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Steppenwolf Merle Reskin Garage Theatre

Garage Rep . So many shows...

IO Theater

1, 2, 3, Fag!.

Th!nk Art

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

Village Players Performing Arts Center
(Village Players)

A Chorus Line. I hope I get it.

Theatre Building Chicago

A Love Lost Life- The Unauthorized Story of Marlon Brando. God-Fatherhood.

A Red Orchid Theatre

Abigail’s Party. Party hardy.

Steppenwolf Merle Reskin Garage Theatre
(XIII Pocket)

Adore. A tale of love and cannibalism.

Dream Theatre

Agamemnon. It's all Greek to me.

College of DuPage McAninch Arts Center

Agnes of God. Not Nunsense.

AjaxAntigone. New from State Theatre.

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.

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.

ComedySportz Theatre

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

Storefront Theatre
(DCA Theater)

Beautiful City. Beautiful disaster.

The Chicago Improv
(Ben Bailey)

Ben Bailey. Just tack the price of two drinks onto the cost.

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.

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.

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.

Pub Theater

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

Playground Theater

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

No Exit Cafe
(Theo Ubique)

Chess. Check mate.

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

Cocktail Hour at ComedySportz!. Wear your cocktail dress.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Co-Ed Prison Sluts. That's hot.

Lakeshore Theater

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

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

ComedySportz. Fast, funny improv suitable for all ages.

Irish American Heritage Center

Dancing at Lughnasa. Bittersweet memories.

Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Produced by Ben Nicholson)

Danny And The Deep Blue Sea . Dive down.

Theatre at the Center
(Theater at the Center)

Diary of Anne Frank, The. The most famous diary.

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.

Silk Road Theatre Project
(Silk Road Theatre Project)

DNA Trail: A Genealogy of Short Plays about Ancestry, Identity, The. Are we more than a double helix?

Rubin's Chicago Room Gallery Cafe

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

Aloft Loft

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

Chemically Imbalanced Theater

Epic Proportions. Real big.

Blue Theatre
(Quest Theater Ensemble)

Evolution/Creation . It's your universe.

John Waldron Arts Center

Fantasticks, The. Young lovers...and their fathers.

City Lit
(Promethean Theatre Ensemble)

Fantasticks, The. Try to remember the kind of...February?

eta Creative Arts Foundation

Fathers and Sons. Three generations, one fateful night.

Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre

Fiddler on the Roof. Quickly go the years.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Flames and Blazes: A Musical Comedy. Fiery fun.

Town Hall Pub

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

Strawdog Theatre
(Strawdog Theatre Company)

Good Soul of Szechuan, The. What does money buy?

Playground Theater

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

Steep Theatre

Harper Regan. One woman, leaving.

Stage Left Theatre
(Stage Left Theatre)

Here Where It's Safe. Tangled lives.

Greenhouse Theater Center

I Killed My Mother. Yikes.

Court Theatre

Illusion, The. A modern adaptation.

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.

Hydrate
(hydratechicago.com)

In Gaga We Trust. Sounds like a good romance.

Attic Playhouse

It Runs in the Family. it practically gallops.

Oracle Theatre

J.B. . In the Circus Called Life a Man's Heart Shall Be Tested

the side project
(Idle Muse Theatre Company)

Jerry and Tom. Ask yourself this, what's their profession?

Profiles Theatre

Killer Joe. What a lovely family.

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?

Greenhouse Theater Center
(Remy Bumppo Theatre Company)

Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Will Sarah Michelle Gellar be in it?

Lincoln Restaurant
(Tight Five Productions)

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

Trap Door Theatre

Living Quarters. Strangeloop Theater presents...

Goodman Theatre
(Goodman Theatre)

Long Red Road, The. Phillip Seymour Hoffman's Goodman directorial debut.

Viaduct Theatre
(LiveWire Theater Company)

Lower Debt. Downturn. All the way down.

TimeLine Theatre Company
(Timeline Theatre)

Master Harold… and the Boys . Humanity here.

La Costa Theatre
(Sideshow Theatre Company)

Medea With Child. That old story?

Copley Theatre
(TOC Productions)

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

Greenhouse Theater Center
(Hubris Productions)

Messiah on the Frigidaire. Pass the frozen peas, Jesus.

Apollo Theater

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

Chicago Dramatists

Mimesophobia. Fear of mines? Maybe not.

Apollo Studio Theater

Monks in Trouble. Monks vs the Apocalypse.

Lifeline Theatre
(Lifeline Theatre)

Mrs. Caliban. That happened to me once.

The Gift Theatre Company

Natural Gas . Ahhh.

Rosemont Theatre

Nickelodeon presents Storytime Live!. BYO Green slime.

Theater at the Center
(Theater at the Center)

Noises Off. Sardines?

Piven Theatre Workshop

Number of People. Survivor.

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

Oh Coward!. A brave Coward.

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

Old Settler, The. Settle in.

(Sixteenth Street Theater)

Our Lady of the Underpass. Praise her.

Noble Fool Theatricals
(Noble Fool Theatricals)

Over the Tavern. And through the woods?

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

pHrenzy. Vote for the funniest performer of the evening.

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

pHrenzy PG.

Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Steve Martin is a genius. Full stop.

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).

(The Right Brain Project)

Pretty Penny. A penny for your thoughts.

Stage Left Theatre
(The Mill)

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

Steppenwolf Merle Reskin Garage Theatre

Punkplay. Play it loud.

Royal George Theatre Center
(Quade Productions)

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

Angel Island
(Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company)

Rant, The. A perilous path to justice.

Next Theatre Company
(Next Theatre)

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

North Lakeside Cultural Center
(InnateVolution Theater)

Right As Rain. A world premiere explores sexuality, religion, friendship and loyalty.

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.

Actors Gymnasium

Science Fiction: An Experiment in Circus. Cirque Du Science.

Mercury Theater

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

Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre

Separate Peace, A. A classic.

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
(Metropolis Performing Arts Centre)

Side Man. All that jazz.

Artistic Home

Skin of Our Teeth, The.

Cornservatory

Somewhat Gelatinous Blob From Beyond the Grave, The. Jello anyone?

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.

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.

Fine Arts Building
(Moving Dock Theatre Company)

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

Prop Thtr
(Prop Theatre)

The Informer. He knows something.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

The Legend of Ginger Bred . Run, Ginger, run.

Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theatre)

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

Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Jack M. Bourgeois)

This Above All... . What is happiness really?

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.

Goodman Theatre

True History of the Johnstown Flood, A. A true tale.

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

Lookingglass Theatre Company
(Lookingglass Theatre Company)

Trust. Surfer beware.

Playground Theater

Tweet Life, The. @WTF?

Raven Theatre

Twelve Angry Men. Order in the court.

Steppenwolf Merle Reskin Garage Theatre
(Dog & Pony Theatre Company)

Twins Would Like to Say, The. No Mary Kate and Ashley.

Prop Thtr

Two Hundred Bullets and Seven Poison Apples. Death wish?

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Uncle Vanya. Cry uncle.

Intercontinental Chicago O'Hare Hotel
(Annoyance Theatre)

Un-Tied. Revvin' up Rosemont.

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater

Walk of Shame. Ah, memories....

Comedy Shrine Theater
(Comedy Shrine)

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

Lincoln Square Theatre

Wild Nights With Emily. Party girl or poet?

Chopin Theatre
(The House Theatre of Chicago)

Wilson Wants It All . Yes he does.

(Chicago Opera Vanguard)

Winterreise. Brrrr.

Strawdog Theatre

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

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