The Hideout Theatre

The Hideout Theatre is a theater in downtown Austin dedicated to the art of improvisation. The Hideout is the longest-running improv theater in Austin, having put on shows every weekend of the year since 1999.

Recently, The Hideout has come under new management, and as part of that effort is staging a 40 Hour Improv Marathon. This blog was started to help document that insane experience.

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Jenna Baddeley, a recent Hideout student, has an article up in the Psychology Today blog entitled “Everything I Need to Know, I Learned from Improv”.

Here are a couple of choice quotes:

“Want to get along better with life? I think of ‘yes, and’ in the broadest sense as saying ‘yes’ to what life brings you – the good, the bad, the indifferent – and building on what’s already there.”

We couldn’t agree more. For some reason, our natural tendency in life is to say “no” to opportunities that…

Posted on August 27, 2009

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