ImprovBoston to Kick Off 'SCREEN TIME' Summer Comedy Experience, 7/17

ImprovBoston's newest seasonal special, Screen Time: Summer of Screens, combines improvisational comedy with pop culture video clips for a hilarious multimedia experience. Using the best summer-themed movie, TV clips, music videos, and commercials from decades past, Boston's top improvisers create on-the-spot comedy that explores the weird, funny, and surprising connections between distant corners of warm-weather pop culture.

In each show, audience members randomly select clips from a vast and evolving library. These clips act as the inspiration for improvised scenes. Each week's show features a different summertime theme, giving fans a chance to relive classic pieces of pop culture and discover new favorites.

Screen Time: Summer of Screens adds to ImprovBoston's selection of comedy shows that prompt audience engagement through technology. The theater's weekly All Access Improv show encourages audience members to tweet suggestions during the show while StandUp ThrowDown, the theater's annual standup comedy tournament, selects a winner each night using audience voting software.

Screen Time: Summer of Screens runs Fridays at 10pm from July 17 to July 31. Tickets are $18, $14 students at the door and available online at improvboston.com.

The show is directed by Paul Dome and produced by Ryan Sheely. Lauren Magnuson is Media Curator.

For over 30 years, ImprovBoston has been New England's leading theater and school dedicated to the art of comedy in all its forms. Voted "Best of Boston" by The Phoenix, The Improper Bostonian, and The Weekly Dig, ImprovBoston performers, teachers and students have included film stars, Emmy Award-winning comedians, and acclaimed producers, directors, musicians and writers. ImprovBoston alumni are featured on The Daily Show, America's Got Talent, Funniest Wins, Real Time with Bill Maher, Last Comic Standing and John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, to name a few. In 2014, the Independent Reviewers of New England honored ImprovBoston with an award recognizing its longstanding contributions to the Boston theater community. As a nonprofit arts organization, ImprovBoston serves the community through laughter with youth outreach programs, workshops for businesses, scholarships, a national touring company and, of course, performances at its theater complex in Central Square, Cambridge.