The PlayGround Theatre Schedule

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The Playground was founded in 1997 by its original member companies.[1]The Playground theater exists as a non-profit co-op, governed by its member companies, or "teams."Located at 3209 N.Halsted Street, The Playground features performances every night of the week at 8pm.

The Playground Theater, after 10 years in existence, remains the only continuously operating non-profit theater in Chicago dedicated to an art form invented in Chicago - Modern Theatrical Improvisation.

Other shows at other times also regularly occur.From time to time the theater holds auditions for its signature Incubator Program, in which applicants are judged on their skills at scene-based improvised comedy.

The newly-hatched teams are then free to govern their own fates, hire their own coaches, and generally pursue a career as an improv ensemble.

Those who pass are assembled into Incubator Teams with a certain guaranteed number of shows on The Playground's stage.

Some Incubator teams eventually wind up applying for membership status with the theater.[2] Improvisational theatre List of improvisational theatre companies.