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Aspen, CO

Aspen Laugh Festival 2027

10–14 March 2027

Room: Wheeler Opera House.

The Aspen Laugh Festival is the Wheeler Opera House's own comedy festival, five days each March in the 500-seat opera house at 320 East Hyman Avenue in downtown Aspen, Colorado. The Wheeler started it in 2011 as the Aspen Laff Festival and renamed it in 2017. The 2027 festival, from 10 to 14 March, has two shows a day, with Sebastian Maniscalco, Sarah Silverman and Andrew Schulz heading the stand-up and a Second City sketch and improv show for families.

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Tickets ↗You book on aspenshowtix.com. The Guide sells no tickets.

The 2027 festival

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The Aspen Laugh Festival 2027 runs 5 days, from Wednesday 10 March 2027 to Sunday 14 March 2027, in Aspen, CO. On its stages: stand-up. Tickets, times and the full programme are on the festival's own site. Comedy festivals in 2027, month by month.

Its story

Comedy at the Wheeler goes back to its opening night on 23 April 1889. From 1995 to 2007 the opera house was the centre of HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, and from 2008 to 2010 of the Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival, before the Wheeler started a festival of its own in 2011. Jim Gaffigan and Trevor Noah have headlined it, and Jerry Seinfeld in 2025. In 2026 it added a Late Night Lounge, hosted by Gabby Bryan in Bad Harriet at Hotel Jerome.

Where the shows are

Tickets

Tickets for all ten shows are sold by Aspen Show Tix, the Wheeler Opera House's own box office, online or at 320 E Hyman Ave, open Monday to Saturday from 12pm to 5pm (970-920-5770). Only its tickets are guaranteed for entry, and sales are final, with no refunds or exchanges unless a show is postponed or cancelled. Rush tickets for students aged 13 to 17, two each, go on sale when doors open for Wheeler Presents shows.

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For comedians: submissions

Not announced No call for acts for the 2027 festival on the festival's own site yet.

As of
31 October 2026

Deadlines and fees change: the festival's own page has the last word. Every festival open for submissions

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Questions

When is the Aspen Laugh Festival 2027?

10–14 March 2027 in Aspen, CO.

Where does the Aspen Laugh Festival happen?

Wheeler Opera House, 320 East Hyman Avenue, Aspen, CO.

Where do I book for the Aspen Laugh Festival?

Through aspenshowtix.com, where the festival's own site, wheeleroperahouse.com, sends its ticket buyers. The festival's site also has the latest programme and any changes.

Who runs the Aspen Laugh Festival?

Wheeler Opera House.

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