Ed, Tom & Rueben are members of the Dad's Garage Ensemble and perform formats that torture one another through improv. Come see these goofballs tear the roof off with their comedy skills. You don't want to miss it. 

Music meets comedy! Come hear some of Atlanta’s most promising talent at the House of Dad’s in this special event where live music inspires our ensemble’s off-the-dome improvised comedy shorts.

Our longest-running improv show and an audience favorite for years, TheatreSports is a fast-paced improv competition that features the best improvisers in the city and uses your suggestions to fuel the show. This time, teams are competing in a 3-week long tournament on Fridays and Saturdays in January 2025! WHO WILL TAKE HOME THE GOLD?!

Road Trip is a completely improvised show based on real stories featuring a rotating cast of some of the best improvisers + storytellers in ATL. Previous storytellers have been featured on Comedy Central, HBO, Conan, and more. It's the hottest growing show in the city, and we want you there! 

Featured Storyteller: Jen O'Neill Smith 

Featured Improvisers:

Madeline Evans | Host (Edgewood Ave + Too Nice Ladies + Camp Crush) 

Tim Stoltenberg (Second City + Dad's Garage + SCROOGE) 

Markis Gallashaw (Black Star + Blackground) 

Abel Arias (Drama Inc + Dad's Garage) 

Maria Mainelli (Poultry in Motion + Fly Trap) 

Will Wright (Turtle Time + Thinking Too Hard)

Austin Combs 

Rejini Samuel

Named by Paste Magazine as one of the top 8 comics to watch in Atlanta, Jen O’Neill Smith can be seen on stages all over the country. Jen has been featured on the television show Live From Zanies on the Circle Network, has been a repeat guest on the hit Adult Swim series, William Street Swap Shop, and was recently on Tastemade’s new travel show, “The Un-Adventurers”, available on Amazon. She has also been featured on Amazon’s Audible Comedy show, “Punchlines” and Jeff and Larry’s Comedy Round up on Sirius XM.

A fun improvised show for kids! That's fun and improvised AND fun AND improvised!

This show runs for 60 minutes, the lobby opens at 2:30 PM! Check out our Bar & Concessions menu!

Our longest-running improv show and an audience favorite for years, TheatreSports is a fast-paced improv competition that features the best improvisers in the city and uses your suggestions to fuel the show. This time, teams are competing in a 3-week long tournament on Fridays and Saturdays in January 2025! WHO WILL TAKE HOME THE GOLD?!

Our longest-running improv show and an audience favorite for years, TheatreSports is a fast-paced improv competition that features the best improvisers in the city and uses your suggestions to fuel the show. This time, teams are competing in a 3-week long tournament on Fridays and Saturdays in January 2025! WHO WILL TAKE HOME THE GOLD?!

BlackGround is an all-African-American comedy troupe. They take classic movies like Star Wars and Indiana Jones and improvise what the Black people were doing during the movie. It is a hilarious show featuring killer comedy, incredible guests, and a fun-filled celebration of Blackness. Come laugh, celebrate, and embrace the essence of Blackness in a way you've never seen before. Don't miss out on this unforgettable experience where laughter meets legacy.

The Bert Show is coming to Dad’s Garage! Come see the hosts of one of Atlanta’s most beloved radio shows give a behind-the-scenes perspective about the show, and then watch Dad’s Garage make the stories even crazier and laugh-out-loud funny!

All proceeds for this event benefit Bert’s Big Adventure, which provides all-expenses-paid trips to Disney World for children with chronic and terminal illnesses and their families.

Our longest-running improv show and an audience favorite for years, TheatreSports is a fast-paced improv competition that features the best improvisers in the city and uses your suggestions to fuel the show. This time, teams are competing in a 3-week long tournament on Fridays and Saturdays in January 2025! WHO WILL TAKE HOME THE GOLD?!

Thank GAWD it's FRIDAY! Late-night improv at Dad's Garage every Friday at 10:00! Featuring Dad’s Garage performers and artists from Atlanta!

A fun improvised show for kids! That's fun and improvised AND fun AND improvised!

This show runs for 60 minutes, the lobby opens at 2:30 PM! Check out our Bar & Concessions menu!

Our longest-running improv show and an audience favorite for years, TheatreSports is a fast-paced improv competition that features the best improvisers in the city and uses your suggestions to fuel the show. This time, teams are competing in a 3-week long tournament on Fridays and Saturdays in January 2025! WHO WILL TAKE HOME THE GOLD?!

Our longest-running improv show and an audience favorite for years, TheatreSports is a fast-paced improv competition that features the best improvisers in the city and uses your suggestions to fuel the show. This time, teams are competing in a 3-week long tournament on Fridays and Saturdays in January 2025! WHO WILL TAKE HOME THE GOLD?!

The future of the nation’s comedy entertainment arrives here at Dad’s Garage—as an industry; as a destination; as the place to be!

The Atlanta Comedy Showcase extends beyond city borders—it is your finger on the pulse of the southeast’s biggest, brightest, and best-rising talent. Rising comedy stars take the Dad’s Garage stage to wow you with the tightest character-based comedy this side of the Mason-Dixon line. Comedy aficionados and industry professionals, you won’t want to miss this spectacular, showstopping showcase!

Two partners with a turbulent history must reunite for one last case and stop a mastermind’s lethal scheme from tearing the city apart. What’s the twist? You tell us!

The Dad’s Garage ensemble stars in the inspired-by-the-genre-of-the-same-name Buddy Cops, a show where you, the audience, shape what dramatic, nefarious trials and tribulations await a cast of characters that you, the audience, design! Come direct the buddy cop flick of your dreams and watch us bring it to life—like magic!—live on stage!

THE FINALS!

Our longest-running improv show and an audience favorite for years, TheatreSports is a fast-paced improv competition that features the best improvisers in the city and uses your suggestions to fuel the show. This time, teams are competing in a 3-week long tournament on Fridays and Saturdays in January 2025! WHO WILL TAKE HOME THE GOLD?!

Stand-up comedy and music?! Why, they go together like peanut butter and jam—A Musical Comedy Jam, that is!

Carter Deems hosts Laugh Tracks: A Musical Comedy Jam featuring an incredible showcase of Atlanta’s best stand-up comedians-cum-musicians in this awesome mashup of musical mayhem and comedy chops! Don’t miss this phenomenally funny display of talent at Dad’s Garage!

A fun improvised show for kids! That's fun and improvised AND fun AND improvised!

This show runs for 60 minutes, the lobby opens at 2:30 PM! Check out our Bar & Concessions menu!

Our longest-running improv show and an audience favorite for years, TheatreSports is a fast-paced improv competition that features the best improvisers in the city and uses your suggestions to fuel the show. Consisting of two teams, a host/referee, and the infamous scum box (that keeps things in line) – TheatreSports will have you in hysterics and in on the fun.

It’s an improvised sitcom performed in front of a live, fake-studio audience! In a microcosm of yesteryear possible only on the Dad’s Garage stage, sitcoms are back, baby, and our ensemble needs your awws, open slack-jaws, and guffaws to help us capture the pilot for hottest new show meant to ensnare the attention and adoration of the nation. Step into the biggest live set of the 1990s and witness the making of television history as Karen the Producer challenges the Dad’s Garage ensemble to create the greatest new comedy pilot of the decade right in front of your face!

From 30 Rock to cameos on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Adult Swim to Disney’s Wreck it Ralph, Jack McBrayer is coming to Dad’s Garage to spend two nights of comedy revelry with us!

Don’t miss your chance to see this quirk, personable, and hilarious special guest perform with the Dad’s Garage ensemble using suggestions provided by you, the audience!

From 30 Rock to cameos on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Adult Swim to Disney’s Wreck it Ralph, Jack McBrayer is coming to Dad’s Garage to spend two nights of comedy revelry with us!

Don’t miss your chance to see this quirk, personable, and hilarious special guest perform with the Dad’s Garage ensemble using suggestions provided by you, the audience!

A fun improvised show for kids! That's fun and improvised AND fun AND improvised!

This show runs for 60 minutes, the lobby opens at 2:30 PM! Check out our Bar & Concessions menu!

From 30 Rock to cameos on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Adult Swim to Disney’s Wreck it Ralph, Jack McBrayer is coming to Dad’s Garage to spend two nights of comedy revelry with us!

Don’t miss your chance to see this quirk, personable, and hilarious special guest perform with the Dad’s Garage ensemble using suggestions provided by you, the audience!

From 30 Rock to cameos on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Adult Swim to Disney’s Wreck it Ralph, Jack McBrayer is coming to Dad’s Garage to spend two nights of comedy revelry with us!

Don’t miss your chance to see this quirk, personable, and hilarious special guest perform with the Dad’s Garage ensemble using suggestions provided by you, the audience!

Dad’s Garage is partnering with Georgia State University to bring you the Barbara Payne Lecture: Improving Care Through Improv.

Ensemble members of Dad’s Garage will draw inspiration from lecturer, Candace Kemp.

"What's Good, Atlanta?" is a weekly comedy podcast from WABE, co-hosted by comedians Mark Kendall and David Perdue and they're headed back to Dad's Garage for a LIVE SHOW! Come for a hilarious evening featuring stand up comedy, amazing poetry, and interviews.

Ed, Tom & Rueben are members of the Dad's Garage Ensemble and perform formats that torture one another through improv. Come see these goofballs tear the roof off with their comedy skills. You don't want to miss it. 

Vaviana Vardot's Famous Sex Party is a comedy burlesque variety show. You can expect sensual silliness, lewd buffoonery, dirty songs and the funniest smut you've ever had the displeasure of stumbling across.

You must be 21+ to attend this performance.

All ticket purchases include an alcoholic beverage (non-alcoholic beverages are available upon request).

Come feel the love at Dad’s Garage this Valentine’s Day! Our ensemble gets romantic (or, you know, raunchily X-rated) at this super lovey-dovey improv show. It’s the perfect place for an offbeat date (pro tip: science says a partner finds funny people more attractive), or for singles to get a kick out of this annual three-C celebration of: comedy, commercialism, and candy!

Open your hearts and share with us your best (or worst) personal love stories, and enjoy as we spin these moments of your life into embellished comedy gold!

The lobby opens at 8:30 PM and the show starts at 9:30 PM!

Vaviana Vardot's Famous Sex Party is a comedy burlesque variety show. You can expect sensual silliness, lewd buffoonery, dirty songs and the funniest smut you've ever had the displeasure of stumbling across.

You must be 21+ to attend this performance.

All ticket purchases include an alcoholic beverage (non-alcoholic beverages are available upon request).

A fun improvised show for kids! That's fun and improvised AND fun AND improvised!

This show runs for 60 minutes, the lobby opens at 2:30 PM! Check out our Bar & Concessions menu!

Our longest-running improv show and an audience favorite for years, TheatreSports is a fast-paced improv competition that features the best improvisers in the city and uses your suggestions to fuel the show. Consisting of two teams, a host/referee, and the infamous scum box (that keeps things in line) – TheatreSports will have you in hysterics and in on the fun.

Hit us with your comedy! The Dad’s Garage stage is ready for you to seize the moment and wow us with your original stand up at this open mic.

While this open mic is open to all comedians and aspiring comedians, Dad’s Garage students take priority in this opportunity to strut their funny stuff! Otherwise, slots are first-come, first-serve.

This event is free to the public. Just show up, claim your spot or enjoy the show!

Don’t fear the machines in this half-human, half-machine amalgamation of improv hootenanny! This hilarious hybrid show created by Rapid Fire Theatre’s Joe Vanderhelm comes to Dad’s Garage for two special performances sure to electrify your circuits and kickstart your guffaws!

The concept is simple: The collaborative, stage-and-screen-minded Dramatron (an AI developed by Kory Mathewson and Piotr Mirowski) generates the first half of a script based on a curated prompt. Our Ensemble actors—who have never seen this script before—must act out the written script live and, after the cold-read, must pick up where the bot left off by improvising the play’s concluding half! It’s unpredictable, unconventional, and unlike anything you’ve seen before.

Join us for the classic Murder, She Improvised format where some of your favorite DG performers will take you through a completely improvised “who done it” murder mystery.

Road Trip is a completely improvised show based on real stories featuring a rotating cast of some of the best improvisers + storytellers in ATL. Previous storytellers have been featured on Comedy Central, HBO, Conan, and more. It's the hottest growing show in the city, and we want you there! 

A fun improvised show for kids! That's fun and improvised AND fun AND improvised!

This show runs for 60 minutes, the lobby opens at 2:30 PM! Check out our Bar & Concessions menu!

BlackGround is an all-African-American comedy troupe. They take classic movies like Star Wars and Indiana Jones and improvise what the Black people were doing during the movie. It is a hilarious show featuring killer comedy, incredible guests, and a fun-filled celebration of Blackness. Come laugh, celebrate, and embrace the essence of Blackness in a way you've never seen before. Don't miss out on this unforgettable experience where laughter meets legacy.

Our longest-running improv show and an audience favorite for years, TheatreSports is a fast-paced improv competition that features the best improvisers in the city and uses your suggestions to fuel the show. Consisting of two teams, a host/referee, and the infamous scum box (that keeps things in line) – TheatreSports will have you in hysterics and in on the fun.

The future of the nation’s comedy entertainment arrives here at Dad’s Garage—as an industry; as a destination; as the place to be!

The Atlanta Comedy Showcase extends beyond city borders—it is your finger on the pulse of the southeast’s biggest, brightest, and best-rising talent. Rising comedy stars take the Dad’s Garage stage to wow you with the tightest character-based comedy this side of the Mason-Dixon line. Comedy aficionados and industry professionals, you won’t want to miss this spectacular, showstopping showcase!

Don’t fear the machines in this half-human, half-machine amalgamation of improv hootenanny! This hilarious hybrid show created by Rapid Fire Theatre’s Joe Vanderhelm comes to Dad’s Garage for two special performances sure to electrify your circuits and kickstart your guffaws!

The concept is simple: The collaborative, stage-and-screen-minded Dramatron (an AI developed by Kory Mathewson and Piotr Mirowski) generates the first half of a script based on a curated prompt. Our Ensemble actors—who have never seen this script before—must act out the written script live and, after the cold-read, must pick up where the bot left off by improvising the play’s concluding half! It’s unpredictable, unconventional, and unlike anything you’ve seen before.

Family ties, lies, secrets, and the treachery of old New Orleans aristocracy boil over in Hot Jambalaya, an exciting new murder musical comedy from Dad’s Garage!

Trapped aboard the Fleur de Lis, our hapless cast—which includes Van Horn’s manic and pretentious widow, his flamboyant son, his dowdy and embittered daughter, a disgraced chef with a taste for knives, a washed-up French boat captain, an ex-cop obsessed with the truth, and a New York reporter with a fatal attraction to all things murder—must uncover whodunit and why before the killer strikes again!

Get a whiff of this brand new format! The best musical improvisers Dad’s Garage has to offer have a question for you: does something smell like a song in here?

We invite you, the audience, to use your nose to direct our performers, song by song, to create a brand-new improvised musical sure to delight the visual, audial, and—of course—olfactory senses. The nose knows!

(We won’t make you smell anything unpleasant during this production. In fact, the only thing we’ll ask you to smell are roses.)

A fun improvised show for kids! That's fun and improvised AND fun AND improvised!

This show runs for 60 minutes, the lobby opens at 2:30 PM! Check out our Bar & Concessions menu!

Family ties, lies, secrets, and the treachery of old New Orleans aristocracy boil over in Hot Jambalaya, an exciting new murder musical comedy from Dad’s Garage!

Trapped aboard the Fleur de Lis, our hapless cast—which includes Van Horn’s manic and pretentious widow, his flamboyant son, his dowdy and embittered daughter, a disgraced chef with a taste for knives, a washed-up French boat captain, an ex-cop obsessed with the truth, and a New York reporter with a fatal attraction to all things murder—must uncover whodunit and why before the killer strikes again!

Family ties, lies, secrets, and the treachery of old New Orleans aristocracy boil over in Hot Jambalaya, an exciting new murder musical comedy from Dad’s Garage!

Trapped aboard the Fleur de Lis, our hapless cast—which includes Van Horn’s manic and pretentious widow, his flamboyant son, his dowdy and embittered daughter, a disgraced chef with a taste for knives, a washed-up French boat captain, an ex-cop obsessed with the truth, and a New York reporter with a fatal attraction to all things murder—must uncover whodunit and why before the killer strikes again!

Family ties, lies, secrets, and the treachery of old New Orleans aristocracy boil over in Hot Jambalaya, an exciting new murder musical comedy from Dad’s Garage!

Trapped aboard the Fleur de Lis, our hapless cast—which includes Van Horn’s manic and pretentious widow, his flamboyant son, his dowdy and embittered daughter, a disgraced chef with a taste for knives, a washed-up French boat captain, an ex-cop obsessed with the truth, and a New York reporter with a fatal attraction to all things murder—must uncover whodunit and why before the killer strikes again!

Family ties, lies, secrets, and the treachery of old New Orleans aristocracy boil over in Hot Jambalaya, an exciting new murder musical comedy from Dad’s Garage!

Trapped aboard the Fleur de Lis, our hapless cast—which includes Van Horn’s manic and pretentious widow, his flamboyant son, his dowdy and embittered daughter, a disgraced chef with a taste for knives, a washed-up French boat captain, an ex-cop obsessed with the truth, and a New York reporter with a fatal attraction to all things murder—must uncover whodunit and why before the killer strikes again!

Family ties, lies, secrets, and the treachery of old New Orleans aristocracy boil over in Hot Jambalaya, an exciting new murder musical comedy from Dad’s Garage!

Trapped aboard the Fleur de Lis, our hapless cast—which includes Van Horn’s manic and pretentious widow, his flamboyant son, his dowdy and embittered daughter, a disgraced chef with a taste for knives, a washed-up French boat captain, an ex-cop obsessed with the truth, and a New York reporter with a fatal attraction to all things murder—must uncover whodunit and why before the killer strikes again!

Family ties, lies, secrets, and the treachery of old New Orleans aristocracy boil over in Hot Jambalaya, an exciting new murder musical comedy from Dad’s Garage!

Trapped aboard the Fleur de Lis, our hapless cast—which includes Van Horn’s manic and pretentious widow, his flamboyant son, his dowdy and embittered daughter, a disgraced chef with a taste for knives, a washed-up French boat captain, an ex-cop obsessed with the truth, and a New York reporter with a fatal attraction to all things murder—must uncover whodunit and why before the killer strikes again!

Family ties, lies, secrets, and the treachery of old New Orleans aristocracy boil over in Hot Jambalaya, an exciting new murder musical comedy from Dad’s Garage!

Trapped aboard the Fleur de Lis, our hapless cast—which includes Van Horn’s manic and pretentious widow, his flamboyant son, his dowdy and embittered daughter, a disgraced chef with a taste for knives, a washed-up French boat captain, an ex-cop obsessed with the truth, and a New York reporter with a fatal attraction to all things murder—must uncover whodunit and why before the killer strikes again!

Motorcycles! Rockets! Boxing monkeys! Just kidding, In celebration of the brand new Sandwiches of History: The Cookbook, Barry is hitting the road to share the history of Sandwiches of History! Each stop will feature special guest stars, live sandwich making and tasting with audience-suggested plus ups, audience Q&A and more surprises!

Joining Barry will be special guest Amber Nash (Archer)

Family ties, lies, secrets, and the treachery of old New Orleans aristocracy boil over in Hot Jambalaya, an exciting new murder musical comedy from Dad’s Garage!

Trapped aboard the Fleur de Lis, our hapless cast—which includes Van Horn’s manic and pretentious widow, his flamboyant son, his dowdy and embittered daughter, a disgraced chef with a taste for knives, a washed-up French boat captain, an ex-cop obsessed with the truth, and a New York reporter with a fatal attraction to all things murder—must uncover whodunit and why before the killer strikes again!

Family ties, lies, secrets, and the treachery of old New Orleans aristocracy boil over in Hot Jambalaya, an exciting new murder musical comedy from Dad’s Garage!

Trapped aboard the Fleur de Lis, our hapless cast—which includes Van Horn’s manic and pretentious widow, his flamboyant son, his dowdy and embittered daughter, a disgraced chef with a taste for knives, a washed-up French boat captain, an ex-cop obsessed with the truth, and a New York reporter with a fatal attraction to all things murder—must uncover whodunit and why before the killer strikes again!

Family ties, lies, secrets, and the treachery of old New Orleans aristocracy boil over in Hot Jambalaya, an exciting new murder musical comedy from Dad’s Garage!

Trapped aboard the Fleur de Lis, our hapless cast—which includes Van Horn’s manic and pretentious widow, his flamboyant son, his dowdy and embittered daughter, a disgraced chef with a taste for knives, a washed-up French boat captain, an ex-cop obsessed with the truth, and a New York reporter with a fatal attraction to all things murder—must uncover whodunit and why before the killer strikes again!

The future of the nation’s comedy entertainment arrives here at Dad’s Garage—as an industry; as a destination; as the place to be!

The Atlanta Comedy Showcase extends beyond city borders—it is your finger on the pulse of the southeast’s biggest, brightest, and best-rising talent. Rising comedy stars take the Dad’s Garage stage to wow you with the tightest character-based comedy this side of the Mason-Dixon line. Comedy aficionados and industry professionals, you won’t want to miss this spectacular, showstopping showcase!

Family ties, lies, secrets, and the treachery of old New Orleans aristocracy boil over in Hot Jambalaya, an exciting new murder musical comedy from Dad’s Garage!

Trapped aboard the Fleur de Lis, our hapless cast—which includes Van Horn’s manic and pretentious widow, his flamboyant son, his dowdy and embittered daughter, a disgraced chef with a taste for knives, a washed-up French boat captain, an ex-cop obsessed with the truth, and a New York reporter with a fatal attraction to all things murder—must uncover whodunit and why before the killer strikes again!

Family ties, lies, secrets, and the treachery of old New Orleans aristocracy boil over in Hot Jambalaya, an exciting new murder musical comedy from Dad’s Garage!

Trapped aboard the Fleur de Lis, our hapless cast—which includes Van Horn’s manic and pretentious widow, his flamboyant son, his dowdy and embittered daughter, a disgraced chef with a taste for knives, a washed-up French boat captain, an ex-cop obsessed with the truth, and a New York reporter with a fatal attraction to all things murder—must uncover whodunit and why before the killer strikes again!

Family ties, lies, secrets, and the treachery of old New Orleans aristocracy boil over in Hot Jambalaya, an exciting new murder musical comedy from Dad’s Garage!

Trapped aboard the Fleur de Lis, our hapless cast—which includes Van Horn’s manic and pretentious widow, his flamboyant son, his dowdy and embittered daughter, a disgraced chef with a taste for knives, a washed-up French boat captain, an ex-cop obsessed with the truth, and a New York reporter with a fatal attraction to all things murder—must uncover whodunit and why before the killer strikes again!

The future of the nation’s comedy entertainment arrives here at Dad’s Garage—as an industry; as a destination; as the place to be!

The Atlanta Comedy Showcase extends beyond city borders—it is your finger on the pulse of the southeast’s biggest, brightest, and best-rising talent. Rising comedy stars take the Dad’s Garage stage to wow you with the tightest character-based comedy this side of the Mason-Dixon line. Comedy aficionados and industry professionals, you won’t want to miss this spectacular, showstopping showcase!

The future of the nation’s comedy entertainment arrives here at Dad’s Garage—as an industry; as a destination; as the place to be!

The Atlanta Comedy Showcase extends beyond city borders—it is your finger on the pulse of the southeast’s biggest, brightest, and best-rising talent. Rising comedy stars take the Dad’s Garage stage to wow you with the tightest character-based comedy this side of the Mason-Dixon line. Comedy aficionados and industry professionals, you won’t want to miss this spectacular, showstopping showcase!

The future of the nation’s comedy entertainment arrives here at Dad’s Garage—as an industry; as a destination; as the place to be!

The Atlanta Comedy Showcase extends beyond city borders—it is your finger on the pulse of the southeast’s biggest, brightest, and best-rising talent. Rising comedy stars take the Dad’s Garage stage to wow you with the tightest character-based comedy this side of the Mason-Dixon line. Comedy aficionados and industry professionals, you won’t want to miss this spectacular, showstopping showcase!

Music meets comedy! Come hear some of Atlanta’s most promising talent at the House of Dad’s in this special event where live music inspires our ensemble’s off-the-dome improvised comedy shorts.