ComedySportz Quad-Cities celebrated its 20th anniversary in May, shortly before it parted ways with Circa ’21 Dinner Playhouse, whose adjacent space it had used for most of those two decades. The area next to the theater now is known as the Speakeasy, which hosts a variety of music and comedy acts.

Since that time, the competitive improvisational team has performed a fundraising tour at various locations around in the Quad-City region.

Work on refurbishing and updating the theater, through a $225,000 contribution from the city to Renaissance Rock Island, is about “85 to 90 percent complete,” Adamson said, with 65 people working more than 500 hours to complete the project.

Members of the troupe say they’re ready to play in the new space.

“It’ll have been 172 days since we last had a match and everybody’s chomping at the bit,” artistic director Jeff De Leon said.

“It’s been five months since I’ve had a regular show to go and play at. ComedySportz is my therapy,” said George Schulz, a team member for the past 10 years. “A lot of the players who do ComedySportz have real jobs. They’re business owners, they all do their own thing. They all gather together to be happy in one place at one time, and that’s every weekend we perform.”