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This Week in NYC Improv & Sketch
May 04 – May 10, 2026
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Hey there,
Here's a curated digest of what caught our eye on NYC improv & sketch stages this week. Just the stuff we'd actually tell a friend about.
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Scroll down for shows every day this week ↓ 🗓️ Monday · 🎭 Tuesday · 🌟 Wednesday · 🥳 Thursday · 🎉 Friday · 🍿 Saturday · ☀️ Sunday
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| Monday, May 4 🗓️ | ★ 06:30 PM · Magnet Theater (Chelsea) I Am Nobody Tony Award-winner Greg Kotis remounts his timely musical parable about technology's hold on us, featuring original cast members. This show was cut short by the pandemic in 2020, making its return especially notable. | 09:00 PM · Magnet Theater (Chelsea) You Are Not Alone: An Uplifting Show About Depression Celebrating over 10 years, this show brings together improvisers who battle depression and mental illness to create scenes inspired by personal essays, offering a unique and supportive comedic space. |
| Thursday, May 7 🥳 | 06:30 PM · Magnet Theater (Chelsea) Musical Megawatt A full night dedicated to musical improv, featuring top improvisers creating new, never-before-seen musicals on the spot. | 07:00 PM · BCC Eris Mainstage (Bushwick) Moms Against Sketch Comedy Moms Against Sketch Comedy presents an hour of entirely original, never-before-seen sketches, all performed on stilts for an extra challenge. | 07:00 PM · BCC Eris Deep Space (downstairs) (Bushwick) The Good Time This fully improvised show, driven by a single audience suggestion, features Chicago improv veterans who have performed at The Second City and iO Chicago. | 07:30 PM · Magnet Theater (Chelsea) Musical Megawatt Another chance to see Magnet's musical improv ensembles craft spontaneous musicals, complete with songs and dance numbers, based on audience input. | ★ 08:30 PM · BCC Eris Deep Space (downstairs) (Bushwick) Demon Time As featured in The New York Times, 'Demon Time' brings wild-ass improvised sketches and a night of comedic mania from the BCC's freaks. |
| Friday, May 8 🎉 | 07:00 PM · BCC Eris Mainstage (Bushwick) Songs N Scenes A unique format that collides live music with unscripted comedy, ensuring every performance is different from the last. | ★ 07:00 PM · BCC The BCC Pig Pen (Bushwick) Weirdos: A Character Mic Hosted by '2023 CBS showcase girlies' Alise Morales and Jetta Juriansz, this open mic invites performers to present their weirdest three minutes of characters. | ★ 07:30 PM · Magnet Theater (Chelsea) Premiere: The Improvised Musical Featuring NYC's top comedy performers and instructors with credits from Second City, HBO, and Comedy Central, this show creates a full musical spontaneously from an audience suggestion. | 08:30 PM · BCC Eris Deep Space (downstairs) (Bushwick) ANNOYING An improvised show by a long-standing group of performers who first met at Annoyance Theater NYC years ago, bringing their established chemistry to the stage. | 08:30 PM · BCC The BCC Pig Pen (Bushwick) TENURE BCC teachers take the stage to improvise, followed by an open improv jam where audience members can play alongside the instructors. | 09:00 PM · Magnet Theater (Chelsea) The Friday Night Sh*w NYC's best improvisers and Magnet faculty perform scenes fueled by anonymous audience confessions and rants, making for a cathartic and comical night. | 10:30 PM · Magnet Theater (Chelsea) CrimeProv: A Murder Mystery! You decide who was murdered and who the killer is in this fully improvised murder mystery show, leaving the cast to piece together the comedic chaos. |
| Saturday, May 9 🍿 | 07:00 PM · BCC Eris Mainstage (Bushwick) AAPI Comedy Night Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with a night dedicated to showcasing and celebrating Blackness and Queerness in comedy. | ★ 07:30 PM · Magnet Theater (Chelsea) The Armando Diaz Experience The legendary Armando Diaz Experience, the longest-running improv show ever, features a guest monologist sharing true stories that are then brought to life by a rotating cast of improv all-stars. A true institution. | 08:30 PM · BCC The BCC Pig Pen (Bushwick) HMID & Friends Present: Improvised Space Opera Travel to a galaxy far, far away with HMID & Friends as they create an entirely improvised space opera before your eyes. | 08:30 PM · BCC Eris Deep Space (downstairs) (Bushwick) What Makes (You) Laugh? BCC's longest-running haus improv show guarantees a completely made-up performance on the spot, for one night only. | ★ 08:30 PM · BCC Eris - Mainstage (Bushwick) Baby Wants Candy Recognized as one of the best known, longest running, and most celebrated improv shows globally, Baby Wants Candy creates a full improvised musical based on an audience suggestion. | ★ 09:00 PM · Magnet Theater (Chelsea) Meltdown: Ghost Girl & Milwaukee Two powerhouse sketch teams, Ghost Girl and Milwaukee!, deliver an uproarious hour of comedy. Their performers have appeared on Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock, and Inside Amy Schumer. |
| Sunday, May 10 ☀️ | 02:00 PM · Second City New York Mainstage (Williamsburg) Yearn The Hard Way This matinee performance of Second City's 'Yearn The Hard Way' offers another chance to see their cast explore the humorous side of love and heartbreak. | 05:00 PM · Second City New York Mainstage (Williamsburg) Nightmare On 9th Street Catch the evening showing of SCNY’s spookiest revue, where the cast finds fun in funeral and embraces morbidity with a comedic twist. | 07:00 PM · BCC Eris Mainstage (Bushwick) Rainbow Riot Rainbow Riot is a vibrant show that celebrates the joys and intersectionality of Blackness and Queerness in comedy. | ★ 07:30 PM · Magnet Theater (Chelsea) Kornfeld & Andrews Hailed by The New York Times as 'Two Improv Masters,' seasoned performers and instructors Rick Andrews and Louis Kornfeld deliver a longform show that's both honest and genuinely funny. | 08:30 PM · BCC Eris Mainstage (Bushwick) Cast Party New York's finest comedians improvise a high school drama club cast party, drawing inspiration from YOUR embarrassing musical theater experiences. | ★ 08:30 PM · BCC The BCC Pig Pen (Bushwick) EEK: WE’RE BACK, AGAIN A new hour of sketch comedy from Evan, Ellena, and Kunal, featuring a special stand-up performance by SNL's Jo Sunday. |
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That's the week. Go see something live — your couch will still be there when you get back.
— The NYC Improv & Sketch Digest crew 🎤
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