SHOWS
“If you've ever wanted to see the future of comedy—head to the BCC.” - Time Out New York
Virgin sacrifices and sexual… tension! It’s pride. It’s Jennifer’s Body, Rocky Horror shadow cast style.
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
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.
You read right: 100 people will get the chance to gam out on the Mainstage pride style. Stick around after to dance and hang with 100 gammers.
Pre-order a limited edition “Yes, And…I’m Gay Pride” shirt!
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
Eliza will attempt to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony in just one hour. Can she do it? Objectively, no. But it’ll be fun to watch her try.
Students from the Sketch Level 2 Class, instructed by Nick Mestad, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Come be unapologetically [insert non-white race here] and unapologetically goofy on stage with us on the 4th Friday of each month at 7pm at the BCC Pig Pen!
Free for BCC Students w/ suggested donation to Div. Scholarship!
Whatever your obsession, “Obsessed with Us” will interview you (or another audience member) about it — then do a fully improvised long-form show based on that interview!
Do you hear the harmony...? The correct answer is no, you don't hear a thing. Because this isn't musical improv, and because these three improv teams have been buzzing at a frequency of 639 Hz since their serendipitous first show alongside each other.
Legendary improv duo Mike Jest & John Randall do forty five minutes of the Chicago-style comedy!
Students from the Summer Improv Intensive: Levels 1 & 2 Class, instructed by Taylor Gonzalez and Maya Sharma display their hard work in this final class show!
Students from Section 1 of BCC’s Clown Intensive show off what they've learned in their jam packed week!
These veteran improvisers and long time friends deliver fast-paced, wild style, Deep-Dish, Chicago Style Improv.
Students from the Summer Improv Intensive: Levels 2 & 3 Class, instructed by Maya Sharma, Julian Hernandez, and Devin Bockrath display their hard work in this final class show!
Students from Section 2 of BCC’s Clown Intensive show off what they've learned in their jam packed week!
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: TBA
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: Scottsdale, No Reservations, Little Darlings
An unpredictable comedy show about cardboard boxes and nothing else.
With bio queen realness, high-camp and good-old fashioned physical comedy, West is on full display through the lens of a true commedienne .
Extraordinary Machine is a dynamic, hour-long vaudeville-inspired carnie comedy show, where comic turned-ring leader, Emily Villarreal embarks upon on a quest to highlight the talents of comics so freak-ishly talented they actually defy the laws of nature.
Six friends explore the human condition through the splendid art form of improv.
Inspired by the perfectly legal, non-traumatizing reality show Dance Moms, BOB will perform improv while––as our moms-–we comment on our own performances.
Three improv groups consisting of three people each all show off their own personal brand of improv.
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
Pump Up: The Jam is a weekly improv mic hosted by William Banks, Maya Sharma, and Tej Khanna where anyone can put their name in and perform improv in a mash up group with other comedians.
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
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.
Come watch a live episode of Grey's Anatomy- the longest-running scripted primetime medical drama- UNSCRIPTED.
BCC is thrilled to announce our new podcast F*CK IT / LOVE IT, all about platforming the community at the BCC and our ethos of not taking ourselves too seriously (f*ck it) and loving what we do and everyone we do it with (love it). Hosted by Philip Markle and Maya Sharma and featuring our first guest Dylan Adler (THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN) and stand-up from Alex Kim.
Fireworks are more important than Comedy!!! No shows from Thursday July 4th - Sunday July 7th. Enjoy the long weekend, soak in the sun :)
“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic...a leading house of improvisation.” - The New York Times
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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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