Articles

No holds Bard: Improvised Shakespeare Company frees its group mind with highbrow ideology.

from TimeOut Chicago
Issue 117: May 24, 2007 - May 30, 2007
By Steve Heisler

An hour into a group analysis of Plato’s Republic, led by Blaine Swen, they’re hung up on the definition of beauty. If we think someone’s beautiful, but our friend doesn’t, is that person truly beautiful?, they wonder. More...

Chicago's Improvised Shakespeare Company hones its Piccolo Fringe act to a fare thee well

from COMEDY Elizabethantown
May 31, 2006
by Patrick Sharbaugh

William Shakespeare was best loved, not by the highbrow cultural elitists of his time, but by the poor slobs who comprised the bulk of his audience. The groundlings, as they were known, occupied the equivalent of today's nosebleed section... More...