Want to be a better doctor? Medical improv transforms goofy theater games into serious skills like empathy, teamwork, and super-quick thinking.| AAMC
A scene created in 1960 that deals with the question of what might happen if that bastion of academia University of Chicago, got a football program. "Football…| Vimeo
Janet Coleman brilliantly recreates the time, the place, the personalities, and the neurotic magic whereby the Compass made theater history in America. The Compass began in a storefront theater near the University of Chicago campus in the summer of 1955 and lasted only a few years before its players—including David Shepherd, Paul Sills, Elaine May, Mike Nichols, Barbara Harris, and Shelley Berman—moved on. Out of this group was born a new form: improvisational theater and a radically new ...| University of Chicago Press
The thoroughly revised third edition of the bible of improvisational theater.Viola Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the very nature and practice o...| Northwestern University Press
Patrons, staff, and friends of the fabled neighborhood bar tell its story.| The University of Chicago Magazine
What a behavioral scientist learned from 10 weeks of comedy classes.| Harvard Business Review
Modern improv comedy began at the University of Chicago in the 1950s.| University of Chicago News