The Second City

The Second CityNightly, on Chicago's near north side, in a richly dark and curtained room – which partakes of the qualities of coffeehouse, nightclub and show lounge – a wildly enthusiastic audience gathers to watch a talented group of young performers who have brought the arts of the revue and of lightning improvisation to a uniquely high level of hilarious fun mixed with biting social commentary. This is The Second City – so named in wry rebuttal of A. J. Liebling's New Yorker attack on Chicag...