In this episode Alyssa tells Hugh Yemen about Second City and its lasting impact on improv.

SHOW NOTES: 

Chicago Tribune: More improvised exits at Second City in management shake-up

Playbill: Hate Speech in the Audience Causes Chicago Cast Member to Call It Quits

League of Chicago Theatres

U of News: Improv Explained

Chicago Tribune: When Abbie Hoffman took the Second City stage during Chicago Seven trial

Chicago Tribune: Discontent all around at Second City in ‘The Winner … of Our Discontent’

Chicago Tribune: Chicago’s iO Theater is hit by accusations of racism and a petition demanding change

NYT: Viola Spolin, 88, a Teacher Who Inspired Improv Theater

The Difference between Spolin Games and Popular Improv

HuffPost: Why Ayn Rand Does Not Matter (and Viola Spolin Does)

NPR Illinois: From Hull House to Second City: How Chicago immigrants helped change theater

Kitty Wants a Corner

Spolin Games Online

Chicago Tribune Archive

The Second City: Backstage at the World's Greatest Comedy Theater

A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago

Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art

National Women's History Museum: Jane Adams

WTTW: Inventing Improv

Viola Spolin Quotes About Improvisation

Into the Unknown with Viola Spolin

A Profile of Viola Spolin

Viola Spolin Bio

BACKSTAGE: What Is the Viola Spolin Method?

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