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Birmingham's Premier Professional Improvisational Theatre Company

Cracking up the Magic City since 2008!!

Two teams enter, one team leaves... followed closely by the other team!

Battle of the Improv Stars
May 16 & 17, 2025 at 7:30pm!

These shows will be at Theatre Downtown.
Need more info? Check out their Venue Page!

Two teams of improvisers face off in a competition of hilarious proportions - but these are the Improv Stars! Simple games are enhanced with daredevil challenges designed to make them really dig deep for a laugh-tastic victory. The audience will judge the contest round-by-round until a winning team is crowned. Don't miss it!

Advance Tickets: $12*
Walk-Up Tickets: $15 at the door
No discounts on Walk-Up Tickets - Buy in advance and $AVE!
Purchase from our online Box Office using our secure PayPal checkout.
*a 75¢/ticket online convenience fee will be added to online purchases

Like Tennessee Williams with an Alabama attitude!

Hot Southern Porch
July 11 & 12, 2025 at 7:30pm

This show will be at Terrific New Theatre.
Need more info? Check out their venue page!

It's oppressively hot, and the household barely contains the rising tension. Classes, lifestyles, and values collide in fiery clashes on the family porch. Will the family be torn apart by the passions that drive them? Can Southern gentility withstand the blazing July heat? Should there be a character named "Skippy"? All of these questions can be answered, child - out on the hot Southern porch.

Tickets go on sale May 18th at our Online Box Office!

Check out our FEATURED CLIP!!

From the ETC Vault: In The First Annual ETC Clip Show, the audience was shown 5 clips of ideas for
full-length shows and asked to select which one they wanted to see in our second season. In this clip,
Frank Chocula (Christopher Davis) meets Coco Pebbles (Callie Mauldin) - a dame with a problem.
This clip won in the audience poll and became a full-length show back in March, 2010.
Hosted by Douglas O'Neil, Jr. at Birmingham Festival Theatre - July 24, 2009.
Check out our former Featured Clips on our YouTube Channel!

About us...

The Extemporaneous Theatre Company, founded in 2008, is a repertory-style company comprised of professional artists in theatre, comedy, and a variety of sub specialties. Our goal is multi-faceted:

to provide the Birmingham Metropolitan community with quality improvised theatre
to work with other artists to bolster the art of live theatre in our community
to offer quality improvisational training workshops to students, the community, and corporations, and
to have a mighty good time doing it!

In 2013, Extemporaneous Theatre Company was acquired by ETC Productions - an Alabama Nonprofit Corporation. Through ETC Productions, The Extemporaneous Theatre Company has obtained 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.

If you want to receive notices of the latest information on performances, classes, or auditions, please send us an email: contact@extemporaneoustheatre.com