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!
Students from the Musical Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Katy Berry, 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!
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: Double Date
A cast of human flesh sacks will perform an hour-long improvised body horror film based on your suggestion. Terrified yet, or are you still laughing?
Baby Wants Candy is one of the best known, longest running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.
Students from the Wednesday Stand Up Level 1 Class, instructed by Sara Hennessey, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Stand Up Level 2 Class, instructed by Shalewa Sharpe, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Clown Level 1 Class, instructed by Tallie Medel, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Students from the Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Maya Sharma, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
¿Qué? is a Spanish-speaking improv team with one white guy who doesn’t speak any Spanish. It’s comedy anyone can understand!
Students from the Clown Level 2 Class, instructed by Chris Manley, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Students from the Tuesday Improv Level 4 Class, instructed by Andy Junk, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks. Show #3 of 3!
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
Students from the Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Devin Bockrath, 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.
Students from the Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Maya Sharma, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
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 Clown Level 1 Class, instructed by Julian Hernandez , show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Improv Level 3 Class, instructed by John Randall, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Students from the Improv Level 1 Class, instructed by Molly Ledbetter, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
We’re going back to our roots: an hour of new sketch comedy.
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
Join Big Cup improv at the BCC Pig Pen for a night of improv as they attempt to write the next great American novel!
Bring your friends, family, foes, and fears, and you might win a special prize! wink wink.
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.
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 Wed Improv Level 1 Class, instructed by Taylor Gonzalez, 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 see Chine Ikoro (and some special guests) try out brand new characters and sketches for the first time (and for some, the last)!
Students from the Thursday Improv Level 1 Class, instructed by Taylor Gonzalez, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Improv Level 3 Class, instructed by Maria Randazzo, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
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!
Veteran improvisers take the stage for a high-energy long-form performance, all set in one location.
Students from the Saturday Stand Up Level 1 Class, instructed by Sara Hennessey, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
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: Big Little Guys
Brookyln's hottest butches do improv to raise money for Trans Asylias
Dearly Beloved, we gather at the BCC to honor the memory of your butt...because you’re about to laugh it off your body!
Students from the Improv Level 3 Class, instructed by Julian Hernandez, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Catch a never-before-seen episode of TVs Columbo ~ part murder mystery, part-melodramatic, part funny-as-shit.
Zebra is a supergroup of veteran performers with a combined 112 years of experience.
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: I'm So Happy, The 96 Bulls, clint
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.
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.
No one makes things up like frat boyz. Come pledge at improv night in the Deep Space of the legendary “BCC fraternity.”
Opener: Skip Skip
It's tarot cards, it's Brooklyn, it's improv — it's the moment.
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.
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!
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!
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!
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
An unpredictable comedy show about cardboard boxes and nothing else.
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.
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.
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: I'm So Happy, The 96 Bulls, clint
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
In 1975, Clarice changed the course of comedy forever by creating an entirely new form: a series of brief comedic vignettes that came to be known as “sketches.”
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: I'm So Happy, The 96 Bulls, clint
Tickets: $10 in Advance / $15 Day of Show
Tickets: $12 in Advance / $17 Day of Show
Tickets: $10 in Advance / $15 Day-of Show
Tickets: $12 in Advance / $17 Day of Show
Tickets: $10 in Advance / $15 Day of Show
Do you want to see the dumbest, most laugh out loud comedy acts in NYC together in one show?! This one's for you.
ANNOYING is a fully improvised show by a long-standing group of performers who met at Annoyance Theater NYC many, many years ago.
The sickest Chicago sketch duo and heaviest Brooklyn hyperpop band come together for a Friday the squirt-teenth performance !
This will be a live stage reading of the (mostly) true story of a female 40 Year Old Virgin.
2023 CBS showcase girlies and certified freaks Alise Morales and Jetta Juriansz invite you to present your weirdest 3 minutes of characters at this bucket open mic. Seriously - the weirder the better. Just don't be racist.
FREE
Students from the Thursday Improv Level 4 Class, instructed by Andy Junk, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks. Show #3 of 3!
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.
Shalewa examines her lifelong fear of falling and her battle to stand.
Students from the Musical Improv Level 1 Class, instructed by Ali Reed, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Mothers. They feed us, they clothe us, we make us feel better when we're sick, and they teach us lifelong lessons. Come watch as we use the boundless wisdom of mom's to make fun jokes and do wacky antics.
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
Girl Mountain and It's Completely Different (because we're redoing our favorite sketches recast with our favorite comedians) but Also Still Girl Mountain (because it's our show). It's Girl Mountain: the Remix.
Students from the Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Miranda Rozas, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Students from the Thursday Improv Level 4 Class, instructed by Andy Junk, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks. Show #2 of 3!
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.
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.
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: I'm So Happy, The 96 Bulls, clint
A titillating improv and character show featuring an all women-presenting lineup.
Students from BCC’s Character Workshop class, instructed by Jamie Linn Watson, show off their hard work from the last 5 weeks.
An hour of musical improv by three teams who have never done musical improv.
Students from the Tuesday Improv Level 4 Class, instructed by Andy Junk, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks. Show #2 of 3!
Escape the summer heat with Big Dawg and friends at another fully improvised show!
A live interactive comedy experience, featuring improv, stand up, sketch, + more, but with a hot + spicy twist!
Come celebrate by blowing it all in one glorious night, with P2BH and friends!
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: Toy Boat
This joyous variety show, hosted by Philip 'Sparkle,' features his favorite queers taking the stage with stand-up, song, dance, and surprises galore in a cynicism-free space. Leave the irony at the door, honey. It's Gay Church!
Students from Broken Box's Mime Class Level 1 show off what they've learned over the past 5 weeks.
The best improv team in the world is back this month for another epic comedy explosion.
An original musical comedy about a queer kid’s obsession with pop divas and the search for the diva within!
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!
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