Despite the famously lengthy titles of its revues, the Second City has come up with a very short name for its new venue in the Piper’s Alley complex on Chicago’s North Side: “Up.”
Intended as a riff on stand-up comedy and the upstairs locale, the two-letter name will signify a new 300-seattheater carved from the space that used to house the long-running production of “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding.” But the ambience, said Second City president Diana Martinez, will be very different from that former pasta-and-comedy attraction.