Improvisation from the source
Welcome to Paul Sills’ Wisconsin Theater Game Center
Celebrating the improvisational theater tradition of Paul Sills and Viola Spolin through workshops, training, and publishing.
Workshops
Offering summer intensives in the work of American theater legends Viola Spolin and Paul Sills in Door County, Wisconsin, a famous vacation destination. Actors, theater students, teachers, directors and other players welcome.
Click below to learn more about Story Theater Intensive and ongoing Spolin theater game workshops.
Sills/Spolin Theater Works
Founded to preserve the improvisational theater tradition of Paul Sills and Viola Spolin and to share their unique vision of American theater, the Sills/Spolin Theater Works has many ongoing projects.
Story Theater
In the late 60s Second City founding director Paul Sills surprised the Chicago theater scene with a new art form. Players in street garb enacted tales from the oral tradition set to contemporary music on bare, dramatically-lit stages. By 1970 Paul Sills’ Story Theatre had won critical acclaim on both coasts. “Unequivocally great,” wrote Clive Barnes in the New York Times.