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Off Broadway Theatre

Home of Utah's Longest Running Improv Troupe

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The Off Broadway Theatre

The Off Broadway Theatre (OBT) is Salt Lake's downtown hot spot for comedy.
The OBT is known for our parodies. Recently, our parodies of Sherlock Holmes and Peter Pan have played to sell-out crowds. If you love to laugh, this is indeed the place.
OBT is also the home of Utah's longest-running and most popular improv comedy show, the Laughing Stock Improv Troupe. If you've seen "Whose Line Is It Anyway?", you know the basics. The difference is, here there are no TV cameras and tape editing. You see the genius and the foolishness. Often times, the foolishness is more funny. And, it's what sets Laughing Stock apart from the rest.
The Troupe has played to over 200 straight sold out shows. We are located in downtown Salt Lake City at 272 S. Main St., and you can contact us by phone at 801-355-4628 (that's 355-4OBT for those who want an easy way to remember our number).
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My Interests

Improv comedy interests us quite a bit. In fact, comedy in general. We've been making Utah laugh since 1994. Longer if you count the factthat many of us were cracking people up long before that. Hopefully, no one got hurt in those early days. And so far, there have been a minimal of lawsuits in the professional comedy arena. Whew! Dodged that one. Especially when Ben's teeth went through his lip. Or when Russ hit Clarence in the face with a chair. Or my personal favorite, when Paul decided to attempt a backflip for the first time in his life and nearly killed himself. Good times. Good times.

I'd like to meet:



This the full pilot episode, and is nearly 25 minutes long. It's gonna take awhile to fully load. You can always hit play to start it loading, then hit pause and come back in a minute or two.

This was the pilot episode for our beloved television show, "Laughing Stock TV". It ran for 16 weeks in early 2005. Our ratings were good, but we were poor. Unfortunately, while we no longer have ratings, we remain poor.

You can see more from Laughing Stock by visiting the video gallery at LaughingStock.us .

Music:

We could make a list of favorite artists, sure. But we prefer to be a bit more self-involved. There have been many great musical parodies at the Off Broadway Theatre over the years. We've also done some great musicals like "The Pirates of Penzance" and "Little Shop of Horrors." Plus, during the improv shows you never know when we'll break out in a song, like the classics "Damn!" and "Oh, Cananada."

Television:

We had our own TV show on KUWB-TV in 2005. They decided against renewing the show for a second season. Apparently, they decided that they could make more money showing infomercials than our show. We were getting great ratings, too. But they decided that we had no demographics. Hard to believe, you know, here in the real world. But true. Oh so sad and true.

Heroes:

We have many heroes. In fact, there are too many to mention here. Okay, Rob Bogue. We'll leave it at that and go on with our lives.

My Blog

Improv Audition: Off Broadway Theater’s Laff Match - March 1

Attention all would be Improvisers. The Off Broadway Theater is holding Auditions for its sister improv troupe "Laff Match" on Saturday Mar. 1st. The audition will take place at the Off Broadway Theat...
Posted by Off Broadway Theatre on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:58:00 PST

Thanks to all who voted us Best Improv Troupe in 2007!

http://www.slweekly.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id= F5E7B9A9-0DE8-758E-0D734B9D746897FD BEST IMPROV TROUPELaughing StockIf longevity and popularity are any indication, the Laughing Stock impro...
Posted by Off Broadway Theatre on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:42:00 PST

Off Broadway Theatre 2008 Season Updates & Changes

The OBT wishes to send an update to their 2008 Season.   Here is the official Season with the descriptions:   Laughing Stock Improv Comedy (Jan. 4th - Feb. 2nd) Hiliarious Live Improv, which...
Posted by Off Broadway Theatre on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:09:00 PST

Thanks to all who voted us Best Improv Troupe!!

Thanks to all our fans that voted for us in the Salt Lake City Weekly's Artys awards!  We are humbled and appreciate all of you!! From http://www.slweekly.com/article.cfm/readerspicks Best Improv...
Posted by Off Broadway Theatre on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:00:00 PST

Announcing our 2007 Season

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages... The Off Broadway Theatre proudly brings to you our 2007 season. "Popeyed" February 9-March 17, 2007 "Utahoma" A Musical April 27-June 2, 2...
Posted by Off Broadway Theatre on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:08:00 PST