A young Black woman in a white knit top and blue jeans sits cross-legged on stage. To the right of her in the photo we see a young Black man in a blue hoodie and sweat pants seated and looking toward her. The stage is rough wooden planks, like a boardwalk. Behind them we see a kind of pink plastic sheeting material.

When The Revival theater opened its doors in 2015 at the corner of 55th Street and University Avenue, its intent was to pay homage to improv’s earliest roots. Paul Sills formed the Compass Players in that exact spot, bringing his knowledge of his mother Viola Spolin’s theater games (outlined in her seminal work Improvisation for […]

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