SHOWS
“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic...a leading house of improvisation.” - The New York Times
Trust a catalogue of Clowns to solve the climate crisis one vulnerable act at a time.
Come join us for the fourth installment of your favorite showcurls and enjoy an unbelievable night of laughter, love, and improv comedy.
An onstage comedy adventure, where YOU create the heroes, YOU cast the spells, and YOU roll the die!
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
A variety comedy show making fun of our absurd political climate that we are all supposed to act normal in.
3 teams of BCC all-stars take the deep space stage to show 2025 who’s boss.
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.
Welcome to BABES! An improv show featuring students & grads of the BCC on Friday nights. Catch some of the best rising teams from the BCC at our new space The Pig Pen. It’s time for the community to fuck around, mess around, and be a god-damn lunatics. By that, we mean do improv.
Featuring: Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Singing, TUNA, Big Slime
It's a talk show. It's a game show. It's an experiment in comedy that won't work without you.
Two friends, two different styles of comedy, and a guarantee that there will be something for everyone at this show.
EVERYTHING MUST GO! With entertainment in between sales, it's gonna be laughter and ottomans.
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!
Legendary improv duo Mike Jest & John Randall do forty five minutes of the Chicago-style comedy!
With Opener: TBA
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!
These veteran improvisers and long time friends deliver fast-paced, wild style, Deep-Dish, Chicago Style Improv.
A comedy cabaret of the music you know and love from Wicked, performed by an immensely talented queer cast.
Come queen out with your hosts Hannah Rehak & Lily Reed and their guest cast of improvisers, stand ups, sketch performers, and miscreants.
Featuring: Saidah Belo-Osagie, Kihresha Redmond, Stephen Kropa
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. Sit back, relax, and watch the chaos unfold.
Opener: TBA
Are you coming to dinner tonight?? A night of stand-up comedy you can make a MEAL out of.
Featuring: Maddie Burke, Katy Murphy, Maura Mazurowski, Shareef Taher
Dangerous Marine Life is two queer couples. Who's dating who? Find out at the show. But be careful. There might be sharks.
Come dish at Tea Time—a comedy show inspired by your real life gossip.
It’s all made up. None of this is real.
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: PWI, Skip Skip, Big Dawg
A handful of standup comics will get topic suggestions from YOU (the audience) to write a brand-new, off-the-cuff standup set.
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.
Vero, Lili, Maya and Georgia (the sardines) popping and locking it (doing improv) at the BCC.
on this holy festival day, we go to clint church, an improv happening so quick and so fun that by the end you will see god aka clint.
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
Hot Flash brings together old-school greats, new teams on the rise—all your improv faves from all over NYC.
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