The stage is set in a hidden venue. Five professional actors meet as members of The Drunk Shakespeare Society. One of them has 5 shots of whiskey and then attempts to perform a major role in a Shakespearean play. Hilarity and mayhem ensue while the four sober actors try and keep the script on track. Every show is different depending on who is drinking... and what they're drinking! Craft cocktails are available for purchase throughout the show.
Call it Loretta Young meets Carol Burnett and Whoopi Goldberg. Call it part catechism class, part stand-up routine. Written by Vicki Quade & Maripat Donovan, it’s an interactive …
Witness personal redemption through public humiliation in a refreshing show that is equal parts comedic, cathartic and voyeuristic. Presented by WBEZ at the Studebaker Theater on September 23rd, Mortified stars everyday people reading aloud their most embarrassing and private teenage diary entries, poems, love letters, lyrics and locker notes… in front of total strangers.
A “laugh-out-loud” (Broadway World) “hilarious comedy” (Arts ATL) from nationally renowned playwright, poet and NY Times best-selling author Pearl Cleage.
The Best of The Second City: Chicago-Style features some of the best sketch comedy and songs from our comedy vaults that are about… you guessed it, Chicago. Will there be deep dish digs? Political puns? Cubs comedy? If it’s about our very own Windy City, you can bet it’s getting roasted by The Second City Touring Company.
Through fabulous storytelling and fast-paced comedy, Ben Franklin and his want-to-be-inventor niece, Sarah, travel to France where they us the Scientific Method to test a mystical man’s magical …
Stop by your tia Vanessa's carne asada filled with tortas, Spanish and punch lines. Everyone will be there: Your abuelita, your tio Pancho, el cutie de tu gym, el paletero. Osea, you'd be crazy if you weren't there amigis. Come and watch the hottest, Latinx bilingual comedians that Chicago has to offer.
Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! is National Public Radio’s Peabody Award-winning comedy news quiz show. Host Peter Sagal leads a rotating panel of comedians, writers, listener contestants, and celebrity …
A musical comedy, embracing every father’s nightmare! Wednesday Addams, known for her love of darkness, has fallen in love with a sweet man from a seemingly respectable and …
Who is the patron saint of werewolves? Which saint died and went to hell, then came back to life? Which two saints practiced black magic before switching to …
From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation, The Producers, comes this monster new musical comedy. The comedy genius, Mel Brooks, adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant …
We’ve all seen the oversized game cards and colorful, iconic images of the traditional Mexican game, Lotería. Now Teatro Tariakuri brings the excitement of the game to the live stage in this hilarious new interactive comedy. But instead of figures like a ladder, policeman or death, Lotería is played using traditional Mexican proverbs.
Things take an unexpected turn at couples therapy, where Vincent reunites his two exes, Daniel and Lucía, with the bold plan to reveal that he wants to be together with them both. Through memories, confessions, and fights, the three of them stir up a solution to a passionate love triangle.
Cat Kid and Molly Pollywog have started an epic club to teach 21 rambunctious baby frogs how to make their own comics. Flippy is overjoyed that his kids learn to unleash their creativity, but the frogs’ bickering and outrageous imaginations send their comics off the rails, and Flippy flips out. Can creativity save the day? All will be answered in this madcap musical based on Dav Pilkey’s hilarious book series.
We all present different faces to the world, but some are more different than most. In this funny and visually stunning one-person show, Shane Shambhu reveals the secret life he kept from his school friends while growing up in the cultural melting pot of East London while training in the Indian performing art of Bharatanatyam. Combining physical theatre, spoken word, Indian dance, film, and an original score, this coming-of-age story draws on creator Shane Shambhu’s lived experience, capturing the multiple identities that the children of migrants develop growing up in the UK, showing one face at home and another to the outside world.
Colombian star of stage and screen Marce Valencia stars in this story of a woman who lives outside the norm within a society where the norm means to let things go, keep quiet, and deal with it. While her stories seem like fiction, they are all based on real life. Everything you are about to see…happened!
Award-winning comedian Samantha Bee is the sex ed teacher you never knew you needed. In YOUR FAVORITE WOMAN: THE JOY OF SEX EDUCATION, Bee takes us on the …
The year is 0. A brand new star appears in the sky. Three religious scholars thrust together by fate must embark on a race against time to catch the birth of God (or, wait, is it the Son of God. Both? Neither?). To get there, they'll have to endure perilous deserts, cutthroat bandits, the mad puppet king of Judea, and most of all... each other. It's Bethlehem or Bust in this road trip comedy 2,023 years in the making.
A group of hilariously self-obsessed Broadway stars swarm a small conservative town to support a courageous girl who wants to take her girlfriend to the prom.