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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
Best of The Second City: Chicago-Style
The Best of The Second City: Chicago-Style is a fast-paced sketch and improv comedy revue from The Second City featuring classic scenes from its legendary…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Babes With Blades Theatre Company Presents World Premiere of “yo ho.”
Babes With Blades Theatre Company’s (BWBTC) 2026 season opens with a world premiere, yo ho., by playwright SMJ, directed by JD Caudill and fight choreography…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Honk! A Short Form Improv Show
Honk! is a short form, game-based improv show that asks: what good is comedy if you can’t get a little silly? Comprised of some of…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Pandemonium, Please Hold
The Second City’s 114th Mainstage Revue Pandemonium, Please Hold is a loud, fast, and gloriously unhinged night of comedic mayhem. The Second City’s six-person cast…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Reality Detox: The Improv Experience
Reality Detox: The Improv Experience is a high-energy night of improvisation from The Second City, with a few sketch surprises mixed in along the way. Built…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Voila: The Improvised Musical
iO Chicago presents: a fully made-up, off-off-off Broadway style musical every Friday at 10pm in the Fremont Theater. Spend your Friday night with us. See…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Hitch*Cocktails
A Chicago based improv comedy show and drinking game based on the works of Alfred Hitchcock. Based on an audience suggestion, the cast weave together…
Theatre & Performing Arts
& Juliet
Created by the Emmy®-winning writer from “Schitt’s Creek,” this hilarious new musical flips the script on the greatest love story ever told. & Juliet asks: what would…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Theater of the Mind
Now Extended Multiple experiences per day at the Reid Murdoch Building, 333 N LaSalle Visit TheateroftheMindChicago.com for dates, times, and tickets Created by David Byrne…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Champions Of Magic
The phenomenal Champions Of Magic bring their acclaimed illusion spectacular to Chicago for a limited engagement this summer. See the production that critics have described…
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions, Theatre & Performing Arts
The Living Canvas Experience
An Exhibition Celebrating 25 Years of Art and the Body. The Living Canvas celebrates the beauty and expressive power of the human form through performance…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Goodman Theatre Presents Raven Theatre’s Production of OCTET
EXTENDED BY POPULAR DEMAND THROUGH August 2! Raven Theatre’s “astonishing” (Chicago Tribune) a cappella musical—hailed as “one of the most engrossing pieces of theater this…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Iceboy! The Musical
Starts June 20 Extended a Third Time Through August 16! MUSIC BY MARK HOLLMANN LYRICS BY MARK HOLLMANN AND JAY REISS BOOK BY ERIN QUINN…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Metropolis Performing Arts Centre Presents “The Wizard of Oz”
Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, located in the heart of downtown Arlington Heights, 111 W. Campbell St., is proud to announce the cast and creative team…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Best of The Second City
Find out for yourself why The Second City has been the first name in laughter for over sixty years! From the stages that launched the…
Theatre & Performing Arts
As You Like It
AS YOU LIKE IT is a vibrant Shakespearean comedy that wittily explores love and gender roles. Banished from court by her uncle, Rosalind escapes to the…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Make Your Own Crappy Cake Art Class
The popular Crappy Cake Art Making Class is returning to WNDR this summer! Join Anna Lasbury, creator of one of WNDR’s most colorful installations “Life…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Pandemonium, Please Hold
The Second City’s 114th Mainstage Revue Pandemonium, Please Hold is a loud, fast, and gloriously unhinged night of comedic mayhem. The Second City’s six-person cast…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
The Infinite Wrench
Don’t miss the longest running late-night show in Chicago! At The Infinite Wrench you’ll see 30 original plays in 60 minutes written and performed by…
Theatre & Performing Arts
FreakShow & Tell
21+ ONLY Brianna Wellen, Chicago Reader: Sideshow entertainer Thom Britton’s solo show is part performance, part demonstration. Britton is a charismatic performer who appears genuinely…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Reality Detox: The Improv Experience
Reality Detox: The Improv Experience is a high-energy night of improvisation from The Second City, with a few sketch surprises mixed in along the way. Built…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Hitch*Cocktails: Summer of Suspense
Hitch*Cocktails: The Improvised Thriller / Drinking Show brings audiences another SUMMER OF SUSPENSE! The long-running show kicks off its second special summer series with special…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Baby Wants Candy! The Original Completely Improvised Musical
“CRITICS’ PICK. TRULY AMAZING!” – New York Times “BEST VISITING IMPROV COMEDY!”– TimeOut NY “HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!” – The Onion “★★★★★” THEY ARE AN ENTERTAINMENT PHENOMENON AND I…
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