Upcoming at the
Mopco!
Theatresports - August 1st
Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest, battling for points, glory, and your laughter.
All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format! Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!
Monday Workout Night at the Mopco
In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will learn to create and collaborate with a team.
Monday, August 3rd, 7:00-9:00 PM
Improv Gym: The 5 Secrets of Successful Storytellers (Virtual)
The 5 Secrets of Successful Storytellers
Free, 30-Minute Virtual Session
All communication can be looked at as some form of storytelling. Improvisors make up stories on the spot, but what is it that makes these stories especially compelling and memorable? Join us and learn the 5 secrets of successful storytellers and up your communication, motivation, and influence game.
What’s the Improv Gym?
Curious about how the skills and mindsets of improv can help you become a better colleague, team member, and leader? Drop in to one of our free monthly 30-minute workout sessions hosted by our sister company, Koppett, beginning in August!
These bite-sized huddles have a big impact, as each month we exercise a different skill with an experiential activity and debrief so you can start applying what you learn right away. We'll explore topics like:
Storytelling
Listening
Building trust
Adaptability
Creativity
And more!
One of the core values of improv is “make your partner look good,” so like any valuable workout, nobody will be forced past their appropriate edge. No experience or gym bag needed, just show up and work out!
Maestro - 8/7/26
Only one Improviser will be crowned the MAESTRO!
Fourteen will enter but only one will be crowned the maestro; you are in charge as they vie vie for the crown! This is NOT A FAIR GAME! But don't worry, the contestants know that! it's all in fun, and the laughs keep coming! This show has been known to sell out, so get your tickets early!
Theatresports - August 8th
Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest, battling for points, glory, and your laughter.
All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format! Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!
Improv 101: Four Sundays
In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will learn to create and collaborate with a team.
Class Schedule: Sundays, August 9, 16, 23, and 30 | 2-4 PM
Monday Workout Night at the Mopco
In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will learn to create and collaborate with a team.
Monday, August 10th, 7:00-9:00 PM
Theatresports - August 15th
Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest, battling for points, glory, and your laughter.
All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format! Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!
Monday Workout Night at the Mopco
In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will learn to create and collaborate with a team.
Monday, August 17th, 7:00-9:00 PM
Theatresports - August 22nd
Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest, battling for points, glory, and your laughter.
All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format! Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!
Monday Workout Night at the Mopco
In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will learn to create and collaborate with a team.
Monday, August 24th, 7:00-9:00 PM
Improv Fundamentals Part 1 - Six Wednesdays
Six Wednesdays | 7-9 PM
August 26, September 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30
The fundamentals of improv are deceptively simple. You can learn them in a few hours. (But we warn you, it can take a lifetime to master them.) Improv is a practice that you can engage in on stage and off.
Support your partner. Listen. Blurt! Weave a fresh, engaging story out of thin air. Is improv comedy? Sometimes, sure. But more importantly, it’s connection.
For actors, writers, performers, and folks who have never performed. Prerequisite: Improv 101 or equivalent (talk to us if you aren’t sure.)This class consists of a combination of games and scene-work, with debriefs that enhance your personal experience.
Improv Fundamentals Part 2 - Six Thursdays
Six Thursdays | 7-9 PM
August 27, September 3, 10, 17, 24, and October 1
Continue the journey. Work with your partner to find the game. Find the characters, relationships, and stories that make great improvised scenes happen. Get out of your head and into the where!
Theatresports - August 29th
Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest, battling for points, glory, and your laughter.
All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format! Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!
Monday Workout Night at the Mopco
In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will learn to create and collaborate with a team.
Monday, August 31th, 7:00-9:00 PM
Theatresports - September 12th
Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest, battling for points, glory, and your laughter.
All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format! Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!
Improv 101: Four Sundays
In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will learn to create and collaborate with a team.
Class Schedule: Sundays, September 13, 20, 27 and October 4 | 11 AM-1 PM
Moving On : Curated Personal Story Evening
Everything shifts.
We let go of things; we chart new paths. Whether with intention or unexpectedly, with clarity or stumbling around in the dark, these moments of change and transformation can surprise and delight, bring hope, healing, and teach us about what’s possible,
Join us as we continue our series of curated personal story evenings with a lineup of real-life stories told by real people — poignant, funny, or heartwarming tales that showcase what it means to move on.
Theatresports - September 19th
Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest, battling for points, glory, and your laughter.
All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format! Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!
Theatresports - September 26th
Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest, battling for points, glory, and your laughter.
All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format! Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!
Theatresports - October 3rd
Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest, battling for points, glory, and your laughter.
All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format! Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!
Theatresports - October 10th
Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest, battling for points, glory, and your laughter.
All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format! Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!
Theatresports - October 17th
Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest, battling for points, glory, and your laughter.
All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format! Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!
Theatresports - October 24th
Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest, battling for points, glory, and your laughter.
All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format! Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!
Mopco Presents: Goofballs Comedy Showcase - An evening of locally-grown stand-up comedy
Local Comedian Dave Britton, whose first full-length album - "The History of the Universe" - reached the #2 spot on the iTunes comedy charts, has assembled his favorite local comedians to bring you a Summertime evening of laughter. The Goofball Lineup consists of:
Comedian Kailey Strafford
Comedian Jay Rivituso
Ted, An Impressionist
Kafel and Britton
Monday Workout Night at the Mopco
In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will learn to create and collaborate with a team.
Monday, July 27th, 7:00-9:00 PM
Theatresports - July 25th
Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest, battling for points, glory, and your laughter.
All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format! Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!
Diva Down Funeral Home - An evening of drop dead drag and laughter
The Diva Down Funeral Home is run by four hardworking drag queens. Their signature is a complimentary drag show at each service. The funeral business can be unpredictable and this wake is no exception. A peculiar group of mourners take the queens by surprise with revelations about themselves and the deceased. The queens do their best to keep cool and give the group a funeral they’ll never forget.
This show will feature four killer queens and members of the MopCo improv team.
Cardboard Box Improv— Skunkworks
Cardboard Box is the creation of Hayes M Fields II and Riley Hart. Hayes has been
performing since he was a tot in his family's gospel choir, and Riley caught the performance bug in mid-life. These two earnest improvisors met at the Mopco Improv Theatre and found their unique chemistry as a duo – sometimes silly, but just as often bittersweet.
Critical Mass Improv - Skunkworks
Skunkworks is slang for a small, highly autonomous group of people given the freedom to work on secret, disruptive, or heavily accelerated projects without standard corporate bureaucracy.
Our theatre hosts other highly talented improvisors working on a host of great and new improv formats and shows. We let them cook and out pops great and wonderful improv we’ve never seen.
Critical Mass is a new improv group composed of current and former Mopco students. Their show is highly based on LNI (Quebec national improv). There are two teams plus a ref. Each round is based on a card the ref pulls from a deck. The teams then each respond to the prompt, competing for a point.
Prompts might involve time, music, or playing with the crowd votes for "who they liked more.”
There are nuances, but that’s it in a nutshell. If you like Theatresports, we bet you’ll like Critical Mass!
Monday Workout Night at the Mopco
In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will learn to create and collaborate with a team.
Monday, July 20th, 7:00-9:00 PM
Theatresports - July 18th
Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest, battling for points, glory, and your laughter.
All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format! Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!
What the F*** Friday
What The F**k Friday brings together some of MopCo’s most off-the-wall improvisers in an evening of snappy scenes and clever call backs that will leave you saying “Truly, what the F***?” in the best way possible.
Jukebox Jam: Stick around for a chance to rock out on stage in scenes inspired by songs.
Monday Workout Night at the Mopco
In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will learn to create and collaborate with a team.
Monday, July 13th, 7:00-9:00 PM
Theatresports - July 11th
Two teams of crack improvisers face off in a high-energy contest, battling for points, glory, and your laughter.
All the thrill of a sporting event and the hilarity and unpredictability of live improv combine in our favorite format! Your laughter helps decide the winner. Fast, funny, and fun—don’t miss the most exciting comedy competition in town!
All Play! Joy in the community
Celebrate with a night of open improv play led by the original #Actorvists, inviting the MopCo community onto the stage.
UNITE NY Voting Reform (and Voter Registration)
Join us to see how ranked choice voting, open primaries, and other reforms can help address what's wrong with our elections and make government better represent the People. A short documentary, a presentation about voting reform, and of course improv! Presented by Unite NY.
Voter registration information available.
Monday Workout Night at the Mopco
In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will learn to create and collaborate with a team.
Monday, July 6th, 7:00-9:00 PM
The Bill Of Rights: Madness! Chaos!
A chaotic reading of portions of the Declaration, Constitution, and Bill of Rights, featuring lively heckling and mayhem.
Monday Workout Night at the Mopco
In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will learn to create and collaborate with a team.
Monday, June 29th, 7:00-9:00 PM
Mabel & Geffrey’s Musical Comedy Fundraiser for Things of My Very Own.
Mabel and Geffrey: we can’t describe them. You’ve got to experience their improvised songs and lounge singer ambiance! A Benefit for Things of My Very Own.
The Assembly of All Beings
An improvised model-UN-style conclave of diverse beings will debate critical planetary topics, including the building of a local data center. Moderated by Lourdes Aguas, PhD.
Art Night: Art as Activism
Art as Activism at the Mopco!
Suggested Ticket price $20
6 local artists and members of the Mopco improv community will co-create this experience: the artists will present pieces inspired by social issues; improvisers will create scenes inspired by the socially conscious themed art.
Hosted by ART NIGHT SCHENECTADY, a 501 C3 non profit organization.
Monday Workout Night at the Mopco
In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will learn to create and collaborate with a team.
Monday, June 22nd, 7:00-9:00 PM
Spontaneous Broadway - 6/20/26
The all improvised musical comedy extravaganza!
HELD OVER BY POPULAR DEMAND!
TWO SHOWS ADDED, JUNE 13 AND 20!
Our flagship musical format returns! Spontaneous Broadway is a virtuoso improv format that demands major improv chops and musical prowess!
Act one: The cast improvises eight or so songs from your titles. You vote on your favorite. The winning song is the basis for…
Act two: a complete Broadway Musical! Every show has the electric excitement of opening night! a unique experience. Get ready to be delighted by the magic of Spontaneous Broadway!
Monday Workout Night at the Mopco
In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will learn to create and collaborate with a team.
Monday, June 15th, 7:00-9:00 PM
Improv 101: Four Sundays
In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will learn to create and collaborate with a team.
Class Schedule: Sundays, June 14, 21, 28, July 12, 11 AM - 1 PM
Spontaneous Broadway - 6/13/26
The all improvised musical comedy extravaganza!
HELD OVER BY POPULAR DEMAND!
TWO SHOWS ADDED, JUNE 13 AND 20!
Our flagship musical format returns! Spontaneous Broadway is a virtuoso improv format that demands major improv chops and musical prowess!
Act one: The cast improvises eight or so songs from your titles. You vote on your favorite. The winning song is the basis for…
Act two: a complete Broadway Musical! Every show has the electric excitement of opening night! a unique experience. Get ready to be delighted by the magic of Spontaneous Broadway!
A Bolt from the Blue: Curated Personal Story Evening - 6/12/26
Booom. Suddenly everything is different.
Join us as we continue our series of curated personal story evenings. We’ll present a lineup of real-life stories told by real people—poignant, funny, or heartwarming tales that showcase life’s pivotal moments.
The theme for this event is “A Bolt From the Blue”— honest tales about a moment in the life of the storyteller when a completely unexpected event proved to be life-changing. The learning and growth resulting from this “bolt from the blue” may be funny, tragic, or heartwarming–the key word is “real.”
Improv Fundamentals 1 - Six Thursdays
Six Thursdays, June 11, 18, 25, July 2, 16, 23 7-9 PM
The fundamentals of improv are deceptively simple. You can learn them in a few hours. (But we warn you, it can take a lifetime to master them.) Improv is a practice that you can engage in on stage and off.
Support your partner. Listen. Blurt! Weave a fresh, engaging story out of thin air. Is improv comedy? Sometimes, sure. But more importantly, it’s connection.
For actors, writers, performers, and folks who have never performed. Prerequisite: Improv 101 or equivalent (talk to us if you aren’t sure.)This class consists of a combination of games and scene-work, with debriefs that enhance your personal experience.
Improv Fundamentals 2 - Six Wednesdays
Six Wednesday, June 10, 17, 24, July 1, 8, 15 7-9 PM
Continue the journey. Work with your partner to find the game. Find the characters, relationships, and stories that make great improvised scenes happen. Get out of your head and into the where!
Monday Workout Night at the Mopco
In a fast paced class packed with games and exercises, you will learn to create and collaborate with a team.
Monday, April 27th, 7:00-9:00 PM
Spontaneous Broadway - 6/6/26
The all improvised musical comedy extravaganza!
LIMITED RUN! May 9, 16, 30, June 6 ONLY. Our flagship musical format returns for four shows! Spontaneous Broadway is a virtuoso improv format that demands major improv chops and musical prowess!
Act one: The cast improvises eight or so songs from your titles. You vote on your favorite. The winning song is the basis for…
Act two: a complete Broadway Musical! Every show has the electric excitement of opening night! a unique experience. Get ready to be delighted by the magic of Spontaneous Broadway!
Improvised Sketch Comedy Night - June 5th
Improvised Sketch Comedy Night features Slacker, Armando, and Jukebox. And no, we aren't calling you names-- Slacker is a great long form improv format we'll be bringing to life, along with an Armando and audience improv Jukebox!