FOLLOWING the success of last year’s inaugural festival, tickets are now on sale for Birmingham Improv Festival 2017 which returns this autumn.

Birmingham Improv Festival 2017 will once again take place at the city’s popular Blue Orange Theatre in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter from October 23 to 29.

This year’s festival offers a programme of high energy performances from the best troupes on the improv circuit bringing quick-fire comedy, brand new Shakespeare, movie adventure, made-up Charles Dickens, short-form games, musical comedy and tales and even freestyle rapping.

There will be the UK's original all-female long-form musical improv team Waiting for the Call.

Running alongside the main stage performances will be a series of improv workshops offering adults and children the chance to work with practitioners and performers.

This provides a unique opportunity to learn all about improv and to have a go at this ever-growing art form.

The 2017 festival also sees the addition of improv performances especially for children providing a fun and interactive experience to be shared with all the family during half-term.

Festival director Jon Trevor, founder of Birmingham based Box Of Frogs said: “Following last year’s success I am absolutely thrilled to be bringing the Birmingham Improv Festival back to the city this October.

"Birmingham audiences really got behind the festival last year with sell-out performances and because of that I’m excited that this year’s offering will be bigger, better and brummier.

“We’ve got an incredible 24 companies and solo artists performing 21 shows over seven days. And I’m particularly delighted to welcome no less than nine incredibly talented Birmingham-based companies who are putting the city on the improv map showcasing the enormous and growing popularity of improvisation right here in the Midlands.”

For tickets and more information, visit birminghamimprovfestival.com.