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243 Performances Found

Chopin Theatre
(TUTA Theatre)

Wedding, The. Slapstick wedding.

Goodman Theatre
(Goodman Theatre)

"Hughie" & "Krapp's Last Tape". Two shows, one great night.

Storefront Theatre
(DCA Theater)

(edward) Hopper Project, The. Nighthawks on parade.

IO Theater

1, 2, 3, Fag!.

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater

11:11. Time?

11:11. Coming Spring 2010...

IO Theater

3033. Veteran improvisers reunite for big laughs.

Th!nk Art

50th anniversary of "The Naked Lunch". Clothing optional.

Merle Reskin Theatre

A Midsummer Night's Dream. If we shadows have offended...

Merle Reskin Theatre

A Raisin in the Sun. A classic show.

Viaduct Theatre

A&M Burlesque. Aaaand more burlesque.

Chicago Cultural Center

About Dance. Blend a sizzling dance performance and sharp dance criticism.

Dream Theatre

Aelita & Shiny Boxes. Two dreamy shows.

Playground Theater
(After Party)

After Party. Catch an always-new, late-night show.

Lincoln Square Theatre

Alcyone Festival, The. Another year, another Alcyone.

ComedySportz Theatre

Alpha Dog Omega. It's not just improv, it's Frat-Prov!

Second City
(Second City)

America: All Better! . Now that Barack's the President-elect, everything will be all better. Right?

Steppenwolf Merle Reskin Garage Theatre
(Steppenwolf Theatre Company)

American Buffalo. A classic from a Chicagoan.

American Girl Place

American Girls Revue, The. Put stars in her eyes and a song in her heart-with American Girls.

Prop Thtr

And Then It Burst. Pow.

Playground Theater
(The Playground)

Ankle Todd Show, The. It's better than the elbow show.

IO Theater

Armando Diaz Experience, Theatrical Movement & Hootenanny. Giggle along with alumni of Second City and IO.

the side project

Artist Needs a Wife, The. Where's the muse?

Cadillac Palace Theatre

August: Osage County. Picture it...

Northlight Theatre
(Northlight Theatre)

Awake and Sing. American dreaming.

RadioStar
(Bortz Entertainment Group)

Awesome 80's Prom, The. Head back to the '80s at this bitchin' interactive show.

Apollo Theater

Baby Wants Candy: The Rock Musical . Gimme sugar.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater
(Chemically Imbalanced Comedy)

Bad Review. Don't hate bad reviews. Embrace them.

Mary's Attic
(Bare Boned Theatre)

Bare Boned Cabaret. New comedy, improv, sketch and cabaret every third Sunday of the month.

ComedySportz Theatre

Battle-Prov. An all-out improv fight, ComedySportz-style.

ComedySportz Theatre

Beatbox, The. It's a comedy match made in heaven: long-form improv and classic hip-hop.

Playground Theater

Belmont Burlesque Revue. A revealing, late-night comedy and dance show.

Second City
(Second City)

Best of the Second City, The. The second city's finest improv.

Playground Theater

Big Yellow Bus. Ensemble members tickle audience members' funny bones.

Artistic Home

Biography. Eavesdrop on the bitching and dishing of a socialite to the stars.

American Girl Place
(American Girl Theater)

Bitty Bear's Matinee: The Family Tree. Family and friendship are the real stars of this kid-focused show.

IO Theater

Black Ted Williams . Open-run improv.

ComedySportz Theatre

Blackout. Late night long-form improv by five African-American dudes.

Dance Center of Columbia College

Blocks of Continuality/Body, Image, and Algorithm. What's the formula for dance?

Apollo Studio Theater
(The Blu Mic)

Blu Mic, The. Solid stand-up in an intimate setting.

Briar Street Theatre

Blue Man Group. A silent but oddly endearing blue trio explore the humorous and bizarre.

Zoo Studio
(The Mammals)

Breed With Me. Calling all breeders.

North Lakeside Cultural Center
(North Lakeside Playe)

Bright Star. "Would I were steadfast as thou art..."

Second City ETC
(Second City)

Brother, Can You Spare Some Change?. Now that the election ho-ha is over, it's back to funny business as usual.

Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
(Steppenwolf Theatre Company)

Brother/Sister Plays, The. Brothers and sisters.

Mary's Attic

Busch Fest. The name says it all.

Pub Theater

Bye Bye Liver: The Chicago Drinking Play. The real star of this hilarious sketch show? The bottle.

Museum of Contemporary Art

Cabinet of Curiosities. A grab bag of "un-lectures."

Playground Theater

CakeWalk Midnight Extravaganza, The. Variety is the spice of improv.

Oracle Theater

Castle, The. Honey, I'm home.

Chicago Dramatists

Chicago Dramatists Saturday Series. Take in an afternoon of staged works-in-progress.

Beat Kitchen
(Chicago Underground Comedy)

Chicago Underground Comedy. Saucy stand-ups take the stage Tuesday nights.

Gunther Murphy's
(Chicago Underground Comedy)

Chicago Underground Comedy. Five stand-up comedians wield their best material weekly.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Chicagoland. See the city through the eyes of long-form improv.

College of DuPage McAninch Arts Center

Club MAC. DuPage cabaret.

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

Cocktail Hour at ComedySportz!. Wear your cocktail dress.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Co-Ed Prison Sluts. That's hot.

Studio BE

College Improv Tournament. Who will win?

Timothy O'Toole's

Comedians You Should Know. Think you know all there is to know about local comedy? Think again.

Harry Caray's

Comedy Showcase. Show it off.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater

Comedy Showcase. Three improv or sketch groups go at it.

The Montrose Room
(ComedySportz)

Comedy Sportz. Suburban Sportz.

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

ComedySportz. Fast, funny improv suitable for all ages.

ComedySportz Theatre

comedysportz4kidz. Kids get in on the act in this pint-size version of the popular comedy competition.

Theatre Building Chicago
(NightBlue Theater)

Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged), The. RMEO RMEO WHRE 4 ART THOU RMEO?

Annoyance Theatre and Bar

Confessions of a Tramp Stamp. Show some ink.

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(Thirteen Pocket Productions)

Cool Table, The. Improv comedy with a rock-star vibe.

Illinois Theatre Center

Crumbs From The Table of Joy. Celebrate Black History Month with this show.

IO Theater
(The Cupid Players)

Cupid Has a Heart On: A Musical Guide to Relationships. First comes love, then comes marriage...

Playground Theater
(BLEWT! Productions)

Demon Who Never Appeared, A. From stand-up to improv, this show's got every comedy covered.

Denouement. Every story has a climax...except this one.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater

Desperately Seeking. Chemically Imbalanced Comedy takes on the Chicago Reader.

Town Hall Pub

Dirty Water. Drink up.

Town Hall Pub
(Dirty Water)

Dirty Water. Fun-loving, wise-cracking improv artists rock the stage.

Bella Bacinos
(Dirty Water )

Dirty Water. Improv comedy set in a South Boston sports bar.

Davenport's Piano Bar & Cabaret

Distance You Have Come, The. Go the distance.

American Theater Company
(American Theater Company)

Distracted. Wait, what?

Playground Theater
(Blewt! Productions)

Don't Spit the Water!. A late night game show so funny it'll make you spit.

Rubin's Chicago Room Gallery Cafe

Duke Disdain Show, The. Sassy stand-up mixes with toe-tappin' music.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater

Dummy. Who you calling dummy?

Fusion
(Dave Odd Productions Entertainment)

Edge Underground Comedy Club, The. Edge isn't just the name of this stand-up showcase.

Aloft Loft

El Circo Cheapo Cabaret #2. A circus in a loft? Yep.

Town Hall Pub

Entertaining Julia. It's free, it's funny and it's full of spastic performers.

Book Cellar

Essay Fiesta. Words words words.

Playground Theater

Extended Play. Plaaaaaaaaaay

Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Kimberly Franck and Natasha Hansen)

F.A.T. People . That's phat.

IO Theater
(Atticus Finch)

Felt. What's funnier than improv? Sassy puppets performing improv.

Lucky Number Grill

Festival of Flesh!. Burlesque is the besque!

Sixteenth Street Theater
(Sixteenth Street Theater)

Fires in the Mirror. 1991 Riots unveiled.

Greenhouse Theater Center
(MPAACT)

First Words. Use your words.

Town Hall Pub

Fourth Friday Comedy Night. Catch funny folks making jokes every fourth Friday at Town Hall Pub.

The Playground Theater
(Koleno, the Panty Filers, and Hair Club for Men)

Free for All, The. Nothing's for free eh?

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
(Griffin Theatre Company)

Frindle. What's the word?

Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace

Funny Girl. Nicky Arnstein Nicky Arnstein...

Annoyance Theatre and Bar

Glitter In The Gutter. A fresh look at drag culture.

Playground Theater

Grafitti. We can't get our fill of Adventure Club.

College of DuPage McAnich Arts Center

Grand Derangement!. Step dancers rock out to an explosion of lights and sound.

Pub Theater

Gretchen and Regina Rule the World. Two girls, one show.

IO Theater

Harold, The. IO's signature, long-form improv piece.

Steep Theatre

Harper Regan. One woman, leaving.

Holiday Club

Holiday Leftover Variety Show.

ComedySportz Theatre

Hot Karl, The. There's a reason this "mature" improv show doesn't go on until the wee hours.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Houses Look The Same . Keeping up with the Jones.

Neo-Futurarium
(Neo-Futurists)

I Am A Camera . Say cheese.

BoHo Theatre at Heartland Studio

I Am My Own Wife. A tranny outwits Nazis and Communists.

Skokie Theatre

I Got Gershwin. Got Gershwin?

Town Hall Pub
(Bruised Orange Theater Company)

I Saw You. Bringing personal ads to life one show at a time.

Improv Kitchen

Improv Kitchen. Fill your belly and then watch it jiggle as you giggle.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Improvised Disney . You're in a pink castle with some dwarves. Go.

Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Gorilla Tango )

Improvised Joss Whedon . Grr. Arg.

Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Gorilla Tango )

Improvised Sex and the City . I'm back in the nook!

IO Theater

Improvised Shakespeare. Improv that uses the bard's language and themes.

Laugh Out Loud Theater

Instant Musical. Another improv musical.

US Beer Company

International Bedlam Society Asylum Variety Show . Wait, what?

Attic Playhouse

It Runs in the Family. it practically gallops.

Mayslake Peabody Estate
(First Folio Theater)

Jeeves in Bloom. Jeeves is busting out all over.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Jessica Presents...Yet Again. February Jessica style.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Jessica Presents: Yet Again . Jessica who?

Davenport's Piano Bar & Cabaret

Kama Sutra The Musical. Sexy stuff.

Donny's Skybox Studio

Kate & Mike: The Musical. Are there any non-improvised musicals anymore?

Mercury Cafe

Kates, The. No one in this comedy group is actually named Kate.

Book Cellar

Kates, The. No one in this comedy show is actually named Kate.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Keymaster/Gatekeeper . Is this a Ghost Busters reference?

Profiles Theatre

Killer Joe. What a lovely family.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Kink. Kinky.

Lifeline Theatre
(Lifeline Theatre)

Last of the Dragons, The. Fantasy feminism.

Royal George Theatre Center

Late Nite Catechism. Enroll in a class of Sister's sharp religious humor.

Brisku's Bistro

Laugh Off & Variety Show . Laugh it off.

Laugh Out Loud Theater
(Laugh Out Loud Theater)

Laugh Out Loud. Now there's even more improv comedy in Schaumburg.

Links Hall

Laughing from the Other Side of Your Face. Which side is that?

Lincoln Restaurant
(Tight Five Productions)

Lincoln Lodge, The. Hot, saucy stand-up next to a down-home diner.

Village Players Performing Arts Center
(Village Players)

Lost in Yonkers. A Simon classic.

IO Theater

Lottery, The. IO blends a bunch of improv classes and earns an A.

City Lit

Macbeth. Something wicked this way comes.

Greenhouse Theater Center

Magic Cabaret , The. Deep dish Chicago magic.

City Lit

Magic Chicago. Let the magic and mystery dazzle you.

Raven Theatre
(Rivendell Theatre Ensemble)

Mary's Wedding . Love and war.

TimeLine Theatre Company
(Timeline Theatre)

Master Harold… and the Boys . Humanity here.

Town Hall Pub

MATE: Male Attraction Techniques Exposed. You heard it here first.

Copley Theatre
(TOC Productions)

Menopause the Musical. Hot flashes, memory loss and chocolate binges galore.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Messing With A Friend. Top comedians fill a rotating spot in this two-person improv show.

Apollo Theater

Million Dollar Quartet. If you step on his blue suede shoes he may shoot you in Reno.

Trap Door Theatre
(Trap Door Theatre)

Minna. Mythic heroine.

Paramount Theatre
(Global Entertainment Productions)

Moscow Circus. A circus with a past.

Martyrs'

Moth StorySlam, The. True stories told without notes.

VFW Berwyn
(New Branch Theatre Company)

Murder at the Disco. It's death meets disco at the biggest dance contest of 1976.

Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre

My Fair Lady. The rain in Spain.

The Gift Theatre Company

Natural Gas . Ahhh.

Nikhil Chopra. Like reality TV only not.

IO Theater

Nogoodnicks. A fierce improv duo tackles overlapping narratives.

Writers' Theatre (Books on Vernon)
(Writers' Theatre)

Oh Coward!. A brave Coward.

Writers' Theatre (Tudor Court)
(Writers' Theatre)

Old Settler, The. Settle in.

Viaduct Theatre

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. A classic.

Cornservatory
(Corn Productions)

Original Improv Gladiators, The. Forget American Gladiators—it's Improv Gladiators!

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
(Metropolis Performing Arts Centre)

Out of Order. Dead bodies? Hilarious!

Noble Fool Theatricals
(Noble Fool Theatricals)

Over the Tavern. And through the woods?

IO Theater

People in the City. Take a look at yourself.

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

pHamily the Musical. Smart, funny improv you can sing along with.

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

pHarm pHresh. Mmmmm.

Ruth Page Center for the Arts
(ShawChicago)

Philanderer, The. He creeps.

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

pHrenzy. Vote for the funniest performer of the evening.

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

pHrenzy PG.

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

pHrenzy pHucked. Balls-out, no holds barred improv that encourages BYOB.

Redtwist Theatre

Pillowman, The. Don't you dare call this interrogation drama soft.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater
(Bucky's Planet Productions and Chemically Imbalanced Comedy)

Pimprov. Pimps improvise. Yeah, you read right.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater

Pimprov presents: Tricks and Treats. Pimp it.

Playground Theater

Playground, The. Savor a night of long-form improv by national troupes.

Beat Kitchen
(Chicago Underground Comedy & RooftopComedy.com)

Pop Stand, The. Chicago's alt-comic elite tackle pop culture.

Second City ETC
(Second City)

Pratfall of Civilization. "Pratfall of Civilization" takes aim at America and hits its mark (mostly).

Pressure Billiards & Cafe
(Edge Comedy)

Pressure Open Mic. Weekly mixer of comedy and caffeine.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater
(Chicago Shakespeare Theater)

Private Lives. Not so private as it turns out.

Stage Left Theatre
(The Mill)

Private Lives of Eskimos, The. Ever wonder about life after anti-depressants?

Royal George Theatre Center
(Quade Productions)

Put the Nuns in Charge!. Roll in the aisles with a little religious humor.

Noble Horse Theatre

Quadrille. A dinner performance spectacular, featuring dancing white stallions.

Village Theatre Guild

Rabbit Hole. Down you go.

Links Hall

Rates of Reaction. Think fast!

Playground Theater

Recess. Pieces.

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Red Kite Round Up. One in one hundred and ten children is now being diagnosed with autism...

Next Theatre Company
(Next Theatre)

Return to Haifa. The Israeli/Palestinian conflict made personal.

Building Stage

Ring Cycle, The. Pack a lunch.

Tommy Gun's Garage
(Da Gangsters & Da Flappers)

Roaring 20's Audience Interactive Musical Comedy Holiday Dinner Show. Take a trip back to 1920s Christmas.

Second City

Rush Limbaugh! The Musical. What a Rush!

Royal George Theatre Center

Saints & Sinners. Nun of that.

Village Players Performing Arts Center
(Village Players)

Savage in Limbo. Out on a limb(o).

Mercury Theater

Screwtape Letters, The . C.S. Lewis writes Christian satire.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater
(Chicago Shakespeare Theater)

Short Shakespeare! The Comedy of Errors. Oops.

Mary's Attic
(Bailiwick Chicago)

Show Us Your Love. What does love sound like?

American Theater Company
(American Theater Company)

Silver Project, The. Better than gold.

National Pastime Theatre

Six Scary Tales. Baseball is scary. And so is the devil.

Chicago Children's Museum

So Many Ways to Tell a Story!. Fun for the whole family.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar

Some Paradise. Funny like a palm tree.

Cornservatory

Somewhat Gelatinous Body Snatching Blob-Like Thing From Beyond the Grave, The. The corn blob.

Uncommon Ground

Story Club. Tell me a story.

IO Theater

Storytown. Move over, Hans Christian Andersen.

IO Theater

Stranded: The Improvised Musical. Send a duo of improv artists to a stranded island.

Theatre Building Chicago

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The. Insert scary music here.

Second City ETC
(Second City)

Studs Terkel's Not Working. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Athenaeum Theatre
(Greasy Joan & Co.)

Sueno. Mystical, haunting and humorous adaptation.

Royal George Theatre Center

Sunday School Cinema. The ruler-wielding nun sets her sights on Hollywood.

Excalibur
(Neil Tobin, Necromancer)

Supernatural Chicago. Interactive theater set in one of the city's most haunted nightspots.

Second City
(Second City)

Taming of the Flu. It's a comedy epidemic.

(Provision Theater Company)

Taming of the Shrew, The. God formid a woman should speak her mind.

Fine Arts Building
(Moving Dock Theatre Company)

Tea with the Ladies of the Harvard College Observatory. Tea and astronomy.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

TGIF: RAW. Twin on twin action with Mary Kate and Ashley.

That Sordid Little Story. Coming summer of 2010...

Neo-Futurarium
(Barrel of Monkeys)

That's Weird, Grandma. A boisterous group serves up kids' work for adults.

Prop Thtr

The 21st Annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival. Coming soon...

The Diary of Anne Frank. Anne Frank speaks again.

Paramount Theatre
(NETworks)

The Drowsy Chaperone. Ripped from the pages of US Magazine.

The Spot
(New Millennium Theatre Company)

The Flaming Dames in Bourbon Street Burlesque. Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez!

The Spot
(New Millennium Theatre Company)

The Flaming Dames in 'Torch'. Usually the Dames take it off. But not this time.

The Glass Menagerie. Blue roses.

Greenhouse Theater Center
(Remy Bumppo Theatre Company)

The Island. A beach vacation you won't want to take.

Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theatre)

The Message Is In The Music (God Is A Black Man Named Ricky). Are you there, Ricky?

Gallery Cabaret

The Two-Hour Comedy Hour. They defy the laws of time.

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
(Metropolis Performing Arts Centre)

The Vagina Monologues. The body part that dare not speak its name.

Court Theatre

The Year of Magical Thinking. A beautiful memoir becomes a play.

Playground Theater

Thursday Happy Hour. Comedic actors. Character monologues. What else do you need to know?

Links Hall
(Beverly Nelson)

Time it Takes, The. Beverly Nelson transforms metaphorical representations of women and war.

IO Theater

TJ & Dave. Raunchy, raucous improv from a male and female perspective.

Tommy Gun's Garage

Tommy Gun’s Garage. I am the twenties, hear me roar.

Piper's Alley

Tony 'N' Tina's Wedding. You're invited to this loud, Italian-style wedding.

Neo-Futurarium
(Neo-Futurists)

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. 30 wacky/heart-breaking/funny/political plays in 60 minutes.

IO Theater

Topaz. Improvers in denim jumpsuits mix homoeroticism with fight scenes.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Triple Feature. Triple feature, triple fun.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Triple Feature. Three times a play.

Links Hall

Triptych Toungues. An evening of dance.

True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The. He said, they said.

Playground Theater

Tweet Life, The. @WTF?

Theatre Building Chicago

Twelfth Night: Galaxy 4.2. Call it the thirteenth night.

Intercontinental Chicago O'Hare Hotel
(Annoyance Theatre)

Un-Tied. Revvin' up Rosemont.

Ruth Page Center for the Arts
(ShawChicago)

Votes For Women! . Sister suffragettes!

Chase Auditorium
(NPR and Chicago Public Radio)

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me. Listen in on the nationally broadcast comedy-news quiz show.

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater

Walk of Shame. Ah, memories....

Gorilla Tango Theatre

WHACK! The Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan Story, A Karaoke Musical. See this play or she'll break your knee caps.

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

Wheel of pHortune. The wheel of pHortune spins, picking new improv every night.

IO Theater

Whirled News Tonight. A satirical turn on current events.

IO Theater

Whirled News Tonight 6th Anniversary!. Before the Daily Show there was...

Comedy Shrine Theater
(Comedy Shrine)

Whose Line?. The classic t.v. show comes to life...as improv.

Studio Theater (Chicago Cultural Center)
(DCA Theater)

Wiggerlover. Mixed up.

(Silent Theatre)

Wild Party Variety Hour, The. No plot, no special effects, just pure entertainment.

Chopin Theatre
(The House Theatre of Chicago)

Wilson Wants It All . Yes he does.

Strawdog Theatre

Yoni Ki Baat. You and your vagina are cordially invited.

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