Dudley Riggs

For generations, comedic theatre has lacked one crucial element that the people have demanded: vicious, inter-performer competition. It’s not enough to simply make an audience laugh, true comedy demands that you crush your enemies and see them driven before you. This summer, Brave New Workshop provides the Thunderdome where four performers enter, and four performers also leave but one feels marginally better about themselves. And whosoever is left standing when the dust settles will have a chance to be ensconced in the Dudley Riggs Improv Hall of Fame. Prepare yourself for… Battle of the Improv All-Stars!

A rotating cast of very special guests and Brave New Workshop veterans take the stage every night as your host guides them through an ever-changing gauntlet of laugh-inducing challenges. Interactive audience voting determines who achieves glory and who continues to wallow in the rank miasma of not-glory. Who wins? You decide! The bone-crushingly amusing competition rages all summer long.

Never before have such nebulous rules been applied to such a subjective battlefield. You will witness the type of hilarious comedy that can only occur when a skilled group of comedic improvisers face the task they’ve been preparing for their entire lives: trying to make an audience like them more than everyone else. Vote for your favorites! Immortalize the winner. Shame the losers. Their dysfunction is your entertainment! Are you not amused? Get your tickets to Battle of the Improv All-Stars.