Walking distance from Times Square, The Producers’ Club is the Theater District’s landmark Off-Off Broadway playhouse in New York City. With five fully equipped theaters that convert into HD screening rooms, a Bar and Lounge, and three beautiful Studios, Producers’ Club is a conveniently located hub for artists of all disciplines to showcase their craft.

We welcome improv troupes, repertoire theatre companies, filmmakers, workshops, casting directors, performers, and artists of all kinds to call us home.

At Producers’ Club, you’ll not only have space in Midtown Manhattan for your creative projects, but a supportive community with an expansive industry network, experienced, knowledgeable staff, and competitive all-inclusive rental rates with no hidden costs.

Built in 1920, this was a speakeasy patroned by the Irish immigrants who spent their days building the subway system. This period was the height of the Irish mafia’s operations, which lended Hell’s Kitchen its name.

In 1963, actor and comedian Budd Friedman opened a 50-seat coffee house called The Improvisation for Broadway performers to wind down after their shows. Later shortened to The Improv, it attracted the likes of Judy Garland, who brought her daughter, Liza Minnelli. Bette Midler would bring her pianist, Barry Manilow, and then-unknown Dustin Hoffman would sometimes fill in for him. According to The Improv: An Oral History of the Comedy Club that Revolutionized Stand-Up, the club became the first venue to present live stand-up in a continuous format, and thus reinvented the art form and template for all other comedy clubs that followed. After seeing its success, Friedman opened The Hollywood Improv in 1974, which still stands today.

Some of the stand-up cold opens of Seinfeld were filmed at The Improv, possibly in our Royal Theater. Larry David would workshop his stand-up at the Improv in the 70s. When the Friedmans divorced in 1981, Budd acquired the California Improvs and his wife, Silver, acquired the New York Improv, which then closed in 1992.

After many changing hands, Albanian brothers Alfred and Ernest Tollja bought the playhouse in December of 2006 and have managed it ever since. Sketch shows, acting workshops, podcasts, and more take place here now, and we are excited to see what the future holds for this landmark in comedy history!