurine & Maurice Show

Saturday 5/3 – Thursday 5/15

The Maurine & Maurice Show is an absurdist mob-comedy experience where a retired gangster and his luxury-loving wife plunge an unsuspecting tour group into chaos—mixing scripted and unscripted antics, musical interludes, and a prohibition-era twist in a wildly immersive spectacle of crime, comedy, and calamity.

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YELLING AT PIGEONS

Thursday 5/8 9:15 pm

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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One woman shows are typically very tight, polished, and one woman. This is not that. In The First Two Woman Show, best friends Hannah and Carolina will act out scenes from their lives and attempt to share the spotlight.

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Improv Team ‘Daddy Needs A Win’ performs their season finale after a successful run with PIT Ensembles. It’s long form improv comedy with high energy, relevant subject matter, & synergetic group play.   Featuring: Ted Andricos Max Banks Beau Danner Teddy Fischer Tiffany Huntley Francis Laguna-Driscoll Rebecca Miller Anna Nelson Mark Said Coached By Sunny Outlaw.

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Backdoor Barbecue

Saturday 5/17 – 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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That’s Our Show!

Thursday 5/22 9:15 pm

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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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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Featuring oldies AND goodies, the Old Favorites Open Mic will feature comics performing jokes/bits from their EARLIEST days in comedy (stand-up & characters welcome). This mic is open to YOU to dust off some of your old work. The older and dustier the better.

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CRUD! presents…

Friday 5/23 – 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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The Awakening

Saturday 5/24 6:00 pm

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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A 2 Safe Life

Wednesday 5/28 6:30 pm

Comedian and storyteller Dustin D’Addato takes you on a humorous journey through a life changing brush with death. Along the way learning what is truly important: Post-it notes, High school traditions and Fancy fake penises.

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Is This Normal?

Friday 5/30 6:00 pm

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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Fowl Play

Saturday 5/31 7:30 pm

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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The Shy Vaudevillian

Friday 6/6 10:00 pm

The Shy Vaudevillian combines stand-up, storytelling, and handmade visuals to create a distinctly modern vaudeville experience where body dysmorphia, lotto scratch-offs, and mansplaining collide face-first with a banana cream pie!

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Horse Beef

Tuesday 6/17 – Friday 9/19

Horse Beef begins every show by asking the audience for 3 desires. These 3 desires will become the starting point for 3 story lines that Horse Beef will weave together over the course of the show.

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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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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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Fun Time!

Friday 6/27 6:00 pm

It's your happy place! A stimulating sketch show adventure through your favorite things! First Day of Work Orientation! Elementary School Assemblies! The Food Network! You never know what you'll be subjected to!!

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Girl Theory

Saturday 6/28 – Saturday 11/15

Girl Theory dismisses the validity of the question “are women funny?” with a 50 minute girl-centric sketch variety show that will make you question everything that you have ever believed to be true.

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Message in a Bottle

Sunday 6/29 7:00 pm

It’s a surreal but true-to-life love story between a woman and a bottle of vodka, from the early days of awkward first love to the ultimate betrayal, and the realization that life going forward without it isn’t just doable– it can be beautiful.

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