Second City’s She the People Zips by the Nuances
Just in time for the Second Annual Women’s March, the Second City remounts the sketch show She the People: Girlfriends’ Guide to Sisters Doing It For Themselves at the UP […]
Dream Freaks Fall From Space Is a Comedy Masterclass at Second City
By Matthew Nerber There is clear motive, it occurred to me, behind the Second City’s 106th Mainstage Revue Dream Freaks Fall From Space. The piece was directed by Ryan Bernier, […]
Review: 5th Annual Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival Brings The Laughs
[soliloquy id=”18461″] Stage 773 is home to quite a bit of fun, funny theater and comedy all year round. This past weekend, though, it saw the invasion of the […]
Get Serious About Nerding Out at 5th Annual Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival
Were you left a little wanting when Wizard World wrapped up at the end of August? A little bit sad that C2E2 won’t pop up till spring, and can’t wait for […]
Cheese and Cheesecake in Hell in a Handbag’s Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes
Fresh off receiving a Non-Equity Special Jeff Award for theatrical and charitable contributions, Hell in a Handbag co-founder and Artistic Director David Cerda presents Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes, his latest […]
Neo-Futurists Close Out Another Hilarious Season of It Came from the Neo-Futurarium
Last Saturday I had the rare treat of seeing a staged reading of the 1975 made-for-TV film “Someone I Touched” at the Neo-Futurarium in Andersonville. The original film (I say […]
Oeuf Oeuvre Scrambled in Something Rotten! at the Oriental Theatre
To get to the bottom of the boisterous mélange that is the multi-Tony-nominated Something Rotten!, audiences need an appreciation–and perhaps a thick lexicon–of all things musical (and probably also Elizabethan), […]
Mr. & Mrs. Wednesday Night’s Comedy of the Avant-Garde
The backroom of a dive bar is hardly where one expects to find fresh voices in contemporary performance art. Then again, The Hideout has never been just a dive bar. […]
A Little Bit Not Normal Interprets Genetic Depression With Humor
Arlene Malinowski has written and performs in A Little Bit Not Normal, her solo show about struggles with depression, personified here, peppered with humor as well as sign language, since […]
Laurie Anderson Returns Home to Quell My Political PTSD in The Language of the Future
Photo by Ebru Yildiz Glen Ellyn native and iconoclast Laurie Anderson returns home for a lovely, lyrical and melancholy meditation on the current state of affairs in her ongoing exploration, “The […]
Best of Bri-Ko Gets Physical
The Best of Bri-Ko, playing every Thursday night at Stage 773, lives up to its name. Clowns Brian Posen, Tim Soszko and Brian Peterlin put their energies together to silently […]
Schenkelberg’s Smart Scientology Smackdown in Squeeze My Cans
Cathy Schenkelberg adds her own narrative to the recent repudiations of Scientology in the remount of her rapid-fire, intimate, informative, mind-boggling and poignant solo exploration Squeeze My Cans. In […]