Improv was doomed with a semantics crisis from the start. When long-form improvisation began to flourish as its own art form under comedy guru Del Close in Chicago in the 1980s, “improv” referred to ...

The 50th anniversary of the invention of improv took place Tuesday night at the University of Chicago. No lesser personage than the official university archivist was on hand to say so. “If there was ...

Beware, fellow citizens, for there is a sinister force that lurks just underneath the surface of our quotidian lives. It seeks to upend your expectations of normalcy and turn our society into a world ...

Improv — good improv — is just like an incredible first date: The energy is palpable, rising nerves matched only by boiling excitement as everything clicks and falls into place. Improv is the reason ...

While many theatergoers have yet to discover improv or improvisational theater beyond the “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” description, Gabe Mercado’s Silly People’s Improv Theater (SPIT) has been around ...