Those who saw Freestyle Love Supreme circa the early oughts—when it was more akin to a UCB show or “friends doing skits” than the full-scale neon-lit Broadway production that most recently played the ...

Following a successful limited Broadway engagement this fall that included a 2020 Special Tony Award, improv sensation Freestyle Love Supreme, conceived by Anthony Veneziale and created by Thomas Kail ...

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Tommy Kail have turned their the improv hip-hop show into a TV series on Pivot. Given that the show is now on the small screen, we recently spoke with Lin-Manuel Miranda and ...

For years, the Freestyle Love Supreme experience was a “completely ephemeral” one, as founding member Thomas Kail puts it. Only those in the small, usually 99-seat, theaters who witnessed one of the ...

Aneesa Folds can trace the start of her career back to the simple fact that she “just didn’t want to do anything else.” As it turns out, that decisiveness was a good thing: After years of training, ...

There aren’t many Tony-winning productions in which one of the veteran creator-performers can announce that he’s retiring from touring, right in the middle of a performance… and do it in song form… ...

Director Thomas Kail has a very simple reason for staging “Freestyle Love Supreme.” “We wanted to let people in on the secret,” he said. “This is always the thing that’s fed the other things,” Miranda ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The electrifying vocals of the performers - from singing to rapping to beat-boxing ...

Before turning “Hamilton” and “In the Heights” into musical phenomenons, Lin-Manuel Miranda could have been found on stage, spouting off-the-cuff rhymes with his improv group, “Freestyle Love Supreme.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lee Seymour covers Broadway, music, and live entertainment. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Anthony Veneziale, Chris ...