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Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)

100...Years of Losing. Cubs fan or not, you can appreciate continuously losing.

IO Theater

3033. Veteran improvisers reunite for big laughs.

Chicago Cultural Center

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

Playground Theater
(After Party)

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

American Girl Place

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

IO Theater

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

RadioStar
(Bortz Entertainment Group)

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

Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Productions)

Bad Touch: Unsavory Improv. Prepare to squirm at this anything-goes improv show.

ComedySportz
(ComedySportz)

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

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.

Second City
(Second City)

Between Barack and a New Show. The primaries are coming up fast, so get some more Barack luv on.

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.

Chopin Theatre
(Signal Ensemble Theatre)

Birthday Party, The. Two strangers randomly take a retired pianist away.

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.

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre

Bleacher Bums. Are you a Wrigley Field bleacher bum?

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.

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(Pub Theatre)

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

Chicago Dramatists

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

IO Theater

Chicago Improv Rebellion. Live jazz and top-notch improvisers rebel.

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
(Annoyance Productions)

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

Navy Pier Skyline Stage

Cirque Shanghai: Bai XI. Cirque Shanghai returns for a second year of fantastic feats.

Skyline Stage Navy Pier
(Cirque Shanghai)

Cirque Shanghai: GOLD. Cirque Shanghai is back again—with a new act.

Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Theatre)

Co-Ed Prison Sluts. Shit. Motherf&*!@$. F--k you you c$%t or a prick...

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(ComedySportz)

ComedySportz. Fast, funny improv suitable for all ages.

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(Thirteen Pocket Productions)

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

Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Productions)

Crickets. Short-form improv that's intentionally rude.

IO Theater
(The Cupid Players)

Cupid Has a Heart On: A Musical Guide to Relationships. Burned by love? This satire burns love right back.

Oak Park Festival Theatre
(Oak Park Festival Theatre)

Dancing at Lughnasa. Friehl's memory-based play recalls one Irishman's childhood in the turbulent 1930s.

Playground Theater
(BLEWT! Productions)

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

Stage Left Theatre
(The Mill)

Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief. Welcome to the last days of Desdemona's life.

Bella Bacinos
(Dirty Water )

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

Townhall Pub
(Dirty Water Improv)

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

Second City ETC
(Second City)

Disposable Nation. From stem cells to smokers to Pluto-everything in America is disposable.

Black Ensemble Theater

Don't Shed a Tear (The Story of Billie Holiday). Rock out to the tunes of a jazz legend.

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.

Fusion
(Dave Odd Productions Entertainment)

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

Chicago Dramatists
(Theatre Seven)

Election Day. Can Adam make it to the voting booth in time?

Town Hall Pub

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

Welles Park
(Neo-Futurists)

Fake Lake. Splish-splash with strangers in a fake lake.

IO Theater
(Atticus Finch)

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

Town Hall Pub

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

Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre

Full Monty, The. These guys leave everything on stage.

Redtwist Theatre (formerly Actors Workshop Theatre)
(Redtwist Theatre (formerly Actors Workshop Theatre))

Glengarry Glen Ross. There are some slight changes in Mamet's play about the salesman ladder climbing frenzy.

Navy Pier Skyline Stage
(Cirque Shanghai)

Gold. The Cirque Shanghai acrobats return—and they're more daring than ever.

Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Productions)

Grabass: A Carnival of Dummy. Only smarty-pants can pull together a show in 24 hours.

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.

Apollo Studio Theater
(Grandma June's Sewing Circle)

Grandma Junes's Sewing Circle . Get your Monday nite laughs on.

IO Theater

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

Circle Theatre
(Circle Theatre)

Hay Fever. No one can deny that the Bliss family drives their guests nuts.

Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)

I Am Who I Am: The Teddy Pendergrass Story. Meet Teddy Pendergrass, "the Black Elvis Presley."

Viaduct Theatre
(Jenniffer Weigel)

I’m Spiritual, Dammit!. Chicago broadcaster and author Jennifer Weigel turns her memoir into a one-woman show.

Improv Kitchen

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

IO Theater

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

Morton Arboretum
(Morton Arboretum)

Key Exchange . New York's swingin' singles discuss the tied-down vs. free-for-all life.

Mercury Theater
(Lowey/Leone Productions)

Kid From Brooklyn, The . Danny Kaye rose from an improv comic to become a superstar.

Royal George Theatre Center

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

Annoyance Theatre
(Late Nite Tit-Bits)

Late Nite Tit-Bits. It's time to get naughty...

Goodman Theatre

Latino Theater Festival. Now in its fourth year, the Latino Theater Festival brings together work from myriad Latino countries.

Laugh Out Loud Theater
(Laugh Out Loud Theater)

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

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Lawn Darts (or Jarts). Fast-paced, crazy and straight up wild improv at the Annoyance.

Annoyance Theatre

'Lil' Talent Show, A. Wax nostalgic about the high school talent show.

Lincoln Restaurant
(Tight Five Productions)

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

No Exit Cafe
(Theo Ubique)

Lonesome Losers of the Night. The Belgian-French speaking songwriter's work gets a new revue.

Water Tower Water Works
(Lookingglass Theatre Company)

Lookingglass Alice. The acrobatic Alice is back again.

IO Theater

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

Village Players Theatre of Oak Park

Love in the Middle Ages: A Baby Boomers Guide to Love and Sex. Whaddya do when you're over 40 and single? Play the dating game, of course.

Building Stage
(Candid Theatre)

Macbeth. Shakespeare's shortest tragedy gets a new twist.

City Lit

Magic Chicago. Let the magic and mystery dazzle you.

Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Theatre)

Marry Me, You Idiot!. Two people lose love, but magically find it again—in each other.

Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)

Memphis Soul (The Story of Stax Records). Stax Records sashays through history as a legendary label.

Copley Theatre
(TOC Productions)

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

Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Productions)

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

Menomonee Club
(Sandbox Theatre Project)

Multi-Purpose Doom. Hey, who invited the zombies to this high school reunion/support group meeting/basketball game?

VFW Berwyn
(New Branch Theatre Company)

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

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

Nixon’s Nixon. What happened in the Lincoln sitting room before Nixon resigned?

IO Theater

Nogoodnicks. A fierce improv duo tackles overlapping narratives.

Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater
(The Route 66 Theatre Company)

On an Average Day. Who doesn't love plays about dysfunctional families?

Victory Gardens Theater Greenhouse
(Asuza Productions)

Onto Infinity . A young mathematician loses touch with reality.

Cornservatory
(Sirens Improv)

Paper Trail. All-women, all long-form improv.

Quest Theatre Ensemble
(Quest Theatre Ensemble)

People's History of the United States, The. Revisit history class without going to a school.

Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Theatre)

Perfect Wave, The . Can Kip Hardburn and his surfer dude friends save the summer?

Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)

pHamily. Short-form improv, pHamily-style.

Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)

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

Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)

pHreedom pHalls: StapH Infection. Rx for dull times? Improv spoofs of hospital t.v. shows!

Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)

pHrenzy. Improv competition fueled by booze.

Stage Left Theatre
(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.

Playground Theater

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

Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater
(Eclipse Theatre Company)

Plaza Suite. Three couples. Big decisions. One hotel room.

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.

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.

Phyllis' Musical Inn
(Sloop Biederman's Mess)

Sloop Biederman's Mess. Sloop Biederman, the all-around entertainer and emcee-by-trade, presents a handful of fun.

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre

Speedating. The fast-paced, modern dating phenomena leaves the bars and hits the stage.

Comedy Shrine Theater

Spew, The. The Comedy Shrine spoofs "The View."

Annoyance Theatre

Stations. The flyer says it all: "Tech Music Effects Funny!"

IO Theater

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

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.

Steppenwolf Theatre
(Steppenwolf )

Superior Donuts. As Uptown gentrifies, will its standby donut shop go, too?

Excalibur
(Neil Tobin, Necromancer)

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

Bailiwick Arts Center
(Bailiwick Repertory)

Tell Me on a Sunday. A British hat designer looks for life, love and happiness in New York.

Neo-Futurarium
(Barrel of Monkeys)

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

Drury Lane Theatre Oakbrook Terrace
(Drury Lane Theatre)

The Boys from Syracuse. You'll fall in love with this modern adaptation of a Rodgers and Hart classic.

The Spot
(New Millennium Theatre Company)

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

ComedySportz

The Improv Match Game. The glowing box doesn't stand a chance against this improv.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

The Tearful Assassin . When a teenager is abducted, she's not the only one who suffers.

City Lit
(A-Squared Theatre Workshop (for reservations, call (773) 353-5979))

The Wind Cries Mary. Ibsen's proto-feminist classic is transported to 1968 San Francisco.

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)

Those Sensational Soulful '60s. Remember the 1960s?

Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Three Cat Media)

Three Cat Thursdays. Local and national artists headline the cabaret series, with a different show format each week.

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. Sip it all in at a 1920s speakeasy.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Tommy’s Place: Unexpected Company . Doesn't fate always bring random people together?

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 Greenhouse Theater
(Hubris Productions)

Torch Song Trilogy. One aging drag queen struggles to find happiness and acceptance.

Chase Bank Auditorium
(NPR and Chicago Public Radio)

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

Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Produced by Andrew Felper)

We Get To Be Canadians. Don't forget Canada.

TimeLine Theatre Company
(TimeLine Theatre Company)

Weekend. Will a son's scandalous news ruin his father's political campaign?

Stage Left Theatre
(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.

Comedy Shrine Theater
(Comedy Shrine)

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

Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre
(Broadway in Chicago)

Wicked. The musical back story of Glinda and the Wicked Witch of the West.

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