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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 10/07/2026 04:03:00

The longest-running sketch and improvisational comedy theatre in the United States calls the Dudley Riggs Theatre home. Founded in 1958 by fifth-generation circus aerialist Dudley Riggs as the Instant Theatre Company, the Brave New Workshop took its present name in 1961, a reference to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. The company opened off-Broadway with vaudeville sketches, burlesque blackouts, and something entirely new: the use of audience input to create instant theatre, a concept that would...