Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre Keith Johnstone
Publisher: Methuen Drama

Depending on where you are coming from, it might be no more than that, or it might be a near-religious experience. For most people who have little or no exposure to improvisation, their chief reference is the popular television show, “Whose Line Is It, Anyway,” in which two or more actors make up a short comedic scene on the spot based on an audience suggestion. It's a book of improvisation techniques and exercises for theatre actors, and it's full of enlightening insights for screenwriters. Hollywood: Samuel French Trade, 1991. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1979. As an improvisation performer and teacher, Patti Stiles has worked in Canada, the USA, England, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, Norway, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, France, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Thailand and Australia for numerous It is the most freeing, challenging and delighting form of impro – if embraced for all it can offer. Patti Stiles is an actor, improviser, director, instructor and playwright who has been working professionally in theatre since 1983. Brian began improvising professionally at age 17 in the nightclubs of San Francisco's North Beach. Impro is ostensibly a book about improvisation and the theater. It has a great name – Box of Frogs. I'm currently having great fun reading Keith Johnstone's book Impro: Improvisation And The Theatre. The plan is for people to meet at St. Impro Theatre brings the show that the Los Angeles Times called "a stunning feat of performance and literary wizardry" to the Carrie Hamilton Stage at The Pasadena Playhouse. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre. After the Commedia died off, improv theatre faded into obscurity until it was separately and spontaneously re-invented in the 20th century by two people who have shaped the craft as it exists today — Keith Johnstone and Viola Spolin. It's exciting news to hear that Jon Trevor is starting up an improvisation group.