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!

Scrapple - there is only one rule when it comes to a Scrapple show — Let’s Get Weird. This group of friends do their best to perform a set of montage scenes, a pretty flower, or 20 scenes in 20 minutes, but it always ends up devolving into mayhem — and they wouldn’t have it any other way. This Baltimore-based indie team takes audience suggestions, and turns into 20 minutes of fun, weirdness, chaos and sometimes with a little bit of classic improv structure.

Big Worm is a Baltimore-based indie improv team. Their show is a fast, fresh, character driven montage!

Hot Pursuit is a free form duo that picks up a format on the fly. It is rarely just a montage, it will use aspects of the Movie, Pretty Flower, Harold, and others.

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!