THE IMPROV EXPRESS (12-13 Sep 2026)
About this Event
Spontaneous storytelling goes off the rails in this rapid 2-day event that follows a scenic trail of classic improv acts! From short-form comedy to long-form drama and everything else in between, this 20-hour train ride promises to cover the full length of what improv can be on stage!
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When: Sat 12 - Sun 13 Sep 2026
- (12.00nn - 10.00pm both dates)
Where: (Pek Chuan Bldg. 116 Lavender St. #04-02, S338730)
- Nearest Carpark: CTHub2 (park near Lift Lobby 4, 2min walk to Pek Chuan Bldg.), Hamilton Rd. Street Parking (2min walk to Pek Chuan Bldg.)
- Nearest MRTs: Bendemeer (3min walk from Exit B), Lavender (11min walk from Exit B), Farrer Park (`11min walk from City Square Mall exit)
- Nearest Bus Stops: Aft. Kallang Bahru, Bef. Kallang Bahru
- We regret that this venue is not wheelchair accessible
Passes:
- S$35 = 2-HourPass
- S$60 = 5-Hour Pass
- S$100 = 1-Day Pass
- S$180 = All-Express Pass
Flash Sales:
- Fri 7 Aug 2026 (12.00nn-11.59pm) = 50%-off 'Full Steam' Sale (All Passes)
- Thu 10 Sep 2026 (7.00pm-9.00pm) = 50%-off 'Last Call' Sale! (2-hour & 5-Hour Passes only)
[Artwork Credits: Parag Bhatnagar]
How to Watch Shows on The Improv Express:
- Buy your passes online at Eventbrite. The 2-Hour & 5-Hour Passes allow you to purchase those respective numbers of hours, while the 1-Day Pass allows you unlimited access for one of the 2 days, and the All-Express Pass allows you unlimited access throughout the weekend.
- Collect your physical ticket during the Express. Upon arrival, proceed to the Ticketing Desk and present your digital ticket to exchange it for a physical one. The Staff will help you punch your card with the respective passes you purchased.
- Punch your ticket at the start of each hour. Every hour on the hour (e.g. 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, etc.), our friendly Train Conductors will help to punch your ticket for the hour you're about to watch on the Express. If you’ve run out of complimentary or purchased hours, you’ll be kindly asked to purchase a Pass to continue watching shows.
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About the Organisers
(LIT)’s mission is to enrich lives in Singapore through the art of improvisational theatre. By providing quality classes, corporate training workshops, event performances, and entertaining improv shows, we resolve to build and maintain a positive, thriving community where people are valued, form meaningful connections, and are empowered to find their voice.
Sat 12 Sep 2026
🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Choo-Choo Jam
Host: The Improv Express
Info: Start the Express with a free-&-easy improv social improv jam to keep your improv muscles warm & the locomotion engines burning!
🕑: 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Commedia Dell Impro
Host: Commedia Dell Impro
Info: Commedia Dell Impro brings you a modern take on a pioneering European theatre tradition; expect anything, from masks to misers, and from farce to fart jokes!
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Roomination
Host: Roomination
Info: Come roominate with us on what spaces and places can mean to different people.
🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Kingfishy
Host: Kingfishy
Info: Kingfishy returns with M**der on the Improv Express, an improvised play where a pair of detectives will (hopefully) solve the case and make you laugh while doing so.
🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Wabi Sabi
Host: Wabi Sabi
Info: Wabi Sabi presents 'Red Box / Green Box', a homebrewed format created to explore a multitude of stories & how rich each tale can become!
🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Grace Under Fire
Host: Grace Under Fire
Info: In 'Two Wishes to the Moon', the audience gets to ask the Goddess for anything they want - material riches, sage advice, or eveni predictions of the future - but every wish comes with a price that must be paid.
🕑: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
The Coaches Show
Host: The Coaches Show
Info: The instructors at Larks Improv Theatre are swapping out the whiteboard for the spotlight as they practice what they teach!
🕑: 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Short Kweens
Host: Short Kweens
Info: Short Kweens take your everyday "I-should-have-life-figured-out" FOMO stories and turn them into funny, heartfelt improv sketches that uncover secret desires, alternate lives, and unrealised versions of ourselves.
🕑: 05:30 PM - 06:00 PM
NUSC Improv
Host: NUSC Improv
Info: The slapstick but studious students at NUSC Improv are cutting class again to drive this train off the rails and into dreamland.
🕑: 06:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Yishun Villagers
Host: Yishun Villagers
Info: Yishun Villagers sets out to discover what the Singaporean Dream really means to each of us, using the audience's diverse memories and personal images of home.
🕑: 06:30 PM - 07:00 PM
The Red Chair Society
Host: The Red Chair Society
Info: Swing by Singapore's favourite improvised heartland kopitiam, and learn about the deep stories hiding behind the bustle of familiar everyday faces.
🕑: 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Mission Improvables
Host: Mission Improvables
Info: Mission Improvables bring their best hits from their shows this year so get ready to witness what they do best: Improv chaos and anarchy!
🕑: 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Regency Bias
Host: Regency Bias
Info: The Ton's pretty lords and ladies invite you a most serious game of love at their end-of-season ball, where they have one final chance to catch their match, or be left to moulder in their childhood bedrooms--or worse, the country.
🕑: 09:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Strangers In-Sync & Friends
Host: Strangers In-Sync
Info: Join Strangers In-Sync (and their friends from across the SG improv scene) as they play a mix of their favourite and new short-form games, guaranteeing a night of chaos, surprises, and improv game goodness.
Sun 13 Sep 2026
🕑: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Cue the Seven
Host: Cue the Seven
Info: An impromptu story is told; the team then improvises scenes that carry it forward across different timelines - from one day, one week, one month to one year later.
🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Some Gang
Host: Some Gang
Info: 'The Living Room' is a show that begins with an informal conversation that serves as launching points for a variety of different scenes, expanding ordinary human experiences into increasingly unexpected worlds and directions!
🕑: 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
About Today
Host: About Today
Info: Explore the complete spectrum of what love and tenderness can look like, all without ever saying the universal words, "I love you."
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Heartsmith
Host: Heartsmith
Info: Heartsmith turns your nostalgic memories into three fast-paced, comedic storylines in a character-driven long-form improv set called 'the Harold'.
🕑: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Speechless
Host: Speechless
Info: Words aren't necessary at all in this tribute to the dawn of cinema, when stories were told through physicality, expressions, and no dialogue!
🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
The Trumans
Host: The Trumans
Info: TV tropes, product placement, chatbots - you love them, you hate them, we have them; The Trumans will play a series of short-form improv games inspired by what happens on and off screen.
🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Just Friends
Host: Just Friends
Info: Make improv queer again, one story at a time. (For legal reasons, this is a joke.)
🕑: 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
ASAP Improv
Host: ASAP Improv
Info: Singapore's #1 musical improv family - The Koks - are gunning to be the next Changi Millionares, so watch them play their signature short-form musical improv games while enlisting the help of random tourists, long-lost family, airport staff, and shoppers at Jewel!
🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Les Musicables
Host: Les Musicables
Info: These spontaneous singer-storytellers will present stories of love and loss, delving into monologues and songs of yearning for what what we want and mourning what we can't have.
🕑: 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Mala Improv
Host: Mala Improv
Info: Singapore's only Mandarin improv team is bringing funny, Mid-Autumn-flavoured short-form improv games, culminating in a narrative-driven story. [No translation subtitles available.]
🕑: 06:00 PM - 06:30 PM
New Kitten Party & Friends
Host: New Kitten Party
Info: Joined by some friends to keep things fresh and zesty, New Kitten Party listens to true stories from a guest storyteller and creates pure idiocy!
🕑: 06:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Ten Potato Nights
Host: Ten Potato Nights
Info: Ten Potato Nights is having an existential crisis, and they invite you to join them in the bizarre chaos of the mind.
🕑: 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Always in Treble
Host: Always in Treble
Info: Music has a way of expressing the words we sometimes struggle to put into words, so prepare for a nostalgia-packed trip as these musical masters activate their emotional memory centres to dive deep into why we've had these songs on repeat.
🕑: 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Improvper Conduct
Host: Improvper Conduct
Info: Inspired by Andy Weir's 'The Egg', this performance will explore the effects of one's actions and our relationship with one another across time and space - as we break, hatch, and grow across the great cosmic improv eggs-periment.
🕑: 09:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Yes-Andrew Lloyd Webber
Host: Yes-Andrew Lloyd Webber
Info: Make the music of the night in this graduating team's debut performance that will turn your hopes, goals, or dreams into an album of completely improvised songs!
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
SGD 37.78 to SGD 189.70
