UCB Lloyd Night

UCB Lloyd Night is back at ColdTowne Theater on Sunday, September 13, with the show starting at 8:30 PM. It's the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre's bi-weekly improv night, and the whole thing is built around the company's homegrown house ensembles performing The Harold—the long-form improv structure that gives the night its name.

If you're not familiar with it, The Harold is a specific way of doing long-form improv. Instead of a series of separate sketches, a team takes a single suggestion and builds a whole night of connected scenes around it, weaving them together and bringing them back for a final, overlapping payoff. It's a bit more of a slow burn than your average improv set, and it's the same format UCB has used to build its reputation over the years.

What makes this particular night worth noting is that these are the Austin teams making their debut at ColdTowne. They're the house ensembles—the groups that have been training and performing within the UCB system—so you're seeing the local talent that's come up through the program. Because it's a bi-weekly show, it's a regular fixture on the calendar rather than a one-off, so you can catch different teams as they rotate through.

It's all happening on the ColdTowne Main Stage in Austin, and the show kicks off at 8:30 PM on Sunday, September 13.