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

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!

5 comedians. 5 movie pitches. 2 no-nonsense studio executives. Join in as Drew Scheid and Christoph von Münchow host a night of Hollywood fun, where the audience decides which story will get greenlit for a fully-fledged feature film (improvised comedy scene).    

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!

Matt Higgins & Sunny Outlaw perform 50 minutes of high octane & funny sketch comedy

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!

Sketch comedy that changes shape every show!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

Bust out your camcorders for a showcase of hilarious comedic talent at our sketch revue at New York’s premier improv theater featuring four up-and-coming sketch teams! Featuring: Thomas Brown Girl Mountain Yelling at Pigeons 11th Grade Show Choir

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.

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!

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.

A night of curated improv with teams assembled by our community.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Former Child brings their take on the classic Close Quarters improv format to the PIT stage!

Making his NYC Debut, Matt The Mind Noodler brings his ridiculously funny and delightfully impossible magic and comedy show to The PIT.

No one does sketch comedy like Uncle Function.

Join Anthony Allocca (Director) and Cullen Curth (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.

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

This show blends pop music, theatre, comedy and maybe some light spell casting.

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!

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

Join PIT Instructor Patrick McCartney in this long form improv show with a cast of special guests:

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.

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…

The next big idea is right around the corner! Join us as we hear impassioned pitches from our hopeful inventors to be mercilessly judged by our panel of billionaires! Who will be the next Sliced Bread? Dive into the Piranha Pit to find out!

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.

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

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

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

It’s the sickest show you’ll see all week!

I Mostly Blame Myself is a live sketch comedy show running for almost 2 years in NYC & LA. It's a series of dark, weird, hilarious sketches ranging from Disney parodies to historical musicals, to some slightly controversial topics you've always wanted to address. Every show is brand new, completely original, and absolutely absurd.

Dem We Boys (DWB) is new to the NYC comedy scene but totally not new to being cute, sexy and hilarious.

Their improvised comedy is dangerously tasty. Good luck to everyone!

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

Court is in session! 

Real cases, real judgements, really good show. 

Part professional wrestling, part improv, part interpretive dance battle, it's really not a normal dance show.

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

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

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

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

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

Are you a fan of pop divas, game shows, or musicals? Then this star-studded evening is the show for you!

Today in History - Improvised!

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

Some of the finest young up and coming actors in the city will be performing standup for the first time. Watch the students from New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts follow the fear and shine!

This one-of-a-kind show features "The greatest comedy duo," as agreed upon by Scott and Nick's parents.

With a gorgeous mix of musical comedy and spontaneity, these two Bobs use their improv and musical theater roots and real-life best friend bond in this high energy sketch show.

Bringing characters, impressions, and that stuff between the couch cushions, this comedy hour will be full of fun loving variety and featured guests!

A panel show where two teams do their best to discover what is real or fake news.

Join Anthony Allocca (Director) and Adam Magnacca (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!

Every show, a new scene partner joins Stephanie Rae and Katie Hammond to perform an improvised musical. Sure to make you laugh, dance and delight, Scene Here First is a show of firsts and lasts as each musical performs its' opening and closing night based on your suggestions!

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

Chris and Paul are back with an ALL NEW SHOW!

“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?”

This month, College Radio is bringing Big Daddy Energy to the stage by celebrating DAD ROCK

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

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, Jim Galloway, and Sophie Kinne

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

The HERlarious Show is a variety show featuring a rotating cast of the funniest female-identifying comics in sketch, improv, stand-up and musical acts in New York Pretty. Oops, we mean, New York City!

ROAST/PROFESS brings top character, stand-up, clown, comedic and even dramatic actors from across NYC together to either ROAST or PROFESS their love for a different guest every show.

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 Ben Hirsch Maria Schroeder PJ Nally Ruth Angus And Rob White on the keys Follow us on Instagram at hellyeahmusicprov    

Smarties, tums, loose peanuts: the pocket candy of Gods!

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

In "A Funeral for My Face”, Jack Blankenship (The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, SF SketchFest) discusses his fifteen minutes of fame as “The Alabama Face Guy” meme.

Join Anthony Allocca (Director) and Halle Mitchell (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!

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!

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

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

RJ and Phyllis are two straight, cisgender people who own and run a gender reveal party company that keeps on accidentally killing people. While trying to figure out how to fix it, they end up discovering more about themselves that could change their lives forever.   Featuring: Eliana Rubin Riley Elton McCarthy

Dinner for One is a raucous sketch comedy juggernaut known for their physical bits, polished performance and dark humor.

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!