Sister Bernadette, an earnest nun searching for her purpose, takes the stage at an open mic for her first-ever stand-up set. As she stumbles through jokes and confessions, she begins to question who she is beyond the habit… but will this leap of faith reveal what she’s been searching for all along?

You are invited to enter the confessional for a solo encounter with a veiled priestess in order to purify yourself not from sin, but from shame. In this reimagined version of confession, the priestess will guide you through a ritual that combines ancient beliefs with modern ideals. The sacrament weaves together concepts and traditions from not just Christian doctrine, but also that of Hellenism, Paganism and Buddhism, and other spiritual practices. The experience is designed to facilitate meaningful reflection and conjure the potential for divine revelation.

Your experience will last approximately 20 minutes. Due to the intimate nature of this experience, space is very limited. Reserve with haste.

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.

Caroline and Jack have curated a stunning comedic evening filled with live bits, audience interaction, and even an improvised play. You'll get to see Jack as a filmmaker doing a Q+A with the audience, Caroline as a live typewriter poet, and much more. It will be a night you will never forget.

The critically acclaimed Drunk Black History show returns to the "City of Angels" to highlight more Black History stories!

Featuring a stellar lineup of comedians, podcasters, writers, and experts who are hilariously tipsy while recounting the stories of overlooked figures and moments in Black history, this isn't your typical history lesson. Expect laughs, unexpected twists, and fascinating facts about how Black culture has shaped the world. It's the Daily Show meets Drunk History with a live audience!

You are invited to enter the confessional for a solo encounter with a veiled priestess in order to purify yourself not from sin, but from shame. In this reimagined version of confession, the priestess will guide you through a ritual that combines ancient beliefs with modern ideals. The sacrament weaves together concepts and traditions from not just Christian doctrine, but also that of Hellenism, Paganism and Buddhism, and other spiritual practices. The experience is designed to facilitate meaningful reflection and conjure the potential for divine revelation.

Your experience will last approximately 20 minutes. Due to the intimate nature of this experience, space is very limited. Reserve with haste.

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.

An experimental comedy show portraying the grotesque nature of female puberty told through the structure of a play. A series of sketches, musical numbers, and a singular standup performance depicting the chilling path to womanhood. Woven together by nods to classic literature, philosophy, the Gen Z zeitgeist, and personal testimonies.

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. 

Featuring Garrett Coffey, Isabelle Gillette, Jake Squire, Wyatt Fair, Cyrus Arnold, Mani Yarosh, Barry Del Sherman, Ross Gallo, Brooke Dillman, Arianna Evangelia and Gill Gayle!

Inspired by New Hollywood Myth.

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.

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!

Comedians Audrey Garrett and Elika Kaplan of sketch duo Honey, Drop It premier their sketch hour at The Elysian. They come bearing gifts of their most prized sketches, characters, and insights!! This is the final stop of their national sketch comedy tour, so bring your loved ones, rice, and roses. They will be arriving by boat at the harbors of Santa Monica. They dock at sunrise. They perform at 7:30pm. See you there!!

"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.

Friends of Young Storytellers and the Elysian come together for laughs and also to raise money to support our programs!

Featuring Aparna Nancherla, Fabrizio Guido, Peter Kim, Tien Tran, and Calvin Seabrooks; hosted by Leslie Liao!

Young Storytellers is an arts education nonprofit in LA that helps young people explore, discover, and express their own unique story and share it with others.

Tired of doomscrolling? Stop watching videos on your phone… and watch them with a live audience instead! World-famous improv comedians from the stage and screen, Dropout and Smosh, will do  scenes based on your favorite short-form videos – you know, like Instagram Reels, TikToks, and Youtube Shorts (if you’re nasty).

Follow THIS LINK and DM your craziest clips for a chance to see your algorithm riffed on in a manner most humorous.

CAST:

Featuring: Oscar Montoya, Katie Marovitch, Eli Gonzalez, Alexis Rhiannon, and more!

Producer, Curator, and Host: Stephen Pero

(Lineup subject to change)

Soft Animal is a psychedelic clown odyssey about the rise of life on earth to the fall of human civilization. A zoological existential-meltdown, it follows the arc of evolution from amoeba to Luigi Mangione. Part Darwin, part Jim Carrey, fully unhinged and relatable.

Content Warning: Gunshot sounds, fake nudity, mention of suicidal ideation

Show restricted to ages 18+

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.

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!

Back in LA after a full Edinburgh Fringe run and 9 sold out shows at The Vault and Hollywood Fringe ("Top of Fringe" and "Solo Theatre" Noms 20206). Part stand-up, part surreal deep dive in a sinking submersible, The Abyss is an hour-long descent to the depths of Brendan’s brain, where his mother is a life coach obsessed with death, his brother is communing spiritually with Gwyneth Paltrow, and his inner child is a total asshole. Directed by Emily Olcott and Produced by Cara Christian.

Learn more at brendanscannell.com

Back in LA after a full Edinburgh Fringe run and 9 sold out shows at The Vault and Hollywood Fringe ("Top of Fringe" and "Solo Theatre" Noms 20206). Part stand-up, part surreal deep dive in a sinking submersible, The Abyss is an hour-long descent to the depths of Brendan’s brain, where his mother is a life coach obsessed with death, his brother is communing spiritually with Gwyneth Paltrow, and his inner child is a total asshole. Directed by Emily Olcott and Produced by Cara Christian. Learn more at brendanscannell.com

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.

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.

In Dead Pilots Society, scripts that were developed by studios and networks but were never produced are given the table reads they deserve.

Presented by Andrew Reich (Friends; Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story) and Ben Blacker (Thrilling Adventure Hour; The Writers Panel).

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!

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.

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.

Pot Hot, a homegrown All-Asian variety comedy show, is back and stronger than ever!

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.

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.

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!

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!

Coming Soon :)

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.

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!

Michelle Collins - WAIT, WHY DON'T I KNOW YOU?

Michelle Collins - WAIT, WHY DON'T I KNOW YOU?

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.

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!

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Coming Soon!

Coming Soon!

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!

Coming Soon!

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.

Coming Soon!

Conceived by Jenny Zigrino (Conan, Badass Bitches of History) and co-written with Caleb Zeringue (Luigi: The Musical), comes The Drill Master, a new comedic play about the life and times of the Prussian immigrant and gay polyamorous founding father of the United States, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Von Steuben.

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.

Worlds Most Best!

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!

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!

Coming Soon!

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)

Coming Soon!

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.

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.

Coming Soon!

Coming Soon!

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!

Coming Soon!

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!

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!

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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!

"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.

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!

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!