A few Friday nights ago, I was in my apartment, trying to convince myself it would be okay to blow off writing this article. I had endured a series of…
Posts tagged as “improv”
Pictured above: You and Me Against the World! performing in Generation LatinX/Photo: Daniel Moreno Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Olivia Sieck in response to Generation LatinX in a…
Pictured above: Tommy Spears and Adam Tatum in Highstreet and Mook’s Dresden Follies/Photo: Katie Ruppert Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Olivia Sieck in response to Highstreet and Mook…
Pictured above: Sarah Mobley, Stephanie Jones, Vickie Eisenstein, Ana Silva and Jessye Grace Mueller in Improvised Jane Austen/Photo: Emily Friedrick Editor’s Note: This is an expression by Olivia Sieck in…
When I asked to write about Improvised Dungeons & Dragons at Otherworld Theatre Company, I wasn’t too familiar with the roleplaying game growing up until I got to college and…
Pictured above: Joe Johnson, Katie Ruppert and Billy Ferguson in a February Improvised Dungeons & Dragons performance/Photo: Out on a Whim Comedy Facebook page Editor’s Note: This is a D&D…
Pictured above: Original cast members of The Second City outside their Old Town performance space/Photo: The Second City Editor’s Note: Scapi Magazine is launching Makers and Breakers, a new, monthly…
Pictured above: The Shithole Promotional Poster/Graphics: Loren Egeland Between 2013 and May 2018, underground comedy and variety show The Shithole produced over 430 shows, featuring hundreds of performers from all over…
Pictured above: The teen ensemble cast of Ladies in Waiting. (left to right) Grace Beyerl, Kat Boyle, Michaela Jordan, Hannah Goodman/Photo: Sapier Weinglass Tony Lawry, founder of Theatre Above the Law…
Pictured above: Jerwin Gabriel Santiago (left) and Christian Borkey (right) being interviewed/Photo: Amy Do Many think of comedy as a coping mechanism. That somehow, it is a way to deflect from…
Pictured above: Trent Dozier and John Schnorrenberg in “The Arts”/Photo: Knowlton Haaland Photography After their performance, I sat down with Dozier and Schnorrenberg to discuss their weekly variety show “The…
The weekend before the holidays this year, December 15th, 16th, and 17th saw a run of performers from some familiar faces for Operagoing Chicago folks, but under a different name.…