Upcoming Shows
Every gay guy has his diva—Madonna, Janet, Britney, Bey, Gaga—but New York City comedian Michael John Ciszewski’s has always been Sophie, his mother.She’s a nurse,...
by Marina Kennedy - February 13, 2026
Brian Dykstra's Not Nobody at 59E59 Theaters explores justice and moral dilemmas as a former ethics professor becomes a person of interest after aiding a wounded officer....
Past Shows
Join Shatter The Glass Productions on Sunday December 28th at 5 PM EST at Caveat NYC for a night of trans joy and celebration as...
The acclaimed play Constellations by Nick Payne returns to New York City for a one-night-only immersive performance, reimagined by Argentinian director Milagros Luis.In Nick Payne’s...
Awkward Sex is exactly what it sounds like: comedians reliving intimate tales about their sex life and breaking barriers about sex and dating.Hosted by Natalie...
Fun in Moderation is BACK with all new sketches!Fun in Moderation is a New York City-based sketch comedy team comprised of Austin Elias-de Jesus (UCB),...
Three veteran storytellers illuminate obscure histories for your curiosity and delight.Featuring:Death Squared: A Mouse Utopia Goes WrongIn the 1960s, a mad scientist designed a perfect...
Catbaret’s Meowloween brings comedy, music, and purr-lesque to Caveat Oct 31. Expect free cat ears, a costume contest, raffle prizes, and campy feline fun.
Modern Whitney is an art comedy show where three comedians guess what they think famous art means. Afterward, an art expert explains to them what it actually means. This show...
Modern Whitney is an art comedy show where three comedians guess what they think famous art means. Afterwards, an art expert explains to them what it actually means. This show...
Mulatto Winnie the Pooh is Niccolo Aeed's first stand up special. In this autobiographical special Nicco talks about identity, parents and how he just wants...
Fun in Moderation is BACK with all new sketches!Fun in Moderation is a New York City-based sketch comedy team comprised of Austin Elias-de Jesus (UCB),...
Awkward Sex is exactly what it sounds like: comedians reliving intimate tales about their sex life and breaking barriers about sex and dating.Hosted by Natalie...
Don’t touch that dial! Join us as one of Shakespeare’s most controversial shows is transformed into a 1950s sitcom. Our hero Petruchio is new in...
Reality TV meets the art of striptease in this sizzling summer spectacle at Caveat.On July 10th, Reali-Tease Burlesque returns to Caveat NYC with Summer Love...
Feel like you can't do anything right? Does everyone swipe left on you? Then come on down to Rejects Anonymous, and spill your guts about...
Modern Whitney is an art comedy show where three comedians guess what they think famous art means. Afterwards, an art expert explains to them what it...
Arguably Shakespeare's most pervasive comedy, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' has a little something for everyone. Don't like the tangled web of misdirected lovers? Stay for...
Maurine & Marurice Show: it’s a high-stakes,high-energy mob-comedy experience where the audience is part of the action from the start.After years of living a life of crime,...
What do Muslim women think? Since nobody ever asked, Aizzah Fatima (HBO’, Dirtry Paki Lingerie) and Atheer Yacoub (Comedy Central) created the show Muslim Girls...
Cat lovers are in for a paws-itively purrfect evening with Catbaret, a cat-themed variety show celebrating spring and kitten season, hosted by Gemma Smith. Packed...
It’s the show NoHo Arts District calls “absolutely genius,” recipient of Best Musical Comedy Award at United Solo fest Off-Broadway in NYC, and Solofest Best...
World Premiere! An interactive, one-of-a-kind, musical extravaganza - overflowing with 8-bit bops, improvised battles and original Collectabuddies. Every performance is a new adventure!
A high energy comedy that places you directly in the action of a fictional TV game show experience.
It's Stephen Sondheim's 95th birthday! Celebrate with host Orli Matlow (Adult Swim) and a lineup of comedians paying exuberant homage to the man whose musicals...
Fun in Moderation is BACK with all new sketches!Fun in Moderation is a New York City-based sketch comedy team comprised of Austin Elias-de Jesus (UCB),...
Presented by the 6th annual Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest and Limitless Laughs Productions, get ready to laugh until your sides ache at “Chronically...
It’s been 84 years… or 25 years, since April 1999, when six-year-old Alice was finally allowed to watch a recorded-from-HBO VHS of the 1997 James...
ALMOST HOT is a slightly deranged and absolutely earnest solo show that explores one of our most pervasive cultural values: hotness.
Celebrate Lunar New Year with Model Majority (Good Morning America, Time Out, CBS) for a night of comedy, music, snakes and more.
Frog Boyz Presents KATIE BOYLE (Just For Laughs New Faces)NAT TOWSEN (The Tonight Show)MARIO BENITEZ (Saturday Gigantic) SKETCH TEAM 6 Dan Conroy (Peoples Improv Theater)Tenaya Griffin (Peoples Improv...
Named the best Character Show in NYC, Character Night is showcases original characters, impressions, and bits featuring some of the most talented, inventive, bold, and friggin'...
Named the best Character Show in NYC, Character Night is showcases original characters, impressions, and bits featuring some of the most talented, inventive, bold, and friggin'...
Improvisors Double D will take the audience’s tales of rejection and use them to create a whole cast of hilarious characters right before your eyes.
SHOW INFODoors 2:00 PMShow 2:30 PMTickets$15 early bird (until Nov 24, 02:30PM)$18 standard$23 at the door$10 livestream21+ No outside food or drink allowed. Tickets may be refunded up...
A refreshingly honest and engaging exploration of the pursuit of passion...one odd job at a time.
With her co-star unaccounted for, ever-positive Lizzy Sunshine carries a vaudevillian double act alone. This show-within-a-show ends with a twist, revealing the farcical fate of addiction's little...
The 2024 New York Comedy Festival features “Time to Kill: A Sketch Comedy Show!” With comedians from The Daily Show, The Tonight Show, and more...
Presented by The New York Comedy FestivalFun in Moderation is BACK with all new sketches, stand-up, games, and more!Fun in Moderation is a New York...
The boys are back, baby! Michelle Chan Bennett and Josh Nasser are Bobby Bingus and Tommy Linguini, two 1960's crooners whose careers, livers, and opinions...
LaughMasters is a one-of-a-kind comedy competition that mixes pre-filmed challenges with onstage banter to bring audience members a rollicking good time. This installation’s lineup is...
After a successful run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Dave Piontkowski is bringing his groundbreaking comedy show, 3 Kidneys No Colon, to Caveat on October 3rd...
Boyband Breakup is a musical sketch show about the chaotic, on-stage collapse of multi-ethnic boyband, the Groove Guys. But who causes the breakup?! Sing along...
ER doctor Aaron Bola and friends welcome chronically over-sharing comedians to tell stories of their weirdest diagnoses. The doctors then do what they wish they...
The Flash Follies: A Lightning Fast Showcase of Music & Comedy, is an hourlong, one-night-only showcase of talent featuring the members of the cast, crew,...
Two Clowns Google Translate Shakespeare entire work 15 times and perform them to the highest of standards. What are you going to do about it?Devon...
A refreshingly honest musical comedy: chasing dreams in NYC, one odd job at a time.
This month we have Lucas O'Neil (Comedy Central), Jared Goldstein (Netflix), Sabrina Wu (The Tonight Show), Molly Ledbetter (NY Comedy Festival), & improv from Lisa...
ER doctor Aaron Bola and friends welcome chronically over-sharing comedians to tell stories of their weirdest diagnoses. The doctors then do what they wish they...
Fun in Moderation is a New York City-based sketch comedy team comprised of Kendall Bowden, Nick Ryan, Austin Elias-de Jesus, and Syd King. The show...
Join Reali-tease Burlesque for an evening of Vanderpump Rules-inspired entertainment as we transport you from the Lower East Side straight into the heart of West...
The Last Neighbors builds improvised One-Act plays with grounded characters and unexpected plot lines, based off the title created by their audiences! From capers and...
In April 1999, a six-year-old was allowed to watch the 1997 classic “Titanic” on a VHS after her mom taped it off of HBO. Over...
Scandalton LIVE!The Jane Austen RPG Show.Ever wanted courtside seats to a courtship? Done waiting for the next season of Bridgerton? In Scandalton LIVE!, all-star storytellers...
Audio comedy podcast ‘Lil Miss Kate - Ward of the State’ is producing their first-ever live show at Manhattan’s ‘Caveat’ theater. Written and Produced by...
Meow! Calling all cat lovers—join us for a purrfect variety show at Caveat!
Caveat presents a sketch comedy night with four NYC based troupes performing a variety of new, hilarious, and exciting material! Including performers you've seen at...
It's Stephen Sondheim's 94th birthday and we've booked some clowns! Celebrate with host Orli Matlow (Adult Swim) and a lineup of comedians paying exuberant homage...
humor and satire website greener pastures presents a night of humor readings, improv, sketch comedy, stand up, character work, and music with guests alison leiby...
In this show, six comedians navigate challenges in either makeup and fashion. Three compete in makeup, three compete in fashion and then the top two face...
Gara Lonning's first Stand Up Hour is coming to NYC for three nights at Caveat in October!Fresh off his successful 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Run, the...
Carnival Girls Productions announces the staged reading event of the season!A dejected big city playwright escapes down the Jersey Shore only to take on more...
Fun in Moderation offers a famously good time. This show is an all-night party featuring sketch comedy, stand-up, games & surprises. Written and performed by...
What do Muslim women think? Since nobody ever asked, Aizzah Fatima (HBO's High Maintenance, Dirtry Paki Lingerie) and Atheer Yacoub (Comedy Central) created the web...
Character comedian, Sydney Duncan invites you inside the mind of an angry and crazy black woman. Through characters, impressions, and storytelling, this show is all about...
A 62-year-old woman in an insane asylum closes her eyes and becomes a 28-year-old stand-up comedian. But not just any stand-up comedian, a comedian who...
Comedians Carlos Nolla and Shannon Constantine (UCB) have planned the perfectly ethical summer vacation -- or, they will by the end of the night!With the...
You’re invited to the 2nd Annual passing out of “REPARATIONS!” Come join host, WNO's Sydney Duncan, as she celebrates Juneteenth with a blackity-black showcase of...
“Duty Free Live! Unauthorized Imported Game Shows!” is a comedy show bringing international game show formats to (unauthorized) life by New York’s best comedians. Led...
“Duty Free Live! Unauthorized Imported Game Shows!” is a comedy show bringing international game show formats to (unauthorized) life by New York’s best comedians. Led...
“Duty Free Live! Unauthorized Imported Game Shows!” is a comedy show bringing international game show formats to (unauthorized) life by New York’s best comedians. Led...
Rogue lesbian nuns conduct their own improved version of the Catholic Mass in “Praying For Godot” at Caveat Theater, 9:30PM March 22nd, 2023The Good News...
“Duty Free Live! Unauthorized Imported Game Shows!” is a comedy show bringing international game show formats to (unauthorized) life by New York’s best comedians. Led...
On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 9:30pm, Old Pros, a non profit media organization working to change the status of sex workers in society, is...
“Duty Free Live! Unauthorized Imported Game Shows!” is a comedy show bringing international game show formats to (unauthorized) life by New York’s best comedians. Led...
It's the resurrection of the century, bitches.Fresh off a critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival '22, teen Queen Mary Tudor takes to the...
Title: Old Pros Show is Raising Money and Awareness for Sex Worker Rights! On Wednesday, November 30th at 9:30pm - Old Pros, a non profit media...
Hong Kong and Canadian Game Shows Brought To Localized and Unauthorized Life In “Duty Free Live!” at Caveat Theater, November 21st, 2022LOWER EAST SIDE, NEW...
A sketch show about two objectively awful people giving horrible advice on how to behave in restaurants!Written and directed by comedians Jared Eimicke & Stacey...
MEGA is a satirical podcast from the staff of a fictional mega church. Hosted by Holly Laurent and Greg Hess, the show features a rotating...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOCTOBER 2022 Japanese and British Game Shows Brought To Localized and Unauthorized Life In “Duty Free Live!” at Caveat Theater, October 21st, 2022LOWER EAST...
A toast, to the glorious mysteries of life, to all that binds an audience as one, to mirth, to merriment, to manslaughter, to ADDAMS FAMILY...
In this comedic quintet, five couples explore the delights and disappointments of their sex lives. Whether they are the first two people on Earth or...
Portly Lutheran Know-It-All is a solo show well worth the Reformation. The show mixes standup, storytelling, and light Bible study.Written and performed by Matt Storrs...
Only one of us has ever seen an F5... until July 29th! Join A Drinking Game NYC as they lovingly recreate this iconic film while...
We Stan Together is a hilarious liveshow and pop culture academic symposium that examines entertainment gossip and mass media trends with academic rigor. Smart people,...
WHAT:A live and livestreaming informative comedy show about data and decision making in the real world. WHO: Hosted by Andrea Jones-Rooy, Ph.D: data science professor,...
After a three-month safety hiatus, twin brothers Max and Nicky Weinbach are back with their monthly neo-retro night of stand-up comedy and music. Max &...
In this show an expert in the business of love will share hot takes and sound advice that will inspire improv comedy, which will inspire...
Hosted by Dani Faith Leonard, ADULT SEX ED is a comedy show that plugs the holes in your education through storytelling, deep dives, and hilarious...
Half-Full: Comedy from the writers, correspondents and staff at Full Frontal with Samantha BeeThe Emmy-award winning staff at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee celebrates their...
When its time to get the Gatekeeper and the Keymaster back together, who you gonna call? A Drinking Game NYC! Join us as we lovingly...
In the last year, Nore Davis has released his third comedy album Too Woke, filmed his first Comedy Central Half Hour Special which aired in...
Queer Window is an LGBTQIA+ themed sketch show written, performed, created, produced, and conceived by an all-queer cast that was forged in the flames of...
"Hello, everyone! WE'RE BAAACK!" Let's welcome each other back to Earth with A Drinking Game NYC as they lovingly recreate this iconic film and turn...
What happens when a TED talk about chaos theory goes wildly off the rails? CHAOS THEORY is a comedic, immersive experience exploring the underlying chaos...
Don't mail your ticket to the Marx Brothers and don't call us Junior, because up next is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade! Come fly...
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads! Just plutonium and beers. Join A Drinking Game NYC as they lovingly recreate this cult classic film...
Dirty Bingo Night! A Fundraiser + Convo with Trust Women Wichita & Lizz WinsteadTHU // JUN 06 // 06:00PMThe Trust Women abortion clinic was founded...
"Money makes the world go 'round" is a widely-used saying invented right here in New York City so this month New York City's Secrets and...
Can you tell the difference between a secret and a lie when it involves New York City history? This month, were spinning tales about What...
If the civilization around you were rapidly collapsing, what would you save? “Hypatia and the Heathens: A Musical Bacchanalia,” is a new interactive party musical...
Can you tell the difference between a secret and a lie? New York City's Secrets and Lies is an original storytelling show that has a new...
Al Gore has been trying to make climate change sexy for 30 years. But after two depressing movies, he’s finally found the answer: A Late...
A stellar lineup of five historians and tattoo artists who lived this history tell the story of the tattoo ban in NYC that lasted from...
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