Archive for Improv Articles
Scary-Ass Improv!
The Brody Theater
October 16th & 17th at 8:00 PM - Scary-Ass Improv
Laugh, scream, and run for your lives! Two nights of improvised stories inspired by audience members’ recollections of frightening characters from their past, either imagined or real, living or dead.
Super Project Lab performs with very sexy and funny special-guest improvisers: The Liberators!
The Brody Theater
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Keith Johnstone’s “Trance Masks” DVD
Improv Encyclopedia
Improv Encyclopedia is the largest collection of resources for improvisational theater on the web.
The site is organized into three main sections:
An encyclopedia of Improv Games, listing over 500 improv, drama and theater games & exercises, organized into 30-plus Categories
A list of Improv References
A comprehensive Improv Glossary
If you want [...]
Physicists Find Answers Thru Improv
Wall Street Journal, September 4, 2008
by Alexandra Alter
Two Protons Walk Into a Black Hole, And Other Jokes Physicists Tell
Scientists Considering Weighty Matters In Switzerland Need a Little Comic Relief
MEYRIN, Switzerland — One recent Saturday morning, physicists here shot the first beam of subatomic matter into the most powerful particle accelerator ever built. The machine — [...]
NPR: Del Close and Roots of Second City
Weekend Edition Saturday, June 4, 2005 · Scott Simon talks with author Jeff Griggs about his book Guru: My Days with Del Close. Learn more about Close, a forefather of improvisational comedy, the Second City club that gave rise to John Belushi, Bill Murray and many other comic talents, and Chicago’s surrounding Old Town neighborhood.
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LA Times: “Debateprov”
By Robert Lloyd, Times Television Critic
September 27, 2008
“There were no surprises in what the candidates had to say; the point was to see how they “performed.” Performance is what our culture demands: “John McCain and Barack Obama: Together Again,” an evening of improv with your host Jim Lehrer. One candidate old, one young (well, middle-aged); [...]
“Impro Theatre” LA - Video
Our friend, Brian Lohman of Impro Theatre in Los Angeles, shared this great video of Impro Theatre highlights with us. Impro Theatre features three of my all-time favorite improvisors: Dan O’Connor, Brian Lohman, and Stephen Kearin. Check ‘em out next time you’re in LA.
Psychology of Improvisational Theater
Taken from Wikipedia.
In the field of the Psychology of Consciousness, Eberhard Scheiffele explored the altered state of consciousness experienced by actors and improvisers in his scholarly paper: Acting: an altered state of consciousness. According to G. WIlliam Farthing in “The Psychology of Consciousness”(see comparative study), actors (in performance, drama classes, or in psychodrama) routinely enter [...]
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