Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

We have affordable, high quality shows seven nights a week in NYC and LA. Our original comedy videos 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<br>@ FIT

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:

Blaine Swen

Thomas Middleditch

Ross Bryant

Steve Waltien

Joey Bland

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

This Show Will Be Performed At:

FIT - Seventh Avenue @ 27th Street

Upcoming Performances