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National Pastime Theater
(MidTangent Productions)

A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Queer Tale. Back for its fourth and final time, it's Shakespeare—but queer!

Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater
(Shattered Globe Theatre )

A Taste of Honey. Working-class Jo must find her own way in 1950s Manchester, England.

Beverly Arts Center
(Chicago Kids Company Theatre for Children)

Alice in Wonderland. Experience Alice and her magical journey to Wonderland all over again.

Beverly Arts Center

Alice in Wonderland. Alice falls down the rabbit hole.

American Girl Place

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

Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater
(Blindfaith Theatre Company)

American Song. America's favorite folk singer tells his story through music and words.

RadioStar
(Bortz Entertainment Group)

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

Theatre Building Chicago
(Griffin Theatre)

Be More Chill. The cool kids rule high school.

Second City
(Second City)

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

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.

Storefront Theater
(Backstage Theatre Company)

Bloody Bess: A Tale of Piracy and Revenge. Murder and revenge take centerstage in this pirate-filled suspense.

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.

Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. Relive the fifties...or experience them for the first time.

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.

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 Dramatists
(Sideshow Theatre Company)

Dante Dies!! (and then things get weird). Sideshow sure knows how to f*^% up Dante.

Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
(Steppenwolf Theatre Company)

Dead Man’s Cell Phone. Jean can't stop answering a dead man's cell phone. And the phone keeps ringing.

Townhall Pub
(Dirty Water Improv)

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.

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.

Rubin's Chicago Room Gallery Cafe

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

Town Hall Pub

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

Village Players Theatre of Oak Park

Full Monty, The . Six unemployed dudes get nekkid.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater
(Chicago Shakespeare Theater)

Funk It Up About Nothin'. It's Shakespeare—the raptastic version.

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.

Royal George Theatre Center
(Royal George Theatre)

Gutenberg! The Musical!. Two aspiring writers head for Broadway...

Circle Theatre
(Circle Theatre)

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

Athenaeum Theatre
(Chicago Tap Theatre)

Hourglass and the Poisoned Pen, The . What happens when you combine superheros and tap dancers?

Bailiwick Repertory

Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The . Esmeralda, priest Frollo and Quasimodo are back again—with music from the Styx frontman.

Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theater Company)

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

Pheasant Run Theatre
(Noble Fool Theatricals)

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. It's the Off-Broadway musical about falling love, the "suburban mating game" and all the accompanying secrets.

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.

Theatre Building Chicago
(Bohemian Theatre Ensemble)

Jekyll & Hyde. BoHo revamps this musical theater classic.

Bank of America Theatre
(Broadway In Chicago)

Jersey Boys. Listen to Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons croon.

Mercury Theater
(Lowey/Leone Productions)

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

United Center

Kooza. Acrobats, clowns and comedy all under one roof.

Laugh Out Loud Theater
(Laugh Out Loud Theater)

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

Bailiwick Repertory
(Split Britches)

Lesbians Who Kill. It's even better than the movie "Monster."

Lincoln Restaurant
(Tight Five Productions)

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

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

Lion in Winter, The . Goldman merges fiction and past events to retell a powerful history.

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.

Lifeline Theatre
(Lifeline Theatre)

Mark of Zorro, The. Behold, the expert swordsman Zorro!

Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Theatre)

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

McAninch Arts Center
(Buffalo Theatre Ensemble)

Melville Boys, The. These two brothers couldn't have planned this weekend.

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.

Chopin Theatre
(Strange Tree Group)

Mysterious Elephant and the Terrible Tragedy of the Unlikely Addington Twins (*Who Kill Him), The. Save the elephant.

Sideproject Theater
(Bruised Orange Theater Company)

Nebraska Project, The . Bruce Springsteen's back. Yep.

Marriott Theatre
(Marriott Theatre)

Nunsense. Sister Julia accidentally poisoned 54 nuns. What now?

Apollo Studio Theater
(PennyBear)

PennyBear: A Collection of Miniature Plays and Curious Diversions. Sketch comedy group PennyBear takes it to the next level in their second full-length show.

Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)

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

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).

Royal George Theatre Center
(Quade Productions)

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

Heartland Cafe
(The PEOPLE*S Theater of Chicago)

Questa. Seven New Yorkers meet one another after suspected "gay bashing."

Profiles Theatre
(Rubicon Theatre Project)

Rag and Bone. Buy and sell hearts on the black market—they'll change your life.

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
(Victory Gardens)

Relatively Close. Families are the funniest.

Prop Thtr
(Factory Theater)

Ren Faire: A Fistful of Ducats. Summer fairs duke it out.

The Cornservatory
(Astonrep Theatre Company)

Rusty Pipe. What happens when two men find a little rusty pipe?

Drury Lane Water Tower Place
(Broadway In Chicago)

Shout! The Mod Musical. Five women in 1960s England make musical history.

City Lit Theatre
(Promethean Theater Ensemble)

Six Characters in Search of an Author. Six characters show up, but where's the plot?

Trap Door Theatre
(Point of Contention)

Still Photos. Forbidden love flourishes during wartime.

Athenaeum Theatre
(Greasy Joan & Co.)

Sueno. Mystical, haunting and humorous adaptation.

Steppenwolf Theatre
(Steppenwolf )

Superior Donuts. What would you do if you owned a tore-up donut shop?

Excalibur
(Neil Tobin, Necromancer)

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

Oracle Theatre
(Oracle Theatre )

Termen Vox Machina. It's a sci-fi radio drama like no other.

Berger Park Coach House
(The Journeymen)

tick, tick...BOOM. The guy who wrote "Rent" actually did do some other work.

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.

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

True West. A modern-day riff on Cain and Abel.

The Gift Theatre Company
(Gift)

W;T. One English poetry professor must conquer death and life simultaneously.

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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