Second City Toronto's Education Company has been bringing the power of improv and comedy to students everywhere. Check out this article in Intelligencer on a recent visit to Bayside Secondary Schoo...
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Friday, 26 April 2013
The Second City has been giving walking tours of Chicago's historic Old Town neighborhood for five years. When Margaret Hicks returned to Chicago from New York in 2001, she told herself "I will never take Chicago for granted again." She started as a docent for the Chicago Architecture Foundation and now uses her improv skills to give tours with her company Chicago Elevated. We talked to Margaret about comedy in Chicago, her tour and her connection with The Second City. Tell us about the process of writing your book Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious...
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
The Second City is proud to announce the return of "The Second City's Neighborhood Tour." This humorous and historic walking tour of Chicago's beautiful Old Town neighborhood will begin on Sunday, May 26th, 2013 at 10:30am and will continue every Sunday and Wednesday through Wednesday, October 30th, 2013.Written by Margaret Hicks, an experienced Chicago tour guide and author of Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious History, "The Second City's Neighborhood Tour" both entertains and informs while highlighting the architecture, history and development...
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Andrew Thorp interviews Meg on her last day of a 2+ year internship before she goes off to get her Masters. Listen in for some of Meg's weirdest and most fun moments while interning and taking classes at The Second City Training Center. Stay tuned to see her 2-person show with fellow intern Katie Hughes!Listen to the Podca...
Congratulations to this year's Outer Critics Circle Nominations! Nominees include Second City alumni Andrea Martin for Featured Actress in a Musical in "Pippin" and Richard Kind for Featured Actor in a Play in "The Big Knife." Also, "Grace," directed by alum Dexter Bullard, has been nominated for Best Play. The winners will be announced May 13, and the annual awards ceremony will be held on May 23. Click here for more informati...
Friday, 19 April 2013
Rachael Mason started improvising the second she could talk. She's been doing it for so long that it almost seems natural to her. She recently started as the The Second City Training Center's Head of Advanced Improvisation and loves teaching longer, more grounded improv. We talked with Rachael about Improv All-Stars, teaching and the training center.When did you first start improvising? Officially, In college in 1993. I was part of the Skidmore...
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Thursday, 11 April 2013
Sarah Shook has been all over The Second City this past year, performing as an understudy in Touring Company and holiday shows, and at UP Comedy Club in Improv Extravaganza Explosion and Four Girls (And A Guy). She's now a full-fledged member of the Touring Company, and is slated for a summer show at UP. We talked with Sarah about understudying, her love for pies and her biggest female influences. What have you worked on with Second City, and what’s...
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
The Second City Training Center will offer three levels of Viewpoints during upcoming Summer Immersion sessions. Used in rehearsal processes at Steppenwolf and The Gift Theatre, The Viewpoints are a physical approach towards listening and responsiveness in the moment and a method for creating original works of theatre. Each session is taught by Michael Patrick Thornton (TV's Private Practice) and Norm Holly (Conservatory Program Head), available from 10am-5pm; $550 each session.• Viewpoints 1--This class is an introduction to the Viewpoints, a...
The Second City and The Onion, two of America's finest comedic institutions, have partnered to present a completely new writing program at The Second City Training Center's Chicago campus (1608 N. Wells, 4th Floor of Piper's Alley).The first course offering, "Basic Writing with The Onion," a one-of-a-kind writing course taught by founding editor of The Onion, Scott Dikkers, which outlines The Onion's unique system of generating comedy ideas and stories, sold out in 30 minutes."The assets required of writers at The Second City and The Onion are...
Monday, 8 April 2013
The new show at The Second City's Mainstage Theater, "Let Them Eat Chaos" opened to rave reviews from the critics and earned a prestigious Jeff Recommendation.Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune gives "Let Them Eat Chaos" three stars (out of four) and says, "...very funny...This cast is excellent." Hedy Weiss of the Chicago Sun Times Recommends this production and states, "stylistic experimentation...infused with music and projections and literary conceits."The designation of "Jeff Recommended" is given to a production when, after the opening...
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Celebrating their 15th anniversary, this year's Festival is their largest yet with more than 150 teams in over 90 shows on 20 different stages. The Second City is excited to host 3 great shows from the Chicago Improv Festival starting this week.Tuesday, April 2, 8pmHeadliners: Lucas Neff & Craig CackowskiOpening Act - Virgin DaiquiriSecond City e.t.c stageTickets: $20GET TICKETSWednesday, April 3, 8pmHeadliners: Scott Adsit & Jet EvelethOpening Act - Cook County Social ClubSecond City e.t.c. stageTickets: $20GET TICKETSSunday, April 7,...
One of the perks of being on The Second City Touring Company is travelling all over the country. Chelsea Devantez hates travelling. She says she gets severe panic attacks on flights. But somehow she makes it work. Because she loves being on the road with Second City. She tours for the satisfaction of those two hours spent on stage. And of course, her castmates. "Every single person on my company is just the best. They are all such good people, who...
Monday, 1 April 2013
"Why is this study so important?" this is a question we are asked often at the Training Centre. Whether or not you come to us because you want to be an actor or because you just want to improve your social skills, the importance of improv comes from the philosophy of "Yes and". Everyone fits in here and offers of all kinds are meant to be accepted. It is a happy place where everyone can agree and learn to accept each others offers. As former Second City Chicago Artistic Director Martin De Maat says "Greet everything with 'yes,and...'" "Make statements...
The Second City Training Center is Calling Stand-up Comics for April 19th Showcase in Donny's Skybox
Attention all stand-up comics who have ever taken a class (ANY class in ANY program) at The Second City Training Center:The Second City Training Center is accepting applications to perform at The SCTC Rapid-Fire Stand-Up Showcase.This one-time event will take place on Friday, April 19th, 2013, at 11pm in the Skybox Theatre. It'll be a short show -- no more than 50 minutes. Tickets will be free.We are seeking applicants who would like to perform a short set at the show. Set length will likely be 2.5 minutes. (We will also have two headliners --...
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