HEADLINER: Welcome to the BCC's longest-running improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only. A cast member gets to play team captain and decide what special rules for that show would make them laugh. Sit back, relax, and watch the chaos unfold.
HEADLINER: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert may be canceled, but improv from its writers is very much alive.
HEADLINER: ASSSSCAT is UCB’s signature improv show that has played to critical acclaim and sold out audiences across the country.
HEADLINER: Shitzprobe is a fully improvised musical that features a very special guest star throwing away the script to make up a brand-new musical on the spot. Every song, lyric, line of dialogue and dance move is totally improvised, accompanied by a live band creating the score right before your eyes. And YOU are part of the show's creation - shout out the title of a musical that doesn’t exist, and watch it come to life! @shitzprobe
"The Yes-Andies are "The Oscars of Improv!"" An awards show celebrating the best-if-not-brightest of NYC improv over the past calendar year. Black Tie sternly encouraged. @yesandies
In the Brooklyn improv community, punching down is considered especially heinous. In East Williamsburg, the dedicated improvisors who edit these flops are members of an elite squad known as the @dundunimprov team. These are their sets.
DOPPELGÄNGERS (@doppelgangersimprov) is an improv group of six curly-haired lookalikes. At Fun and Dumb, the DOPPELGÄNGERS will perform their coveted DOPPELGÄNGER™ form. At any moment during their set, a DOPPELGÄNGER can tap another DOPPELGÄNGER out to become their character. The transition is so seamless, the audience will not even notice. And if they do... check ya glasses.
Zebra is a supergroup of veteran performers with a combined 112 years of experience. All audience members are guaranteed to leave this show with an improv boner, and maybe even a real one if you’re a freak.
2026!? Whatever happened to 2006…come see Brooklyn's freakiest musical improv group, ANGUS, present your favorite Y2K movie musical that never got made!
Due to ridiculous circumstances, the entire cast who rehearsed the musical you came to see can't make it. But don’t worry, The Understudies are here to fill in! You won't even know the difference. Now what was that musical called again?
BCC's staff take the stage and we all laugh and laugh.
As all theater kids know, sometimes the best drama happens after the curtains close. At Cast Party, eight comedians will improvise their way through a high school drama club cast party based on YOUR suggestions.
@improvised.theatre An improvised play by eight of NYC’s top actors (who also happen to do improv)!
COME WITNESS NYC’S ONLY IMPROVISED PLAY!
The children of Meisner, Adler, Strasberg, Atlantic, and any expensive acting/conservatory come together for one night to give the performance of a lifetime. Together, they will improvise a full-length play that will surely showcase their ability to be dramatic… all based on an audience’s suggestion of the title of the play.
ARE YOU FOLEY FREAKS READY 2 B UNLEASHED, SLUSH PUPPIE STYLE?!🐶🐩🐾🦴
In this experimental improv show, YOUR sounds make OUR set! We'll bring the mic & soundboard, you just bring your beautiful voice boxes, and maybe a story or two.
(@slushpuppiecomedy)
Come watch Middle Pancake explore (or explode?) their unique form THE FLAPJACK STACK, as they create moving, hilarious, and absurd scenes and characters across multiple worlds. This crew of BCC alumni take the MainStage at noon--the perfect time for PANCAKES. (no pancakes provided, this is a BYOP show)
The only improv show on a boat. One crew; one ocean; one story for the ages.
HEADLINER: @olestra_improv Olestra is a squad of dangerous Chicago criminals who make out and beat the hell out of each other on stage here in New York. They evaded arrest by racking up credits in the entertainment industry; The Tonight Show, The Second City, UCB Betty, The Improvised Shakespeare Company, to name a few.
HEADLINER: World renowned musical improv ensemble Baby Wants Candy ("Truly Amazing! Critics Pick!" New York Times) makes up a musical based on your title. Some recent titles we've liked "Project Hail Mary Poppins", "Sweeney Toddler" and "Hotuncles.com, the Musical". It will be one of the funnest and dumbest things you'll ever see.
HEADLINER: A Twink and a Redhead are pop stars, actors, philanthropists, politicians, and so much more. But now, they can add improvisers to their lengthy list of accomplishments. With the help of your suggestions, Grant & Ash will perform short scenes, write songs, and maybe even have a few other surprises up their sleeves. Who could say? It is improv after all!
Join Grant & Ash for an unforgettable evening as they dare to answer the greatest question of all: Can hot people do improv?
HEADLINER: Messing and Lehr are A Delightful Couple, an improvised comedy romp to wherever they want to go.
Emotionally naked improvised theater.
Asian improv icons unite in this one night only showcase! Come experience improv from a different perspective and join us in celebrating culture, comedy and community.
Award-winning improvisers bring you “high art meets low bullshit” meets clown meets avant-garde theater meets drama therapy meets total insanity. We are preparing to journey to Edinburgh Fringe this summer to rid them of their ills. We will find you - we will heal you - Do not be afraid.
Only all Muslim improv comedy team in NYC (and the world?!). Comprised of improvisers from improv theaters across NYC including UCB, Magnet Theater, BCC, and beyond. Formed during Ramadan 2025, since performed at venues all over the city including Magnet Theater, Second City, and Asian AF at UCB. Whether we are Halal or not we are always Halalrious 🌙💚
YES AND THE CITY is a fully-improvised Sex and the City show, debuting new and highly anticipated episodes of the original show. In the past, the show has featured SPECIAL GUESTS Ben Weber (who played Skipper in the original series), and also Tristan Lee Griffin portraying Eric Adams (a NYC-character so ya know). The show is RAUCOUS, SEXY, FUN for all fans and not-fans of the original HBO show.
Old Yorkers takes your wildly specific, only-in-New-York stories and turns them into a completely improvised show that's chaotic, unpredictable, and absolutely unrepeatable.
Featuring veteran performers from the Magnet, UCB, Second City, and iO Chicago, including writers and performers from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, Reductress, Broad City, Inside Amy Schumer, At Home with Amy Sedaris, and Improv Everywhere.
Five veteran improvisers and sketch performers build an entire world set in a single location. Characters collide, relationships unravel, and something like a plot emerges. It's improv performed with the commitment of theater: grounded, dramatic, yet deeply silly.
BOOBIE TRAP presents beautiful comedy. What kind? See for your dang self @boobietrapsketch
A stellar team of all black improvisers that have trained at theaters all throughout the city. Get ready to laugh, cry, and meet the love of your life!
Team's IG: @pwi_improv
Finally, an improv show that will make you want to go to jury duty! “The Trial” improvises a tense courtroom trial right before your eyes — from dramatic opening statements to thrilling verdict.
The first half of the show is a “Spokane” form in the courtroom; we flash back-and-forth in time from the courtroom to the events pertinent to the trial, all the while “seeing” testimony, witnesses, and evidence along the way.
The second half of the show is a Monoscene taking place during deliberations as a jury decides the fate of the accused.
Can you handle the truth???
Follow us at @thetrial improv
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