Improv 4 Teens Times Square NYC

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  • Student Groups & Private shows Now Available Nightly, 7pm Times Square NYC Improv Comedy

    Student Groups & Private shows Now Available Nightly, 7pm Times Square NYC Improv Comedy

    Looking for a unique, engaging, and educational activity for your teen travel groups? Look no further than Improv 4 Teens, an electrifying program by Eight Is Never Enough (EINE) right in the heart of Times Square, NYC! Give your students an experience they’ll never forget, filled with laughter, learning, and the magic of live performance. These are great destinations for theater, Band, dance and choir groups for sure, but all teens will love the interactive musical shows and benefit from Improv workshops. We are NYC DOE VENDORS and host groups from around the world almost dialy!

    • GROUP SALES, 7pm Nightly, $30pp, no additional purchase required.
    • PRIVATE SHOW $1500 up to 50 guests, $30/additional guest, $2000 up to 80 guests
    • DAY TIME FIELD TRIPS 9am-5pm $750 up to 50 guests, $1200 up to 100.
    • Ask about workshops, food & drink packages, etc.
    • EMAIL for more information!

    With consideration of the obvious, Walt and his team are actually doing what they are teaching. This makes a difference to many groups. It is important that theater groups work with professionals. What is not obvious is that the entire experience benefits the group. They are able to take class in an actual club where the professionals perform. That alone adds an immersion quality not available by hiring just an improve teacher to come to a studio somewhere. Walt and his team make sure that anyone that wants to be involved is able to get up and do the work. Its been a favorite experience for many of my groups.

    Matt Koke, e.e. Tours

    As a former Theatre Teacher,and now a tour operator, I have been taking groups to Walt (Frasier, Artistic Director) for years. His workshops and shows are amazing. The kids learn a lot, in the workshops, have a great time participating in the show and his performances and workshops are always age appropriate. I love that the kids always brag to their friends that they perform on Broadway, because of the opportunity to be in the show with him and his performers.I highly recommend him and his crew. –

    Ana Queeny Mederos. Miami Tour Operator

    Walt Frasier and his team at Eight Improv have always provided our groups with nothing short of an incredible experience in their improv workshops! The teacher’s energy, creativity, and clear guidance made every session not only fun but also incredibly insightful for our visiting students. Walt is a pleasure to work with throughout the planning process and is a tremendous asset to our roster of teachers in New York City!

    ANDREA RODER Operations Director, Educational Performance Tours

    Eight Is Never Enough Improv has performed for 1000s of public and private events at The Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, Wolf Trap, The Argyle Theater, Emelin Theater, Gerold Opera House, 72nd Street Pier, Cherry Point Marine Base, Disney Resorts, Ohio National Guard, Connecticut DCF, First Nights Winchester VA, Binghamton First Night, Haddonfield First Night, Chateau Briand, Babylon Carriage House, retirement homes, numerous libraries, YMCA, JCC, Parks and Recreation, 1000s of k12 schools and summer camps in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indian

    A division of Improv Theater LLC Improv Theater LLC is a one stop edutainment center for corporate team building, office / holiday parties and more. Our comedy shows and workshops deliver high impact results. Clients include Google, Mercedes Benz, META /Facebook, TikTok, JP Morgan Chase, Accenture, Morgan Stanley, Twitter, Roblox, Rimowa, EI Digital, Accenture, Datadog HQ, Milbank, BING/Microsoft, Band of America – Merrill Lynch, Home Depot, Ernst & Young, Johnson & Johnson, Louis Vuitton, Coach, UBS, BDO, AMEX, Master Card, Macy’s, 360i, IBM, GM, Kraft, UNILEAVER, HBO, Prudential, Convene, Conference Board and many more… 

    Providing College / University campus activities at Harvard, Syracuse, Seton Hall, Princeton, Georgetown, Vaughn, Molloy, Montclair State, Bloomberg College, High Point, Williams College, Lynchburg College, Southern New Hampshire University, Ferris State, Mount Isa, Misericordia, Sacred Heart, Hastings, Pace, Vaughn, College Misericordia, University of Vermont, Stone Hill, Yeshiva, Columbia, NYU, Hofstra, Cooper Union, John Jay, Fordham, Sacred Heart, Seton Hall, and more.

  • Teen Travel Destination: Off- Broadway Times Square Improv Comedy NYC DOE VENDOR

    Teen Travel Destination: Off- Broadway Times Square Improv Comedy NYC DOE VENDOR

    We host teen groups almost daily at our Times Square NYC Theater for Interactive Improv Comedy shows and workshops. We offer high impact programming at great rates.

    BROADWAY CLASSROOM – Improv Comedy Masterclass Workshop

    Improv comedy workshops are a must for any aspiring performer and we host student theater groups from around the world. Improv is also a powerful tool to train valuable ke life skills. We use Improv to trains corporate groups in team building/ community, leadership, better sales and customer service skills. In addition to helping actors create better characters and connecting to scenes, Simply playing improv comedy games develops creativity, critical thinking, public speaking, self confidence, self awareness, listening, focus and more. In short we turn students into better students, leaders and more.

    Our workshops start with playing ice breakers and techniques builders. The second half is playing games students van take back to school and create live performances. We have heard stories of students creating their own school based comedy troupes after a single workshop, often expending to sketch comedy, AKA creative writing.

    We only charge student groups and other non profits $500 for a single teacher, up to two hours at our Times Square NYC theater, or $350 anywhere NYC at your venue of choice. EMAIL to book powerful life skills training for your students. We also host groups for birthdays and family gatherings. We send teaching artists DC to Boston and beyond.

    OFF BROADWAY IMPROV COMEDY SHOWS, TIMES SQUARE – NYC DOE VENDOR

    We also host student groups for private shows daily. Improv Comedy shows are great cultural arts destinations, with every shows providing professional music and theater experiences.

    Our show features a series of original skits and songs improvised based on audience suggestions and participation. Every show features pro singers improvising the blues, Irish Jigs and even mock Broadway shows, create based upon a single word or topic from the audience. Numerous skits invite audience on stage to more directly steer the comedy paths. The result is one of the most immersive theaterical experiences Manhattan has to offer.

    • Student tickets at public shows $15pp with no additional purchase required (regularly priced $30 plus a drink minimum).
    • Private shows start at $600 for up to 40 guests, $15/additional guests
    • Field Trips for larger groups, Monday thru Friday $1000 flat for up to 100 students. (140 is the max capacity for our larger stage, we can run two concurrent shows and handle up to 210 guests.)

    PIZZA PARTY – FULL PACKAGE

    • $350 includes show, pizza and soft drink for up to 10 guests at our public shows. $35/additional guest. When possible we add a mini workshop at no extra charge for non profit groups.
    • $1000 up to 40 guests private show with show and pizza, $25/additional guest.
    • $2000 flat up to 100 students plus 20 chaperones.
  • New York City area High School Residency: Stand-Up Comedy Comedy – NYC DOE VENDORS

    New York City area High School Residency: Stand-Up Comedy Comedy – NYC DOE VENDORS

    Stand-Up Comedy at its core is story telling, a combination of creative writing and public presentation. These are skills any student will need to stand out in their future endeavors. And the skills taught in this course transfer to many others. We create leaders and better students, empowered to listen and focus on and off stage. EMAIL for more information. NYC DOE VENDORS

    Finding Our Voice, Agency

    One of the amazing side effects of this course, as we create a fun safe space to create and share our stories is each student having a chance to succeed in baby steps. The first time a student gets an unexpected laugh in support of their work, they start to believe and trust in their own worth. Over the course of a few weeks, students develop their own style, their own voice.

    Empowering a Better Creative Process

    We teach students how to attack a new project. Just start. Simply brainstorm a list of ideas then get onstage and talk. Then brainstorm details and talk. Comedy is so much easier when we realize, we don’t have to be funny. Not at first. The secret is never TRY to be funny, clever or great. Those are functions of ego and insecurity. Our true talents don’t emerge on the scene until we embrace being ok with not being funny.

    Humor Builds a Better Brain

    William Fry, Stanford’s University’s late, great humor Guru, said that humor builds a better brain every time we compare to otherwise dissimilar things.

    Now 17, Carolyn is working with pro company, interning as a teacher assistant and more!

    It’s not until the third lesson plan that we truly begin to FIND THE FUNNY. We provide numerous ways to up the ante, teach how to trim the fat from unneeded set up, add analogies, exaggerate, consolidate, and the all powerful magic three.

    Similarly we start to teach presentation tricks. From day one we discuss the basics of facing audience, projection and diction. If the joke isn’t heard or understood it isn’t funny.

    Putting on a Show

    Every class is a mock open mic, a rehearsal for a real performance. Every session leads to a final performance. Having the end goal focuses students. Plus you can get great pics and vids for your school social media and yearbooks.

    Bringing Sketch Comedy to your Students

    There are a few ways to bring this program to your students.

    1. Simply buy the book and run the class. The paperback is just $9.99. Buy 20 copies as text book for $200 and let the fun begin, anywhere in the world. PS book is FREE via Kindle Unlimited or 2.99 via Kindle.
    2. Bring Walt Frasier to your school for a master class in comedy. $500 for up to 2 hours includes 20 copies of the book. Walt Frasier will lead the class in some improv games to launch the creative spirit, discuss his approach to brainstorming, hear some pitches, and set you off onto a successful session. We could also host this workshop at our Times Square NYC theater.
    3. THE FULL RESIDENCY Our team will drop by your classes up to 10 times, 20 hours. Walt Frasier himself at least 2-3 times, plus one of his teaching artist for all 10. As is, this will produce an entire show of live sketches and videos. Partnered with your la Guage arts teacher, develop into a full ELA or cultural arts elective, showing videos of classic sketches appropriate for all students, episodes of comedy TV and movies, discussing these works, as well as comedic short stories and going deeper into the history of comedy. You can also create additional collaboration and rehearsal time beyond our teacher attendance. $3000 include 10 sessions, 20 hours with one of our teachers, at least 2 sessions with Walt Frasier, 20 copies of the book, and optional online hosting of videos.
    4. THE FULL PROGRAM: Bring all of our programs to your school. Leverl 1 Improv Comedy. Level 2 Stand Up Comedy. Level 3 Sketch Comedy. Every class is designed to be self contained, with no experience necessary. In progression, the complete program delivers a population of confident creative powerhouses ready to take on the world in any profession.

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    Author, Artistic Director Walt Frasier has 25+ years of professional credits in comedy, Theater and music. He got his big break in TV performing comedy sketches on MTV’s Stankervision, Late Nite with David Letterman, TruTV’s Friends of the People, and most recently on HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay. As an actor, Frasier has appeared on NBC’s Blacklist, CBS’s Blue Bloods, USA’s Royal Pains (Filmed in Puerto Rico), Netflix’s Lilyhammer (filmed in Norway) and NICK’s Naked Brothers Band. In addition to 1000s of live performances around the world, Frasier has also appeared in numerous commercials, industrials, webisodes and reality TV shows. Frasier has written many books on comedy performance and more.

    A division of Improv Theater LLC

    The New York Improv Theater is a one stop edutainment center for corporate team building, office / holiday parties and more. Our comedy shows and workshops deliver high impact results. Clients include Google, Mercedes Benz, META /Facebook, TikTok, JP Morgan Chase, Accenture, Morgan Stanley, Twitter, Roblox, Rimowa, EI Digital, Accenture, Datadog HQ, Milbank, BING/Microsoft, Band of America – Merrill Lynch, Home Depot, Ernst & Young, Johnson & Johnson, Louis Vuitton, Coach, UBS, BDO, AMEX, Master Card, Macy’s, 360i, IBM, GM, Kraft, UNILEAVER, HBO, Prudential, Convene, Conference Board and many more… (NYC DOE VENDORS)

  • New York City area High School Residency: Sketch Comedy – NYC DOE VENDORS

    New York City area High School Residency: Sketch Comedy – NYC DOE VENDORS

    Sketch Comedy is a popular source of entertainment with roots as far back as Ancient Greece. This course leads students from brainstorming ideas, developing ideas, writing a final sketch and performing a live show and / or producing original video. The purpose of this course is to get students excited about creative writing, story telling, collaborating with others, and confidence public presentation. Through the lens of this currently popular form of entertainment we introduce students to classical literature, comedic theater and more. EMAIL for more information on bringing our programs to your students. NYC DOE VENDORS (Improv Theater LLC)

    WHY SKETCH COMEDY?

    Sketch Comedy is a short play or film usually grounded in a singular comedy purpose. Topics for comedy are as endless, bound solely by the creativity of the writer(s). Sketch Comedy as a class combines cultural arts and language arts. We are basically ELA and THEATER but by presenting to the students as a classroom in Comedy, more students get excited about the process. The class provides a powerful experience and serves as a gateway for students to get excited for further study into literature, writing and public presentation. In this class students will:

    1. Study the history of comedy, from Ancient Greece thru early TV and Radio.
    2. Learn to write an original short play via brain storming exercises, collaboration, first drafts and rewrites, and a final script.
    3. Learn to produce and perform live show and video.

    Producing Final Sketch

    Working backwards, let’s discuss how powerful this training is to a student. While this course could lead to a student working at Saturday Night Live by age of 19 like Eddie Murray, Dave Chapelle, or Pete Davidson, most will benefit in more meaningful ways. Our final end product, a live sketch comedy show and/or produced video teaches students how to produce and present content of any kind

    The number one fear in his world is public speaking. Sketch Comedy class is possibly the closest scenario to working on a corporate team, whether in marketing, project management and even scientific labs. Creating a fun safe space we develop self confidence fierce and public speaking skills, as well as basic skills in acting for stage and screen.

    We work with corporate teams daily to teach presentation and collaboration from skills, using Improv Comedy. This course looks to teach those skills to high school and middle school students. While students share the laughter, they are preparing for be leaders in any industry.

    Students live on their devices. We can debate through pros and cons of teens using social media. But unless there is a total societal collapse, chances are, the future is now, and being able to use these devices for good is possibly the most powerful tool a student can learn for their future success.

    Developing Sketch Comedy Scripts

    Every TV show – Skech comedy, sitcoms, episodic dramas, soap operas, dramedies, etc – has a writers room. Every week a head writer, called a show runner, hears ideas, assigns writing projects for scenes and episodes. The ROOM is a place to bounce around ideas, read thru scripts, and discuss edits. The show runner greenlights a final script, and the greenlights for production.

    This mimics this process. In the early seeks we will have exercises to brain storm ideas and details. Later weeks, we will outline and write a rough draft. Eventually we will produce a final script to be produced live and or as a video.

    Along the way we will use the ROOM to discuss, improvise, read drafts, and otherwise work thru ideas to help writers produce a final script.

    Meanwhile, students develop a deeper understanding of creativity writing, story telling, characters, settings, plots, themes, and more.

    History of Comedy

    The history of comedy is the history of creative writing, philosophy, literature, theater and human civilization. Again, by using a popular form of entertainment, we are able to reach students and peak their curiosity in many areas of academic study. Students become better students of history, language arts and even the sciences. We give academic study a practical application with an end product that students can be proud.

    Bringing Sketch Comedy to your Students

    There are a few ways to bring this program to your students.

    1. Simply buy the book and run the class. The paperback is just $9.99. Buy 20 copies as text book for $200 and let the fun begin, anywhere in the world.
    2. Bring Walt Frasier to your school for a master class in comedy. $500 for up to 2 hours includes 20 copies of the book. Walt Frasier will lead the class in some improv games to launch the creative spirit, discuss his approach to brainstorming, hear some pitches, and set you off onto a successful session. We could also host this workshop at our Times Square NYC theater.
    3. THE FULL RESIDENCY Our team will drop by your classes up to 10 times, 20 hours. Walt Frasier himself at least 2-3 times, plus one of his teaching artist for all 10. As is, this will produce an entire show of live sketches and videos. Partnered with your la Guage arts teacher, develop into a full ELA or cultural arts elective, showing videos of classic sketches appropriate for all students, episodes of comedy TV and movies, discussing these works, as well as comedic short stories and going deeper into the history of comedy. You can also create additional collaboration and rehearsal time beyond our teacher attendance. $3000 include 10 sessions, 20 hours with one of our teachers, at least 2 sessions with Walt Frasier, 20 copies of the book, and optional online hosting of videos.
    4. THE FULL PROGRAM: Bring all of our programs to your school. Leverl 1 Improv Comedy. Level 2 Stand Up Comedy. Level 3 Sketch Comedy. Every class is designed to be self contained, with no experience necessary. In progression, the complete program delivers a population of confident creative powerhouses ready to take on the world in any profession.

    ← Back

    Thank you for your response. ✨

    Author, Artistic Director Walt Frasier has 25+ years of professional credits in comedy, Theater and music. He got his big break in TV performing comedy sketches on MTV’s Stankervision, Late Nite with David Letterman, TruTV’s Friends of the People, and most recently on HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay. As an actor, Frasier has appeared on NBC’s Blacklist, CBS’s Blue Bloods, USA’s Royal Pains (Filmed in Puerto Rico), Netflix’s Lilyhammer (filmed in Norway) and NICK’s Naked Brothers Band. In addition to 1000s of live performances around the world, Frasier has also appeared in numerous commercials, industrials, webisodes and reality TV shows. Frasier has written many books on comedy performance and more.

    A division of Improv Theater LLC

    The New York Improv Theater is a one stop edutainment center for corporate team building, office / holiday parties and more. Our comedy shows and workshops deliver high impact results. Clients include Google, Mercedes Benz, META /Facebook, TikTok, JP Morgan Chase, Accenture, Morgan Stanley, Twitter, Roblox, Rimowa, EI Digital, Accenture, Datadog HQ, Milbank, BING/Microsoft, Band of America – Merrill Lynch, Home Depot, Ernst & Young, Johnson & Johnson, Louis Vuitton, Coach, UBS, BDO, AMEX, Master Card, Macy’s, 360i, IBM, GM, Kraft, UNILEAVER, HBO, Prudential, Convene, Conference Board and many more… (NYC DOE VENDORS)

  • Improv 4 Teens – Murder Mystery, Minute to Win It, Trivia & More

    Improv 4 Teens – Murder Mystery, Minute to Win It, Trivia & More

    In addition our improv comedy shows and workshops, we offer a number of interactive immersive options for schools, camps, libraries, community centers and family events. We can also host at our Times Square NYC theater. This article focuses on our mystery programs, but we also have trivia, minute to win it, and other programs. EMAIL for more information.

    WHODUNNIT?

    True Crime Dramas are more popular than ever, and so are mystery events, murder or otherwise. We have been regularly working with library teen nights, summer camps, schools and family gatherings. If murder is not the perfect fit, how about WHO STOLE THE SPIRIT CUP, WHO STOLE OUR MASCOT, THE CASE OF THE MISSING (insert anything relevant to your school/community). Not li mm ited to crime family drama, we also can accommodate any style, period of history, etc – Billionair Mystery Mansion, Disco Fever, 1980s, 1950s, 1920s, Greco Roman Antiquity, and more. We have dozens of scenarios from previous shows or can write an original show, or even better, let YOUR teens write the show, completely improvised on the spot.

    • The Full Show: we send our team of four improv comedy players to become characters. A murder happens right in front of your eyes, as the victim falls mid speech. Everyone is a witness and suspect and deputized to help solve the crime in teams of 3-10.
    • CLUE PARTIES Basically one of our detectives serves as EMCEE and lead investigator. In these parties some or all of the participants are suspects. They receive some simple information about their character and relationship to a victim. Everyone has opportunity, means and motive. But the clues lead to one perpetrator. Everyone is deputized to solve the crime.
    • MADCAPPED MYSTERIES: Our unique show, is also the most original show ever created, because it is completely created by your group at the time of the show.

    Imagine a live version of Mad Libs, or our popular Improv Game Columns (aka Call ’em’s, Human Mad Libs).

    Our lead player, the detective, arrives moments after the discover of a crime/victim. The first few minutes are just like Mad Libs. Our detective tells the story of the crime by promoting your guests to fill in a few blanks. “We just found (points to audience member), you know their name is (points), right, yes, Frank. (From this point on its all improvised) Frank is known in town for (points to audience member), you know his job or (points), right, yes, Frank is the operator of an ice cream truck that everyone loves and cherishes, except at least one of you apparently.”

    After the basic crime is established, we meet the towns people. For smaller groups (under 20ish) everyone becomes a character, from friends and family of the victim, strangers that witnessed the some aspect of the crime, and pillars of our community – mayor, chief of police, deputy, Coroner, district attorney, school board, park ranger, specialist from the university, etc.

    Now we establish some suspects. Our Detective pics 3-5 characters to join the line up of usual suspects. After a brief interrogation, basically summing up each characters part in the story and relationships, motives and means to commit the crime, the rest of the crowd decides into teams to interrogate suspects, spending 3-5 minutes with each (suspects rotate from team to team).

    Finally, teams deliberate and solve the crime, who did it, how they did and why. Also teams pick a best actor award. Once the detective collects all the answers, we have some fun reading the solutions to the crowd. Ultimately one team is picked as the winning solution. The criminal mastermind(s) is identified. We award prizes to the winning team(s). Lastly we award a best actor prize and hear their oscar/Tony award winning speech.

  • Improv 4 Teens Touring Company – Schools, Libraries, Community / Family events

    Improv 4 Teens Touring Company – Schools, Libraries, Community / Family events

    Bring laughter to your communities!

    2003, the cast of EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH Improv Comedy has been touring k12 schools, camps, community centers and family events DC to BOSTON and beyond. We also offer workshops, residencies and professional development programming. EMAIL for more information on dates and rates. NYC DOE VENDORS

    Interactive Comedy Shows

    Our shows are all ages friendly and popular at k12 schools, summer camps, community centers (Libraries, theaters, JCC, YMCA, parks and recreation, etc) and family events (birthdays, graduations, scouts, etc). Great for any stage, or we can turn any classroom, gym, meeting room, living room or back yard space into a Comedy club.

    Workshops

    Improv is SEL, Social Emotional Learning. Simply playing improv comedy games develops creativity, critical thinking, public speaking, listening, focus, self confidence, self awareness and more.

    Our Governing Principles

    • HAVE FUN but never at another’s expense! – Walt Frasier’s #1 Rule
    • YES AND… #1 Rule in Improv
    • LISTENING is the #1 Skill in Comedy

    Residencies & After School Programming

    There are two types of residencies that we offer. One, where our teachers offer shows and one off workshops for the entire population of your school, or even your district. We extend our full day and week rates to neighboring schools.

    Two, our teachers work with a group of students for 16+ hours as they learn numerous games, culminating in a final showcase. This can be compressed into a single week, as in a typical summer camp scenario, our stretched out over a full quarter or semester.

    In general our rates per hour/show/class are cut as much as in half when booking a series of sessions.

    Professional Development

    Professional Development programming for teachers and staff brings the best of our k12 outreach programs and corporate training center into one powerful program.

    First and foremost, Improv delivers but needed laughter. Teaching is not easy and you deserve to have some fun.

    Improv is a powerful tool in the classroom. Studies show laughter in the classroom increases test scores. Humor develops a better brain, as we compare two otherwise dissimilar topics/items. Laughter is cardiovascular, pumping oxygen to the brain, waking up our students. Laughter reduces stress and builds community bonds. We teach you games you can use before a big test or lecture to bring listening and focus to a premium. Set yourself and your students up for success!

    We use improv to teach team building, leadership, sales and service skills. We argue that on any given day, teachers have to do all four, navigating classroom management, interacting with colleagues and department meetings, students, teachers, and administration. Where do sales come in? Every time a student says, “Why should I care?”, “Why do I need to learn math?”, “Why do I need to be on time?”, we have all purpose answers. But improv teaches us to engage an individual, and their specific needs. The #1 Skill in Comedy is LISTENING.

    Artistic Director Walt Frasier has 25+ years of professional credits in comedy, Theater and music. He got his big break in TV performing comedy sketches on MTV’s Stankervision, Late Nite with David Letterman, TruTV’s Friends of the People, and most recently on HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay. As an actor, Frasier has appeared on NBC’s Blacklist, CBS’s Blue Bloods, USA’s Royal Pains (Filmed in Puerto Rico), Netflix’s Lilyhammer (filmed in Norway) and NICK’s Naked Brothers Band. In addition to 1000s of live performances around the world, Frasier has also appeared in numerous commercials, industrials, webisodes and reality TV shows. Frasier has written many books on comedy performance and more.

    A division of Improv Theater LLC

    The New York Improv Theater is a one stop edutainment center for corporate team building, office / holiday parties and more. Our comedy shows and workshops deliver high impact results. Clients include Google, Mercedes Benz, META /Facebook, TikTok, JP Morgan Chase, Accenture, Morgan Stanley, Twitter, Roblox, Rimowa, EI Digital, Accenture, Datadog HQ, Milbank, BING/Microsoft, Band of America – Merrill Lynch, Home Depot, Ernst & Young, Johnson & Johnson, Louis Vuitton, Coach, UBS, BDO, AMEX, Master Card, Macy’s, 360i, IBM, GM, Kraft, UNILEAVER, HBO, Prudential, Convene, Conference Board and many more… (NYC DOE VENDORS)

  • Teen Night Tuesdays Improv Comedy Off-Broadway

    • GET TICKETS for Off Broadway interactive musical comedy improvised based on audience suggestions and participation.
    • EMAIL for group sales and private events, almost daily student groups for shows and workshops at our Times Square NYC theater and touring theaters, schools, community centers, corporate and family events for 20+ years. NYC DOE VENDORS
    • TEEN GROUP SPECIAL Tuesday nights. Buy 10 or more VIP tickets and we will add a FREE workshop before the show and pizza. 4pm Workshop, 6pm pizza and soft drinks, 6:30 Show, out by 8pm. $600 total. Or Show & Pizza $35pp or Show Only $20pp
    Register on Eventbrite
    • Our #1 rule is HAVE FUN but never at another’s expense. We create a fun, safe space to play for all.
    • The #1 Rule in improv is YES AND… We support our team. Improv develops Psychological Safety, identified as the #1 factor in team success, balanced with performance drive.
    • The #1 Skill in Comedy is listening. Listening with your eyes. Listening with the willingness to change. Listening is also the #1 skill in good leaders.

    Artistic Director Walt Frasier

    Walt Frasier has 25+ years of professional credits in comedy, Theater and music. He got his big break in TV performing comedy sketches on MTV’s Stankervision, Late Nite with David Letterman, TruTV’s Friends of the People, and most recently on HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay. As an actor, Frasier has appeared on NBC’s Blacklist, CBS’s Blue Bloods, USA’s Royal Pains (Filmed in Puerto Rico), Netflix’s Lilyhammer (filmed in Norway) and NICK’s Naked Brothers Band. In addition to 1000s of live performances around the world, Frasier has also appeared in numerous commercials, industrials, webisodes and reality TV shows. Check out Walter’s books on Amazon – Stand Up Comedy Workshop, Improv on Zoom, Paranormal POV presents Aliens, Witches and Ghosts, Oh My! etc.

  • Teen Field Trips, Improv Comedy Shows & Workshops, Times Square NYC

    Teen Field Trips, Improv Comedy Shows & Workshops, Times Square NYC

    We love performing shows for school groups that visit from around the world. Even more rewarding, leading young talent to amazing heights. But don’t take our word for it….

    FROM TODAY…

    “Thank you so much for a WONDERFUL experience today. My students could not stop talking about it on the bus ride back to school. I can’t wait to bring another group next year. Thank you again.”

    • Joanna Beck, Hackensack Middle School

    Today, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, we hosted 40 8th graders from Hackensack New Jersey for a show and due to extra time, an impromptu workshop. Our shows are very interactive and musical. Five different games invited students on stage, including sound effects and human mad libs, where students very directly steer the professionals on their path. Human Slide Show, or FREEZE FRAME, has students posing to depict a mock slide show, narrated by our comics. Three Headed Expert and Four Square actually have a student performing along side the pros. The show is framed by 3-4 musical elements, including SING IT, a mock Broadway show improvised upon a single word.

    FROM YESTERDAY…

    Walt,We would like to send a massive “THANK YOU” to you and the crew!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your care and support for young adults shines through as someone whose heart is committed to make a difference. I am not sure if you know this but every so often you would make a reference to a life lesson that makes me stop and think and I am sure it resonated with the students. They are all talking about their experiences today.

    • Roy Balgobin, The High School for Arts and Technology booked via Young Audiences New York

    On Tuesday, April 16, 2024, we hosted 70 high school seniors for show, workshop and full workshop.

    Our workshops allow the students to experience being on stage, playing games they could take back to school and put up a show. We discuss topics like stage freight, team work, basic performance skills, projection, and so much more. IMPROV IS SEL. In our work with corporate groups we use Improv to teach team building, leadership, sales and service skills. Simply playing these games develops creativity, critical thinking, public speaking, listening, focus, self confidence, self awareness and more.

    We host student groups from around the world almost daily. In fact, yesterday, our sister company IMPROV 4 KIDS hosted a Bronx elementary school, with 100 k2 students. Located just one block from the Colbert show stage door in Midtown Manhattan, less than a 5 minute walk from every Broadway theater, we have two theater spaces with over 200 seats combined. Further we tour k12 schools, camps, community centers and family events DC to BOSTON and beyond every week.

    • GET TICKETS to public shows
    • EMAIL for more information about public shows and classes, group sales and private event bookings – shows, workshops, residencies and even professional development programming for teachers/staff. NYC DOE VENDORS