Improv

Stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and director Ilana Glazer is an absolute queenpin of comedy. Known for her in-your-face humor that holds nothing back, audiences can never be certain what the “Broad City” star is going to say next. Glazer’s career began in the mid 2000’s with some dabbling in New York City’s local improv and stand-up scene. However, things really took off for her in 2009, after Glazer and her partner-in-comedy Abbi Jacobson began self-producing the “Broad City” web series. The autobiographical web series…

The late great improviser/composer Kenny Wheeler once reported to the Guardian that what he liked doing best was “writing sad tunes, and then letting wonderful musicians destroy them”. The New York guitarist and new-music original Mary Halvorson (who, like Wheeler, was once a receptive disciple in the challenging bands of veteran boundary-buster Anthony Braxton) has also made a home in the turbulently dreamlike spaces where composition and the whims of improv meet. Lessons learned as a live improviser and off-stage as an…

There are so many “sublime” lines of dialogue in the Barbie movie. However, the one I think a lot of us can’t stop thinking about, including Margot Robbie, is when Ryan Gosling’s Ken aggressively yells the aforementioned “sublime” after Barbie tells him she wants to be his “long-term distance low-commitment casual girlfriend.” It turns out, this moment of improv was actually the line that made the titular star laugh the most on set, and she gave a great reason why. If you look back at Barbie’s reviews and reception,…

As an SNL alum and co-founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade, Amy Poehler knows a thing or two about improv. Now she’s sharing the lessons she’s learned throughout her career in a new MasterClass special. “The principles of improv have made me more creative, more resilient and more collaborative,” Poehler tells The Hollywood Reporter. “My class is an attempt to show how preparing to be unprepared can add value in how we approach life and relate to other people.” In the class — dubbed “Prepare to…

Image: ParamountThere’s a lot to love in Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks’ special Star Trek crossover, but getting to see Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid bring some of their chaotic energy from the world of animation into the live-action Mariner and Boimler was a highlight—especially because that energy radiated through the Strange New Worlds crew.How Has Ortegas Changed and Grown Coming into Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 | io9 InterviewThat’s according to director Jonathan Frakes, who aside from being…

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Arve Henriksen has made his name by being a trumpeter who doesn’t really sound like a trumpeter. On his albums for ECM and Rune Grammofon, on collaborations with the likes of David Sylvian and Iain Ballamy, or when playing as part of the band Supersilent, he can sound as if he’s playing a shakuhachi flute, a whistle or a conch shell. He creates haunting timbres by attaching a saxophone mouthpiece to his trumpet, or not using a mouthpiece at all; he makes odd harmonics by using half-valve techniques or exploiting…

Mali Obomsawin is a musician from the First Abenaki Nation, growing up on ancestral land in Maine and Quebec, whose debut album asks vital questions about the reception and expression of indigenous and traditional music. While studying jazz at New Hampshire’s Dartmouth College, an institution founded to train Native Americans as Christian missionaries, they found field recordings of Abenaki songs and stories locked away in the archives. On Sweet Tooth, Obomsawin repatriates some of the music of their people, and their…

Photo: Russ Martin/FXOver the weekend, Harvey Guillén, who plays Guillermo de la Cruz on FX’s What We Do in the Shadows, hosted a spotlight panel at New York City Comic Con, recording a live episode of his podcast Behind the Shadows. He was joined by Hocus Pocus 2 star Belissa Escobedo, who will be in the upcoming Blue Beetle film alongside Guillén. As they discussed their roles in various projects, they dove deep into what makes a horror comedy, and what makes death funny.Escobedo had a small part in American Horror…

| So, I am a hell of a fan of Mischief Theatre, the folks behind the Goes Wrong shows, A Comedy About A Bank Robbery, Groan Ups, Mischief Movie Night and more. I have also thoroughly enjoyed the Jane Austen improvisation show Austentatious in its various forms, in which they stage an adaptation of a newly discovered Jane Austen novel every night. And while I haven't seen the improvised musical show Showstopper The Musical, I have only heard good things. Starship Improvise – The GingerBread Agency PR Tomorrow they all…