TuesDays
EVERY TUES @ 7:00 PM
Welcome to our weekly improv show where six of the best teams the BCC (three performing each night) has to offer do some of the goofiest improv you've ever seen.
WEDNESDAYS
3rd Wed @ 7:00 PM
No one makes things up like frat boyz. Come reunite with your college besties at improv night at the BCC Frat Haus.
4th Wed @ 8:30 PM
An improvised sketch and characters show. Cast members bring ideas from improv sets previously performed, and rehearse, refine, and crystallize them into their sketch form to ensure maximum energy and vulgarity.
THURSDAYS
EVERY THURS @ 7:00 PM
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. We all love Chicago, don’t we?
EVERY Thurs @ 8:30 PM
“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic.” - The New York Times. Descend into the basement for all-new improvised sketches every week from the freaks of the BCC. Welcome to hell, it’s a party. FREE.
FRIDAYS
1st FRIDAY @ 8:30 PM
Donna's Beef is an all female/non-binary group of veteran improvisers who have written for/been seen on The Problem with Jon Stewart, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central, HBO, Netflix, The Second City, UCB, New York Comedy Festival and more.
2nd FRIDAY @ 8:30 PM
Come watch BCC teachers fuck up everything they teach in this wild-style improv show, followed by an improv jam featuring anyone who wants to play onstage with our teachers!
4th FRIDAY @ 8:30 PM
We all have obsessions. Whether its Manga or Jenga. In this fully improvised show, we will interview at least one lucky audience member about one of their obsessions and use that conversation to inspire a long fully improvised show.
4th FRIDAY @ 8:30 PM
Legendary comedy duo Mike Jest and John Randall perform an hour of grounded, viscerally silly improv.
SATURDAYS
EVERY SAT @ 8:30 PM
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show. Each week 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.
2nd SAT @ 8:30 PM
Baby Wants Candy is one of the best known, longest running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.
3rd SAT @ 7:00 PM
3rd Sat @ 8:30 PM
New music ocomedy and sketch every month, featuring some of their funniest friends from #squirtnation
SUNDAYS
4th Sunday @ 8:30 PM
How Do I Get INVOLVED?
Most of the shows at the BCC are submission based as we find the competitive nature of holding too many auditions antithetical to the core BCC ethos. We want people to organically find their people: the ones they love to create with, practice with, and then submit to the BCC for consideration. We believe this approach empowers members of the BCC Community to make meaningful connections and, ultimately, produces better comedy.
Our weekly shows Demon Time and What Makes You Laugh feature seasoned BCC Performers and are cast at the discretion of The Artistic Director and Associate Director. In general, we add cast members a few times a year to those shows. Casting is done by inviting performers recommended to us by members of our community (teachers, staff, hosts at the jams, and our Artistic/Associate Director) to guest on those shows and seeing if they’re a good fit with the cast, both from a performance and interpersonal standpoint. We consider people to guest on WMYL based on seeing them perform around the theater and by gathering suggestions from the BCC Staff and Community.
We also invite outstanding existing teams to audition to play on Home Teams, our weekly improv show on Tuesdays before the jam. Home Teams is both an opportunity to showcase more experienced improv teams and to provide a platform for more up-and-coming teams to get reps in. Shows are booked for Home Teams via invite-only auditions cast by Artistic Director Philip Markle, Associate Director Maya Sharma, and Producer Marissa Moorhead.
We also hold yearly open auditions for our Mainstage Residency, which features a cast of 8 performers creating an original sketch revue through improvisation for a multiple-month run at the theater.
There’s free community events every week at BCC, from open mics to improv jams to mixers and mics.
Other performance opportunities include Babes, our submission-based weekly student/grad improv team show designed to help you get in reps, and opening for WMYL, a spot that’s reserved for newer improv teams.
We invite you to submit your show for consideration to BCC, or if you have an improv team that wants to open for our house shows:
Email Colin Rourke <cfrancisrourke@gmail.com> to apply for15-minute opening slot on The Good Time on Thursdays @ 7:00 PM.
Email Philip Markle <philip@brooklyncc.com> to apply for a 15-minute opening slot on What Makes [You] Laugh @ 8:30 PM.