Can UCB In Your Future?

The founders of the once-heralded (Harolded?) Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre have sold out to a talent manager, an administrator and venture capitalists. Yes, and now what?

The UCB’s lone remaining theater on Franklin Avenue in Los Angeles, now under new ownership.

The disciples of Del Close, who took his radical “Harold” style of improv comedy from Chicago to New York City, scored a Comedy Central series, opened a theater, became famous and taught hundreds more to become famous comedians and actors, have finally fled their…