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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.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

"Bad Touch" and "Good Liars". The good, the bad and the funny.

IO Theater

3033. Veteran improvisers reunite for big laughs.

Steppenwolf Theatre
(500 Clown)

500 Clown & The Elephant Deal. Send in the clowns.

Trap Door Theatre
(Trap Door Theatre)

A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians. Two Polish people walk into a bar...nevermind.

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

A Minister's Wife. Love and marriage.

Leather Archives and Museum

A Perfect Relationship. Disco vs leather.

(Eclipse Theatre Company)

A Song for Coretta. A woman honored.

Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theatre)

A Tribute to the Black Crooners (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow). If you've never heard of Al Hibbler and Jimmy Scott, you will have after this.

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.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Aladdin. The original genie in a bottle.

Lincoln Square Theatre
(Halcyon Theatre)

Alcyone Festival 2009. A festival of females.

ComedySportz Theatre

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

Pheasant Run Theatre
(Noble Fool Theatricals)

Altar Boyz. Voices like angels.

Second City
(Second City)

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

American Girl Place

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

Gorilla Tango Theatre

An Urban Home Companion . Nostalgia.

Lookingglass Theatre Company
(Lookingglass Theatre Company)

Arabian Nights, The. A celebration of storytelling.

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.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater
(Chemically Imbalanced Comedy)

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

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

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

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.

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
(Victory Gardens)

Blackbird. Cycles of desire.

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.

Goodman Theatre
(Goodman Theatre)

Boleros for the Disenchanted. Heartbreak and recovery.

Mary's Attic

Bombs Away!. The songs Steven Sondheim doesn't want you to hear.

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.

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts

Brown Line to the Loop Sketch Comedy Troupe. CTA comedy.

Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater
(Shattered Globe Theatre)

Buried Child. A macabre and perversely humorous tale of a Midwestern American family with a dark, terrible secret.

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.

Morton Arboretum

Charlotte's Web. A humble pig.

Drury Lane Water Tower Place

Chicago Cabaret Professionals Summer Series. Summer singing.

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.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar

Chicagoland & Fishnuts. Fish to nuts in Chicago.

Navy Pier Skyline Stage

Cirque Shanghai: Bright Spirit. More than worth the cost of Navy Pier parking.

Cornservatory
(A Reasonable Facsimile Theatre Company)

Clitoris Stories. Eve Ensler, what have you wrought?

IO Theater
(Ensemble)

Close Quarters. Improv Odyssey 2001

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

Cocktail Hour at ComedySportz!. Wear your cocktail dress.

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.

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...

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Darkmaster Chronicles. Sounds like a video game.

National Pastime Theatre

Day on Which A Man Dies, The. Sex, lies and paintings.

Prop Thtr
(Factory Theater)

Dead Wrong. Whodunnit?

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Death Roast. Pork roast I get, but celebrity roast?

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.

Cutting Hall
(CYT NW Cook)

Disney's Mulan. I am woman(posing as man)hear me roar!

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.

Millennium Park
(DCA Theater)

Dusk Variations: A Chamber Series.

Fusion
(Dave Odd Productions Entertainment)

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

Millennium Park

Edible Audible Picnic. Mondays in Millennium park. Someone named George may show up.

Neo-Futurarium
(Neo-Futurists)

Eighth Annual Staged Reading Series of Truly Terrible Films. Best of the worst.

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.

IO Theater
(Atticus Finch)

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

Oak Park Festival Theatre
(Oak Park Festival Theatre)

Fifth of July. They picked a good time to perform it.

Town Hall Pub

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

Millennium Park

Fourth of July in Millennium Park. Celebrate good times, come on.

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

Free Wednesdays!. It's free and funny. What else do you want? Personally, I want a pony.

National Pastime Theatre

Girlie-Q Variety Hour, The . These girls are doing it for themselves. And for you.

Profiles Theatre

Graceland. The kindness of strangers.

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.

American Players Theatre
(American Players Theatre)

Hay Fever. Achoo!

Raven Theatre
(Raven Theatre)

Hedda Gabler. From the father of modern drama.

TimeLine Theatre Company

History Boys, The. Exams are the enemy...or are they?

Steep Theatre

Hollow Lands, The. Dream a little dream.

Chicago Dramatists
(Chicago Dramatists)

HOPE VI. A story of hope.

ComedySportz Theatre

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

Town Hall Pub
(Bruised Orange Theater Company)

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

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(The Theori Productions, Inc.)

I Still Love H.E.R. (A Tribute to HipHop). Who knew HipHop was a chick?

Cornservatory

Improv Children of the Corn 2 – Off the Cob. Look what they cobbled together.

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.

Theater on the Lake

Improvised Shakespeare Company, The. Prithee, where is my script?

Neo-Futurarium
(Neo-Futurists)

It Came From the Neo-Futurarium: Legend of the Neo-Futurarium . The best of the worst.

Museum of Contemporary Art

Jen & Ira & You at the MCA Meet Buckminster Fuller Meeting the Hippies in Golden Gate Park. Hippies at the museum.

Red Orchid Theatre
(Route 66 Theatre Company)

K of D: AN URBAN LEGEND, The. Humans can lick hands too.

Davenport's Piano Bar & Cabaret

Kama Sutra The Musical: Vegas Bound...and Gagged. The sex-crazy show heads to the City of Sin...but you can see it first.

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.

Washington Park

Kendall G.. Yes, but can he do trig?

American Players Theatre
(American Players Theatre)

King Henry V. Historical Shakespeare.

Theatre Building Chicago
(Bohemian Theatre Ensemble)

La Cage aux Folles. What's a drag bar owner to do?

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Late Night Tit-Bits. Titillating.

Royal George Theatre Center

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

Laugh Out Loud Theater
(Laugh Out Loud Theater)

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

Lincoln Restaurant
(Tight Five Productions)

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

Athenaeum Theatre
(Griffin Theatre)

Little Brother. The patron saint of techno-geeks.

IO Theater

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

City Lit

Magic Chicago. Let the magic and mystery dazzle you.

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.

Angel Island
(Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company)

Mud People. Before it rained they were just dirt people.

VFW Berwyn
(New Branch Theatre Company)

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

Sevens Cabarets

Next Beer Is Here! . Mixing sports with theater.

National Pastime Theatre

Nocturne. Intrigued?

IO Theater

Nogoodnicks. A fierce improv duo tackles overlapping narratives.

Building Stage
(The Hypocrites)

Oedipus. A great mother/son evening out.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater

Open Mic. Yo'mama so fat that...that...let me check my notecard.

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.

American Players Theatre
(American Players Theatre)

Philanderer , The. Shaw thing.

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.

Beat Kitchen
(Chicago Underground Comedy & RooftopComedy.com)

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

Chopin Theatre
(Hell in a Handbag Productions)

Poseidon! An Upside Down Musical . Poseidon Rocky Horror-style.

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?

Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace

Pump Boys and Dinettes. Gives new meaning to the full service pump.

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.

Lakeshore Theater

Queer Queens of Qomedy, The. Lesbians are funny.

Viaduct Theatre

Reset List: An Improvised Rock Show . Shout it out.

Redtwist Theatre
(Redtwist Theatre)

Ride Down Mount Morgan, The. Big Love at Redtwist.

Navy Pier
(Second City)

Rod Blagojevich Superstar!. Blago doesn't need to go on national television to become a superstar.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Scientology! The (Unauthorized) Musical . Can Suri sing?

The Coach House

Snoopy!!! The Musical. "You're a dog Man... er dog, Snoopy!"

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Sodomites!!!. Don't look back.

Uncommon Ground

Story Club. Tell me a story.

IO Theater

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

Storefront Theatre
(Theater Oobleck)

Strauss at Midnight. Sounds like Hollywood to me.

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.

Cornservatory

Super Happy Fun Show, The. Improvalicious to the last drop.

Excalibur
(Neil Tobin, Necromancer)

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

Fine Arts Building
(Moving Dock Theatre Company)

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

Neo-Futurarium
(Barrel of Monkeys)

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

Marriott Theatre
(Marriott Theatre)

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee . Your first word is Antidisestablishmentarianism.

American Players Theatre
(American Players Theatre)

The Comedy of Errors. A classic.

Morton Arboretum

The Duck Variations . Quack.

The Spot
(New Millennium Theatre Company)

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

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

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

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.

Tommy Gun's Garage

Tommy Gun's Garage. Sip it all in at a 1920s speakeasy.

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.

City Lit

Tragedy of Doctor Fausts, The. This will resonant with grad students everywhere.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Triple Feature. Triple feature, triple fun.

Chopin Theatre
(Tuta Theatre Chicago)

Uncle Vanya. I'm a seagull, wait, wrong play.

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

UniFormless, The People In Your Neighborhood & Dual Duel. All kinds of funny.

Intercontinental Chicago O'Hare Hotel
(Annoyance Theatre)

Un-Tied. Revvin' up Rosemont.

Steppenwolf Theatre
(Steppenwolf Theatre Company)

Up. Up up and away.

Chase 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

Wanted - The Economic Crisis and Its Effect on the Local Clown Population . Not your children's clown show.

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.

American Players Theatre
(American Players Theatre)

Winter's Tale, The. Winter in Summer.

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