SHOWS
“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic...a leading house of improvisation.” - The New York Times
I’m going to workshop a character set live with the audience I think, or maybe I’ll do something else, anyway I need some stage time. In case whatever I do is f*cked, there will be really good standup comedians performing too.
Students from the Stand Up Level 2 Class, instructed by Shalewa Sharpe, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks! Show #2 of 2!
Students from the Thursday Improv Level 1 Class, instructed by Taylor Gonzalez, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
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
Check into the White Lotus for an improvised musical full of glamour, intrigue, and murder!
Students from the Musical Improv Level 3 Class, instructed by Katy Berry, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
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.
Students from the Level Class, instructed by Riley Soloner , show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Vaudeville is a comedy show, but more than anything, it's about Whimsy, Love, and the Infinite Magic of the Universe.
Students from the Stand Up Level 2 Class, instructed by JoAnn Schinderle, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Improv Level 1 Class, instructed by Onyi Okoli, show off their hard work from the last 7 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
Check Out follows Edson on their last day in intensive outpatient rehab as their counselor, Dr. Gomez, gets them ready for discharge and set up for future success - and doing so by any means necessary.
A night of love and improv- two duos who fell platonically (?) in love through College Improv.
Just twice a year, seven gals come together for a sketch show, one night only!
Students from the Stand Up Level 1 Class, instructed by Yedoye Travis, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
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.
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!
Students from the Improv Level 4 Class, instructed by Andy Junk, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks. Show #3 of 3!
Students from the Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Micah Sterenberg, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Students from the Improv Level 3 Class, instructed by Julian Hernandez, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Audiences write REAL SECRETS, we create a MUSICAL on the spot. Directed by Katy Berry, Music by Ammon Taylor.
Students from the Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Maya Sharma, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Legendary improv duo Mike Jest & John Randall do forty five minutes of the Chicago-style comedy! Featuring special guest Tim Platt playing @iamkingbozo
Opening Music by Worm Catcher @_wormcatcher_
Students from the Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Maya Sharma, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Students from the Sketch Level 1 Class, instructed by Micah Sterenberg, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Sketch Level 2 Class, instructed by Nick Mestad, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Come to the world’s funniest most awesome comedy show, made by girls and gays for girls and gays and also everyone else.
Students from the Improv Level 3 Class, instructed by Colin Rourke, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
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