The performers are putting on an improv show, complete with a cover charge, refreshments and an introductory monologue. But the venue isn’t a comedy club or a bar. It’s a church.
Since February 2023, Vine Church in Dunn Loring, Va., has hosted “improv church” as a way to get new members through the doors. The event, on the last Saturday of every month, brings in professional actors to do improvisational comedy based on a concept, anecdote or word from the evening’s sermon. While the scenes are inspired by the sermon, they aren’t explicitly religious, and the actors are given free rein to riff.
