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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…
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
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…
Theatre & Performing Arts
ABLE presents Frankenstein
Following a sold-out run at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, A.B.L.E.—Artists Breaking Limits & Expectations is thrilled to bring our critically acclaimed adaptation of Frankenstein back to…
Music & Comedy
Nate Bargatze – Big Dumb Eyes World Tour
Nate Bargatze is bringing his Big Dumb Eyes World Tour to United Center on October 23 & 24, 2025!
Music & Comedy
First Date Comedy Gameshow
Welcome to the First Date Comedy Gameshow at The Laugh Factory – Chicago, featuring the hilarious antics of the First Date Comedy Gameshow troupe. Join…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Comedy of Errors
Double the Twins, Double the Trouble! Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors barrels into a rowdy beach-town Ephesus—a whirlwind of mistaken identities, romantic misfires, and riotous…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Paranormal Activity – A New Story Live On Stage
“★ ★ ★ ★! Enough connection to the movies to be beloved by fans, while being completely accessible to the unfamiliar.” –Chicago Sun-Times “The one…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Teatro Zinzanni
Tickets are on sale Now at https://zinzanni.com/chicago/ for Love, Chaos, & Dinner ! Teatro Zinzanni returns to the vibrant Chicago Loop inside the velvet walls…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Conspirators’ “Duck Soup”
The Conspirators present Duck Soup by Harry Ruby and Burt Kalmar, adapted from the Marx Brothers’ movie for the stage by Sid Feldman and directed…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Revolution(s)
By Zayd Ayers Dohrn Music and Lyrics by Tom Morello Directed by Steve H. Broadnax III October 4 – November 9, 2025 Put your hands…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Improvised Shakespeare Company®
The Improvised Shakespeare Company® proudly presents its critically-acclaimed, long-running hit show Improvised Shakespeare Chicago, now in its 19th year! Join us for an evening of…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Improvised Shakespeare
Critically-acclaimed improvised comedy featuring the language and themes of William Shakespeare
Music & Comedy
Alarm Will Sound
“Überhip” (Entertainment Weekly) 20-member band Alarm Will Sound takes on music from the arch-modernist to the pop-influenced. Committed to innovative performances and recordings of today’s…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Hundreds and Hundreds of Stars
Motherhood, marijuana, and the multiverse collide in this Chicago-set story of family, immigration, and American identity. Like millions of Americans, Clara is doing her best…
Theatre & Performing Arts
DeathToll: The Sketch Comedy Drinking Game Show
Our longest-running sketch show is back again to scare you into drinking! DEATH TOLL is a sketch show with one simple rule: drink when someone…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Ugly Lies The Bone
Jonathan Berry is BACK and he’s directing Shattered Globe’s powerful season opener UGLY LIES THE BONE. After three tours in Afghanistan, Jess returns home to…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Mr. Wolf
12 years ago, Theresa was stolen from her parents. Now a precocious 15-year-old, she has been rescued and returned to a family that had nearly…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Neighborhood of the Loners
The Neighborhood of the Loners is a place where residents live without social interactions or contact with the world around them. This sanctuary of solitude…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Mop & Bucket Blues
“Mop and Bucket Blues” examines the importance of sports and creative arts programming by bringing awareness to Chicago’s inner city gun violence, poverty, food insecurity,…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Chicago Symphony Orchestra: The Soldier’s Tale
Overview Step into the engrossing world of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale — a Faustian fable about a soldier-fiddler who makes a pact with the devil — in…
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
Oil Lamp Theater Presents “Gaslight”
Oil Lamp Theater is proud to present Gaslight (Angel Street), October 2 – November 2, by Patrick Hamilton and directed by Susan Gorman at Oil…
Music & Comedy
Freddie Gibbs and Alchemist – Alfredo The Tour 2025
Freddie Gibbs and Alchemist will perform live at Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom on Oct. 24, 2025.
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