Summer Summer Summertime Events at National Comedy Theatre!

Here's what we got on the dockets at NCT this May and June! 

Improv Uncensored at National Comedy Theatre
Thrusday May 14^th 7:30pm (17+) $8
Totally spontaneous and out of control improv comedy takes the stage at National Comedy Theatre’s Improv Uncensored! Unlike NCT’s weekly Competitive Comedy Shows, Improv Uncensored features comedy created on the spot from a single audience suggestion… AND, at Improv Uncensored, there is no Ref, no Rules, no Brown Bag Foul and no one under 17 admitted!

Get tickets online now at http://www.nctphoenix.com/showtimes.html

Two Show Thursday
Thursday May 21 at 7:30pm, $8 All Ages

THIS TWO Show Thursday only happens once a year as NCT’s Thursday Night Troupe shares the stage with High School Improv League All Stars! All night long you (the Audience!) will shout suggestions, laugh your heads off, and maybe even pick from the Bucket of DOOM! First up on May 21… the Thursday Night Troupe. TNT will have you rolling with their explosive, fast paced improv comedy. Next up are the High School Improv League All Stars! Each of our 11 High School Improv League Teams will choose their best and brightest for this show, which only comes around once a year!

Get tickets online now at http://www.nctphoenix.com/showtimes.html
And join us for Future Two Show Thursday events on June 4 and June 18.

Improv Pros Vs. Champs!
NCT’s High School League Champions take on the Professional Improvisers!
Friday May 22, 7:30pm $12- $14, All Ages

Only ONE High School Improv Team earns the right to take on the NCT Pros each year, and this year the competition was even more fierce than ever! 11 High Schools from across the Valley participated in the High School League Tournament- and only ONE won the most judge’s votes. See the Champions take on you professional improvisers from NCT in this epic battle!

Get tickets online now at http://www.nctphoenix.com/showtimes.html

NCT at Phoenix Comicon 2015
Thursday May 28- Sunday May 31

Check online at http://www.phoenixcomicon.com/ for our showtimes & panels!

The Midnight Show
Saturday 5/30  at  11:45pm  $8        17+

National Comedy Theatre’s monthly foray into the uncensored & unknown goes down on the last Saturday of the month at 11:45 featuring uncensored, anything goes improv comedy. NO BROWN BAG FOUL at this unrated show, so audiences are limited to ages 17+

Get tickets online now at http://www.nctphoenix.com/showtimes.html

Two Show Thursday: NCT’s Variety & Improv Show
Thursday June 4th at 7:30pm, $8 All Ages

All night long you (the Audience!) will shout suggestions, laugh your heads off, and maybe even pick from the Bucket of DOOM! First up on June 4th… the Thursday Night Troupe. TNT will have you rolling with their explosive, fast paced improv comedy.

Next up are the Level 3 Team! Even more hilarious and spontaneous improv from the best of National Comedy Theatre’s Workshop team!

Get tickets online now at http://www.nctphoenix.com/showtimes.html
And join us for Future Two Show Thursday events on June 18 & July 2nd.

Improv Summer Camps for Kids, Tweens & Teens... check for info in an upcoming blog, online at nctphoenix.com and on our facebook and twitter pages!

Spoof N Cinema presents… Sci-Fi Surprise!
Thursday June 11, 7:30pm,        FREE   ALL AGES

Like Rifftrax or MST3K? Spoof N Cinema: Sci-Fi Surprise is for you!
At Sci-Fi Surprise you can check out the Best of the Best Spoof N Cinema that the team at NCT created for Phoenix Comicon 2015! New, hilarious dialogue, sound effects, plot twists and more- created LIVE, by the actors, as the movie plays.
…and, because it’s Sci-Fi Surprise, you never know what you are going to get! Will it be Star Wars? Star Trek? Doctor Who? Goosebumps?? It could be ANYTHING!

Make reservations online, tickets are FREE but they go fast!
http://www.nctphoenix.com/showtimes.html

Two Show Thursday: TNT Improv & The Matthew Turner Experience
Thursday June 18th at 7:30pm, $8 All Ages

All night long you (the Audience!) will shout suggestions, laugh your heads off, and maybe even pick from the Bucket of DOOM! First up on June 18th… the Thursday Night Troupe. TNT will have you rolling with their explosive, fast paced improv comedy.

Next up, the Matthew Turner Experience will have you singing and laughing along with a mixture of stand up, sketch, song parody and unexpected twists.

Get tickets online now at http://www.nctphoenix.com/showtimes.html

Improv Uncensored plus Sci-Fi Surprise After Dark…
Thursday June 25^th                        7:30pm         $8       Ages 17+

Improv Uncensored means no rules, no Ref, no Brown Bag Foul, no holds barred and nothing is off the table! At June’s Improv Uncensored show, not only will you get totally spontaneous and naughty improv, you also get Sci-Fi Surprise After Dark! Your favorite sci-fi cartoon shows get a new, R rated twist with new dialogue, new plot twists, new sound effects and more created live, by the actors as the movie plays.

Get tickets online now at http://www.nctphoenix.com/showtimes.html

The Midnight Show
Saturday 6/27  at  11:45pm  $8        17+

National Comedy Theatre’s monthly foray into the uncensored & unknown goes down on the last Saturday of the month at 11:45 featuring uncensored, anything goes improv comedy. NO BROWN BAG FOUL at this unrated show, so audiences are limited to ages 17+

Get tickets online now at http://www.nctphoenix.com/showtimes.html

Come check us out!

Upcoming Events! March, April & May 2015...

Voyage Trekkers: Play Along Screening

with Educating [Geeks]
Thursday March 12 at 7:30pm $5

Support Voyage Trekkers in their quest to become a feature film at a raucous screening of seasons 1 & 2. You’ll do more than laugh along with the worst crew in the galaxy… you’ll join in the fun as NCT Phoenix transforms into a Galactic Union watering hole with photo ops, glitter tattoos, featured beverages & raffle before the show. Play along with the gang from Educating [Geeks] and the Educating [Geeks] Voyage Trekkers Drinking* Game Rules during the screening, followed by trivia and even more prizes.  You do not want to miss this one time only event

Get tickets online here: http://www.nctphoenix.com/showtimes.html
Check out Voyage Trekkers here: http://www.voyagetrekkers.com/watch.html
Check out Educating [Geeks] here:  http://www.educatinggeeks.com/

*Any beverage will do. NCT does not require nor encourage the drinking of delicious alcohol. Specifically not March’s featured beer, San Tan SunSpot Gold.

Two Show Thursday

Thursday March 19  at 7:30pm, $8 All Ages

At NCT’s montly Variety Show, TWO Show Thursday, you (the Audience!) get double the comedy. First up at this month’s show… the Thursday Night Troupe. TNT will have you rolling with their spontaneous, fast paced improv comedy. Next up is an original one act play the Right to Remain Silent, a hilarious melodrama written & directed by NCT Main Stage’s own Francis Zagarrigo!

Don’t miss this month’s Two Show Thursday! 

Get tickets online now at http://www.nctphoenix.com/showtimes.html
 

And join us for Future Two Show Thursday events on April 2^nd & 16^th

Ladies Night! The Girls Take Over at NCT

Saturday March 21 at 7:30pm & 9:45pm  $12-$14

It’s the same top shelf brand of hilarious, spontaneous, competitive improv we’ve come to expect from the cast and crew of National Comedy Theatre… but on this special evening… the ladies are taking over! An all woman show with two teams of the best of the Valley’s female improvisers going head to head in scenes and games and YOU (the Audience!) will decide which team of lady improvisers is the funniest!

Get tickets online: http://www.nctphoenix.com/showtimes.html

UHF starring Weird Al Yankovic         

Thursday March 26^th at 7:30pm, $5

Bring your favorite spatula…. We’ve got it all on UHF!

In 2014 Weird Al Yankovic had 8 #1 songs and the #1 album in the US with Mandatory Fun! In 2015 he won a Grammy… but in 1989 he was programming the wacky shows at U62!

Celebrate the 25^th anniversary of UHF, the 1989 film debut of comedy rock satirist Weird Al Yankovic.

Plus! Bring your finest Spatula for the Best Spatula contest and spin the Wheel of Fish for Prizes! AND, a LIVE podcast with Educating [Geeks] follows the screening, included with admission. Laugh along and even participate as the Educating [Geeks] crew hash out the best and worst moments of UHF along with your Geek Host, UHF Super Fan and our First Timer, who is seeing the movie for the very first time. Prizes provided by Bookmans & NCT.

Get tickets online: http://www.nctphoenix.com/showtimes.html

Check out other NCT events: http://www.nctphoenix.com/events.html
Check out other Bookmans Events:  http://bookmans.com/events/
Check out Educating [Geeks] here:  http://www.educatinggeeks.com/

The Midnight Show

Saturday March 28th at 11:45pm, $8 ages 18+   *LAST Saturday of each month.

Its National Comedy Theatre’s Uncensored Improv Show. At the Midnight Show (11:45pm) there are No RULES, No REFS, and NO Brown Bag Foul… Fast paced Improv comedy is totally spontaneous, based on audience suggestion and an unpredictable, raucous good time is assured.

Get tickets online now at http://www.nctphoenix.com/showtimes.html

Two Show Thursday
Thursday April 2nd at 7:30pm, $8 All Ages

First up at this month’s show… the Thursday Night Troupe. TNT will have you rolling with their spontaneous, fast paced improv comedy. Next up are the Perry High School Perrywinkles! They’re the defending High School Improv League Champions and they’re getting ready for 2015 HSIL Tournament! Check out the Perrywinkles and their fast paced improv!

Get tickets online now at http://www.nctphoenix.com/showtimes.html
 

And join us for Future Two Show Thursday events on 16^th, May 7^th &  May 21^st.

Spoof N Cinema:    The Big Trees (Kirk Douglas!)
Thursday April 30^th, 7:30pm        $8

Like Rifftrax, Mystery Science Theatre 3000 or Whose Line is it Anyway? Spoof N Cinema is for you!

The Weird Old Movie? A peaceful Quaker colony is thrown into turmoil by the arrival of a fast talking lumber man… And, if that isn’t exciting enough for you, don’t worry! 1952’s The Big Trees (starring Kirk Douglas ) gets the Spoof N Cinema treatment. Including new, hilarious dialogue, sound effects, plot twists and more! All presented to you LIVE, on stage, by National Comedy Theatre’s team of top- notch improv comedians.

Get tickets online: http://www.nctphoenix.com/showtimes.html

Level  1 Improv Comedy Workshop

6 weeks 7:00- 9:00pm
Begins Tues May 5^th Fee $175
$50 deposit at registration
This class is a comprehensive introduction to Improvisation. You will learn the games and exercises used by the professional imrpovisers and comedians of National Comedy Theatre.
Improv will develop your ability to focus, use teamwork, listen, think on your feet and have confidence.
Class size is limited, reserve your spot today.

workshops@nctphoenix.com