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- Blogs, Bleader Oct 5, 2018
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Indivisible Chicago’s Blue Wave Rave uses improv to mobilize political action
"Improv actors are like the best canvassers ever!"
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Jun 22, 2018
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The two improv teams in Oh Hell Yeah demonstrate that timing is everything
In less time, Wet Bus covers more ground than Alterboyz.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature May 9, 2018
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In CDC in 4-D, the Comedy Dance Collective indulges its oral fixation
It’s a show better consumed in a state of inebriation.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 8, 2018
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Before Peele met Key or wanted to Get Out, he was onstage in Chicago
And his show, Two White Guys, which he performed with Rebecca Drysdale at ImprovOlympic, was pretty good.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 22, 2018
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Academy Awards Nominations Panel at Siskel Film Center, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
Daisies hosts a fermentation dinner, Eve L. Ewing at Read/Write Library, and more goings-on January 22-25
- Arts & Culture, Worst of Chicago Dec 20, 2017
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Why improv is neither funny nor entertaining, according to a stand-up comedian
The form’s greatest sin is encouraging the mediocre.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 12, 2017
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Choir Boy, Foxfinder, and 12 more stage shows to see now
A play by Moonlight author Tarell Alvin McCraney and a paranoiac drama by British playwright Dawn Hall are among this week's best bets.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 25, 2017
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The premiere of The Opposition With Jordan Klepper, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
Wicker Park Bucktown Fall Dinner Crawl, the Chicago Architecture Biennial's "Sight Six," and more happenings from September 25-28
- Arts & Culture, Small Screen Sep 21, 2017
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How Chicago comedy prepared Jordan Klepper for Comedy Central
The former Chicago improviser and Daily Show correspondent adds “yes, and” to “no, but” for his new Comedy Central show The Opposition With Jordan Klepper.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 15, 2017
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Expo Chicago at Navy Pier, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend
Frank Lloyd Wright building tours and more happenings September 15-17
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 1, 2017
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Best Labor Day weekend things to do in Chicago
Taste of Polonia, Great American Lobster Fest, and more holiday weekend happenings from September 1-4
- Music, In Rotation Jul 19, 2017
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Jenna Lyle of Parlour Tapes on a cowboy prophet with a didgeridoo
Plus: Techno artist Eric Fernandez on a tropical mix from Korean DJ Odd J, the Reader’s Peter Margasak on wild rearrangements of Moravian folk, and more
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature May 10, 2017
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We're Gonna Die, the Comedy Dance Collective, and 11 more new stage shows
A rock concert/play by Young Jean Lee and an iO revue inspired by dance-class trauma are among this week's best bets.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 12, 2016
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Adam Green's Aladdin, the Reader's Cocktail Challenge, and more things to do in Chicago this week
The Fifth Star Awards, "Every Building in Baghdad," and more happenings from September 12-15.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature May 26, 2016
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Jackalope's Prowess, Aguijón's Adverses, and seven more new stage shows
Ike Holter does it again—and so does Rey Andújar.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature May 4, 2016
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Mike Mother, Best of Enemies, The 180 Degree Rule, and eight more stage shows to see now
A Neo-Futurist performance piece, a drama about an almost unimaginable alliance, and a satire of Hollywood's golden age are among the hits this week.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Mar 17, 2016
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Behold! The off-the-wall, always-growing world of Hello From the Magic Tavern
Gather around and read the tale of how three improv comedians created the most insane fake-fantasy podcast to hit the airwaves.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 21, 2016
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What to see at Shakespeare 400 Chicago
We pare the year-long catalog of events down just a little bit.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 10, 2015
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Cook County Social Club returns to iO for the improv group's tenth anniversary
The former iO standby troupe reunites in the city where it began.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 2, 2015
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The new school of Chicago comedy
The city's most cutting-edge comedy isn't on the stages of venerated clubs such as Second City and iO. It's happening in attics, garages, and other makeshift performance spaces. Chief among them: the Shithole.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Sep 3, 2015
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How Chicago shaped Stephen Colbert
The Late Show host long ago left the city where he found his comedic voice. But Chicago has never left him.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jun 12, 2015
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Judd Apatow answers questions about asking questions
The uber director/producer and reborn stand-up talks about his three decades of interviews with comedians, compiled in the new book Sick in the Head.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 23, 2015
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Before their sitcom premieres, see the Katydids this weekend at Improv Fest
TV Land is about to launch the Chicago-bred improv troupe's show Teachers.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 10, 2015
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I survived a 12-hour comedy marathon at iO (and all I got was this stupid blog post)
The members of the five-person troupe kept their energy high from noon till midnight.
- Arts & Culture, Comedy Critic's Choice Feb 3, 2015
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Can sketch group Hijinks survive a 12-hour comedy marathon at iO?
The experimental troupe settles into its new home with an endurance test.
