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  2. Improvisational theatre - Wikipedia

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    Improvisational theatre, often called improvisation or improv, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted, created spontaneously by the performers.

  3. Compass Players - Wikipedia

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    The Compass Players, founded by David Shepherd and Paul Sills, was the first Improvisational Theatre in America. [2] It began July 8, 1955 as a storefront theater at 1152 E. 55th near the University of Chicago campus.

  4. Improvisation - Wikipedia

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    Improvisation, often shortened to improv, is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found. [1] The origin of the word itself is in the Latin "improvisus", which literally means unforeseen.

  5. Musical improvisation - Wikipedia

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    Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians. [1]

  6. Celebrities You Didn't Know Started in Improv Comedy - AOL

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  7. The Second City - Wikipedia

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    The Training Centers have grown substantially since the Second City Conservatory was established in the mid-1980s under the tutelage of longtime Chicago improv instructors and mentors Martin de Maat and Sheldon Patinkin. The Chicago Training Center has over 5,000 students in several disciplines, including improvisation and comedy writing.

  8. Patti Harrison Is Ready to Take Control

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    The first time I started doing comedy was doing improv at Ohio University. When it started to go well, that was the first time I ever really thought I would professionally maybe have a shot at ...

  9. Why playing a 70-year-old bat mitzvah student was so freeing ...

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    Carol Kane has a chance to make history. Oscar history, anyway. If she earns a nomination for her role as 70-year-old bat mitzvah student Carla Kessler in the odd-couple comedy “Between the ...