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Scott LeekerStaff

CALLING ALL Singers, Crooners, Beatboxers, and Vocal Artists! Think you have what it takes to raise your voice and perform? LEEKER TAKES YOU TO needs YOU! Come out to the Improv Shop Annex on June 27th from 12pm to 3pm and follow the signs for the LTYT American Idol Experience Auditions! You'll have a chance to be a contestant in our next show on June 29th at 9pm on The Improv Shop Mainstage! Prepare 60-90 seconds of music (acapella more than enough, instruments welcome if desired) to perform for our production team! Questions welcome in the comments! (Full Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor episode link also down there!) I made a hype video for this but it got blocked for using the American Idol Theme Song, so reread this post while listening to that song!

Charles HarrisStaff

🚨 NEW EXPERIMENT ALERT 🚨 Have a problem? Are you struggling to find a solution? Perhaps we can help. Join the Co-CEOs of Small Uncle Industries (Dr. Charles Harris and Dr. Phoebe Richards) for a one-of-a-kind, life changing experiment. Enter... The Simulator. Saturday, June 6th @ 7pm // The Improv Shop - Side Stage // Tickets are $8

Marc-Anthony ValleStaff

Join Marc-Anthony and friends to celebrate his 16th birthday before he leaves STL at the end of July. Marc-Anthony will be reading poetry composed between the ages of 5 and 15, and in an Armando style, he and his fellow improvisers will perform scenes! He misses you already. Friday, May 29 at 9PM https://theimprovshop.com/show/marc-anthonys-sweet-16/

Scott LeekerStaff

LEEKER TAKES YOU TO: An Immersive Theme Park Experience returns with our 5th season in about two weeks! FREE show! Mark your calendars and stay tuned here for more info or follow us on instagram @leekertakesyouto! Check out the subtle hint in this photo for the subject of Season 5 Episode 1 See less @MzX90E0E

Melanie PennStaff

🎶 MUSICAL WORKSHOP AND SHOW 🎶 There's another special workshop happening at The Improv Shop next month: it's MUSICAL IMPROV BAG OF TRICKS, hosted Nashville's Cherry Bomb! There are two sections to choose from, both on Saturday June 20th: 9:00-12:00 and 1:00-4:00. This workshop is designed for folks with some prior musical improv experience, and the registration link is below in the comments. Also! Cherry Bomb will be performing an improvised musical at 7:00 that night, with The One Four Fives joining in for some fun in the second act. Ticket link is in the comments too, so consider getting advanced tickets early as this thing is gonna sell out faster than you can sing an F sharp! 🎹 https://theimprovshop.com/show/cherry-bomb-an-improvised-musical/ https://theimprovshop.com/workshop/musicalimprovbagoftricks/

@2zin

Upcoming showwwwwwws! The Improv Shop - STL @boobs

Daniel Laney wants you to know that you don't have to call him "Dad," but he does expect you to be home by curfew to help him program the VCR and chop firewood. He also expects you to come see Goon Platoon in Cagematch this Friday at 9PM on The Improv Shop's Main Stage. Won't you help make his first Father's Day special by being there, champ? @goon-platoon

Hey Fiber Arts Friends! There's been a slight change in tomorrow's Knotty by Nature meetup! We will be meeting at THE DRIP COMMUNITY COFFEEHOUSE!!! All are welcome!!!

You asked and Old Friends listened: Encore! Come to Menagerie this Thursday, June 11th at 7pm for our last show... ever! Jess Christensen

Leeker

Leeker Takes You To is BACK tomorrow with Season 5! Watch this minute long video about it! Then come out tomorrow at 9pm to the Improv Shop Mainstage! FREE. Special guests, surprises, and lots of fun per usual! Hope you can join us!

Touch Baseball

I have heard those three words so many times in my improv career. And I don’t know what it says about me that I take thems as fightin’ words (not really, but also maybe)...

Speaking of The Merry-Go-Round - sign-ups for the June and July of The Merry-Go-Round are now open! The Merry-Go-Round happens every Thursday in Side Stage at The Improv Shop at 9:00 PM, following The Menagerie. Four teams will play in each show. There will be an intermission between the second and third teams. This form is for the run of shows from: June 4, 2026 - July 30, 2026. Please note that there is no show on Thurs. July 2 as The Improv Shop will be closed. This form will close at: Sat May 30, 2026 at 11:59 PM CDT. Teams will be notified via email of the selections by: Monday June 1, 2026. Each person can sign up a single team per run. You will need a Google account to submit your team via the form link below. For more information, and to register your team, please visit https://nsperrin.com/merry-go-round/

Our mission? Turn audience suggestions into a rich, vibrant tapestry of stupid. Your mission? Witness the highest level of effort ever applied to such remarkably low stakes. @goon-platoon

Heeeey Everyone 👋🏾😆! Did you miss last season of POC league? Did you want to see them perform again onstage? Perfect timing 🙌🏾😆! Because we have a show coming this Saturday called, “POC League: Family Reunion Season 1”! 🔥🔥🔥🥓🍣🍝🍛🍗🍟🥗🌯🍔🌮🍕🥪🌭🥟🍳🧇🍞🎂🥧🥞🥯🥟🍚🍢🥫🍤🔥🔥🔥 Come see us on the MainStage at the shop and be a part of this great reunion! It’s going to be amazing! Tell everyone you know! See you there! When: Saturday, May 23rd @ 9pm Where: Improv Shop - MainStage POC League: Family Reunion Season 1 Show Description: The 1st season POC league teams welcome you back for a family reunion! Where It’s At, Late Night Diner, and Whatever are coming to you for a throwback night of joy, color, comedy, and unity. Reunited and it feels so good!

Pep LaMarch

Ever been to a show that begins & ends with the ENTIRE audience? If not, here's your chance! It's SQUIGGLE! Sat, May 2 @ 9p Side stage at The Improv Shop - STL!Part improv, part live installation, entirely unpredictable. Featuring 𝒁𝒂𝒎 𝑷𝒐𝒘! (Erin Pazderka, Max Levin) & 𝑰𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏? (Nicole Durel & I) The audience will transform a hoodie into a one-of-a-kind souvenir one lucky person gets to keep!a ＤＲＥ▲ Ｍ ＳＣＯＰＥ productionhttps://theimprovshop.com/show/ｄｒｅ▲-ｍ-ｓｃｏｐｅ

The Menagerie

The Menagerie 4/30/26 @UErWvBAM @0jhHxjox @DDFSWv5J @aZBu7J21

Rahul Ragunathan

WE NEED A NAME, alright, so you better start talking. This EXPERI-MENTAL truth serum that we fed you is starting to take effect, so spill it: where can we go tonight to watch four local improv teams perform and have a good time? What’s that? HBH51HBH?? BOYRIDE?? Stop with the gibberish and start talking!!!! …. Aha, THE MERRY-GO-ROUND, TONIGHT AT 9 PM ON THE IMPROV SHOP SIDE STAGE??? Now we’re talking! @pwFVsI2e @UzM9dO-w @TGsfSfhA

Iván Otero

Chaos Gremlins is back this Friday May 1st at 7pm in Side Stage! The concept: 3 improv teams will run their normal form with one catch… their coach will be onstage with them, acting as an agent of chaos to the set. Can these teams survive their own coaches?! Get your tickets here! https://theimprovshop.com/show/chaos-gremlins-3/ Featuring: Spit-Take with Tracey https://improvshop.wiki/team/spittake Some Black People with Alayna https://improvshop.wiki/team/sbp Zam Pow! with Melanie https://improvshop.wiki/team/zampow Flyer artwork by Griffith Moore

Pep LaMarch

One of two I̲s̲ ̲t̲h̲i̲s̲ ̲s̲e̲a̲t̲ ̲t̲a̲k̲e̲n̲?̲ shows this weekend! Come get to know Nicole Durel & I through our form all about getting to know each other!KTK Productions w free parking at Mallinckrodt St & N 14th! Remix of a well-historied chair circa 1400s from the MET NYC public domain works. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/196580 @0VNJqKrP

Appreciate all of the testimonials that were sent in! Means a lot how moving our shows were to people from all walks of life. Come see D.I.C.K, 2zin Tarandon, & Sophie Tucker this Thursday at the Improv Shop at 7 pm @dick @2zin @guQZsxFS

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Touch Baseball

This was our first ever headlining a slot at festival! Thank you to @thenesttheatre, Tara and Rance, and all of the volunteers who make that place so warm and welcoming. Also to everyone who signed up for our workshops which were BOTH sold out. We had so many folks who took our workshops last year come back and it really filled our cups. So many great improv teams including @celibate_improv and @goonplatoonstl who represented our city so well! Also @nngwe17 and @prowland76 are one of the most fun twosies to watch anywhere. Also, we got to see Here: The Improvised Musical which was so so impressive. Lastly, our show was so sweet and fun. We got to do a 35 minute monoscene about a dad coming to terms with moving his daughter into an apartment several states away. We had the best time laughing and crying real tears with everyone haha. We bought you this off-brand Beanie Baby TM of everyone's favorite *NSYNC "teen" heartthrob, Chris, as a token of our gratitude. We hope to be back soon. Love you.

The concept: 3 improv teams will run their normal form with one catch… their coach will be onstage with them, acting as an agent of chaos to the set. Can these teams survive their own coaches?! Get your tickets here! https://theimprovshop.com/show/chaos-gremlins-2/ Featuring: Floorplay with Slobe Celibate with Leeker Whatever with Sloey Flyer artwork by Griffith Moore @4PmKoJyA @celibate @vnuuoRzm123

Brandon Bowers

Come through and pack the house for THREE new all POC Improv teams

Nathan Engle

Open Window tomorrow! 4pm Sidestage! Come hang out, tell a story or listen to others. Either way it is a good time! Optional prompts: 1. An experience being/having an elder. (Sibling, person of importance, or just when you felt old or young) 2. What would you choose to be the most televised event in the world. 3. A POC who has made a difference in your life. 4. What non-American holidays have you participated in or enjoyed?

You’ve seen Celibate do improv. They’re bold, they’re sexy, they’re drinking Red Bull. But now… Celibate presents “Time is Extremely Ticking”: A 4D Sketch Experience. Every minute counts, even the ones you aren’t counting. Every pre-purchased ticket comes with a FREE Celibate sticker. If we remember. If you remind us. @celibate

It's all gay. Promise.

Hey, come check out our show Missed Connections this Friday. We'll be playing with our friends Thank You, Next! @bHPV7mWG

Touch Baseball

New Substack Post! Is it a Punchline or a Button? Ryan recently wrote about how “trying to be funny” in our improv scenes (and we’re talking specifically about long form improv, here) creates the kind of pressure that distracts us from taking our characters - and their authentic feelings - seriously. Think about your favorite comedic characters from movies and TV […] None of them think they’re funny. They’re not telling jokes (“That’s what she said” excluded). They’re trying to succeed, to be loved, to protect their pride, to get what they want. The comedy comes from how sincerely they pursue those things.