Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa returns with Paradise Gothic, a sharp, darkly funny new hour exploring immigration, “radical” buddhism, and the absurdities of attempting to build a life within late-stage capitalism. With his trademark deadpan delivery and postcolonial wit, Vidura takes on corporate tech culture, spiritual burnout, and the strange comedy of trying to stay human in a world running by numbers. Smart, subversive, and quietly explosive; this is Vidura at his most fearless.

Monks find magic water. Magic water makes dreams come true. Monks go crazy.

Come see the show while it’s HOT and FRESH out of the oven that is Edinburgh Fringe They sold out their run and got nominated for the Comedy Award for Best Newcomer. Come see their last LA shows before they dissolve into the ether.

Starring: Max Baumgarten (Opium), Dee Marcucci (Absinthe), John Norris (Mr Chonkers), Bill O’Neill (The Amazing Banana Brothers), and Claire Woolner (A Retrospection)

Co-created with Sam Fishman

Co-directed by Corey Podell (Vanessa 5000 ) and John Norris.

Back by popular demand! Song Lab and The Elysian present Time’s Arrow 2!

Our show blends live music, set design, interactive projection mapping, real-time camera loops, and physical clowning.  Part rock concert and part surrealist art installation, Time’s Arrow invites audiences to step through the doors of "Flo’s Beach Hotel" and follow a band of BMX kids in an ambitious, mind-bending examination of human identity set in the ruins of beachy childhood memories.

School's BACK IN SESSION! Pot Hot, a homegrown All-Asian variety comedy show, is coming at ya! As the leaves start to change on the palm trees, come in from the cold and be deeply humored and entertained!! We’ve got it all: stand-up, clown, sketch, characters, song parodies, audience interaction, the knowledge that our time in this world is finite and we might as well spend it laughing and enjoying each other's company :)))

Pencils. Folders. Three boxes of tissues to share with the class. It's time to pack your lunch and celebrate back to school with Katie and Erika—and don't worry, absolutely nothing will go wrong! Laservision Productions presents a variety show of educational proportions.

Sexy sports stars burn up the ice in this funny, filthy spoof of hockey's hottest romance. A full-scale production musical packed with songs, sex jokes, scandal and more pucking innuendos than should legally fit in one show. Lovingly parodying the show that had audiences swooning, blushing and caring about hockey for the first time. From Quick and Funny Musicals, the cult Upright Citizens Brigade LA creators known for turning pop culture obsessions into chaotic comedy musicals, this is an affectionate, outrageous musical send-up of passion, repression and the perfect foreplay to the rest of your night.

Bizarre Bazaar is Elysian Theater’s staple variety show, featuring L.A.’s dumbest clowns, smartest stand-ups, sexiest dancers, and any other freaky folk ready to strut their stuff.

Hosted by Ian Bratschie and co-produced with the Elysian's Creative Director and Head Booker Jessica Kelley, Biz Baz pairs major comedy names experimenting with bold new material alongside the best clowns in town with music, juggling, dance, magic, and unexpected performance acts.

In its 21st year of lauded late night lunacy! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) and featuring a rotating roster of top comedians, specialty acts, musicians and performance artists -- It is not to be missed! Every Saturday @ Midnight.

Katherine made up a multi-season 90s TV show in her head.

Yearning! Town Secrets! Nostalgia!

BELLINGHAM BAY, 1992.

Father Peter, a young priest, arrives in the close-knit Pacific Northwest town and quickly clashes with Stella, the local pub owner with the voice of an angel… and a secret.

Written & performed by Katherine Bourne Taylor (Netflix is a Joke. Fest, Playbill Pick of the Edinburgh Fringe, Obsessed: A Comedy Show about Your Hyper-fixations), Directed by Ben Blacker (Thrilling Adventure Hour, The Writer's Panel, Dead Pilot's Society) and nominated for Best Solo Theater and the Denver Fringe Exchange Award at the 2026 Hollywood Fringe.

Come see some of your favorite performers in a brand new show with a classic format. THE FAMOUS PEOPLE IMPROV SHOW is a fully improvised show that features a guest monologist who tells a few short, true, off-the-cuff stories from their life. The cast of improvisers (which includes many of LA's finest improvisors, SNL, Comedy Bang Bang, Dropout, Ghosts, Righteous Gemstones, Veep folks, etc) then perform scenes inspired by their stories.

If you can’t make it out in-person to The Elysian Theater, you can also stream the show and watch it as a VOD for the low, low price of $6!

Spike & friends at The Elysian!

LA's best improvisers / Anna's best friends perform a MONOSCENE.

WHAT IS A MONOSCENE?
A monoscene is an improv form that takes place in a single location, in a single span of time, with no external edits of any kind.

We are stuck on stage. Will you join us?

Have you ever wondered what an ABBA jukebox musical would look like if it wasn’t set in Greece during a wedding? Come see an entirely RE-IMAGINED PRODUCTION full of BROADWAY ACTORS performing whatever our featured writer wants to do—no questions asked. Completely different characters. Wildly different plots. The same exact ABBA hits you know and love (and maybe even some you don’t)—it’s MAMMA MIA! BUT DIFFERENT!

Bluebird is a collective of comedians performing a completely improvised experience. Bluebird uses a short series of audience conversations to inspire the spontaneous, unhinged and beautifully hilarious comedy mayhem.

Now with Carmen Christopher!

Have you ever wondered what an ABBA jukebox musical would look like if it wasn’t set in Greece during a wedding? Come see an entirely RE-IMAGINED PRODUCTION full of BROADWAY ACTORS performing whatever our featured writer wants to do—no questions asked. Completely different characters. Wildly different plots. The same exact ABBA hits you know and love (and maybe even some you don’t)—it’s MAMMA MIA! BUT DIFFERENT!

In their groundbreaking new show, Brendan Scannell and Joel Kim Booster (two famous gay guys), along with some of the funniest friends (some famous, some gay and sometimes guys), do the impossible: perform 90 minutes of stand up comedy for you to enjoy. A show like this has never been done before and will likely never happen again, so you won’t want to miss it!

Monks find magic water. Magic water makes dreams come true. Monks go crazy.

Come see the show while it’s HOT and FRESH out of the oven that is Edinburgh Fringe They sold out their run and got nominated for the Comedy Award for Best Newcomer. Come see their last LA shows before they dissolve into the ether.

Starring: Max Baumgarten (Opium), Dee Marcucci (Absinthe), John Norris (Mr Chonkers), Bill O’Neill (The Amazing Banana Brothers), and Claire Woolner (A Retrospection)

Co-created with Sam Fishman

Co-directed by Corey Podell (Vanessa 5000 ) and John Norris.

If there's one question Michelle Collins has heard after every single stand-up show, it's "Wait, Why Don't I Know You?" She's wondering the same f**king thing. Well, it's time to change that with her brand new show "Wait, Why Don't I Know You?" which combines Michelle's singular off-the-cuff storytelling, lightning fast commentary, Terminator-like audience interactions, songs (her passion), and her signature accompanying slideshow which delivers visual punchlines that make the entire show an unstoppable and at times physically painful comedy experience. Michelle delivers a stand-up show unlike any other, and it's about f**king time you get to know her.

If there's one question Michelle Collins has heard after every single stand-up show, it's "Wait, Why Don't I Know You?" She's wondering the same f**king thing. Well, it's time to change that with her brand new show "Wait, Why Don't I Know You?" which combines Michelle's singular off-the-cuff storytelling, lightning fast commentary, Terminator-like audience interactions, songs (her passion), and her signature accompanying slideshow which delivers visual punchlines that make the entire show an unstoppable and at times physically painful comedy experience. Michelle delivers a stand-up show unlike any other, and it's about f**king time you get to know her.

Professional actor/comedian CONNOR RATLIFF (Dead Eyes) performs a fully-improvised one-person show that pretends to be a real acting class.

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Live-directed by Cirque Du Soleil front man John Gilkey (“Brilliant” - LA Times), the modern clown ensemble, Cruel Babes, invites the audience into a fever dream of physical comedy and extended absurdist composition for a new and once-in-a-lifetime ride each month. Featuring 12 top performers (comedians, actors and musicians), it is a direct descendent of the underground hit, Wet The Hippo – the show that kicked off LA’s modern clown scene back in 2012.

“Somewhere at the intersection of the sacred and the profane, of poetry and dire scatology, of clown and Dada, of community and exile, of fourth walls and no walls at all, lies Cruel Babes. Cruel Babes welcomes you to their family playroom for laughs, tears, and live-directed anti-theatrical chaos that is at its very least…absolutely not like anything else.” — Keith Fulton, Filmmaker (Lost In La Mancha)

Think The Bear but Emmy Browning is Jeremy Allen White and she’s actually cooking for you on stage. Upon arrival, guests will be given the opportunity to participate in the story or to simply sit back and enjoy. HANDS! is a live cooking ensemble play where Chef Jay and her kitchen staff have to make the perfect potato bite for each audience member and plate it by the end of the show. Performed like a TV show, a camera operator will be following actors on and off stage so you can see the "back of house" experience. It will be like bing watching a limited series on HBO but it’s a play. Come full.

Think The Bear but Emmy Browning is Jeremy Allen White and she’s actually cooking for you on stage. Upon arrival, guests will be given the opportunity to participate in the story or to simply sit back and enjoy. HANDS! is a live cooking ensemble play where Chef Jay and her kitchen staff have to make the perfect potato bite for each audience member and plate it by the end of the show. Performed like a TV show, a camera operator will be following actors on and off stage so you can see the "back of house" experience. It will be like bing watching a limited series on HBO but it’s a play. Come full.

In its 21st year of lauded late night lunacy! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) and featuring a rotating roster of top comedians, specialty acts, musicians and performance artists -- It is not to be missed! Every Saturday @ Midnight.

Think The Bear but Emmy Browning is Jeremy Allen White and she’s actually cooking for you on stage. Upon arrival, guests will be given the opportunity to participate in the story or to simply sit back and enjoy. HANDS! is a live cooking ensemble play where Chef Jay and her kitchen staff have to make the perfect potato bite for each audience member and plate it by the end of the show. Performed like a TV show, a camera operator will be following actors on and off stage so you can see the "back of house" experience. It will be like bing watching a limited series on HBO but it’s a play. Come full.

Join host Jacquis Neal as he invites some of the best and funniest people in the world to Clash it out, on a game show that tests how well each person can guess the top answers to life's most basic questions that we ask!

Plus 6 audience members will have their chance at glory alongside our stars. As we will randomly select willing members from the crowd to play with our stars throughout the show! Real prizes on the line, real answers, real fun!

Come see some of your favorite performers in a brand new show with a classic format. THE FAMOUS PEOPLE IMPROV SHOW is a fully improvised show that features a guest monologist who tells a few short, true, off-the-cuff stories from their life. The cast of improvisers (which includes many of LA's finest improvisors, SNL, Comedy Bang Bang, Dropout, Ghosts, Righteous Gemstones, Veep folks, etc) then perform scenes inspired by their stories.

If you can’t make it out in-person to The Elysian Theater, you can also stream the show and watch it as a VOD for the low, low price of $6!

Kevin Grossman stars as Marty Scorsese, a filmmaker whose upcoming picture Taxi Driver is threatened with cuts due to the studio's fear of an X rating, sending Marty on a drug, alcohol, pill popping rage fueled binge at his bungalow on Mulholland. Marty's solution? Kill the executive threatening to massacre his masterpiece. Marty's friends - Brian De Palma, Steve Spielberg and Big John Milius - come to Marty to talk him down to Earth. 

A full length play written and directed by Drew Hanks. 

This is not your average sketch show!!! T.I.N.Y.A.S.S. is back again with all new sketches that will be sure to knock your socks off! (If you attend the show NOT wearing socks, please be careful. It may knock off the outer layer of skin on your feet).

Regardless, you will have a good time -- and that's a T.I.N.Y.A.S.S. guarantee. So come see the show!

Let's face it: every comedian wants to be a rockstar and every rockstar is convinced they're a comedian, so let's bring the whole damn thing together with an evening of comedic storytelling and real ass singing!

In this show, each comedian tells a funny, vulnerable, possibly never-been-told 5 minute (ish) story inspired by a hit song from the 90s. Then we black out. Thunderous applause, as we slow fade up to our live band backing the comedian in a rousing rendition of that 90s hit. Lyrics are projected on screen encouraging the audience to BELT along!

5 Comedians. 5 Songs. 1 unforgettable night of music and comedy.

Come hang with 4 Dudes who like to hike and do improv!

Good Story, Good Story! is a storytelling variety show featuring good stories from some of Los Angeles's most remarkable writers and performers.

Hosted and created by Mara Wilson. Live music by Bandwave. Audience by you, yes you!

A night of female clown from your local three idiots.

It’s not improv. It’s not a play. It’s not sketch. So what the fuck is it?

It’s a Best Actress show.

Join three 20 somethings as they figure out what dating in New York is all about. No, wait. Join three D-cupped women as they decide if they can really survive the greatest challenge of all…divorce. No, wait. Come one, come all, but don’t come hungry because we’re not serving chili.

BYOB: Bring Your Own Backbrace. And not your cousin.

Featuring: The best and hottest to ever do it.

*Guest Coming Soon*

We’ll let you know if we have any questions.

ROBOT KARAOKE is a live comedy show with songs you know and new lyrics no one ever has sung. Our custom system, THE WEIRD ALGORITHM, rewrites karaoke classics syllable-for-syllable using fragments of the internet.

We might sing OKCUPID PROFILES to the tune of "I WILL SURVIVE", NEGATIVE REVIEWS OF CANDY LAND to the tune of "SAY IT AIN'T SO", or any combination of song and text in the catalog.

At the main stage show (7:30pm), special guests from the music, entertainment and advanced karaoke research industries will bravely test the limits of the human mind's capacity for chaos.

At the late show (9pm), we'll migrate next door to the Skunk Room and open the stage to audience requests until closing time.

Come ready to sing. Leave ready to transcend the physical plane as a being of pure karaoke information.

Frank Sriracha is the Wonderkid of the Sunset Strip. For decades, he has been dazzling audiences as the most celebrated cabaret legend this world has ever seen. Tonight, he is proud to accept his Lifetime Achievement Award. There will be a massive gala ceremony with an open bar and a free branzino dinner. All he has to do is give a five minute acceptance speech.

Sexy sports stars burn up the ice in this funny, filthy spoof of hockey's hottest romance. A full-scale production musical packed with songs, sex jokes, scandal and more pucking innuendos than should legally fit in one show. Lovingly parodying the show that had audiences swooning, blushing and caring about hockey for the first time. From Quick and Funny Musicals, the cult Upright Citizens Brigade LA creators known for turning pop culture obsessions into chaotic comedy musicals, this is an affectionate, outrageous musical send-up of passion, repression and the perfect foreplay to the rest of your night.

The gameshow where the stakes are the joke!

Yeti or Not, here we come! 

Yeti is one of LA’s premier improv teams and is also a group of biological siblings. Each show features two unique halves, one of them based on stories from our audience. Get ready for an evening of unparalleled unique fun inspired by you! Are you YETI for a good time?

Featuring: 

Ally Beardsley, Devin Field, Victoria Longwell, Vic Michaelis, Zac Oyama, Talia Tabin, Lou Wilson, Jacob Wysocki

*lineup subject to change*

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Come see some of your favorite performers in a brand new show with a classic format. THE FAMOUS PEOPLE IMPROV SHOW is a fully improvised show that features a guest monologist who tells a few short, true, off-the-cuff stories from their life. The cast of improvisers (which includes many of LA's finest improvisors, SNL, Comedy Bang Bang, Dropout, Ghosts, Righteous Gemstones, Veep folks, etc) then perform scenes inspired by their stories.

If you can’t make it out in-person to The Elysian Theater, you can also stream the show and watch it as a VOD for the low, low price of $6!

Rachel Kaly (Jury Duty, Late Night with Seth Meyers) does a crowd work show unlike the other ones. Everyone leaves feeling odd.

This is not your average sketch show!!! T.I.N.Y.A.S.S. is back again with all new sketches that will be sure to knock your socks off! (If you attend the show NOT wearing socks, please be careful. It may knock off the outer layer of skin on your feet).

Regardless, you will have a good time -- and that's a T.I.N.Y.A.S.S. guarantee. So come see the show!

Joey Clift’s We’ve Been Here The Whole Time is an all Native & super NDN variety show celebrating the release of Joey Clift’s debut satire book, “We’ve Been Here The Whole Time! A Not So Sacred Guide to All Things Native America” coming out through Andrews McMeel Publishing and Simon & Schuster on October 6th, 2026.

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A psychic, a pizza man, and God walk into a bar—and end up in Katie Folger’s bed.

Find out how in the sex trip gone wrong that is her Edinburgh Fringe hit solo show exploring the perils and thrills of sex and singledom in the situationship era.

Getting in Bed with the Pizza Man earned Folger a Best Actor win in 2024, was a pick by Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, and was named a Top Theatrical Moment by The Lyric Hyperion (2025) and The Austin Chronicle. After sold-out and five-star runs in Austin, Los Angeles, Portland, Edinburgh, and New Orleans alongside Amy Schumer, Folger debuts the show at The Elysian Theater.

Siri Dahl interviews friends, entertainers, comedians, actors and other folks about town about their first pop culture crushes. Featuring Tom Scharpling, Little Puck, Ariel Demure and Miles Klee.

You are cordially invited to The Crème Brûlée, a reading of a new play written by Aiyana K. White, directed by Jess Wolinsky.

Friends gather at a wedding after years of growing up in their twenties. Wine pours, couples bicker, things get fun. It's a play!

Gabe Mollica begins his critically-acclaimed off-Broadway show "Solo: A Show About Friendship" with a declaration: "I turned 30 and it occurred to me that I don't have any friends."

Over the next 70 minutes, Gabe dives deep into what it means to have friends in your 30s, his special relationship with Stephen Sondheim, working at a summer camp for children with chronic illnesses, and what happens when you break up with your best friend.

Turning your bad date stories into musicals since 2017!

Comedian and mushy-hearted Jew, David Magidoff (Dexter: New Blood, The Morning Show) interviews one real person from the audience & one real famous celebrity guest to share one good / bad / psychotic / existential love story, and then David and his friends turn it into a full blown improvised musical!

A nostalgic night of horror and hilarity! David Rees started his Get Your War On comic strip shortly after the 9/11 attacks. The strip satirized the War on Terror, the Iraq War, and a lot of other stupid shit the U.S. government was doing. The strip ran for seven years. David will revisit these classic cartoons exactly 25 years after the night he started making them.

FUCK THIS MONTH is a monthly improv comedy show that aims to cure your misery by turning your shitty month into improv comedy. Toast this garbage month off by throwing up your middle finger and sharing what made it suck so royally. A cast of veteran comedians will take your stories of woe and spin them into comedy gold.

Come see some of LA’s the best comedians perform the sets and bits that didn’t get them cast on New York City’s longest running sketch show.

We’re back, back, back again with The Roux! Part Deux, presented by Clowns Of Color. The Roux is a day-long event that begins with a backyard-style party and ends with a comedy show featuring talented artists of color performing clown, improv, drag, stand-up, and more! This event aims to celebrate Black and other BIPOC talent, business, and creativity providing a space that is not only for the culture, but also for those who wish to support and share in it with us. The pre-show party is free for all who wish to attend, but you won’t want to miss out on grabbing your ticket to the show.

We gave you a taste last year so come on back for seconds. Come to The Roux and spend the day celebrating love, community, and some ratchet ass comedy.

BLOCK PARTY: 4 - 7PM

SHOW: 7 -10PM

Improvised jazz and improvised comedy come crashing together in one raucous nights that’ll have all the fat cats saying “oooweeeee”!

You are reading about QFWFQ, winner of Best Solo Show at the 2025 Hollywood Fringe, fresh off its run at the Edinburgh, Sydney and Melbourne Fringes. "The best of the fringe," - The Guardian. A surrealist labyrinth that stretches time and space. Inspired by Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveller, this razor-sharp, absurdly funny and deeply personal show breaks all genres and has no fourth wall. Join trans artist Gregory Nussen as they rummage through the power and peril of storytelling, growing up Jewish and queer, grappling with geopolitics, and art that saves your life. QFWFQ neither begins, nor ends. How does it come together? I can't explain, but it does. Directed by Hannah Pilkes.

 "The Drillmaster" returns to Los Angeles for one night only at The Elysian on Tuesday, October 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Created by Jenny Zigrino (Conan, DropoutTV, Bad Santa 2) and Caleb Zeringue (Luigi: The Musical, Edinburgh Fringe), the comedic historical play stars Zigrino as Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, America's GAYEST founding daddy. GAYEST being the operative word, because let's face it, they were probably all a little gay. 

TBA!

LA's finest long-form improvisers dive into a high-octane homage to everyone's favorite improv TV show. Come witness our very own 'Drew Carey' and see if the points really DO matter!

Dyke Storytelling is a multi-generational storytelling show where a queer person of every decade (20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s) tells a true story from their life.

Sounds Like A Cult is coming to The Elysian for a special intimate live podcast recording with Amanda Montell and Iman Hariri-Kia!

Join Amanda and Iman as they put one particularly seductive corner of pop culture under the cult microscope, with special guests, questionable obsessions, niche lore, and the kind of culty analysis you know and love.

The night will also celebrate Iman’s new novel, Once in a Timeline, with ticket-and-book bundles available, specialty cocktails, and a post-show book signing. Come for the live show, stay for the culty chaos.

Sexy sports stars burn up the ice in this funny, filthy spoof of hockey's hottest romance. A full-scale production musical packed with songs, sex jokes, scandal and more pucking innuendos than should legally fit in one show. Lovingly parodying the show that had audiences swooning, blushing and caring about hockey for the first time. From Quick and Funny Musicals, the cult Upright Citizens Brigade LA creators known for turning pop culture obsessions into chaotic comedy musicals, this is an affectionate, outrageous musical send-up of passion, repression and the perfect foreplay to the rest of your night.

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World’s Most Best is finally taking the spotlight…but not like in an aggressive way? It’s not even really their show – in a way it’s your show. But it is a show. And in that show, there are sketches, musical numbers, deeply personal fights between friends, and camera angles that can only be described as, “nonbinary.” Join Molly, Nat, Shelby, and Kelsey for a night of pure selfless comedy that may end their friendship for good. And there will be guests!

Bizarre Bazaar is Elysian Theater’s staple variety show, featuring L.A.’s dumbest clowns, smartest stand-ups, sexiest dancers, and any other freaky folk ready to strut their stuff.

Hosted by Ian Bratschie and co-produced with the Elysian's Creative Director and Head Booker Jessica Kelley, Biz Baz pairs major comedy names experimenting with bold new material alongside the best clowns in town with music, juggling, dance, magic, and unexpected performance acts.

Come see some of your favorite performers in a brand new show with a classic format. THE FAMOUS PEOPLE IMPROV SHOW is a fully improvised show that features a guest monologist who tells a few short, true, off-the-cuff stories from their life. The cast of improvisers (which includes many of LA's finest improvisors, SNL, Comedy Bang Bang, Dropout, Ghosts, Righteous Gemstones, Veep folks, etc) then perform scenes inspired by their stories.

If you can’t make it out in-person to The Elysian Theater, you can also stream the show and watch it as a VOD for the low, low price of $6!

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The Perimenopause Late Show is L.A.’s only late-night show all about perimenopause!

Mary “Peri” Sohn hosts a night of singing, laughing, and learning with our very special guest, Brooke Niss (Licensed Acupuncturist & Functional Medicine Practitioner) from Sterling Wellness!

Join us as we navigate midlife together—in the softest pants we own!

As Elysian Theater 2024 artists-in-residence, Freak Nature Puppets grew a show called "Freak Nature Presents: Freak Nature." It's about a place called Freak Nature, which is kind of a theme park, kind of a national park, mostly really cool and awesome, and importantly it's 100% real. This October, flights to Freak Nature will board once again to see a TOTALLY new version of the show.

As Elysian Theater 2024 artists-in-residence, Freak Nature Puppets grew a show called "Freak Nature Presents: Freak Nature." It's about a place called Freak Nature, which is kind of a theme park, kind of a national park, mostly really cool and awesome, and importantly it's 100% real. This October, flights to Freak Nature will board once again to see a TOTALLY new version of the show.

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TBA!

Live-directed by Cirque Du Soleil front man John Gilkey (“Brilliant” - LA Times), the modern clown ensemble, Cruel Babes, invites the audience into a fever dream of physical comedy and extended absurdist composition for a new and once-in-a-lifetime ride each month. Featuring 12 top performers (comedians, actors and musicians), it is a direct descendent of the underground hit, Wet The Hippo – the show that kicked off LA’s modern clown scene back in 2012.

“Somewhere at the intersection of the sacred and the profane, of poetry and dire scatology, of clown and Dada, of community and exile, of fourth walls and no walls at all, lies Cruel Babes. Cruel Babes welcomes you to their family playroom for laughs, tears, and live-directed anti-theatrical chaos that is at its very least…absolutely not like anything else.” — Keith Fulton, Filmmaker (Lost In La Mancha)

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THIS PERFORMANCE OF THE TOMORROW SHOW IS AT 9:30 PM!!

In its 21st year of lauded late night lunacy! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) and featuring a rotating roster of top comedians, specialty acts, musicians and performance artists -- It is not to be missed!

Come see some of your favorite performers in a brand new show with a classic format. THE FAMOUS PEOPLE IMPROV SHOW is a fully improvised show that features a guest monologist who tells a few short, true, off-the-cuff stories from their life. The cast of improvisers (which includes many of LA's finest improvisors, SNL, Comedy Bang Bang, Dropout, Ghosts, Righteous Gemstones, Veep folks, etc) then perform scenes inspired by their stories.

If you can’t make it out in-person to The Elysian Theater, you can also stream the show and watch it as a VOD for the low, low price of $6!

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Bluebird is a collective of comedians performing a completely improvised experience. Bluebird uses a short series of audience conversations to inspire the spontaneous, unhinged and beautifully hilarious comedy mayhem.

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Back by popular demand, it’s The Baby! Tyler Walker and Lilliana Winkworth present two butt-spanking new Halloween adventures featuring everyone's favorite fictional crime-solving baby. With spine-chilling live Foley, the terrifying talents of LA's best comedians, and two butt-spanking new mysteries, the Baby Radio Mystery Hour is sure to scare the skeleton right out of you. Bring an extra set of diapers, cause these tales are sure to thrill, chill, and keep your bottle filled!

COMING SOON :)

"HOTTEST TICKET IN LA COMEDY" - KCRW

"THE FATHER OF MODERN CLOWN IN LA" - THE LAIST

Yes, Heated Rivalry fans -- this is THAT Chad Damiani!

Come see him live direct six comics through a dazzling production of the award-winning clown play PIRATES OF NOWHERE.

Will these comics abandon their cheap tricks and bad habits -- and give the audience the dumbest and most epic performance of their lives? Or crumble under the ruthless pressure of the one-and-only Clown Boss?

It's the Cruelest Show in Clown.

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Yeti or Not, here we come! 

Yeti is one of LA’s premier improv teams and is also a group of biological siblings. Each show features two unique halves, one of them based on stories from our audience. Get ready for an evening of unparalleled unique fun inspired by you! Are you YETI for a good time?

Featuring: 

Ally Beardsley, Devin Field, Victoria Longwell, Vic Michaelis, Zac Oyama, Talia Tabin, Lou Wilson, Jacob Wysocki

*lineup subject to change*

Buy Tickets

Come see some of your favorite performers in a brand new show with a classic format. THE FAMOUS PEOPLE IMPROV SHOW is a fully improvised show that features a guest monologist who tells a few short, true, off-the-cuff stories from their life. The cast of improvisers (which includes many of LA's finest improvisors, SNL, Comedy Bang Bang, Dropout, Ghosts, Righteous Gemstones, Veep folks, etc) then perform scenes inspired by their stories.

If you can’t make it out in-person to The Elysian Theater, you can also stream the show and watch it as a VOD for the low, low price of $6!

Coming Soon!

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A one-woman standup show from a former mega-church pastor about queerness, race, and finding faith in humanity.

...Featuring live musical guests.

Sexy sports stars burn up the ice in this funny, filthy spoof of hockey's hottest romance. A full-scale production musical packed with songs, sex jokes, scandal and more pucking innuendos than should legally fit in one show. Lovingly parodying the show that had audiences swooning, blushing and caring about hockey for the first time. From Quick and Funny Musicals, the cult Upright Citizens Brigade LA creators known for turning pop culture obsessions into chaotic comedy musicals, this is an affectionate, outrageous musical send-up of passion, repression and the perfect foreplay to the rest of your night.

Come see some of your favorite performers in a brand new show with a classic format. THE FAMOUS PEOPLE IMPROV SHOW is a fully improvised show that features a guest monologist who tells a few short, true, off-the-cuff stories from their life. The cast of improvisers (which includes many of LA's finest improvisors, SNL, Comedy Bang Bang, Dropout, Ghosts, Righteous Gemstones, Veep folks, etc) then perform scenes inspired by their stories.

If you can’t make it out in-person to The Elysian Theater, you can also stream the show and watch it as a VOD for the low, low price of $6!

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A surreal, autobiographical dark musical comedy about a musician's torrid love affair with their tapeworm. A rollercoaster of illness, sex, and spiritual self-discovery, you'll watch Mia and Squirm dance and sing and fart and poop their way towards healing.

Live-directed by Cirque Du Soleil front man John Gilkey (“Brilliant” - LA Times), the modern clown ensemble, Cruel Babes, invites the audience into a fever dream of physical comedy and extended absurdist composition for a new and once-in-a-lifetime ride each month. Featuring 12 top performers (comedians, actors and musicians), it is a direct descendent of the underground hit, Wet The Hippo – the show that kicked off LA’s modern clown scene back in 2012.

“Somewhere at the intersection of the sacred and the profane, of poetry and dire scatology, of clown and Dada, of community and exile, of fourth walls and no walls at all, lies Cruel Babes. Cruel Babes welcomes you to their family playroom for laughs, tears, and live-directed anti-theatrical chaos that is at its very least…absolutely not like anything else.” — Keith Fulton, Filmmaker (Lost In La Mancha)

The Doubleclicks (Laser Webber and his sister Aubrey Turner) wrote silly songs about dinosaurs, Dungeons and Dragons, and Mr. Darcy. Silly. Light. Novelty! Their sibling harmonies and YouTube consistency led to a 10-year career of rocking Portland's smallest rooms from 2009-2019. Then... some things happened. Laser and Aubrey are back together this November with the same songs—which, in retrospect, tell in detail Laser's story of being a closeted trans, undiagnosed autistic, emotionally awesome guy, using pop culture and ukulele songwriting to cope with a challenging world. We can't wait to see you again, or for the first time! It'll be the same songs... with a few key changes.

Come see some of your favorite performers in a brand new show with a classic format. THE FAMOUS PEOPLE IMPROV SHOW is a fully improvised show that features a guest monologist who tells a few short, true, off-the-cuff stories from their life. The cast of improvisers (which includes many of LA's finest improvisors, SNL, Comedy Bang Bang, Dropout, Ghosts, Righteous Gemstones, Veep folks, etc) then perform scenes inspired by their stories.

If you can’t make it out in-person to The Elysian Theater, you can also stream the show and watch it as a VOD for the low, low price of $6!

Ditch your real messy family and join our fictional one for an entirely improvised holiday meal!

Once a year, pretentious uncles, live-streaming teens and neighbors who may or may not be serial killers all converge around one table filled with real food and improvised comedy by some of LA's best improvisers. Sit down, pull up a plate and join us for the 20th anniversary of this once-a-year show!

It's funny because they're not your family.

THIS PERFORMANCE OF THE TOMORROW SHOW IS AT 9:30 PM!!

In its 21st year of lauded late night lunacy! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) and featuring a rotating roster of top comedians, specialty acts, musicians and performance artists -- It is not to be missed!

Come see some of your favorite performers in a brand new show with a classic format. THE FAMOUS PEOPLE IMPROV SHOW is a fully improvised show that features a guest monologist who tells a few short, true, off-the-cuff stories from their life. The cast of improvisers (which includes many of LA's finest improvisors, SNL, Comedy Bang Bang, Dropout, Ghosts, Righteous Gemstones, Veep folks, etc) then perform scenes inspired by their stories.

If you can’t make it out in-person to The Elysian Theater, you can also stream the show and watch it as a VOD for the low, low price of $6!

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"HOTTEST TICKET IN LA COMEDY" - KCRW

"THE FATHER OF MODERN CLOWN IN LA" - THE LAIST

Yes, Heated Rivalry fans -- this is THAT Chad Damiani!

Come see him live direct six comics through a dazzling production of the award-winning clown play PIRATES OF NOWHERE.

Will these comics abandon their cheap tricks and bad habits -- and give the audience the dumbest and most epic performance of their lives? Or crumble under the ruthless pressure of the one-and-only Clown Boss?

It's the Cruelest Show in Clown.

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ROBOT KARAOKE is a live comedy show with songs you know and new lyrics no one ever has sung. Our custom system, THE WEIRD ALGORITHM, rewrites karaoke classics syllable-for-syllable using fragments of the internet.

We might sing OKCUPID PROFILES to the tune of "I WILL SURVIVE", NEGATIVE REVIEWS OF CANDY LAND to the tune of "SAY IT AIN'T SO", or any combination of song and text in the catalog.

At the main stage show (7:30pm), special guests from the music, entertainment and advanced karaoke research industries will bravely test the limits of the human mind's capacity for chaos.

At the late show (9pm), we'll migrate next door to the Skunk Room and open the stage to audience requests until closing time.

Come ready to sing. Leave ready to transcend the physical plane as a being of pure karaoke information.

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Yeti or Not, here we come! 

Yeti is one of LA’s premier improv teams and is also a group of biological siblings. Each show features two unique halves, one of them based on stories from our audience. Get ready for an evening of unparalleled unique fun inspired by you! Are you YETI for a good time?

Featuring: 

Ally Beardsley, Devin Field, Victoria Longwell, Vic Michaelis, Zac Oyama, Talia Tabin, Lou Wilson, Jacob Wysocki

*lineup subject to change*

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Come see some of your favorite performers in a brand new show with a classic format. THE FAMOUS PEOPLE IMPROV SHOW is a fully improvised show that features a guest monologist who tells a few short, true, off-the-cuff stories from their life. The cast of improvisers (which includes many of LA's finest improvisors, SNL, Comedy Bang Bang, Dropout, Ghosts, Righteous Gemstones, Veep folks, etc) then perform scenes inspired by their stories.

If you can’t make it out in-person to The Elysian Theater, you can also stream the show and watch it as a VOD for the low, low price of $6!

WINNER: International Fringe Encore Series (2024)

NOMINEE: ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards - Best Show (2024), Best Newcomer (2023)

Martha has always been told she is scary - but why? Each night, she is pulled back into a recurring dream where strange figures, shifting realities, and distorted versions of herself wait in the dark. As the dream spirals further into chaos, Martha becomes convinced that something inside of her must be removed...though she can’t quite name what it is. Martha’s Umbra is an experimental, comedy-horror clown funhouse that drifts through the uncanny corners of the subconscious. Think Pee-wee's Playhouse meets Twin Peaks...on acid.

FUCK THIS MONTH is a monthly improv comedy show that aims to cure your misery by turning your shitty month into improv comedy. Toast this garbage month off by throwing up your middle finger and sharing what made it suck so royally. A cast of veteran comedians will take your stories of woe and spin them into comedy gold.

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Come see some of your favorite performers in a brand new show with a classic format. THE FAMOUS PEOPLE IMPROV SHOW is a fully improvised show that features a guest monologist who tells a few short, true, off-the-cuff stories from their life. The cast of improvisers (which includes many of LA's finest improvisors, SNL, Comedy Bang Bang, Dropout, Ghosts, Righteous Gemstones, Veep folks, etc) then perform scenes inspired by their stories.

If you can’t make it out in-person to The Elysian Theater, you can also stream the show and watch it as a VOD for the low, low price of $6!

LA's finest long-form improvisers dive into a high-octane homage to everyone's favorite improv TV show. Come witness our very own 'Drew Carey' and see if the points really DO matter!

Come see some of your favorite performers in a brand new show with a classic format. THE FAMOUS PEOPLE IMPROV SHOW is a fully improvised show that features a guest monologist who tells a few short, true, off-the-cuff stories from their life. The cast of improvisers (which includes many of LA's finest improvisors, SNL, Comedy Bang Bang, Dropout, Ghosts, Righteous Gemstones, Veep folks, etc) then perform scenes inspired by their stories.

If you can’t make it out in-person to The Elysian Theater, you can also stream the show and watch it as a VOD for the low, low price of $6!