Live Improv Comedy
The FA is the place to see the best live improv comedy in town. Our monthly programme is a mix of seasoned pros, new and experimental shows, and up-and-coming talent from our community.
Live Shows
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“I felt almost high. I even wrote a f***ing tweet about it!” - Vice
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"a superb masterclass in the art of improvisational comedy" London Theatre
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"The FA Know how to find the funny and what to do with it!” - The Guardian
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"The FA Know What They Are Doing” - Chortle
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"This is what proper improv looks like” - Fest
★ “I felt almost high. I even wrote a f***ing tweet about it!” - Vice ★ "a superb masterclass in the art of improvisational comedy" London Theatre ★ "The FA Know how to find the funny and what to do with it!” - The Guardian ★ "The FA Know What They Are Doing” - Chortle ★ "This is what proper improv looks like” - Fest
Groundhog is an improv comedy group made up of four veteran improvisers from The Free Association Theatre who have been performing since it opened its doors in 2014.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Orange Tuxedo (Los Angeles, CA) is a 2-person improv show featuring Craig and Carla Cackowski, a husband and wife team.
In the second half they will be joined by some special guests including FA favourites and stars of Thrilling Adventure Hour!
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Grab your garlic and your giggles - Halloween just got chaotic. Hosting our night of spooky improv is the one and only Andrew Doherty: Brighton Fringe Comedy Award winner, creator of smash-hit shows Gay Witch Sex Cult and Sad Gay AIDS Play, and a sell-out sensation at Soho Theatre, Pleasance and VAULT.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
IMPROVISED SPOOKY STORIES FROM THE DEVILISH MINDS OF COMEDIANS
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
This Halloween, the monsters are off the silver screen and onto the improv stage. Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, Wolf Man, and even the Invisible Man have all been taking improv classes and now they’re finally ready to “yes, and” their way into your hearts.
START: 10.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Join original FA house team The Wilsons for a big family reunion!
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
This is a true story. The events depicted took place at the Free Association Theatre in 2025. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, please try not laugh at them.
BAFTA Award-winning comedian Luke Rollason (Extraordinary, Disney+) returns to the scene of the crime.
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Come on down and watch two jam teams made up of FA students play alongside two of our experienced FA performers - all bringing fast, funny improv to our brand-new stage! Then we’ll draw one final team from the hat of destiny to join the fun.
START: 5.30PM TICKETS: FREE
Every other Sunday, our brand new house Narrative Team brings you a tale never that will always be remembered, but never be repeated.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Shake up your Sunday with The Lab — the freshest, most exciting improv experiment in London.
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £5 + Booking Fee
Come and check out what our students have been learning in class!
START: 7.30PM TICKETS: FREE
Come and check out what our students have been learning in class!
START: 7.30PM TICKETS: FREE
Come and check out what our students have been learning in class!
START: 7.30PM TICKETS: FREE
Stories that boldly go to strange new worlds. Characters created at the speed of light. This is Space Planet Mission, the most spontaneous sci-fi epic in the universe.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Come and check out what our students have been learning in class!
START: 7.30PM TICKETS: FREE
Orange Tuxedo (Los Angeles, CA) is a 2-person improv show featuring Craig and Carla Cackowski, a husband and wife team.
In the second half they will be joined by some special guests including FA favourites and stars of Thrilling Adventure Hour!
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
TREACHEROUS! An improvised murder mystery game filled with 'Traitors' and non-traitors alike.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Get ready for a night of hilarious improv comedy with Sam & AJ!
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Improv with a live DJ and no words, that is the Silent Soundtrack. Join a group of improvisers as they create silent scenes, inspired and underscored by songs picked by a guest DJ live on stage.
START: 10.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Four skilled improvisers, the best guests from the improv scene, accompanied by a master pianist, create an hour of spontaneous, fast-paced hilarity inspired by your choices.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
PIGPEN is an improv show featuring the best comedy talent in London!
With special guest Johnna Dias-Watson (Netflix’s Wednesday)
This month’s cast is Alison Thea-Skot, Chris Gau, Gareth O’ Connor, Naomi Petersen and Rob Gilbert!
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Every other Sunday, two Harold teams will show you the good stuff. Harold Night features our two house Harold teams - Sweetheart and Hotbed!
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
The Greenhouse is a showcase of freshest up-and-coming talent from the FA! We're packing in a bunch of performances from current students, recent graduates and newly formed teams from the wider community - all into a one hour show.
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £5 + Booking Fee
The Cameo, a brand-new, exciting long-form improv show, returns to the FA, bringing together an all-star team of improvisers!
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Fresh from their sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, improv legends Graham Dickson (Austentatious) and Steen Raskopoulos (The Bear Pack), are back baby!
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £14 + Booking Fee
George (off of Tome, Dreamphone (RIP), Sliding Lives (RIP), and Summer Camp, also qualified solicitor) and Sam (off of HotBed, Summer Camp, Goss, and teaching the comedy community to move good) have rehearsed a lot and tried really hard to put on this show because we respect our audience.
START: 10.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Join HEATWAVE, best friends and even better players that improvise scenes and sketches inspired by YOUR favourite songs.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Fresh from their sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, improv legends Graham Dickson (Austentatious) and Steen Raskopoulos (The Bear Pack), are back baby!
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £14 + Booking Fee
Come and watch teams battle it out for a chance to win a large cash prize and the be crowned Cage Match Champions!
START: 10.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Inspired by all of your favourite medical dramas – from Grey's Anatomy to House to ER – and a few words from our audience, the daring cast will improvise a brand-new episode of your new favourite show: 'St. Doctor's Hospital'
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Fresh from their sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, improv legends Graham Dickson (Austentatious) and Steen Raskopoulos (The Bear Pack), are back baby!
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £14 + Booking Fee
Come and watch teams battle it out for a chance to win a large cash prize and the be crowned Cage Match Champions!
START: 10.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Every other Sunday, our brand new house Narrative Team brings you a tale never that will always be remembered, but never be repeated.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Shake up your Sunday with The Lab — the freshest, most exciting improv experiment in London.
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £5 + Booking Fee
Hilarious. Mind-blowing. Modest AF. Welcome to Anxiety Club. Improvised comedy from three majestic gazelles of improv - Charlotte Gittins, Briony Redman and Lauren Shearing (Austentatious, Showstopper, Questing Time, The Free Association, Comedy Store Players, Mischief Movie Night)
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Together with his audience, veteran improviser Elms “builds a comedy mind palace before your very eyes. And you’ll want to move in for good!” - Phil Wang
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Come and watch teams battle it out for a chance to win a large cash prize and the be crowned Cage Match Champions!
START: 10.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
The flagship show from The Free Association, bringing together an all-star team of improvisers and mega-watt guests for a night of scintillating, salacious improv!
START: 7.30PM TICKETS: £15 + Booking Fee
Come and watch teams battle it out for a chance to win a large cash prize and the be crowned Cage Match Champions!
START: 10.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Come on down and watch two jam teams made up of FA students play alongside two of our experienced FA performers - all bringing fast, funny improv to our brand-new stage! Then we’ll draw one final team from the hat of destiny to join the fun.
START: 5.30PM TICKETS: FREE
Every other Sunday, two Harold teams will show you the good stuff. Harold Night features our two house Harold teams - Sweetheart and Hotbed!
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
The Greenhouse is a showcase of freshest up-and-coming talent from the FA! We're packing in a bunch of performances from current students, recent graduates and newly formed teams from the wider community - all into a one hour show.
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £5 + Booking Fee
Groundhog is an improv comedy group made up of four veteran improvisers from The Free Association Theatre who have been performing since it opened its doors in 2014.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Fabled is an entirely improvised fantasy adventure tale that features a hilarious cast of improvisers with live musical accompaniment.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Improvisation meets improvisation as hilarious UK improv comedians and virtuoso jazz musicians inspire each other in real time into leaps of comedy and creativity.
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Join the UK's two most physically attractive improvisers in A Very Capable Boy, the show that coaxes humour out of the joys and tragedies of everyday life.
START: 10.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Come on down and watch two jam teams made up of FA students play alongside two of our experienced FA performers - all bringing fast, funny improv to our brand-new stage! Then we’ll draw one final team from the hat of destiny to join the fun.
START: 5.30PM TICKETS: FREE
Every other Sunday, our brand new house Narrative Team brings you a tale never that will always be remembered, but never be repeated.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Shake up your Sunday with The Lab — the freshest, most exciting improv experiment in London.
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £5 + Booking Fee
A ragtag group of comedy writers, directors and performers present works-in-progress of their latest sketch comedy films.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £8 + Booking Fee
The flagship show from The Free Association, bringing together an all-star team of improvisers and mega-watt guests for a night of scintillating, salacious improv!
START: 7.30PM TICKETS: £15 + Booking Fee
Join original FA house team The Wilsons for a big family reunion!
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Every other Sunday, two Harold teams will show you the good stuff. Harold Night features our two house Harold teams - Sweetheart and Hotbed!
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
The Greenhouse is a showcase of freshest up-and-coming talent from the FA! We're packing in a bunch of performances from current students, recent graduates and newly formed teams from the wider community - all into a one hour show.
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £5 + Booking Fee
Stories that boldly go to strange new worlds. Characters created at the speed of light. This is Space Planet Mission, the most spontaneous sci-fi epic in the universe.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Together with his audience, veteran improviser Elms “builds a comedy mind palace before your very eyes. And you’ll want to move in for good!” - Phil Wang
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Inspired by all of your favourite medical dramas – from Grey's Anatomy to House to ER – and a few words from our audience, the daring cast will improvise a brand-new episode of your new favourite show: 'St. Doctor's Hospital'
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Every other Sunday, our brand new house Narrative Team brings you a tale never that will always be remembered, but never be repeated.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee
Shake up your Sunday with The Lab — the freshest, most exciting improv experiment in London.
START: 8.30PM TICKETS: £5 + Booking Fee
Fabled is an entirely improvised fantasy adventure tale that features a hilarious cast of improvisers with live musical accompaniment.
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £12 + Booking Fee
Every other Sunday, two Harold teams will show you the good stuff. Harold Night features our two house Harold teams - Sweetheart and Hotbed!
START: 7.00PM TICKETS: £10 + Booking Fee