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...Compass Players. Sills and Sahlins' professional relationship began while producing shows at the Playwrights Theater Club, and Alk had worked with Sills at Gate of Horn, a folk-music club in Chicago. When the three came together to build Second City, they stepped into an uncharted territory of comedy: improv did not exist outside of Sills and Spolin's projects. Comedy shows of that era were mostly rehearsed stand...
...show didn't mean the end of Second City's empire. The next year, it opened its training center at Second City in Chicago, where its principles of improv technique were formalized and taught. (While all actors are chosen only after a rigorous audition, most of the troupe's younger stars are products of the training center; Steve Carell, Rachel Dratch, Chris Farley and Fey are all former students.) But not all attempts at expansion worked out. Second cities in Pasadena and Santa Monica, Calif., and Edmonton, Alberta, soon shuttered, while theaters in Las Vegas and Detroit meandered along...
...Halloween Improv Show...
...Another improv show. Go, and maybe you’ll scream with more laughter...
...Another improv show. Go, and maybe you’ll scream with more laughter...