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.

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UCB Theatre LA UCB Theatre NY UCB East UCBcomedy.com
5919 Franklin Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
(323) 908-8702
307 W. 26th St.
New York, NY 10001
(212) 366-9176
153 East 3rd St.
New York, NY 10009
(212) 366-9231
Tonight's Schedule
Wed May 16, 2012
Tonight's Schedule
Wed May 16, 2012
Tonight's Schedule
Wed May 16, 2012
Today's Highlight
  • 6:30pm $5 Spank Christmas in March / Freddie Mercury: I'm Gay, I Have AIDS, and I'm Dead

    See two brand new sketch or solo shows birthed right before your eyes. These shows have never been performed on the UCBTLA stage before.

  • 8:00pm $5 Maude Night Goodman / New Money
    free to UCBTLA students with ID

    Sketch comedy from some of UCBTLA's best sketch writers and performers!

    This performance is sold out. There will be a stand-by line for this show.
  • 9:30pm $5 Facebook Standby tickets free to UCBTLA students with ID

    2 audience members are randomly plucked from the audience to get their FACEBOOK page examined and then turned into long form improvised comedy scenes.

    This performance is sold out. There will be a stand-by line for this show.
  • 11:00pm $5 Freak Dance: Movie Screening

    FREAK DANCE. A Movie Screening

  • 6:00pm $5 WFMU's 7 Second Delay Live

    Join us for a live broadcast of radio station 91.1 FM WFMU's "7 Second Delay." Featuring WFMU's Ken Freedman and Andy Breckman.

    Reservations for this performance are no longer available.
  • 8:00pm $5 BōF: Friends Without Benefits! & POSE Magazine

    Is it possible for men and women to just be friends? And how will not having sex affect the equation? Who cares?! Let's just have some fun!

    Sue Galloway (30 Rock) will put the women's magazine back where it belongs: on stage.

  • 9:30pm $5 Brandon Gulya Will Be Famous Soon & NEWSADOOZIES: A Man-Eating Musical

    Brandon Gulya has been trying for years to get famous (3) and he was all out of ideas. Until he wrote this show!

    Newsadoozies is a new musical chronicling the news boys of New York City in their adventures of selling newspapers, finding love, and getting eaten by the members of an ancient evil cannibalistic sex cult.

  • 11:00pm Free School Night

    School Night is a weekly showcase for new and experimental material from New York's top improv, sketch, and stand-up performers. Hosted by Sasheer Zamata.

    This performance does not accept reservations.
  • 7:00pm $5 LLOYD NIGHT --Hoops
    --Spooky Ghost

    Come see longform improv from NYC's top up-and-coming improv stars.

    Reservations for this performance are no longer available.
  • 8:00pm $5 Doppelganger

    Doppelganger will take a suggestion and create scenes that weave in and out of worlds, connecting them all through an organic free form structure. They will organically make you orgasm (organically).

  • 9:00pm $5 The Two-Man Movie

    Neil Casey & Anthony Atamanuik (Death By Roo Roo) perform a completely improvised movie.

  • 10:00pm $5 HOT FOR TEACHER: The UCB Faculty Show

    HOT FOR TEACHER: The UCB Faculty Show

  • 11:00pm Free The Improv Jam hosted by Grandma's Ashes!

    UCBeast's weekly improv jam! Think you have the improv chops to jam with Ralph? Prove it!

    This performance does not accept reservations.