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The Lincoln Lodge
The Lincoln Lodge stand-up comedy and variety showcase plays every Friday and Saturday night in Chicago’s glamorous Logan Square! In addition to The Lodge’s rotating…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
ComedySportz Chicago
Chicago’s longest running and best interactive improv comedy experience. ComedySportz is comedy played as a sport, not comedy ABOUT sports (whew). Refs, fouls, points, games…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
The Cosmic Underground Show
Magic, Mind-Reading, and Comedy Collide! Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, the Cosmic Underground Show blasts off for a 90-minute immersive comedy, magic, and mind-reading show.…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
This is Your Brain on Beer Comedy Show!
See comedians do two sets: first one sober and the second one DRUNK!
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Factory Theater’s “The Sporting Life”
The Factory Theater, 1623 W. Howard St., presents The Sporting Life, October 10 – November 22, written by Marjorie Muller and directed by Kayla Menz.…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Babes With Blades Theatre Company’s “The Mark”
Babes With Blades Theatre Company’s (BWBTC) is proud to present the world premiere of The Mark, October 11 – November 22 at The Edge Theater,…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Best Of Annoyance Sketch
Enjoy the best sketch comedy Chicago has to offer! The Annoyance Theatre has been at the crux of the comedy scene in Chicago for over…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Hell’s Kitchen
Welcome to HELL’S KITCHEN, the hit musical from 17-time Grammy® Award winning Alicia Keys—inspired by her life, her music, and her community. Your journey begins with…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Leo Lionni’s Frederick
While other mice are gathering food for the winter, Frederick daydreams the summer away. But when fall weather comes, it is Frederick who has stored…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The House That Will Not Stand
In early nineteenth-century New Orleans, widowed mother Beartrice struggles to manage her headstrong daughters after the death of her second husband. But as the matriarch…
Theatre & Performing Arts
A Christmas Carol
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” Rediscover a Dickens’ classic with an adaptation that “makes you…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Carmina Burana
For three performances only, Enrique Mazzola leads the celebrated Lyric Opera Orchestra and Chorus in Carmina Burana, the sweeping cantata based on 24 medieval poems. Lyric’s talented musicians…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Season 48 Fall Series
Returning to the Steppenwolf Theatre stage after taking it by storm last year with a sold-out 2-week run, Season 48’s Fall Series showcases the full…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Taming of the Shrew
Deception, disguise, and desire. What if we want to be tamed? The richest man in town has two daughters and one big problem: he refuses to marry…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Angry F*gs
An out lesbian state senator is up for re-election. Her female opponent is a moderate conservative who has aligned herself with right-wing extremists. They’re locked…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Baldwin | Giovanni Experience
The dynamic poeticism of Spoken Word and the piercing directness of Prose are at the forefront of this momentous theatrical experience inspired by the 1971…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
SCP Piano: Hayato Sumino
Overview More than a pianist, Hayato Sumino is a phenomenon. Known on YouTube as “Cateen,” the Japanese musician has earned tens of millions of views…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Superior Donuts
Arthur Przybyszewski owns a decrepit donut shop in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. Franco Wicks, a black teenager who is his only employee, wants to…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Strange Cargo: The Doom of the Demeter
Based on Chapter Seven of Bram Stoker’s DRACULA, this gothic horror high seas adventure tells the shocking events aboard the cargo ship transporting Count Dracula’s belongings from…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Friends with Guns by Stephanie Alison Walker
November 7 – December 7 | The Den Theatre written by Stephanie Alison Walker directed by Nathan Dale Short assistant direction by Emma Leeper You…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Friends with Guns by Stephanie Alison Walker
You think you know your friends, your neighbors, your spouse; but what happens when you suddenly find out they have a garage full of guns?…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Gabby’s Dollhouse Live!
A brand-new stage show inspired by the magical world of the global preschool sensation from DreamWorks Animation. In this a-MEOW-zing live show, Gabby unboxes a…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Teatro Zinzanni
Tickets are on sale now at https://zinzanni.com/chicago/tickets/ “Best Night Out” – CS Magazine | “You must see to believe!” – Forbes Teatro ZinZanni, Chicago’s most…
Theatre & Performing Arts
40th Anniversary Tour of “CLUE THE MOVIE” Hosted by Lesley Ann Warren
Chicago fans of the iconic whodunit are in for a killer night as Lesley Ann Warren, the original Miss Scarlet, brings the CLUE: THE MOVIE 40th Anniversary…
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