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  • Zen and the Art of Improvising Kurosawa

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    kbadr
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    When preparing to direct Kenjutsu: The Art of the Sword, the first thing Shannon McCormick and I did was discuss what makes the samurai genre unique or distinct. What would we need the cast to do to make an audience member feel like they are watching the kind of story that Akira Kurosawa might have…

  • Improv Classes Will Change Your Life

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    At the risk of sounding grandiose, I’m here to tell you that taking an improv class will change your life for the better, give you a positive philosophy for navigating the world and quite possibly get you laid. These are undeniable FACTS. Over the last decade as an instructor and education director for the Hideout…

  • Inside Fakespeare

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    Roy Janik
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    Why Shakespeare? The Hideout’s big show this summer is Fakespeare. We’re doing eight performances of improvised Shakespeare in August and we’re building up to it with three weekends of scripted Shakespeare in July – the first scripted theatre that the Hideout has ever produced.* (GET YOUR TICKETS) And we’re not just doing one play but two,…

  • Announcing the 43 Hour Improv Marathon Schedule

    Announcing the 43 Hour Improv Marathon Schedule

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    Roy Janik
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    Announcing the 43 shows and 8 core performers that will be in the Hideout’s 43 Hour Improv Marathon. Friday, June 1st at 5pm – Sunday, June 3rd at noon.

  • Improv Playhouse is Coming for a Visit

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    andy
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    This weekend’s guest troupe and workshop instructors Improv Playhouse are the closest thing to family that the Hideout Theatre has. Regina Saisi is a founding member of BATS Improv in San Francisco and has been teaching, improvising and directing shows with them since 1986, a full decade before Hideout founder and original artistic director Sean…

  • Zen and Improv: Fingers Pointing at the Moon

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    andy
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    [Thoughts from Ryan Hill, zen practitioner and current Level Two student] “All instruction is but a finger pointing to the moon; and those whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer will never see beyond. Even let him catch sight of the moon, and still he cannot see its beauty.” — Zen Saying Earlier this year…

  • Nude Rangers…ASSEMBLE!

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    Roy Janik
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    Thoughts from a Live Nude Improv cast member about the unique powers and gifts of each member of the ensemble, and how their talents combine to create a strong and diverse group.

  • Student Testimonials

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    andy
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    We’ve been teaching classes at the Hideout since 1999, but in the fall of 2008 we started sending surveys to each graduating Level One class.  On the survey (which included several questions engineered to help us optimize the Hideout’s student experience) we invited them to give us a brief quote or testimonial.  These are the…

  • One Student’s Experience

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    University of Texas RTF student Kayla Lane Freeman put this short video together about Hideout student Ariel Dang-Tran and her experience with classes at the Hideout. “A typical day at improv, we’ll come in and do some warm-up exercises — make random noise and start getting comfortable again with everybody else and the notion of…

  • Summer Camp!

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    Jessica
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    The Flying Theater Machine’s first summer camp is going extremely well.  It is exciting to see the kids playing and learning on stage.  Kristin Henn is their teacher and she is amazing with the kids.  They like the basic improv games, but they also really enjoy the organic morphing.  My favorite created sentence so far:…