The Black Box Improv Theater

Dayton’s Home for Improv Comedy

Live improv shows every Wednesday through Saturday in downtown Dayton, Ohio.

Featuring House Teams: Death of a Lumberjack and Do Not Copy!

A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to The Foodbank.
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Grab Bag + Be With You Shortly 11/11 Anything could happen! Community performers of all experience levels are throw into random groups to perform random show formats, followed by Be With You Shortly Rapid-fire comedy and short-form fu

Grab Bag + Be With You Shortly
11/11

Anything could happen!
Community performers of all experience levels are throw into random groups to perform random show formats, followed by Be With You Shortly Rapid-fire comedy and short-form fun!

MAIN EVENT 11/12 Someone's got a secret. Join us for a dive into the tangential "what ifs" as we find our way back to the 'Main Event.' Right after Imaginary Sardines and Affection Deprived! THURSDAY: BOGO Free Tix OR Free entry

MAIN EVENT
11/12

Someone's got a secret. Join us for a dive into the tangential "what ifs" as we find our way back to the 'Main Event.' Right after Imaginary Sardines and Affection Deprived!

THURSDAY: BOGO Free Tix OR Free entry if you're wearing Dayton Sportcial merch!

Getting Dicey 11/13 New Format! A narrative show where the cast fully trusts a 20-sided die to alter their fate in increasingly frenetic ways. Right after House Team, Death of a Lumberjack !

Getting Dicey
11/13

New Format!
A narrative show where the cast fully trusts a 20-sided die to alter their fate in increasingly frenetic ways.
Right after House Team, Death of a Lumberjack!

Face the Magic 11/14 With Jake Lundgren! Right after house team Do Not Copy , magic meets improv! Be amaaaazed, then have an extra laugh with us as we improvise scenes based on Jake's tricks!

Face the Magic
11/14

With Jake Lundgren!
Right after house team Do Not Copy, magic meets improv! Be amaaaazed, then have an extra laugh with us as we improvise scenes based on Jake's tricks!

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View fullsize Join us for a Pre-Thanksgiving Show of Gratitude! We're kicking off the holidays with this year's Show of Gratitude on Wednesday, November 25, featuring The Foodbank! The Black Box Improvisers are getting together to give a little thanks and do a li
View fullsize (Improv) Performances that move you 4 days a week. TONIGHT doors open at 7:30! Catch house teams Imaginary Sardines and Affection Deprived, followed by DIRECTOR'S CUT - spin the wheel to pick a genre and rewrite Hollywood history with us! Show start
View fullsize Heads up, we've got improv Wednesday through Friday ONLY this week‼️ After House Teams it's Game Night, Director's Cut, and Town Hall! SATURDAY, Dayton Drunk Theater is taking over the Black Box for a production of FRANKENSTEIN (Kind Of)! All ticket
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View fullsize Join us for a Pre-Thanksgiving Show of Gratitude! We're kicking off the holidays with this year's Show of Gratitude on Wednesday, November 25, featuring The Foodbank! The Black Box Improvisers are getting together to give a little thanks and do a li
View fullsize (Improv) Performances that move you 4 days a week. TONIGHT doors open at 7:30! Catch house teams Imaginary Sardines and Affection Deprived, followed by DIRECTOR'S CUT - spin the wheel to pick a genre and rewrite Hollywood history with us! Show start
View fullsize Heads up, we've got improv Wednesday through Friday ONLY this week‼️ After House Teams it's Game Night, Director's Cut, and Town Hall! SATURDAY, Dayton Drunk Theater is taking over the Black Box for a production of FRANKENSTEIN (Kind Of)! All ticket
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View fullsize Come together for a night of sPoOkY improv this Friday 10/30! The Coven, an all-female-identifying cast, will return for a Halloween-themed show of magic and mayhem, with the assistance of two familiars (i.e., Black Box Bros)! It will be spooky. The
View fullsize And it is prophesied that on this All Hallows' Eve Eve (eve eve), the Coven will join hands and do impov, but the magic starts on Wednesday and lasts all week long! WEDNESDAY show starts at 7:30. ALL OTHER SHOWS start at 8pm. Doors always open 30 mi

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