Jeffrey Sweet Brings One Man Show to ImprovBoston, 4/6

ImprovBoston is set to welcome American writer, journalist, songwriter and theatre historian Jeffrey Sweet for his one-man show You Only Shoot The Ones You Love. Sweet will perform this show Saturday, April 6 at 9 p.m. in the Studio Theatre at ImprovBoston. Tickets cost $12and $10 for students. They are available online www.improvboston.com. ImprovBoston is located at 40 Prospect Street.

You Only Shoot the Ones You Love interweaves encounters with such titans of improv as Paul Sills, Del Close and Mike Nichols with a larger story of how Cossacks attempting to kill his grandmother (and the grandparents of so many others) is connected to Second City, i/O, Upright Citizens Brigade and the explosion of satiric comedy.

The show opened in the New York Fringe to excellent reviews and was brought back for an extended engagement. Anita Gates wrote in the New York Times, "Mr. Sweet, a playwright and author, has stories to tell and an amiable, laid-back style of delivering them. (This show is) Entertaining, compelling."

Jeffrey Sweet is in town to participate Playbook. On April 5, improvisers will set out to take the first page of an unfinished script of Sweet's and complete the script. Sweet has been a playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, critic, journalist, teacher, theatre historian, and sometime songwriter and director. He is a resident member of Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater, where thirteen of his plays-including Flyovers, The Action Against Sol Schumann, The Value of Names, Berlin '45, With and Without, Court-Martial at Fort Devens, and Bluff have been produced. Sweet is also the author of Something Wonderful Right Away (an oral history of Chicago's The Second City), The Dramatist's Toolkit and Solving Your Script.

"Jeffrey Sweet is one of the most diversely talented, universally respected, and inspirational artists working in theater today; we are thrilled for Mr. Sweet to share both his vast writing experience through PLAYBOOK and his unique style of comedic performance in his impressive one-man show," said ImprovBoston Artistic Director Mike Descoteaux.

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