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IO Theater

1, 2, 3, Fag!.

IO Theater

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

Th!nk Art

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

Mercury Theater

A Grand Night For Singing.

Second City ETC
(Second City)

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

Accidental Death Of An Anarchist. True to the spirit of anarchy.

A Red Orchid Theatre

Aliens, The.

Strawdog Theatre

Allotment Annie.

Strawdog Theatre

Allotment Annie. A loving rendition of the WWII era and a healthy dose of demythologization.

American Girl Place

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

(Rivendell Theatre Ensemble)

American Wee-Pie.

Pheasant Run Theatre
(Fox Valley Repertory Youth Ensemble)

Art of Murder, The.

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.

1743 South Halsted Street

Bad Grammar Theater. Stories on schedule.

Baker's Wife, The.

Athenaeum Theatre

Beautiful Thing.

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.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

BOOBS and GOOMBAS: A Super Mario Burlesque. I don't want to see Luigi's undergarments.

Bank of America Theatre

Book Of Mormon, The . Believe the hype.

Raven Theatre

Boy Gets Girl . A bad date gets even worse in this anti-romantic comedy about stalking.

Boys Next Door, The.

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.

Ruth Page Center for the Arts

Bud, Not Buddy.

Pub Theater

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

Cars and Quinceaneras.

Caucasian Chalk Circle. A Brecht classic with an original score.

Cornservatory

Champions of Improv Gladiators, The.

Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre

Cinderella.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Co-Ed Prison Sluts. That's hot.

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

ComedySportz. Fast, funny improv suitable for all ages.

Raue Center For The Arts

Company.

TimeLine Theatre Company
(Timeline Theatre)

Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West.

Donny's Skybox Studio

Damn, Gina!.

Jedlicka Performing Arts Center

Das Barbecu.

Gorilla Tango's Skokie Theatre
(Robert Curtis)

Dial with a Smile: An Office Musical .

(The Dinner Detective)

Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show, The.

Bella Bacinos
(Dirty Water )

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

Town Hall Pub
(Dirty Water)

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

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater

Disconnect.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Don’t Blink: A Doctor Who Burlesque.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Don't Blink:A Doctor Who Burlesque.

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.

Underground Lounge

Electric Muse Cabaret. Lady Jack electrifies second Fridays.

Loyola University

Epic Spectacles: A New Play. A new coming of age story.

Faith Healer.

Town Hall Pub

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

Angel Island
(Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company)

Glass Menagerie, The. An American classic, viewed through a grimy glass.

Playground Theater

Grafitti.

Playground Theater

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

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Grass is Almost Greener, The.

Building Stage
(Building Stage)

Hänsel und Gretel. Into the woods...

Stage 773
(Shattered Globe Theatre)

Happy Now?.

Hellcab.

(The Right Brain Project)

Hesperia. Porn and innocence.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Hooter Rangers:A Spicy Morphing Burlesque.

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.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater

In Sovereign We Trust.

Stage 773
(Bailiwick Chicago)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Kinetic Jam, The.

Greenhouse Theater Center

Kiss Kiss Cabaret. A Chicago-based neo-vaudeville, burlesque cabaret.

Greenhouse Theater Center

Kiss Kiss Cabaret: Anniversary Show.

Stage 773
(Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago)

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill. A Musical Biography of a Legend

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?

(MPAACT)

Leaves, Trees, Forest.

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

Letters, The. Who will claim the upper hand?

Dream Theatre

Lights Out, Everybody - a tribute in Horror to Arch Oboler.

Lincoln Tap Room

Lincoln Fair, A Monthly Burlesque Exposition.

Lincoln Restaurant
(Tight Five Productions)

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

Stage 773
(Vaudezilla Productions)

Live Band Burlesque.

Steep Theatre

Luther.

Chopin Theatre

Magnificents, The.

Copley Theatre
(TOC Productions)

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

Apollo Theater

Million Dollar Quartet. Four famous musicians team up and rock out.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Minsk, 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker.

Steppenwolf Theatre

Motherf**ker with the Hat, The. A monumentally enjoyable theatre experience.

Studio L'Amour

Naked Girls Reading Slumber Party. Stay up late "reading."

The Gift Theatre Company

Natural Gas . Ahhh.

Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre

Now and Forever, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre

Oral Histories.

Goodman Theatre
(Goodman Theatre)

Other Desert Cities. A play with great potential doesn't quite gel.

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

pHlip Cup.

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

pHrenzy. Vote for the funniest performer of the evening.

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

pHrenzy PG.

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).

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.

Theater Wit

Pygmalion. Celebrate this classic satire's 100th birthday with the party it deserves.

Ontourage

Red Bar Comedy Show, The. Fresh stand-up in an upscale, Vegas-style venue.

Athenaeum Theatre

Richard II .

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.

Greenhouse Theater Center

Royal Hunt of the Sun, The.

Mercury Theater

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

Crocodile

Show Below, The. Funny is free.

Greenhouse Theater Center

Side Effects May Include.

Chicago Dramatists
(Chicago Dramatists)

Southbridge.

Chicago Dramatists
(Chicago Dramatists)

Southbridge.

Second City ETC
(Second City)

Studs Terkel's Not Working. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

(Signal Ensemble Theatre)

Successors.

Athenaeum Theatre
(Greasy Joan & Co.)

Sueno. Mystical, haunting and humorous adaptation.

Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace

Sunset Boulevard.

Excalibur
(Neil Tobin, Necromancer)

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

The ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

Talk Hard.

Second City
(Second City)

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

Cornservatory

Tammy: A Coming of Age Story About a Girl Who is Part T-Rex. "Hey Diary, What's up?"

Fine Arts Building
(Moving Dock Theatre Company)

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

Martyrs'

Tease the Season. Tease me.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Temple of Boobs: An Indiana Jones Burlesque. The Geek Girls will reveal all…

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre

Thanks for the Memories: A Veteran’s Day Salute . Happy Veteran's Day.

Black Ensemble Theater
(Black Ensemble Theatre)

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

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre

There’s A Girl In My Soup.

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre

There's A Girl In My Soup.

Three Viewings.

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.

Village Theatre Guild

Trying.

Playground Theater

Tweet Life, The. @WTF?

Intercontinental Chicago O'Hare Hotel
(Annoyance Theatre)

Un-Tied. Revvin' up Rosemont.

Trap Door Theatre

Unveiling and Dozens of Cousins, The.

The Greenhouse Theatre Center
(Circle Theatre)

When the Rain Stops Falling.

Northlight Theatre

Whipping Man, The.

Comedy Shrine Theater
(Comedy Shrine)

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

eta Creative Arts Foundation

Wine In The Wilderness.

Greenhouse Theater Center
(MPAACT)

Zulu Fits . Twists and turns.

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