An improvised musical in the style of Stephen Sondheim.

Directed by Dan O’Connor and Michele Spears

About the Show

Impro Theatre embraces the style of one of Broadway’s most heralded artists by creating a completely improvised musical in the style of and inspired by Stephen Sondheim. Using only audience suggestions the cast invents a brand new, never before seen musical. Every show is completely different the only thing that stays the same is the thrill and sheer joy of seeing an entire musical created before your eyes.

Reviews for Sondheim UnScripted

“An outstanding cast that clearly understands the form they are spoofing and have the vocal power to sustain it.” — LA Weekly

“…what’s fresh about “UnScripted” is the way it evokes the playwright’s distinctive sensibility without lapsing into easy satire.” — LA Times

An improvised play in the style of film noir.
Directed by: Brian Lohmann

About the Show

For those who love the hard-boiled fiction of Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain and the gritty film noirs their stories inspired, a new batch of “theatre noirs” will be unveiled this Spring. In this world-premiere format, twenty-seven never-before-seen plays will pay tribute to Noir’s tough-taking private eyes and femme fatales. From the brutal sneer of Mickey Spillane’s Kiss Me Deadly to the cynical chivalry of Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity, Noir’s poetry and violence, desire and destiny all find new life through the unpredictable staging, improvisational wit and verbal dexterity that infuse the stories of Impro Theatre. Rogue cop, doomed lover, corrupt robber baron, sadistic killer, B Girl or chanteuse — no actor knows what role he, or she, may be asked to play when stepping out to improvise.

Reviews

“GO. Hilarious…You will see them at their comic best.” —Tom Provenzano, LA Weekly

“The audience loved every minute of it…a thoroughly entertaining event.” —LA Splash.com

“For those that enjoy their theater full of booze with a death by gunfire thrown in for good measure, L.A. NOIR UNSCRIPTED will fit the bill…one may become enchanted.” — Accessibly Live Off-Line

“BRILLIANT…THEIR VERY BEST UNSCRIPTED YET…a must-see. These masters of the adlib… simply couldn’t be better at their craft. Even the uninitiated will have one heck of a good time falling under the Impro Theatre spell.” – StageScene LA

“The real fun lies in anticipating where this patchwork story is going to go next, and in watching the actors doing whatever it takes to keep the narrative afloat.” — L.A. Weekly