Join Highwire Improv at the Lou Costello Room for Baltimore's best improv acts, as well as frequent regional and national touring guests!

The bar is open all day, and the upstairs comedy room opens at 6:30pm for a 7pm showtime! Check out the 9pm show as well (and ask us about a special 2-for-1 deal)!

The Lineup!

Charmony does the impossible - creates glorious musical improv in front of your eyes and ears!

Chronic Pain is an indie team from Baltimore. They met as students at BIG and do longform improv. We all have some kind of pain in our lives - real physical pain, or even if someone you know is just a pain in the butt. We take that and make it funny.

Croc Talk brings a hilarious variety of characters to their fast-paced improv comedy set!

What is an improv show, exactly?

Improv is live theater created spontaneously by the performers with the inspiration of the audience. Unless noted otherwise, it’s a comedy show, made even more exciting, intriguing, and hilarious by the fact that none of it is pre-scripted! At an improv show you’ll see a wide range of creative and fascinating humans perform a highwire act by making comedy out of thin air! It can take many forms, including short competitive games, slice of life scenes, and full length sitcom or movie style performances!

A Highwire Improv show is truly a once in a lifetime performance, never done before and never to be done again!

About the Venue:

The Lou Costello Room has been a mainstay of the Baltimore comedy scene for over a decade, regularly producing standup, improv, and sketch comedy shows in collaboration with many production companies. They also frequently host music and variety events from their location on Hampden's 36th Street, 'The Avenue!'

This show is not wheelchair accessible, it is on the second floor of the bar up a full flight of stairs. Find out accessibility details about all of our venues here.

About Highwire Improv:

Highwire Improv’s mission is to steward a community of artists committed to growth, collaboration, joy, and justice — in Baltimore and around the world — through improvisational theater. Learn more at https://www.highwireimprov.com