“It's a night of Elizabethan tomfoolery that's not to be missed.” “In short, outstanding.”
TimeOut Chicago
“staggeringly brilliant”
TimeOut Chicago
Smart, sophisticated, downright hilarious.
TimeOut Chicago
“mind-blowing”
“It was one of the funniest, most amazing things I’ve ever seen.”
The Charleston City Paper Online
“consistently hilarious”
The Chicago Reader
Critic’s Choice!
“Their experience doing Shakespeare flowers in the language: they relish iambic dialogue, execute perfectly timed asides, occasionally utter rhyming couplets, and drop parodic phrases, and well-placed anachronisms. Even the ending echoed the real plays: story lines resolved tidily—and uproariously.”
The Chicago Reader
“Anyone who still needs convincing that improv can produce an independent piece of capital-A Art would do well to see The Improvised Shakespeare Company.”
-The Onion
“neither laughter nor amazement is short in supply”
-The Onion
Critic’s Pick!
Chicago Public Radio
“…indisputably great improv, fueled by smart plot development, stage chemistry and recognizable characters.”
Centerstage Chicago
“Don’t Miss Them. Seriously.”
-TimeOut New York
“One of Chicago’s most lauded pieces of live comedy.”
-TimeOut New York
“…the show channels Monty Python as often as the Bard, and frequently with sly-witted results.”
-The Chicago Tribune
“Quite possibly the most handsome, winning, smartest, wittiest, silly, talented, ambitious, intelligent troupe in Chicago”
-The Chicago Examiner
“on-the-spot soliloquies and perfect pentameter”
-The New York Times
“Any doubts about the amazingly talented Improvised Shakespeare Company have been dispelled by tears of laughter.”
-The Hour (Montreal)