Meet Our Shows

Catch all our unique and homegrown shows - many of which can ONLY be seen at the Black Box!
Improvised Musical: Story, characters, music, lyrics, and funny all made up on the spot! Featuring Trey Stone and the Black Box Band.
Story, characters, music, lyrics, and funny all made up on the spot! Featuring Trey Stone and the Black Box Band.
Low-Hanging Fruit: Some of our most seasoned improvisors take the stage to riff free-form on your stories and input.
Some of our most seasoned improvisors take the stage to riff free-form on your stories and input.
Last Night In: Our cast provides a plausible context for real-life messages from a location of the audience's choosing.
Our cast provides a plausible context for real-life messages from a location of the audience's choosing.
An actor who can't deviate from their script is paired with improvisers who don't have one! We make the nonsense make sense.
An actor who can't deviate from their script is paired with improvisers who don't have one! We make the nonsense make sense.
Our cast takes those ridiculous headlines from the bottom of websites and improvises the stories behind them.
Our cast takes those ridiculous headlines from the bottom of websites and improvises the stories behind them.
Classic improv - a suggestion from the audience gets the ball rolling on a series of scenes with a fun, anything-goes attitude.
Classic improv - a suggestion from the audience gets the ball rolling on a series of scenes with a fun, anything-goes attitude.
Small Business Saturday: We partner with another local Dayton business for stories we can improv on. New partner every month!
We partner with another local Dayton business for stories we can improv on. New partner every month!
Director's Cut: With a film genre from the
With a film genre from the "Wheel of Random" and an audience-suggested title, our cast creates your new favorite movie on the spot.
Town Hall: Meet the locals of a small town as they deal with the fallout of an audience-suggested problem.
Meet the locals of a small town as they deal with the fallout of an audience-suggested problem.
Game Night: An experimental format that finds our improvisors getting their inspiration from some favorite party games.
An experimental format that finds our improvisors getting their inspiration from some favorite party games.
A pair of improvisors spend some time getting to know a special Daytonian, then adapt their life into a 2-person improvised story.
A pair of improvisors spend some time getting to know a special Daytonian, then adapt their life into a 2-person improvised story.
Dayton Legal: Led by an actual attorney, our cast improvises a trial for a REAL court case - and the audience decides the verdict!
Led by an actual attorney, our cast improvises a trial for a REAL court case - and the audience decides the verdict!
Writer's Retreat: Actors debut three BRAND NEW one-act plays, written by our own team, then our improvisors blow them up. Will they guess the right plot?
Actors debut three BRAND NEW one-act plays, written by our own team, then our improvisors blow them up. Will they guess the right plot?
RetCon: Perhaps our most audience-interactive show, our improvisors stop mid-scene to ask the audience about what happens next.
Perhaps our most audience-interactive show, our improvisors stop mid-scene to ask the audience about what happens next.
Grab Bag: Truly an improvised night! Three groups of improvisors are assembled on the spot to explore the audience's suggested ideas.
Truly an improvised night! Three groups of improvisors are assembled on the spot to explore the audience's suggested ideas.
A classic improv format! Each scene inspires the next one, all from the spark of a single word from the audience.
A classic improv format! Each scene inspires the next one, all from the spark of a single word from the audience.