Have you ever watched someone doing something creative and thought, "I want to try that?" Maybe you watched a musician perform and felt the urge to pick up an instrument. Perhaps you wandered through an art gallery and suddenly wanted to paint. Maybe you watched an improv show and wondered what it would be like to get up onstage. There is something wonderful about being around creative people. Their enthusiasm has a way of rubbing off on us. Their willingness to experiment makes us a little...

Some time has passed since we have shared a new blog, which makes this month's topic so relevant to bringing it back. Sometimes the hardest part of doing something again or trying something new is accepting that we might be a little rusty or not very good at it. We might make mistakes or stumble. We may never truly master it. And maybe that’s not such a bad thing. Let’s start with a question, “When was the last time you did something you were genuinely bad at or had not mastered?” A second...

C elebrating 30 Years of Improv, Community, and Creativity Thirty years ago, a small group of improvisers opened a door in Spokane as an invitation to play, create, laugh, and build a community around something creative and humorous. That door eventually became the Blue Door Theatre. The Early Days: Unexpected Productions Spokane The story begins in 1996, when Mark Robbins founded Unexpected Productions Spokane, which was the first incarnation of the Blue Door Theatre. In those early years,...