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IO Theater

1, 2, 3, Fag!.

IO Theater

1, 2, Fag + Hag!. I prefer the term beard.

IO Theater

3033. Veteran improvisers reunite for big laughs.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar

40 Whacks. Whacked out.

Th!nk Art

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

Steep Theatre

A Brief History of Helen of Troy, A. Substitute for love.

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre

A Night of All-Star Cabaret. Broadway melodies.

Chicago Cultural Center

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

Second City ETC
(Second City)

Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life, The. Miss this at your own risk.

Simone's Bar

Adventures of Les Kurkendaal, The. Christmas in August.

Playground Theater
(After Party)

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

ComedySportz Theatre

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

American Girl Place

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

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.

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
(Victory Gardens)

At Home at the Zoo . Albee time.

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.

Chicago Arts District

Bad Arm: Confessions of a Dodgy Irish Dancer, The. Taking about dance.

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.

Blue Bayou

Bartop Burlesque. See a lot of skin for no dough.

ComedySportz Theatre

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

IO Theater

Beatbox, The. Complete with rap jam.

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.

Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre

Billy Elliott The Musical!. Billy struts his stuff.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Bingo!. Not just for your aunt Myrtle anymore.

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.

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.

Stage 773
(Greentree Productions)

Blues for an Alabama Sky.

Harrigan's

Boner-Rama. Get it up for these gals. I mean, give it up. I mean...

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.

Debonair Social Club

Burlectronic . Interesting combo.

Pub Theater

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

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Charlie Bit Me. Ouch.

Chicago Dramatists

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

Various venues

Chicago Fringe Festival. A show that lives on the edge.

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.

Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Christophe The Insultor/Shaw Entertainment Group)

Christophe The Insultor . Not or the faint-hearted.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

CHUG CHICAGO: Rise of the Wrigleyvillians. Clark street isn't enough? Now we need a play?

Navy Pier

Cirque Shanghai: Cloud 9. High flying.

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

Cocktail Hour at ComedySportz!. Wear your cocktail dress.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Co-Ed Prison Sluts. That's hot.

Chicago Arts District

Columbine & Roses. What if?

Timothy O'Toole's

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

Lakeshore Theater

Comedians You Should Know. Seriously, get to know these guys.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater

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

The Montrose Room
(ComedySportz)

Comedy Sportz. Suburban Sportz.

Gorilla Tango
(Edd Fairman)

Comedy, Magic, Mayhem!. Edd Fairman, the Wizard of Sorts, hits the stage for five nights of magic, comedy and mayhem!

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.

Compulsion. Just try not to go.

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(Thirteen Pocket Productions)

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

IO Theater
(The Cupid Players)

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

Neo-Futurarium
(Neo-Futurists)

Daredevils' Hamlet. Hamlet take 10000000606000.

Playground Theater
(BLEWT! Productions)

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

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.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead. Dog spelled backwards is God. That's gotta prove something.

Playground Theater
(Blewt! Productions)

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

Stage 773

Dude, Where’s My CoPay?: The Musical. Health care is cool.

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?

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

Easter Bunny Visits, The. Bunnies are funny!

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Edd Fairman, Wizard of Sorts: Magic, Comedy, Mayhem. Edd Fairman, the Wizard of Sorts, is hitting the Gorilla Tango Stage for five nights of magic, comedy and mayhem!

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.

Redtwist Theatre

Equus. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Book Cellar

Essay Fiesta. Words words words.

Simone's Bar

Exhausted Paint: The Death of van Gogh. Paint it blue.

Playground Theater

Extended Play. Plaaaaaaaaaay

Millennium Park

Family Fun Festival, The. A whole summer of fun.

IO Theater
(Atticus Finch)

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

Lucky Number Grill

Festival of Flesh!. Burlesque is the besque!

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?

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

Free Night of Comedy. The name says it all.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar

Frenz Finds It!. A tongue-in-cheek puppet show.

TimeLine Theatre Company
(Timeline Theatre)

Frost/Nixon. A look inside the 1977 television interviews between journalist David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.

Casa Aztlan

Get Rich Cheating. How to.

(Provision Theater Company)

Godspell. What's that pebble's name?

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
(Victory Gardens)

Gospel According to James, The. Five different memories. One gun.

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.

IO Theater

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

(The Right Brain Project)

Hesperia. Porn and innocence.

Storefront Theatre
(LiveWire Theater Company)

Hideous Progeny. Before they were stars...

Playground Theater

Hill, The. Guess it's a patriarchy.

ComedySportz Theatre

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

Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace

Hot Mikado. Real hot.

Improv Kitchen

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

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Improv(e) Humanity. Funny and giving, sounds like a perfect date.

IO Theater

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

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
(Victory Gardens)

In The Boys Room. When the American Dream is out of reach, what is a man to do?

Chicago Dramatists

Instant Theatre. A week to write, an hour to rehearse.

US Beer Company

International Bedlam Society Asylum Variety Show . Wait, what?

Cornservatory

Irrelevant Adventures of Jarvis McFadden, The. No crime? No problem.

Profiles Theatre

Jailbait. When do you really become an adult?

The Chicago Improv

Jeremy Hotz. Funny stuff.

Studio BE

Justice of the Peace.

Studio BE

Justice of the Peace. An improvised courtroom comedy.

Book Cellar

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

Mercury Cafe

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

Playground Theater

Kidz Movie Club. No kidding.

Knee-jerk . In our dangerous society of split-second decisions, impulsive emotions, and instant coffee, is death only a knee-jerk reaction away?

Dream Theatre

Kraigslist. The 'K' makes it edgy.

Lincoln Square Theatre
(Babes With Blades)

Last Daughter of Oedipus, The. A daughter battles her family's fate.

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.

Lookingglass Theatre Company
(Lookingglass Theatre Company)

Lookingglass Alice. Looking back.

IO Theater

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

Evanston Arts Depot

Low Pay? Don't Pay!. It's a steal.

Greenhouse Theater Center

Magic Cabaret , The. Deep dish Chicago magic.

City Lit

Magic Chicago. Let the magic and mystery dazzle you.

Women & Children First

Mary F. Burns. Burn it up.

Passion Theatre

Mass Appeal. Priest with a past.

Greenhouse Theater Center

Memory of Two Mondays, A. Life during the depression.

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.

ComedySportz Theatre

MichaelPizza Anniversary Show.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Midlife Joyride. Like my Ferrari?

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Mid-Life Joyride. Just getting started.

Moliere Than Thou. The Moliest.

Much Ado About Nothing. Let's frolic.

Much Ado About Nothing. "Speak low if you speak love."

VFW Berwyn
(New Branch Theatre Company)

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

The Gift Theatre Company

Natural Gas . Ahhh.

IO Theater

Nogoodnicks. A fierce improv duo tackles overlapping narratives.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Nothing is Sacred Comedy Tour. No alternative.

American Theater Company
(American Theater Company)

Oleanna & Speed the Plow. All Mamet, all the time.

Morton Arboretum
(Theatre-Hikes)

Our Town at The Morton Arboretum. "This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying."

Annoyance Theatre and Bar

Pat Reidy Fails... LIVE!". Three times the funny.

Quest Theatre Ensemble
(Quest Theater Ensemble)

People’s Drum Circle Pandora, The. Don't pen that box.

Rooms Gallery

Perhaps Something Seemingly. Nothing like watching strangers follow random cues.

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

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

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

pHarm pHresh. Mmmmm.

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.

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.

Playdaters, The. Diversion Theatre of Milwaukee, WI presents a show about dating.

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.

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.

Chicago Art Department

Rambo: The Missing Years. A solo piece written and performed by San Francisco solo performer Howard Petrick.

(Signal Ensemble Theatre)

Real Inspector Hound, The. Will the real inspector please stand up?

Noble Fool Theatricals
(Noble Fool Theatricals)

Red Herring. Go fish.

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.

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
(The Second City)

Rod Blagojevich Superstar. Second city's popular "Rod Blagojevich Superstar!" comes to Metropolis.

Royal George Theatre Center

Saints & Sinners. Nun of that.

Mercury Theater

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

Women & Children First

Sharon Pomerantz. Sharon Pomerantz reads from Rich Boy.

Crocodile

Show Below, The. Funny is free.

Cadillac Palace Theatre
(Broadway In Chicago)

Shrek The Musical. Based on the Oscar®-winning DreamWorks film that started it all.

EP Theater

Silken Veils. Poems and puppets.

Studio BE

Sketch-travaganza: Best of Sketchfest. Themed hours of sketch comedy...what more could you want?

Skinny Dipping-Not Your Mama's One Woman Show! . Twinkies, wigs and a Liza Minnelli tribute? Oh my!

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

Smashed! The Improvised Bachelorette Party. Brides Revisited.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Smut! An Improvised Porno. Gorillaporn.com

SIQ Theater Tent
(SIQ (Southside Ignoramus Quartet) )

Southside Ignoramus Quartet (Cicero Edition). Dumb funny.

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

Stevens Family, The. Hillbilly comedy.

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.

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.

The Gift Theatre Company

Suicide, Incorporated. Do or die.

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.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar

Swear Jar. Put it in the jar.

Second City
(Second City)

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

Fine Arts Building
(Moving Dock Theatre Company)

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

EP Theater
(New Millennium Theatre Company)

Texas Chainsaw Musical, The. Don't mess with Texas.

The Charnel House

That Pretty Pretty or The Rape Play. A pretty little rape.

Neo-Futurarium
(Barrel of Monkeys)

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

The Spot
(New Millennium Theatre Company)

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

Chicago Dramatists
(Chicago Dramatists)

The Invasion of Skokie. A tale of love in war-torn Skokie.

Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theatre)

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

Richochets Tavern (4644 N. Lincoln Ave.)

The Paper Machete. It's like a blog in real-life form.

Gallery Cabaret

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

(The House Theatre of Chicago)

Thieves Like Us. On a spree.

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.

Chicago Improv

Tommy Davidson. Funny guy.

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.

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
(Victory Gardens)

Tree. Dark secrets.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Triple Feature. Three times a play.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

True Twilight: A Glee Club Musical. A mash-up of all things current.

Playground Theater

Tweet Life, The. @WTF?

(Rebecca Kling)

Uncovering the Mirrors. Presented as part of the first annual Chicago Fringe Festival.

Athenaeum Theatre

Under America. Mortar Theatre Company presents...

Intercontinental Chicago O'Hare Hotel
(Annoyance Theatre)

Un-Tied. Revvin' up Rosemont.

Cornservatory

Variety Show – A Drinking Game Performance, The. Drink up!

Vincent's Yellow. Hold onto your ears.

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.

Irish American Heritage Center
(Seanachai Theatre Company)

Weir, The. Lonely ghosts.

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.

(Silent Theatre)

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

Strawdog Theatre

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

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