Santa Barbara Improv Workshop

This is a goofy story with an improv twist. Apparently, a discarded prop from a Second City improv show was mistaken for a bomb in Chicago.

Okay, Improv is not about the jokes. We work to avoid “going for the joke” in a scene. The humor comes from the situation, interaction, and relationship. We all get that, right?
Good, because now I want to talk about an interesting article that won’t really help your improv skills, but instead discusses jokes … communist [...]

I just read an interesting article by Jeff Miller titled Emotional Truth in Improvisation. He discusses the problem I see in a lot of improv scenes (mine very much included) where the player is so focused on an interesting response, that he or she loses any real (or believable) emotional reaction to an offer. He [...]

I came across the Improv Everywhere website which organizes what I would call “street improv” in NYC. In their own words, “Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places”.
I have a real fondness for this form of guerrilla theater, and envy/admiration for what they’ve already accomplished. I [...]

I had a chance to read Chris Compton’s article Every Part of the Buffalo from the playimprov.com newsletter. It’s a great discussion of not dumbing down to the audience, not getting caught up in your head, and using what you know in a piece. I particularly liked his suggestion of naming characters using the [...]