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Book

Improv nation : how we made a great American art

Call Number

  • 792.028 W3233 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.

Physical Description

xiii, 449 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Summary

A history of the uniquely American art form of improv, from its beginnings during the McCarthy Era through the rise of such institutions as Second City, the Groundlings, and the Upright Citizens Brigade and such performers as Tina Fey, Steve Carell, and Bill Murray.

Notes

"An Eamon Dolan book."

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