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  2. The Second City - Wikipedia

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    The Second City Detroit was a comedy theater and training center in Novi, Michigan. It was the Second City's third mainstage location in North America following the Second City Chicago and Toronto. [47] Originally established in September 1993 in downtown Detroit, [47] it relocated to a strip mall in Novi in 2005.

  3. List of alumni of the Second City - Wikipedia

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    1.3 Chicago ETC (1983-present) 1.4 New York Mainstage (2024-present) ... producers, and musicians who have collaborated on revues at The Second City. [1]

  4. Paul Sills - Wikipedia

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    At the Game Theater, he also discovered a new form he called Story Theater, which debuted at 1848 N. Wells Street, during the summer of 1968. That building was the original location of the Second City, which had already moved to its new and current location at 1616 N. Wells St. After Sills finished doing Story Theater there, it was torn down. [7]

  5. Compass Players - Wikipedia

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    Creative team. Co-founder. David Shepherd. Co-founder. Paul Sills. The Compass Players (or Compass Theater) was an improvisational theatre revue active from 1955 to 1958 in Chicago and St. Louis. [1] Founded by David Shepherd and Paul Sills, it is considered to be the first improvisational theater in the United States. [2]

  6. Playwrights Theatre Club - Wikipedia

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    The Playwright's Theatre Club was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1953 by Paul Sills, David Shepherd and Eugene Troobnick. The theatre was noted for its original treatment and productions of classic plays as well as premiering original works, and was credited for the creation of The Compass Players and The Second City.

  7. Theater in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Illinois Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, c.1909. The young settlement of Chicago in 1834 saw its first commercial production by a fire eater and ventriloquist, Mr. Brown. In 1837, the first resident theater company, the short-lived Chicago Theater, opened in the Sauganash Hotel. One of the players was then a boy named Joseph Jefferson, who grew to ...

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