Improv Boston Presents Two Politically Charged Comedy Shows

New England's longest-running comedy theater presents two politically-charged comedy shows to ring in the election season: GoreFest XIV: The Campain (an original, scripted splatter musical) and Election! (an improvised political debate on a topic provided by the audience). Each show combines the best and worst parts of politics for one night of unforgettable laughter and the terrifying reality that it's not far from the truth.

GoreFest XIV: The Campain | More Camp. More Pain.

GoreFest XIV: The Campain, brings more camp and more pain to an already excruciating presidential run. Now in it's 14th year, the annual splatter musical positions as an election satire with original music, outlandish characters, and a blood-soaked audience. While this election impacts everyone, GoreFest XIV is the only political show that will leave you covered in gore, laughing til it hurts, and whistling a happy tune when it's all over.

GoreFest XIV runs from October 27 - November 6 at 40 Prospect St in Central Square, Cambridge. Dates/Times vary. Tickets are $25 General Admission / $20 Students at the door only. Full schedule available here.

Election! An Improvised Political Debate

In Election!, you provide the platform, this elite band of politically-savvy improvisers provides the party. Each debater takes an audience suggestion that becomes their party and through wild words and artful oration, each candidate strives to win the audience vote. It won't be clean, it won't be pretty, but it will be funny.

Election! An Improvised Debate takes the podium Fridays at 10pm from October 21 to November 4 at 40 Prospect St in Central Square, Cambridge. Tickets are $18 General Admission / $14 Students at the door only and available here.

For over 30 years, ImprovBoston has been New England's leading theater and school dedicated to the art of comedy in all its forms. Voted "Best of Boston" by The Phoenix, The Improper Bostonian, and The Weekly Dig, ImprovBoston performers, teachers and students have included film stars, Emmy Award-winning comedians, and acclaimed producers, directors, musicians and writers. ImprovBoston alumni are featured on Conan, Late Night with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, America's Got Talent, Funniest Wins, Playboy, Last Comic Standing and John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, to name a few. In 2014, the Independent Reviewers of New England honored ImprovBoston with an award recognizing its longstanding contributions to the Boston theater community. As a nonprofit arts organization, ImprovBoston serves the community through laughter with youth outreach programs, workshops for businesses, scholarships, a national touring company and, of course, performances at its theater complex in Central Square, Cambridge.

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