SHOWS
“If you've ever wanted to see the future of comedy—head to the BCC.” - Time Out New York
Come to the Parent Roast for a night of jokes that would make your mother wash your mouth out with soap.
Only one thing can wake a slumbering supercomputer: the raucous laughter of a live audience…
We've heard your cries for MORE IMPROV. And we are thrilled to announce the Forever Jam, a jam open to current and past BCC improv students... because we're all students of commedia starting NOW and forever. Come get your reps done in an all-levels friendly space!
Free for BCC Students w/ suggested donation to Div. Scholarship!
A live table read of a screenplay written in five hours, based on audience suggestions.
Escape the summer heat with Big Dawg and friends at another fully improvised show!
MORE improv comedy from four lesbians and a guy named stephen, who hangs around bcc a lot.
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only. Each week a cast member gets to play team captain and decide what special rules for that show would make them laugh.
Opener: Little Darlings
It's a stand-up show that we try to film well, and that means the comedians do some of their best camera-ready material!
Featuring: Charlie Bardey, Jessie Lee, Jo Sunday, Cooper Kim, Claire Pellegrino, Go Dummy
Hosted by Donna's Beef, THE BIG BAD FREAKY FEARLESS GURLIE JAMARAM!!! is BCC’s improv jam for women-identifying and non-male folks!
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
Jesus dropped some new parables, and they're like kinda funny this time around.
improv comedy performed by an ALL BISEXUAL (and some who maybe prefer the term queer or pan) IMPROVISERS!!!!
Welcome to BABES! An improv show featuring students & grads of the BCC training center. Catch some of the best rising teams from the BCC. It’s time for the community to fuck around, mess around, and be a god-damn lunatics. By that, we mean do improv.
Featuring: Former Child, Boy Basement, Peoples Princess
Concocted in a comedy laboratory. FDA approved to cure your ails.
Swingers is an improv show featuring REAL improv power couples- how freakin cute is that?!
A bucket, a mic, and 1 minute to impress Toledo Tits Harrison and a panel of The Mount Rushmore of famous females in comedy.
Welcome to our weekly house improv show where a rotating cast of 6 primo indie teams do some of the most GOATED improv you've ever seen!
Featuring: Full of Bones, The Go Go Gos, The Clique
Rainbow Riot celebrates the joys of Blackness and Queerness in Comedy.
Performers get 3 minute slots to try their material out with little pops from After School Special in between. Show off standup, sketch, a character, or even a little poem you've been working on. There is a ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY FOR BIGOTED MATERIAL.
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
Students from the Thursday Improv Level 4 Class, instructed by Andy Junk, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks. Show #1 of 3!
Students from the Tuesday Improv Level 4 Class, instructed by Andy Junk, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks. Show #1 of 3!
Students from Broken Box's Mime Class Level 2 show off what they've learned over the past 5 weeks.
The Good Time is a fully improvised show based on one suggestion from the audience. The Good Time is a team made up of Chicago improv veterans who have performed at The Second City, iO Chicago, The Annoyance, Logan Square Improv.
Openers: TBA
What do you do when the world feels crazy? Turn to clown!
Department of Gay Ecstasy (DOGE) is a variety comedy show making fun of our absurd political climate that we are all supposed to act normal in.
Descend. Join the freaks of the BCC for a night of mania. All new wild-ass improvised sketches every week. Welcome to hell, it’s a party.
“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic.” - The New York Times
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
Join Big Cup improv at the BCC Pig Pen for a night of improv as they attempt to write the next great American novel!
ITS YOUR FREAKY FRIDAY is the brand new show that answers the question, what would it be like if that writer friend finally wrote that script about you?
Stonewall is one of the most iconic events in queer HERstory, but the exact circumstances leading up to the riots has remained a MISstory - UNTIL NOW.
Students from the Creating Comedy Songs class, instructed by Josh Nasser, show off what they've learned!
If you’re looking for a beefy, juicy improv night, this is the show for you.
“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic...a leading house of improvisation.” - The New York Times
FAD IMPROV FESTIVAL
JULY 10-13
750 + performers. 200+ shows. 3 Stages. Workshops galore. It might be the biggest improv fest in the world.
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