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  • Dinner Party Events –  Corporate, Friends & Family Gatherings

    Dinner Party Events – Corporate, Friends & Family Gatherings

    I have over 30 years of experience as a professional actor. I also have 23 years of experience producing events, live from Times Square NYC and touring nationwide. Let my teams and I make your next event memorable! EMAIL us now to start creating lasting memories at your next event! We can turn any venue into an immersive dinner theater or comedy club. We also offer amazing deals for non-profits and venues looking for a team for their public events.

    Interactive Immersive Shows

    Our two signature shows include interactive musical improv comedy improvised and Murder Mystery Dinner Theater. We daily host corporate teams and student groups. Our tours include clubs, theaters, schools, community centers, offices, and private homes.

    • Improv by EIGHT: Our Signature improv shows bring musical comedy, immersive games and great comedic theater to any event. We famously promote PG13 comedy. We stay smart and relevant. We flirt on the edge while remaining friendly for the office, college campus, church/temple, and even all ages family events. Our main stage show features five actors. It lasts about 75 minutes. We also have smaller shows for more intimate settings. We have performed over 8000 shows in 20+ years, mostly due to rebookings year after year.
    • Murder Mystery Dinner Theater shows feature four or more professional character actors mingling with your guests. We stage a death, and then our detective deputizes the crowd to help solve the crime. 1920s Speakeasy and Organized Crime / Death of a Mob Boss are the most popular. We also have numerous themes, and regularly develop new shows around client requests.

    HIGH IMPACT LOVE EXPERIENCES for smaller venues, crowds and/or budgets!

    Our smaller shows and immersive experiences are more popular than ever. The price points are incredibly enticing, but we don’t skip on impact. We only send one of our top event MCs to lead activities. This gets more of your guests on their feet and engaged in activities. These events are idea community building activities, from corporate team building to family reunions. Also, these shows are very popular at libraries, 55+ communities, and private family homes. Every show/experience below is less than $1000.

    • CLUE PARTIES Want to get your guests out of their seats and mingling. Our original CLUE PARTY scripts transform all or many of them, depending on event size, into characters. Our detective starts and ends the show. However, for the most part, your guests are engaged in what we call SPEED DATING FOR SUSPECTS. Often, they play both suspect and detective. Guests must interrogate each other to collect character stories and clues which lead to ONE definitive perp. Our detective arrives with scripts (disguised as invitations for each character), answer sheets, pens and prizes.
    • IMPROV COMEDY WORKSHOPS Improv comedy is a the community/team builders secret weapon. Many are terrified at the idea of improvisation. However, within five minutes our skilled teaching artists move everyone past the deepest apprehensions and we just have fun. Truly, the Improv workshop is as good as it gets in regards to corporate team building. However, these sessions have been immensely popular at family gatherings, from holidays to birthday parties for kids, teens and adults.
    • THE YES AND… EXPERIENCE My 1-man improv comedy show is an improv comedy workshop in disguised. For 60-75 minutes I run a show. However, your guests are the talent. I MC and of course pop into scenes, but the audience volunteers for this show become the players. The results are pure magic. Admittedly, this is my least popular show. It’s difficult to imagine for many. But EVERY show has been a hit.
    • MADCAPPED MYSTERIES is the most original murder mystery show EVER! Madcapped is also my #1 selling show for the past 18 months. For one, getting a murder mystery experience this good for $600 or less is almost unthinkable. We have amazing rates for libraries and other non-profits. Two, this show leads to more re-booking than anything I have ever produced, other than EIGHT IMPROV. After EVERY show 2-3 or more approach me for my card. “I HAVE TO HAVE THIS AT MY NEXT EVENT!”

    FAMILY GAME NIGHT / TRIVIA

    For years we have been filling client requests but never promoted these activities. We have original trivia nights, family feud, pictionary, minute to win it and other game nights activities. We also have new FREE online resources for you and our team leads to use.

    Events for Kids, Teens & Families

    If you don’t know about Improv 4 Kids, or our other family friendly programming, your community is missing out! We have kid friend versions of ALL OF THE ABOVE. In fact, many of our newest teammates are former students of our programs. We have shows, workshops, residencies and professional development programming for schools, summer camps and community centers. We have very affordable options for youth birthday parties. These options include discount tickets to our Times Square NYC shows. We host student groups from around the world almost daily! NYC DOE VENDORS

  • Host a Murder Mystery Dinner Theater Show

    Host a Murder Mystery Dinner Theater Show

    Now booking New York, Connecticut & New Jersey events daily with our New York team. We also have teams in Washington DC, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, San Franscisco and now Tuscon too! Ask about daytime midweek discounts as well as discounts for schools and not for profits.

    EMAIL NOW to get dates and rates, pick a theme, and let’s turn your next event into a killer occasion!!! We send our top comedic actors from New York City out to interact as highly suspicious characters, stage a death and then call upon all your guests to help solve the crime!

    Typical Dinner Theater Show

    • THE ARRIVAL: As your guests arrive, our characters meet & greet, as hosts, party goers, etc.
    • THE DEATH: Either before, during or after sitting for dinner (depending on the catering etc) our lead actor (mob boss, owner of the mansion, etc) makes a big speech before dropping dead.
    • INTEROGATIONS: The entire crowd is deputized as detectives to solve the crime in teams, usually by table. Our detective (same actor playing the deceased) leads the investigation.
    • THE ACCUSATIONS: All is revealed and prizes are awarded for top detective teams.

    Our Murder Mystery Dinner Theater Show are perfect for:

    • Public events at restaurants, pub, breweries, community centers etc
    • Corporate Team Building Events and office parties.
    • Birthday Parties for the big 30. 40, 50, 60
    • Wedding Rehearsals and Receptions: do something different for your special occassion.
    • We even have family friendly and teen events.

    THEMES? Endless Possibilities!

    • The Cat’s Meow: The 1920s Speakeasy Show
    • The Codfather: The best Seafood Restaurant in town is a haven for organized crime!
    • 1980s Rocker: A washed up 1980s hair band front man is trying hard to keep the magic alive!
    • The NOT so Guilded Age: Think House of Usher meets Romeo & Juliet set in the 1890s
    • Murder Mystery Mansion: we can turn any room into a crime scene for the upper crust.
    • 1970s Disco: Morris than a fever THIS Saturday Night
    • Murder at the Marina:
    • Murder on the Green: Beware of a chip shot TO THE HEAD!
    • And so many more…. We can even turn the lastest pop Culture crazes into a show, but won’t lost those trade marked franchises here!

    Book your next killer event today!

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  • THE NOT SO GILDED AGE GILDED AGE – Clue Party of The Week, Massive Discount…

    THE NOT SO GILDED AGE GILDED AGE – Clue Party of The Week, Massive Discount…

    THE NOT SO GILDED AGE is a murder mystery clue party character game that takes inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe HOUSE OF USHER and Shakespeare ROMEO & JULIET set in 1892.

    FYI… This is possibly my favorite scripts I have written. I charge $800+ to show up with printed scripts and clues, answer sheets and my new murder boards, and pens… AKA everything but the red string! We also bring prizes for top detectives OR the murder if they get away with the crime AND BEST ACTOR & BEST COSTUME awards, so encourage folks to dress up and play along!

    EMAIL to book this or another one of my shows, or let me write a new show for your imagined theme! I am based in Manhattan, and weekly travel to events DC to Boston but I also have detectives now based in Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Richmond, Chicago and San Francisco. OR order the 20.character box / digital download and hire an actor locally anywhere in the world. We can also customize a box/pdf download for your guests list. Email for those rates!

    You can order the 20 character box mailed to you anywhere USA for as little as $100. This digital download of the 20 character set is available.anywhere your internet service can reach just $50. HOWEVER FOR TODAY ONLY, I am practically giving it away for $5. Every week I am going to do a similar deal with one of my scripts, or books. Stay tuned.

    WHAT’S A CLUE PARTY?

    Invite your friends…

    Order the box, digital download or hire one of our detectives. Invite your friends. Encourage all to dress for the theme.

    As each guest arrives they receive an invitation addressed to their character and instructed to review but not to share any details until the game starts. Inside each finds their character bio, written in 1st person (they can literally read off the page if not feeling up to some improvisation), and THREE unique clues about other characters.

    FYI The prefab DIY kits include 20 characters but we customize shows for 300+ guests.Up to 40 or so EVERYONE plays a character. For larger events we recommend 20 guests become the “actors” while everyone splits up into teams of detectives. Great for corporate team building.

    SPEED DATING FOR SUSPECTS

    Each guest is double cast as their character AND a deputized detective! After the host reads the introduction to the show, presenting the crime scene location and type of weapon used, everyone inteogates each other, collecting story and clues that lead to a single murderer. But beware of red herrings and human nature.

    THE FINAL REVEAL

    The show ends with everyone filling out answer sheets with their best guest for WHO DID IT, WHERE, HOW & WHY? (Murderer, Location, Weapon and Motive). If no one guests correctly we name the perp THE WINNER. Make sure folks vote for best actor and costume and give them the Award Winning Speech moment.

    The NOT So Gilded Age Story…

    Nearly 14 month ago, I was hired to create an original show around the theme, Gothic Garden Soiree, based on the venue selected for the event. The result is my show, The NOT So Guild Age, a multicharacter murder mystery clue party. The event was a huge success. Especially as EVERY guest committed to their roles.

    The key to the Gothic aesthetic that became the backdrop of the greatest horror stories – Frankenstein, Dracula, Jeckle & Hyde, etc – is the crumbling of centuries old castles, cleaned up with lush draperies, oil lamps, candles, and lush gardens including many tropical varieties brought back to Europe and America from expeditions to Africa, Asia, Polynesia, South America, etc.

    The aristocracy of the late Victorian Era lived large while the masses suffered the shadows of the industrial revolution. This is the world that gave birth to true legends like Jack the Ripper as well as Literary legends like Sherlock Holmes.

    Our story starts at the engagement party for two young loves from two rival families, BOTH former titans of industry – one making their fortune off Whale Oil Lamps, the other from Beeswax Candles.

    But our story takes place 10 years after Edison turned on electric lights in New York City and both families are crumbling and the aging stone palaces slowly are becoming the future crypts.

    Some names will survive. We still have streets and neighborhoods and institutions named after Astor, Vanderbilt and Carnegie.

    But come the turn of the century, no one will remember Beatrice Shaw (no relation) of Shaw Wicks. Today, no one mourns the passing of The Vale family, or their one time international monopoly on Whale Blubber lamps and the oil that kept the world lit for over 100 years.

  • 3pm Show Friday, December 26, 2025 Times Square NYC Improv Comedy

    3pm Show Friday, December 26, 2025 Times Square NYC Improv Comedy

    Hope everyone had an amazing holiday season. Santa is official done for 2025. As we have for the past 15 years, we have shows every day this week at 3pm at the Broadway Comedy Club at 318 West 53rd Street. CLICK HERE for discount tickets to 3pm shows December 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. My code is technically better than group rates, but EMAIL me for private show requests AND if you have small group request on a day we don’t currently have a show schedule, we can often add a show to the calendar!

    20+ Years of Professional Comedy, Times Square NYC

    The cast(s) of EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH has been delivering bring the laughs since 2002, live from Times Square NYC and touring nationwide. Every show features interactive skits and songs. Numerous guests are invited on stage while the entire audience is engaged in inspiring the artists with your favorite movies, books, TV shows, songs, etc. So the show is always topical, current and customized to you, today’s audience.

    This is why are shows are so popular at private events – corporate parties, college campus activities, birthday parties for friends and family and even k12 schools and younger family audiences.

    Now that Santa is resting, I’m back in Improv Comedy & Murder Mystery mode and I am beyond stoked for 2026. In addition to our weekly Times Square shows and classes we are branching out our public touring schedule akin to prepandemic times.

    • 1/10 MANHATTAN ***NEW*** MONTHLY SHOWCASES 2nd Saturday for students, guest teams & Our pros getting some time to play!
    • 1/21 7pm LONG ISLAND
      Murder Mystery, South Shore Craft Brewery Oceanside, NY, 21+ only MADCAPPED MYSTERIES
    • 1/31 MANHATTAN Improv 4 Kids 1pm Bloomingdale Library W 100th Street
    • 2/14 MANHATTAN Improv 4 Kids 1pm Washington Heights Library
    • 2/15 LONG ISLAND 2pm Improv Comedy South Shore Craft Brewery Oceanside, NY Recommended for 12 & above
    • 2/17 CONNECTICUT 10am Improv 4 Kids Brookfield, Ct Community Family Event
    • 3/7 WESTCHESTER 1pm Madcapped Mysteries Mamaroneck Library
    • 3/7 MANHATTAN 1pm Improv 4 Kids Seward Park Library 192 E Broadway
    • 3/12 LONG ISLAND Murder Mystery, South Shore Craft Brewery Oceanside, NY, 21+ only KISSING THE BLARNEY STONE
    • 4/2 LONG ISLAND 2pm Improv Comedy South Shore Craft Brewery Oceanside, NY Recommended for 12 & above
    • 4/30 BRONX 4pm Improv 4 Kids Comedy for the whole family! Allerton Library
    • 6/26 WESTCHESTER 2pm Improv 4 Kids at Mamaroneck Library, Emelin Theater

    CLICK HERE to discover Trivia, Family Game Night & More. We take fun home & TV games and turn them into exciting events for family, friends and corporate team building. HIRE a professional MC Game Show Host or use our FREE web apps to run your own event or simply test your knowledge! Trivia, Family Feud, Pictionary & More!

    I now have a dozen scripts ready to rock for Clue Parties and a few are available for download. Book a professional detective and we arrive with character bios, clues, murder boards and answer sheets, aka everything you need to host a KILLER event.

    Run a party yourself with our new DIY Clue Party Kit Digital Download. 1920’s Speakeasy Murder Mystery Game is now ready. Order now, print today, host tonight!

    • 1920s Speakeasy
    • Gilded Age
    • Shakespearian Drama
    • Millionaire Mansion
    • Small Town Murders
    • 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s etc
    • and more…

    And just in case you had doubts, Santa confirms…

  • January Comedy Forum, Times Square NYC Classes & More!!!!

    January Comedy Forum, Times Square NYC Classes & More!!!!

    January 2026 Schedule

    Pay just $100/month for classes and get access to up to $300+ in show tickets (improv comedy, murder mystery), pdf versions of our books, and more!!!

    The most original murder mystery show EVER!!! Madcapped Mysteries is a fully immersive experiences where YOU and your guests help create then crime scene before becoming characters in the story and eventually deputized detectives. This show has the most amazingly create endings.

    Improv Theater LLC is a one stop edutainment center for corporate team building, office / holiday parties and more. Our comedy shows and workshops deliver high impact results. Clients include Cushman Wakefield, Google, Merck, Mercedes Benz, META /Facebook, TikTok, JP Morgan Chase, Accenture, Morgan Stanley, Twitter, Roblox, Rimowa, EI Digital, Accenture, Datadog HQ, Milbank, BING/Microsoft, Bank of America – Merrill Lynch, Home Depot, Ernst & Young, Johnson & Johnson, Louis Vuitton, Coach, UBS, BDO, AMEX, Master Card, Macy’s, 360i, IBM, GM, Kraft, UNILEAVER, HBO, Disney, American Express, WeWork, Prudential, Convene, Conference Board and many more including 1000s of public and private events in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska….