Dance, pottery, chalk drawings, bubblegum sculpture, IMPROV! The ideas of artistic movements can be expressed using any media. That might be a surrealist cookbook by Salvador Dali, a futurist industrial-core rock album, or a dada urinal. Join us as we discuss various media of a single art movement, and then contribute to that movement with […]
Hail and well met, friend! Come, sit by the hearth and harken to the tales of NATURAL 7 (Melanie Penn, Ashley Rube, Alayna Huthsing, Leslie Symonds, Ryan Myers, Michael Dorwart & Andy Sloey), the greatest party of adventurers in the realm! Thrill as they recount their latest quests in fervent detail through the power of […]
Am I The Asshole is an improv show inspired by your favorite life advice subreddits. Our cast will pull from “real” Reddit stories (found on forums such as r/AmITheAsshole, r/Relationships, etc.) to explore the relationships and baffling internal logic of various chronically online strangers. Join us, comment, upvote?
Join The Improv Shop's holiest trinity of teams (Celibate, Serenity, Mother God) as they unite for a night of Divine Comedy.
Encouraging experimentation, spontaneous art and bold collaborations, THE LAB HAS RETURNED. Each Lab show consists of three improv teams. This week's teams: 6 Babes Below, Duncan Idaho & Humpback Wail This is a free event!
All past and present IS performers and students and their friends and family are welcome to join as we celebrate 15 years since we offered our first class. 6-7:30 pm: IS provides beer, soda, and turkey*. Guests bring a dish of their choosing! Sign up via a link on our Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/share/LAkP4QxYZQKz3Qjq/ 7:30 pm: […]
Three Improv Shop House Teams take the stage in House Team Night! Each week you'll see different styles and flavors of longform improv, all in a nice little three set package. This week's teams: Touch Baseball, Game Day, Shitshow
Three local Improv teams will take over the sidestage and get a little weird with it! Experimental, fun, different. Settle down with whatever people drink in the fall and enjoy!
The Cagematch, which was originally created by Kevin Mullaney (former Artistic Director at the UCB Theater), returns to The Improv Shop starting Friday, January 12th 2024. A friendly, longform competition show between two teams, The Cagematch will take place every Friday at 10pm. YOU, THE AUDIENCE, DETERMINES THE WINNER. The winning team plays in the […]
You Already Know presents Ship of Theseus, a new show taking inspiration from their existing form and the philosophical thought experiment of the same name. YAK performs an original form called The Telerondescene, a loose combination of the La Ronde, Monoscene, and the childhood game of Telephone. The form involves 12 individuals swapping out roughly every […]
