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The first evening of the Asian Persuasion Comedy Variety Show, May 4 -- is fast approaching! Come experience Chicago's top tier comedians while dining on delicious Japanese cuisine from Kamehachi Sushi and celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with us! Space is limited, so get your tickets at HERE😸🍣
LookOut is Steppenwolf’s performance series that presents the work of artists and companies across genre and form. Emerging artists and performance legends, quintessential Chicago companies and young aspiring ensembles, familiar Steppenwolf faces and new friends. Buy a ticket and support the local arts scene; the majority of each purchase goes straight to artists.
All performances take place in Steppenwolf's 1700 Theater, an intimate and flexible venue nestled behind Front Bar: Coffee and Drinks.
For 30 years, Stir Friday Night (Chicago's longest-running AAPI comedy team) has been making people laugh. This show is no exception. As they gear up for their milestone 30th anniversary sketch revue in the fall, Stir Friday Night has roped some of their best and funniest ensemble members for Rice to the Occasion, an evening of sizzling, flavorful comedy. MSG included.
Full cast to be announced.
LookOut is Steppenwolf’s performance series that presents the work of artists and companies across genre and form. Emerging artists and performance legends, quintessential Chicago companies and young aspiring ensembles, familiar Steppenwolf faces and new friends. Buy a ticket and support the local arts scene; the majority of each purchase goes straight to artists.
All performances take place in Steppenwolf's 1700 Theater, an intimate and flexible venue nestled behind Front Bar: Coffee and Drinks.
For 30 years, Stir Friday Night (Chicago's longest-running AAPI comedy team) has been making people laugh. This show is no exception. As they gear up for their milestone 30th anniversary sketch revue in the fall, Stir Friday Night has roped some of their best and funniest ensemble members for Rice to the Occasion, an evening of sizzling, flavorful comedy. MSG included.
Full cast to be announced.
M.I.L.F. (Mach Improv LA Festival) is back, this time as a TWO-DAY festival featuring the best indie comedy in Los Angeles and special visiting guests!
Running April 25th and 26th at The Clubhouse, and joined this year by W.G.I.S. and The Pack, this fest features a lineup of 100+ comedy acts! Including: improv, music, stand-up, characters, bit shows, unhinged screeds, and more.
The Show is FREE first come first served!
More information about the festival can be found here
Join us for a night of long-form improv with some of the best improv teams in the city! Hosted by improv team, Holy Goat!
Doors Open 7:30 PM
Show 8:00 PM - 9:20 PM
Cost $5
Tickets can be purchased online and at the door as well.
We are a small, open seating venue and encourage groups to arrive 15 minutes before show time to find seats together.
We are also BYOB! (Bring your own beverage)
Purchase Tickets HERE
Flex Improv is made up of some of the best and wildest BIPOC performers in Chicago. From heart felt laughs, physical comedy, monologues, and singing, you never know what to expect from Flex. With new openers each week, including our Lab Cast, and of course us!
Tickets can be purchased HERE
Come see DEEP DISHIN’ on the last Wednesday of every month at 7:00pm at The Den Theater in Theatre 2A.
Deep Dishin’ is a piping hot monthly variety show featuring juicy, sizzling improvisation... thick, thick stand-up comedy... slurpy musical comedy... drippy, gooey solo characters... and more... all on a crisp, buttery sketch comedy crust. Every month, you’ll get to see all-new sketches and all new guest performers. We’ll announce our monthly line-ups here and you can make reservations at this link. Eat up!
Real Angels presents a weekly show with guests performing improv, sketch, short plays and music*. Not all of these are guaranteed but a good time always is.
Real Angels is an improv team made up of Mike Brunlieb, Jenelle Cheyne, and Lindsey Smith.
Doors Open 9:00 PM
Show 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Cost $5
Tickets can be purchased online and at the door as well.
We are a small, open seating venue and encourage groups to arrive 15 minutes before show time to find seats together.
We are also BYOB! (Bring your own beverage)
Purchase Tickets HERE
Lil Weenie Salad is a WACKY improv show where we create the teams LIVE in front of the audience by spinning a HUGE wheel! All teams consist of four people and under and feature a brand new cast every week with Chicago's BEST comedians! The teams then combine together to create a MEGA team and more hilarity ensues! You aren't going to want to miss this!
Purchase Tickets HERE
A weekly comedy show featuring some of the best improv, standup, and sketch in the city!
Doors Open 7:30 PM
Show 8:00 PM - 9:20 PM
Cost $5
Tickets can be purchased online and at the door as well.
We are a small, open seating venue and encourage groups to arrive 15 minutes before show time to find seats together.
We are also BYOB! (Bring your own beverage)
On January 17th, the gates of hell burst open for Devil Fest, a one-night-only demonic bacchanalia of comedy at iO Theater hosted by Devil’s Daughter. This is not your typical comedy festival--this is a descent into pure madness.
Imagine all of your favorite comedy teams--those stalwarts of the Harold, musical improv, and short form games--completely unleashed from their usual forms. What chaotic theatrical experiments will they perform? What mind bending evil performances might they conjure? At Devil Fest, expect the unexpected and prepare to have your sense of reality forever warped.
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” - Mary Kate Olsen.
Featuring:
22 Improv
BirdLady
Duluth
Escandalo
Fizz
FLEX
High Stakes Productions
Improvised Jane Austen
Megalodonna
The Mermaids
Spellbound
Stir Friday Night
Trigger Happy
Voila
Wet Pizza
Whimsy Lohan
