SHOWTIMES
All shows are free and 21+ to attend (unless otherwise listed)
($10 suggested donation)
October 29th (Wednesday)
Trivia
7:30pm
NYC's finest trivia beckons. Got the brains? Bring your friends and wrack your noodles with six rounds of clever, fun, HARD trivia. The most experienced trivia hosts in the city will test your mental mettle in areas of General Knowledge, Music, Top Tens, and Visual Identification. First Prize is a $75 bar tab, Second Prize is a $40 bar tab and Third Prize is a $15 bar tab. But the real prize (besides bragging rights for those who place, and a berth in the twice yearly finals) is the time honored social scene of the Quizz-Off crowd. Give it a try smart guy! And come early for a good table.
Funhouse Comedy
10:00pm
Comedians Gabe Pacheco and Sameer Naseem host this legendary weekly stand up comedy show featuring the best comedians from NYC and beyond!
October 30th (Thursday)
Small Batch Improv Jam
5:00pm
A Two-prov Three-prov comedy jam. Put your name in the hat to participate in two person and three person improvised scenes!
5:15 sign ups, 5:30 playtime. Free with a $5 minimum purchase at the bar.
Tadeusz Dabrowski Reading
7:00pm
Tadeusz Dąbrowski’s poetry is as beguiling, reflective and precise as a thousand fragments of a shattered mirror. The poet is properly suspicious of the ambiguities concealed in all language: “very dangerous to know/too many words.//Each of them has its/fl ip side, which/also has its flip side/and so on ad infinitum.” Whether gazing at art or looking at laundry, meditating on our cravings for bread or literature, the poems move effortlessly between the mundane and the exalted, suggesting that the messiness of human experience, its visceral realities, the carnal truths of the body, our small joys and inevitable decay, are all part of the same fragile narrative. This poetry, masterfully translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, moves intimately through spaces sacred and profane, suggesting we are never fully in one world or the other but ever adrift in between.
October 31st (Friday)
Numbskull
5:00pm
Welcome to Numbskull! An open mic for stand-up, characters, clown, and the like. Grab a drink at the bar and put your name in the bucket. Every Friday at Pete’s @ 5 PM.
DJRumsey
11:30pm
November 1st (Saturday)
Loose Lips Mic
3:30pm
Loose Lips is a comedy open mic for the most iconic standup, characters and storytelling in NYC! Hosted by Fallon Boles & Vassileia Kazee. More info at @looselipscomedy on Instagram 👄💋💄
Estos Griton
11:00pm
November 2nd (Sunday)
Creep Mic
3:00pm
I’m a creep! I’m a weirdooooo… I DO belong here! A comedy open mic for anybody who’s ever been described as slightly offputting. Every Sunday at 3:00PM at Pete’s Candy Store. 3 minutes for standup, 4 for characters, and 5 for everybody if Mark Duplass shows up.
Open Mic
5:00pm
The Open Mic at Pete's has been running for almost 25 years and has provided a springboard for many a New York performer, now booking gigs around the city and beyond. Join host Bruce Martin in Pete's intimate music room for a lively night of performances. Sign up is at 3 pm and music starts at 5pm. One drink minimum to perform.
Kiara Negroni
10:30pm
November 3rd (Monday)
Biology on Tap
7:00pm
Biology on Tap is back on Monday, October 6th with a Bloody Mary twist. We’ll be spotlighting two trailblazers in science, Mary Anning and Mary Cynthia Dickerson.
You can expect all the best of Bio on Tap - great talks, fun trivia, and tasty pours!
November 4th (Tuesday)
Silent Writing Happy Hour
5:00pm
Taking inspiration from the infinite canon of literature past and present, we present weekly short readings, inspiring 30-minute exercises, offering writers the space and direction to write silently and hone their skills. Writers may share their writing, as the spirit and time dictates. The last portion of the evening is devoted to self-directed work on whatever project you have that merits such.
Small Batch Improv Show
7:00pm
November 5th (Wednesday)
Trivia
7:30pm
NYC's finest trivia beckons. Got the brains? Bring your friends and wrack your noodles with six rounds of clever, fun, HARD trivia. The most experienced trivia hosts in the city will test your mental mettle in areas of General Knowledge, Music, Top Tens, and Visual Identification. First Prize is a $75 bar tab, Second Prize is a $40 bar tab and Third Prize is a $15 bar tab. But the real prize (besides bragging rights for those who place, and a berth in the twice yearly finals) is the time honored social scene of the Quizz-Off crowd. Give it a try smart guy! And come early for a good table.
Funhouse Comedy
10:00pm
Comedians Gabe Pacheco and Sameer Naseem host this legendary weekly stand up comedy show featuring the best comedians from NYC and beyond!
November 6th (Thursday)
Small Batch Improv Jam
5:00pm
A Two-prov Three-prov comedy jam. Put your name in the hat to participate in two person and three person improvised scenes!
5:15 sign ups, 5:30 playtime. Free with a $5 minimum purchase at the bar.
Rally Reading Series
7:00pm
The Rally marches on as we continue our new season with three literary luminaries. Spencer Ackerman, REIGN OF TERROR (Viking); Tess Owen, freelance reporter covering extremism, disinformation, politics; and Ryan D. Matthews will be taking the Pete’s stage on November 6th at 7:00 p.m. Come see our terrific slate of readers perform, and offer them your questions, comments, and reactions. It’s the heart of a march in the body of a reading series.
Ham By The Pound
10:00pm
Rally Reading Series: Spencer Ackerman, Tess Owen, and Ryan D. Matthews
11:00pm
November 7th (Friday)
Closed - Private Party - 5:30pm to 9pm
5:30pm
Pete's will be closed for a private party from 5:30pm to 9pm
November 8th (Saturday)
Loose Lips Mic
3:30pm
Loose Lips is a comedy open mic for the most iconic standup, characters and storytelling in NYC! Hosted by Fallon Boles & Vassileia Kazee. More info at @looselipscomedy on Instagram 👄💋💄
Carolyn Says
9:00pm
November 9th (Sunday)
Creep Mic
3:00pm
I’m a creep! I’m a weirdooooo… I DO belong here! A comedy open mic for anybody who’s ever been described as slightly offputting. Every Sunday at 3:00PM at Pete’s Candy Store. 3 minutes for standup, 4 for characters, and 5 for everybody if Mark Duplass shows up.
Open Mic
5:00pm
The Open Mic at Pete's has been running for almost 25 years and has provided a springboard for many a New York performer, now booking gigs around the city and beyond. Join host Bruce Martin in Pete's intimate music room for a lively night of performances. Sign up is at 3 pm and music starts at 5pm. One drink minimum to perform.
Adam Amram
10:30pm
November 10th (Monday)
Lorraine Leckie & Friends
6:00pm
Lorraine Leckie and Friends is a songwriters showcase and monthly residency at Petes Candy Store that comes around every second Monday of the month. Curated by Lorraine it is an ever changing landscape of talented folks and features 13 songwriters a month. This event is open to the public and Lorraine is always looking for new blood so come and join the party!
November 11th (Tuesday)
Silent Writing Happy Hour
5:00pm
Taking inspiration from the infinite canon of literature past and present, we present weekly short readings, inspiring 30-minute exercises, offering writers the space and direction to write silently and hone their skills. Writers may share their writing, as the spirit and time dictates. The last portion of the evening is devoted to self-directed work on whatever project you have that merits such.
November 12th (Wednesday)
Trivia
7:30pm
NYC's finest trivia beckons. Got the brains? Bring your friends and wrack your noodles with six rounds of clever, fun, HARD trivia. The most experienced trivia hosts in the city will test your mental mettle in areas of General Knowledge, Music, Top Tens, and Visual Identification. First Prize is a $75 bar tab, Second Prize is a $40 bar tab and Third Prize is a $15 bar tab. But the real prize (besides bragging rights for those who place, and a berth in the twice yearly finals) is the time honored social scene of the Quizz-Off crowd. Give it a try smart guy! And come early for a good table.
Funhouse Comedy
10:00pm
Comedians Gabe Pacheco and Sameer Naseem host this legendary weekly stand up comedy show featuring the best comedians from NYC and beyond!
November 13th (Thursday)
Small Batch Improv Jam
5:00pm
A Two-prov Three-prov comedy jam. Put your name in the hat to participate in two person and three person improvised scenes!
5:15 sign ups, 5:30 playtime. Free with a $5 minimum purchase at the bar.
Molly Zalman Comedy
7:00pm
Nick Berray
10:00pm
November 14th (Friday)
Numbskull
5:00pm
Welcome to Numbskull! An open mic for stand-up, characters, clown, and the like. Grab a drink at the bar and put your name in the bucket. Every Friday at Pete’s @ 5 PM.
Imaginary Elegies
7:00pm
The West Side Cowboys
9:00pm
November 15th (Saturday)
Loose Lips Mic
3:30pm
Loose Lips is a comedy open mic for the most iconic standup, characters and storytelling in NYC! Hosted by Fallon Boles & Vassileia Kazee. More info at @looselipscomedy on Instagram 👄💋💄
Open Window Maniac
10:00pm
Mert Spalty Band
11:00pm
November 16th (Sunday)
Creep Mic
3:00pm
I’m a creep! I’m a weirdooooo… I DO belong here! A comedy open mic for anybody who’s ever been described as slightly offputting. Every Sunday at 3:00PM at Pete’s Candy Store. 3 minutes for standup, 4 for characters, and 5 for everybody if Mark Duplass shows up.
Open Mic
5:00pm
The Open Mic at Pete's has been running for almost 25 years and has provided a springboard for many a New York performer, now booking gigs around the city and beyond. Join host Bruce Martin in Pete's intimate music room for a lively night of performances. Sign up is at 3 pm and music starts at 5pm. One drink minimum to perform.
Brian Bulger
8:30pm
November 17th (Monday)
Ecstatic Peephole Play Club
6:30pm
Ecstatic Peephole is a monthly play reading series hosted and curated by Emma Horwitz and Bailey Williams. Come hear brand new, undeveloped work from New York City's most exciting playwrights and actors. We embrace mind-bending, re-shaping, perspective-shifting, silly-making, and the physically impossible.
Céline Iris
10:30pm
November 18th (Tuesday)
Silent Writing Happy Hour
5:00pm
Taking inspiration from the infinite canon of literature past and present, we present weekly short readings, inspiring 30-minute exercises, offering writers the space and direction to write silently and hone their skills. Writers may share their writing, as the spirit and time dictates. The last portion of the evening is devoted to self-directed work on whatever project you have that merits such.
Astronomy on Tap
7:00pm
Join us for Astro on Tap NYC #164 – Trick or Treat or Telescope! Ground-based vs space-based and all the spookiness! Hosted by MC Annie Drunk Cannon and MC Chan-drink-sar Limit, our events are fun and informative so you can learn stuff and have fun while you drink. Each event features engaging talks by professional scientists, educators, and other astronomy-related enthusiasts, plenty of Q&A time, and trivia with prizes. It’s out of this world!
November 19th (Wednesday)
Trivia
7:30pm
NYC's finest trivia beckons. Got the brains? Bring your friends and wrack your noodles with six rounds of clever, fun, HARD trivia. The most experienced trivia hosts in the city will test your mental mettle in areas of General Knowledge, Music, Top Tens, and Visual Identification. First Prize is a $75 bar tab, Second Prize is a $40 bar tab and Third Prize is a $15 bar tab. But the real prize (besides bragging rights for those who place, and a berth in the twice yearly finals) is the time honored social scene of the Quizz-Off crowd. Give it a try smart guy! And come early for a good table.
Funhouse Comedy
10:00pm
Comedians Gabe Pacheco and Sameer Naseem host this legendary weekly stand up comedy show featuring the best comedians from NYC and beyond!
November 20th (Thursday)
Small Batch Improv Jam
5:00pm
A Two-prov Three-prov comedy jam. Put your name in the hat to participate in two person and three person improvised scenes!
5:15 sign ups, 5:30 playtime. Free with a $5 minimum purchase at the bar.
Pete's Reading Series
7:30pm
Brooklyn’s premier literary series for over 20 years, Pete’s Reading Series features heavyweight authors side-by-side with rising stars. Curated by Brian Gresko and Vanessa Chan. Join us (for FREE!) on the third Thursday of every month. Books provided by Black Spring Books.
Sweetooth Comedy
9:00pm
Laugh a little cry a little. Lucky audience members will leave with special cash prizes. Hosted by Desmond Deluxe & Ramy Shafi.
November 21st (Friday)
Numbskull
5:00pm
Welcome to Numbskull! An open mic for stand-up, characters, clown, and the like. Grab a drink at the bar and put your name in the bucket. Every Friday at Pete’s @ 5 PM.
Kweendom
7:00pm
Don't miss the show TimeOUT called "consistently dope" and Thrillist described as "extremely gay." Featuring an always fresh lineup of only LGBTQ performers, Kweendom is one of NYC's most beloved comedy showcases. Catch stand-up, storytelling, characters, music and more from up-and-coming artists, as well as faces from TV and streaming. Always free, with donations accepted for a designated LGBTQ-foused organization each show. Come for the laughs, stay for the fresh faces in your Grindr grid. (Bring Kweendom home with you in the new collection of essays, Welcome to Kweendom, available now!)
Drown Your Boots
9:00pm
Latest Face
11:00pm
November 22nd (Saturday)
Loose Lips Mic
3:30pm
Loose Lips is a comedy open mic for the most iconic standup, characters and storytelling in NYC! Hosted by Fallon Boles & Vassileia Kazee. More info at @looselipscomedy on Instagram 👄💋💄
Pete Love
7:00pm
Kurran Karbal
8:00pm
Magdala
9:00pm
Gallivant
11:00pm
November 23rd (Sunday)
Creep Mic
3:00pm
I’m a creep! I’m a weirdooooo… I DO belong here! A comedy open mic for anybody who’s ever been described as slightly offputting. Every Sunday at 3:00PM at Pete’s Candy Store. 3 minutes for standup, 4 for characters, and 5 for everybody if Mark Duplass shows up.
Open Mic
5:00pm
The Open Mic at Pete's has been running for almost 25 years and has provided a springboard for many a New York performer, now booking gigs around the city and beyond. Join host Bruce Martin in Pete's intimate music room for a lively night of performances. Sign up is at 3 pm and music starts at 5pm. One drink minimum to perform.
November 25th (Tuesday)
November 26th (Wednesday)
Trivia
7:30pm
NYC's finest trivia beckons. Got the brains? Bring your friends and wrack your noodles with six rounds of clever, fun, HARD trivia. The most experienced trivia hosts in the city will test your mental mettle in areas of General Knowledge, Music, Top Tens, and Visual Identification. First Prize is a $75 bar tab, Second Prize is a $40 bar tab and Third Prize is a $15 bar tab. But the real prize (besides bragging rights for those who place, and a berth in the twice yearly finals) is the time honored social scene of the Quizz-Off crowd. Give it a try smart guy! And come early for a good table.
Funhouse Comedy
10:00pm
Comedians Gabe Pacheco and Sameer Naseem host this legendary weekly stand up comedy show featuring the best comedians from NYC and beyond!
November 27th (Thursday)
Closed for Thanksgiving
5:00pm
Pete's will be closed for Thanksgiving. Enjoy the day off!
November 28th (Friday)
Numbskull
5:00pm
Welcome to Numbskull! An open mic for stand-up, characters, clown, and the like. Grab a drink at the bar and put your name in the bucket. Every Friday at Pete’s @ 5 PM.
100%
7:00pm
100% is a comedy show hosted by Adrian Frimpong and Dan Fox that invites some of NYC's hottest comedians to do a "tight five" — their best prepared material — and then a "loose five" — a set inspired by audience suggestions, written on the spot.
Happy hour til 7PM
Doors at 7:00PM
Show at 7:15PM
November 29th (Saturday)
Loose Lips Mic
3:30pm
Loose Lips is a comedy open mic for the most iconic standup, characters and storytelling in NYC! Hosted by Fallon Boles & Vassileia Kazee. More info at @looselipscomedy on Instagram 👄💋💄
Good Morning, Shephard
9:00pm
November 30th (Sunday)
Creep Mic
3:00pm
I’m a creep! I’m a weirdooooo… I DO belong here! A comedy open mic for anybody who’s ever been described as slightly offputting. Every Sunday at 3:00PM at Pete’s Candy Store. 3 minutes for standup, 4 for characters, and 5 for everybody if Mark Duplass shows up.
Open Mic
5:00pm
The Open Mic at Pete's has been running for almost 25 years and has provided a springboard for many a New York performer, now booking gigs around the city and beyond. Join host Bruce Martin in Pete's intimate music room for a lively night of performances. Sign up is at 3 pm and music starts at 5pm. One drink minimum to perform.
December 1st (Monday)
December 2nd (Tuesday)
December 5th (Friday)
Miko de Leon
9:00pm
December 6th (Saturday)
Cordoba
11:00pm
December 8th (Monday)
Tom Shad Quartet
8:30pm
December 9th (Tuesday)
December 12th (Friday)
Wolfsuit
10:00pm
Iceland
11:00pm
December 13th (Saturday)
Sasha Dobson
7:00pm
Captain Food Will Win The War
8:00pm
BARN SPELL
9:00pm
Palmoa Lopez
10:00pm
Jack Romano and The Romanaires
11:00pm
December 14th (Sunday)
SunSkip
8:30pm
Emilia Suárez
9:30pm
Robby Peoples
10:30pm
December 16th (Tuesday)
December 20th (Saturday)
Romi Peles
9:00pm
December 29th (Monday)
To Be Continued
6:00pm
To Be Continued is a semi-regular film series curated by Alex Baker. Admission is free. Grab a drink during happy hour and settle in for the feature presentation at 7pm.
Sasha Dobson
8:30pm
January 18th (Sunday)
Kite Shepherd
8:30pm
Food Court People
9:30pm
January 20th (Tuesday)
Charlie Uffelman
8:30pm
Cori Strell
9:30pm
January 24th (Saturday)
Riley McGill
9:00pm
Teddy McGraw
10:00pm
Gustafer
11:00pm
January 30th (Friday)
BRAINSTORM
7:00pm
BRAINSTORM is a reading series organized by alumni & students from the Queens College MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation. Come hear writers you know, meet writers you might like to know, and perhaps be introduced to your future favorite author.
January 31st (Saturday)
The Oxford Drive
7:00pm
March 31st (Tuesday)
Barbers
7:00pm
If a “barbershop” is the stage in the back of Pete’s Candy Store and if “getting your haircut” is code for going to see Liz Stewart and Sarah Parsons do improv comedy, then we’ll definitely see you on Tuesday, Sept 30th to explore the magic of twoprov and cool hairstyles.