Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre has affordable, comedy shows seven nights a week in NYC and LA. Watch the best improv, sketch and standup in the country. Our original comedy video productions have garnered the national spotlight. We also run the first nationally accredited improv and sketch comedy school in the country. For information on our courses, visit the Training Center.

IMPROVISED SHAKESPEARE



Based on one audience suggestion (a title for a play that has yet to be written) The Improvised Shakespeare Co. creates a fully improvised play in Elizabethan style. Each of the players has brushed up on his “thee’s” and “thou’s” to bring you an evening of off-the-cuff comedy using the language and themes of William Shakespeare. Any hour could be filled with power struggles, star-crossed lovers, sprites, kings, queens, princesses, sword-play, rhyming couplets, asides, insults, persons in disguise and all that we’ve come to expect from the pen of the Great Bard. The night could reveal a tragedy, comedy, or history. Nothing is planned-out, rehearsed, or written. Each play is completely improvised, so each play is entirely new!

“staggeringly brilliant”

-Time Out Chicago

Critic’s Pick!

-Chicago Public Radio

“…the show channels Monty Python as often as the Bard, and frequently with sly-witted results.”

-The Chicago Tribune

Featuring:

Ross Bryant

Thomas Middleditch

Blaine Swen

Steve Waltien

And more!

***UCBT STUDENT IDs WILL NOT BE HONORED FOR THIS SHOW***

THIS SHOW WILL BE PERFORMED AT:

THE HUDSON GUILD THEATRE

441 West 26th Street

Btwn. 9th Avenue & 10th Avenue

Upcoming Performances