Actors use audience suggestions as inspiration to build scenes, characters, and dialogues on the spot. It's an exciting ...

That’s the magic of the Viola Spolin technique. Spolin’s game-oriented approach to stagecraft has revolutionized how actors and improv comedians think about the nature of performance.

Every new scene in a D+ Improv show begins with a “3, 2, 1, clap.” Troupe members will then immediately jump into characters they invented, acting out a scene with the object or place given by random ...