The Second City’s original productions mix sketch and improv, delivering sharp satire, spontaneous laughs, and a unique experience every time.
Second City Productions
Looking for laughs? Seeking a thrill? Excited to watch six of New York’s funniest walk the comedy tight rope as they create new sketches before your very eyes? Then look no further! Join us for Second City’s Live Sketch Comedy where our performers improvise scenes, try out fresh material, and create a show every night! It’s the most enthralling time to come to the Second City! See you there!
Second City New York Mainstage
Second City Productions
Spend the night with The Second City! This brand-new show (consensually) roasts everything that turns us on – and off – about love, dating, and relationships. From meet-cutes and awkward one-night stands to getting ghosted like you’re Patrick Swayze making pottery, The Second City Swipes Right is your ultimate comedy date night. So, whether you’re locked in, single af, or in a “situationship,” laugh your way through the chaos with an electric cast serving The Second City’s world-famous brand of sketch, music, and improv comedy. It’s giving hilarity, it’s giving relatable, it’s giving… a night you don’t want to miss.
Second City New York Mainstage
Second City Productions
When the sun goes down, the Second City turns up! Order a cocktail and slide into the weekend with the wildest & wittiest improvisers in Brooklyn. They’ll be making everything up and holding nothing back!
You might just want to stay after to continue your Friday night with our KARAOKE PARTY! Start the weekend off right with Improv After Dark.
Second City New York Mainstage
Hosted by The Second City, these visiting productions bring popular, acclaimed shows from guest performers to our stage.
Visiting Productions
Sophie Buddle is a stand-up, a TV writer, and a podcaster. Currently, she is the monologue writer for CBS’ After Midnight, where she has also appeared as a panelist. She has also appeared on “The Tonight Show”, “The Late Late Show with James Corden”, and on CBC’s “This Hour Has 22 Minutes as a correspondent and staff writer. She’s also been featured on CTV’s “Roast Battle”, JFL All Access, Kevin Hart’s LOL Network, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival and the Halifax Comedy Festival. She was a featured performer at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal and in 2022 had the esteemed privilege of delivering the Canadian Keynote Address on Comedy. Sophie released her first album in 2019, “Lil Bit Of Buddle,” which won the 2020 Juno Award for Best Comedy Album of the Year, making her the first female comic to win that award. She released the album herself so you can find it on iTunes in the genre “easy listening”, which was a mistake, but it is easy to listen to, so it’s OK. She is a three-time runner up (but fourth time’s the charm!) for Canada’s biggest stand-up contest, SiriusXM Top Comic, and can currently be seen headlining all across North America, as well as opening for Taylor Tomlinson.
Second City New York Mainstage
Visiting Productions
The cult favorite character comedy show, Main Character Energy is back at The Second City Blackbox! Co-hosted by Chloe Bivona and Caitlin Briody this performance will feature original comedic character monologues from New York’s best comedians. Come and see what audiences have called “an exercise in blind egotism” and “a seriously delusional group of people.” Follow @maincharacterenergyshow for more lineup details.
The Second City New York Blackbox Theater
Visiting Productions
NY Based Comedians Lucas Zelnick (Comedy Central) and Jamie Wolf (Don’t Tell Comedy) return from traveling the country for a weekly new material and crowdwork show along with some of their favorite comedians and friends.
Second City New York Mainstage
Visiting Productions
Get ready for a night full of laughter and fun as Poly Diaz makes her Second City Theater debut! Audiences fell in love with Poly’sRománticatyle and sharp sense of humor during her latest tour, “Romántica,” and now it’s The Big Apple’s turn. So, mark your calendars for the monthly Spanish language show that you definitely don’t want to miss. Poly will host the show (en español, of course), and perform along with her special guests .
About Poly Diaz:
Stand up Comedian, broadcaster, and actress. Originally from Venezuela, Poly began her comedy career participating in open-mics when she moved to Mexico City 6 years ago. Her latest one woman show called “Romántica” toured more than 45 cities in Latin America, Europe and The US.
Second City New York Mainstage
Visiting Productions
Glennis LaRoe (Netflix is a Joke Fest) takes the stage to overshare about being a dissociated kid, having lost her mother as a child and how that abandonment wound lead to her complicated relationships with men as an adult…but, like, makes it funny (promise its not a coping mechanism!)
The Blackout Cabaret - Chicago
Visiting Productions
An overly proud latine improv show hosted by Taylor Gonzalez & Julian Hernandez. Featuring special guests and cumbias spun by dj plantpapi.
The Second City New York Blackbox Theater
Visiting Productions
STRUGGLE BUS is a new material competition show where comedians are tasked with performing all new jokes about their darkest traumas and tortures to win the title of “Worst Life.” Hosted by Ivy Wolk, Nick Viagas, and a licensed social worker.
Second City New York Mainstage
Visiting Productions
ProLapsiXca isn’t just a (pending FDA approval) miracle pill, it’s a way of life. It’s
also a multi-level marketing scheme. Why be sad and boring when you can become HAPPY, HEALTHY, and WEALTHY? All you need is one pill and absolute devotion to our community. Come join us in the beautifully scenic, historic downtown Tampa, Florida for the 27th annual ProLapsiXca convention. Hear inspirational testimonials, learn about becoming a sales liaison, and experience a new way of living: one where it really can be that good.
Hosted by Nigel Berkeley and Gus Mahoney, with Maya Armstrong, Isaiah Frank, Erik Martini, Coco McNeil, Daniel Murphy, Maggie Olmsted, Liva Pierce & Isabel Renner
The Second City New York Blackbox Theater
Visiting Productions
MBA Follies is a sharp, satirical sketch comedy by MBA alumni from Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Stanford & NYU, exposing the absurdities of MBA culture and the unspoken rules of the business world, with insider humor and biting insights.
The Second City New York Blackbox Theater
Visiting Productions
The Infinite Wrench is a dynamic, mind-bending barrage of 30 original plays that the NY Neo-Futurists try to perform within a single hour. Each play offers something different, be it funny, profound, elegant, disgusting, topical, irrelevant, terrifying, or a song. All are truthful and tackle the here-and-now, inspired by the lived experiences of the performers. With new plays and new combinations of plays every performance, The Infinite Wrench is the Neo-Futurists’ ongoing and ever-changing attempt to shift the conventions of live performance and challenge the fourth wall head-on.
The Second City New York Blackbox Theater
Visiting Productions
From Second City’s world news headquarters in New York, this is BREAKING! A fast-paced, comedic look at today’s biggest stories where the headlines are real… and the rest is made up. With an all-star cast and some surprise characters, BREAKING! is bringing you all the news that’s fit to improvise.
The Second City New York Blackbox Theater
Showcasing The Second City’s students, these performances feature the talent from our current training center programs.
The Second City New York Blackbox Theater
The Second City New York Blackbox Theater
The Second City New York Blackbox Theater
The Second City New York Blackbox Theater
Training Center at Second City New York Mainstage
The Second City New York Blackbox Theater
Second City New York Mainstage
The Second City New York Blackbox Theater
The Second City New York Blackbox Theater
The Second City New York Blackbox Theater
The Second City New York Blackbox Theater
The Second City New York Blackbox Theater
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