The Playground
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[edit] The Playground Nightclub Cape Town
Cape Town South Africa 1988 to 1994 Industrial Gothic Alternative Club that was Voted South Africa's Best Nightclub 1992 and 1993 Opened a Trance, Techno floor / Club called DEVIATE above the main Club in 1992
[edit] The Playground Theater Chicago
After 10 years in existence, The Playground Theater remains the only continuously operating non-profit theater in Chicago dedicated to an art form invented in Chicago - Modern Theatrical Improvisation.
Located at 3209 N. Halsted Street, The Playground features performances every night of the week at 8pm. Other shows at other times also regularly occur.
The Playground theater exists as a non-profit co-op, governed by its member companies, or "teams."
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. Those who pass are assembled into Incubator Teams with a certain guaranteed number of shows on The Playground's stage. 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. Some Incubator teams eventually wind up applying for membership status with the theater.[1]
The Playground was founded in 1997 by its original member companies.[2]
