Sat. Jan 16th

The Improvised Shakespeare Company

Based on one audience suggestion (a title of a show that has never been written), The Improvised Shakespeare Company® creates a brand new, fully improvised Shakespearean masterpiece right before your eyes. Nothing has been planned out, rehearsed, or written. All of the dialogue is said for the first time, the characters are created as you watch, and if you're ever wondering where the story is going...so are they! You've never seen the Bard like this before!

SHOW HISTORY The Improvised Shakespeare Company® is one of the most critically-acclaimed improv troupes in the world. It was founded in Chicago in 2005 where its hit show, Improvised Shakespeare Chicago℠ still runs today. The ISC also performs regularly at The Largo in Los Angeles for audiences that the LA Times calls "Beatle maniacal." It has been featured at the Kennedy Center, 92nd St Y, Bonnaroo, San Francisco Sketchfest, Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival, Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal, and on Dropout TV’s Game Changer. It plays frequently at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts where The ISC has performed over 300 shows. It also makes appearances in New York where it "plays to packed theaters with an atmosphere more like a rock club than a repertory house" (The New York Times). ISC guest performers have included Jason Alexander, Bradley Whitford, Helen Hunt, and Sir Patrick Stewart who also presented the troupe at the Soho Theatre in London. It has been named Chicago's best improv group by both the Chicago Reader and the Chicago Examiner and has received numerous awards in LA (Best of LA-LA Weekly), New York (New York Nightlife Awards), Chicago (Chicago Improv Foundation) and more. It has been called "Staggeringly Brilliant" (TimeOut Chicago), “Elite Improv” (NY Times) "Indisputably Great" (Centerstage Chicago), "Mad Genius" (LA Times), “Wildly Entertaining” (Washington Post), Hilarious (LA Weekly, Seattle Times, Chicago Reader, TimeOut Chicago, Nashville Scene, Naples Daily News, CBC Manitoba, Winnipeg Free Press), and TimeOut New York says, "Don't Miss Them. Seriously."

"MAD GENIUS!”-LA Times

“ABSOLUTELY STUNNING”-DC Metro Theater Arts

“BAFFLINGLY IMPRESSIVE”-DC Metro Theater Arts

“Wildly Entertaining!” -The Washington Post

“One of the country’s elite improv companies”-New York Times

“I was dazzled.” Patrick Stewart, American Theatre Magazine

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