Scott LeekerStaff

LEEKER TAKES YOU TO: An Immersive Theme Park Experience returns with our 5th season in about two weeks! FREE show! Mark your calendars and stay tuned here for more info or follow us on instagram @leekertakesyouto! Check out the subtle hint in this photo for the subject of Season 5 Episode 1 See less

Heeeey Everyone 👋🏾😆! Did you miss last season of POC league? Did you want to see them perform again onstage? Perfect timing 🙌🏾😆! Because we have a show coming this Saturday called, “POC League: Family Reunion Season 1”! 🔥🔥🔥🥓🍣🍝🍛🍗🍟🥗🌯🍔🌮🍕🥪🌭🥟🍳🧇🍞🎂🥧🥞🥯🥟🍚🍢🥫🍤🔥🔥🔥 Come see us on the MainStage at the shop and be a part of this great reunion! It’s going to be amazing! Tell everyone you know! See you there! When: Saturday, May 23rd @ 9pm Where: Improv Shop - MainStage POC League: Family Reunion Season 1 Show Description: The 1st season POC league teams welcome you back for a family reunion! Where It’s At, Late Night Diner, and Whatever are coming to you for a throwback night of joy, color, comedy, and unity. Reunited and it feels so good!

Hey everyone! Open Window this month is Saturday, May 30th at 4 pm on Sidestage! This is a community event designed to give improvisers (or anyone improviser adjacent) an opportunity to meet and get to know each other better. You do not have to be a toastmaster, master storyteller, or writer. Just come and listen to, and potentially tell, some stories! Also, due to the timing of it, let’s do a potluck!! I will add a google sheet to say what you will bring so people don’t bring something someone else is making. The completely optional prompts are: What is something you had to stick with and saw it all the way through? What is something you would preserve or protect from time/damage/change? Someone taught me to ________, and I will never forget it. A peculiar or noteworthy sleep story you may have. I hope to see you there!

Melanie PennStaff

🎶 MUSICAL WORKSHOP AND SHOW 🎶 There's another special workshop happening at The Improv Shop next month: it's MUSICAL IMPROV BAG OF TRICKS, hosted Nashville's Cherry Bomb! There are two sections to choose from, both on Saturday June 20th: 9:00-12:00 and 1:00-4:00. This workshop is designed for folks with some prior musical improv experience, and the registration link is below in the comments. Also! Cherry Bomb will be performing an improvised musical at 7:00 that night, with The One Four Fives joining in for some fun in the second act. Ticket link is in the comments too, so consider getting advanced tickets early as this thing is gonna sell out faster than you can sing an F sharp! 🎹 https://theimprovshop.com/show/cherry-bomb-an-improvised-musical/ https://theimprovshop.com/workshop/musicalimprovbagoftricks/

Kevin McKernan is helping St. Louis keep its local flavor, one business at a time Kevin McKernan owns a half-dozen of the kind of classic neighborhood businesses that feel increasingly endangered. He and his wife Erin own Donut Drive-In, the unpretentious shop in Lindenwood Park. They own Epiphany Lanes, a low-key bowling alley once run by the Catholic parish that still shares its parking lot. He founded The Improv Shop and they now own Cafe Manhattan and Blackthorn Pub, too... Read more at link

Touch Baseball

Weekly post is up on Substack Emotion exercises ask a lot of improvisers. They demand we be vulnerable, make big choices, put on a performance, be present, and care. Sometimes they require character work or force us to edge into emotional territory real life rarely lets us explore... https://open.substack.com/pub/touchbaseballimprov?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=38zhiw

Come ask a stranger 𝑰𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏? at our show. Could lead to a great friend like it did us. In fact, our form is about Nicole Durel & I getting to know each other. Thu, 9p - Side stage (Merry-Go-Round show!) The Improv Shop - STL This "Chair for a Woman" dates to Ancient Egypt. Reworked public domain image from the MET NYC. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/548636

Hi Improv Shop friends, Allow me to spin you a true tale. This week marked 7 years since I graduated from the Improv Shop’s training program. Shortly after I graduated, I started dating a veteran improvisor who I had a crush on based on the delightfully weird ways he improvised, bringing laughter to my heart. One of my lines to him at a party— “Oh you just turned 33?! So did I! Two months ago! We have so much in common!” As you can imagine, interest SOARED based on this tidbit alone— oh all the music, tv shows, commercial references we could share and continue sharing the next 7 years. Fast forward to 2026: Alex Ringhausen and I are married and he just turned 40! And I just turned 40 two months ago, wow. Naturally, this necessitates a show! And not only will this be a comedy show about growing up millennial and finding yourself suddenly waking up 40 one day! But ALSO this will be a BIRTHDAY BASH for the exquisitely kind and wonderfully weird human who is Alex Ringhausen. If you know and love Alex from over the years, or know me, or just think this would be fun: COME JOIN US! Celebrate Alex, and watch us entertain you! Saturday, 7pm, Side stage Cake will be involved.