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Posts Filed Under: Improv

A Play on Few Words

The National Theatre of the World takes two pages of a script and improvises them into an entire play.

By Kevin Scott

Photo by May Truong

Pro Wrestler Bret Hart Does Improv

Bret "The Hitman" Hart judged a Catch-23 improv show at Comedy Bar.

By Kevin Scott • Photos by Corbin Smith

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Urban Planner: February 3, 2012

In today's UP: two new exhibitions, Transmission Lines and People People, open at the Cooper Cole Gallery; COBA's new work Les Rythmes de la Forêt opens at the Fleck Dance Theatre; and improv show About an Hour returns to Toronto.

By Steve Fisher

In Through Waves, by Anders Oinonen, one of the painting on display at tonight's pair of openings at Cooper Cole Gallery.

WDWMKR’s Wake: No Sombreness Here

All-female improv team WDWMKR retired their troupe last week with an Irish wake-style celebration.

By Steve Fisher • Photos by Corbin Smith

All female improv troupe WDWMKR play their last set at their "living wake" last week.

Urban Planner: November 21, 2011

In today's Urban Planner: a Tweetgasm, Movember style; the last Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids; and improvisers present both the history of Toronto and the 36 dramatic situations that (supposedly) inspire all theatre.

By Steve Fisher

Improvisers Julie Dumais (at left) and Sarah Hillier will explore thirty-six possible dramatic plots with members of Uncalled For and more tonight. Photo by Christa Gary.

James Gangl’s Sex, Religion, and Other Hang-Ups Yields Rich, Boozy Comedy

The actor/writer on his hit one-man show, how he's gambling on a full mainstage run, and how the show incorporates his own personal humiliations—including his worst poetry.

By Steve Fisher • Photos by Corbin Smith

James Gangl onstage during the Fringe run of Sex, Religion, and Other Hang-Ups.

Urban Planner: September 2, 2011

In today's Urban Planner: Dead Saints at the Zero Film Festival; Hop Fu headline the launch of Infinite Kung Fu; you could headline Hip Hop Karaoke; and improvisers and storytellers share the bill at True Stories, Made Up Plays.

By Steve Fisher

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Local Ladies Who Make Us Laugh

By Steve Fisher • Photos by Corbin Smith

Fishing for Life’s Answers with BASSPROV

By Steve Fisher

Bad Dog Theatre’s Best at its Old Tricks

By Carly Maga

Urban Planner: February 17, 2011

By Rebecca Vandevelde

Explosively Funny

By Amanda Factor

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Good Friday (and Saturday) Improv

By Chris Tindal

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SCTV Is On The Stage

By Val Dodge

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We Can Dance If We Want To

By David Topping

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Freezing Can Be Fun!

By Kasandra Bracken

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A Brief History of Pants

By Kevin Bracken

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Don’t You Hate Pants?

By Mathew Katz

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Pre-San Francisco Treat

By Rhonda Riche

Tall Poppy Interview: David Shore, writer, comedian and creator of Monkey Toast

By Alison