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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
Stir Friday Night, Chicago’s longest-running Asian-American Pacific Islander (AAPI) comedy team, is hot off the wok with 60 minutes of brand new material to keep you coming back for seconds.
Founded in 1995, with alumni such as Steven Yeun (Walking Dead, Minari) Danny Pudi (Community) and Mary Sohn (AP Bio) Stir Friday Night is a fixture in Chicago’s comedy scene.
Shows are weekly FRIDAYS AT 7:30 Sept 26-Oct 25th
Purchase Tickets HERE
Stir Friday Night, Chicago’s longest-running Asian-American Pacific Islander (AAPI) comedy team, is hot off the wok with 60 minutes of brand new material to keep you coming back for seconds.
Founded in 1995, with alumni such as Steven Yeun (Walking Dead, Minari) Danny Pudi (Community) and Mary Sohn (AP Bio) Stir Friday Night is a fixture in Chicago’s comedy scene.
Shows are weekly FRIDAYS AT 7:30 Sept 26-Oct 25th
Purchase Tickets HERE
Stir Friday Night, Chicago’s longest-running Asian-American Pacific Islander (AAPI) comedy team, is hot off the wok with 60 minutes of brand new material to keep you coming back for seconds.
Founded in 1995, with alumni such as Steven Yeun (Walking Dead, Minari) Danny Pudi (Community) and Mary Sohn (AP Bio) Stir Friday Night is a fixture in Chicago’s comedy scene.
Shows are weekly FRIDAYS AT 7:30 Sept 26-Oct 25th
Purchase Tickets HERE
Stir Friday Night, Chicago’s longest-running Asian-American Pacific Islander (AAPI) comedy team, is hot off the wok with 60 minutes of brand new material to keep you coming back for seconds.
Founded in 1995, with alumni such as Steven Yeun (Walking Dead, Minari) Danny Pudi (Community) and Mary Sohn (AP Bio) Stir Friday Night is a fixture in Chicago’s comedy scene.
Shows are weekly FRIDAYS AT 7:30 Sept 26-Oct 25th
Purchase Tickets HERE
Stir Friday Night, Chicago’s longest-running Asian-American Pacific Islander (AAPI) comedy team, is hot off the wok with 60 minutes of brand new material to keep you coming back for seconds.
Founded in 1995, with alumni such as Steven Yeun (Walking Dead, Minari) Danny Pudi (Community) and Mary Sohn (AP Bio) Stir Friday Night is a fixture in Chicago’s comedy scene.
Shows are weekly FRIDAYS AT 7:30 Sept 26-Oct 25th
Purchase Tickets HERE
Yes, End Alz is a comedy show to bring light and laughter to the fight against Alzheimer's. Up and coming Chicago comedians will serve up improv, stand-up, and sketch in service of a great cause. All proceeds will benefit The Alzheimer's Association's Walk 2 End Alzheimer's.
Purchase tickets here
Enjoy the second day of programming of the 2024 iO Fest with this single day general admission ticket. Gain access to performances happening in all 4 of our theaters. GA performances begin at 5:30pm and end at approximately 12:30am.
GA Pass Includes Access to the following performances only:
Anarchy
Andrew Cornelius
Behemoth
Chicken Big
ComedySportz
Devil's Daughter
Duchovny
Dumb John
Ian MacDonald
Jet City Improv
Josh Cahn
Kismet
Kitty Hawk
Laser Comedy Show
Late Night Shenanigans
Lauren Frost
Lil' Sluggers
Maureen Nolan
Melk
Messing with John Lehr
New York's Finest
People's Sketch Revue
Robert Johnson
Schmooty
Sissy Vanya
soft
Spellbound
Stir Friday Night
Very Good Boys
Young Douglas
Tickets Here!
Of course Boom Chicago comes from Chicago, but improv comedy itself comes from Chicago. This is your chance to see a showcase of the Windy City’s top improvisational comedy talents in 2024. Featuring Wolftown, Stir Friday Night and Baby Wine. Learn those names!
In celebration of AAPI Heritage Month, iO presents The Asian Persuasion Comedy Variety Showcase in partnership with The Foundation for Asian American Independent Media (FAAIM). This comedy variety show will take place May 26th at 8:00 PM at iO Theater and be the culmination of FAAIM’s film festival happening the week prior at the Gene Siskel Theater.
Hosted by:
Jerry Tran
Lineup
Asian Takeout
Stir Friday Night
Second City Victor Wong Fellows of 2024
William-Paik
Sonal Aggarwal
Music from
Shawn Shakya
Headliner
Evan Mills
Learn more about our comedic acts and buy tickets at www.faaim.org or by visiting the link in our bio! Follow @faaimchicago on Instagram to keep up with all of our AAPI Heritage Month events! #Chicago #comedy #improv #sketch #iO #standup #chicagothingstodo #comedians #secondcity #AAPIHeritageMonth
This Sunday Chicago’s Best Improv Team nominees will showcase themselves and the audience will decide who will become Chicago’s Best Improv Team. So, dress to impress for a night that celebrates Chicago's vibrant comedy scene, blending talent, absurdity, and audience participation into a night of unforgettable laughter. #chicago #do312 #whattodochi #whattodochicago #secondcity #bestofchicago
Purchase Tickets Here
Round Two! Thanks for your patience everyone with our last-minute venue change.
We still have a hilarious brand new hour of sketch comedy for you to keep your April focused on laughter instead of the rain.
Purchase Tickets Here!
DOORS: 6:30pm
SHOW: 7:30pm
Regarded as one of Chicago's funniest and most promising improv groups of the last decade, Dumb John is proud to return to The iO Theater where they got their start with a new weekly long form improv show.
Longtime members Mike Geraghty, Steve Plock, and Linda Orr apply their high energy strain of improvisation to a bizarre cultural harvest of small town Americana influence and ephemera.
Dumb John uses a single audience suggestion to inspire a piece of unhinged long form improv that propels diesel-soaked characters through fever dream karaoke scenes and down neon aisles of roadside antique marts; exploring the depravity and brilliance found at the heart of every moment. Wipe off your boots, grab an ice cold cruiser and join them for an evening of more fun than the law allows.
**Use your ticket to get free admission to any 9PM show**
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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)
Tickets can be purchased here
Check out our weekly long-form improv showcase featuring all hot, new improv teams! Hosted by improv team, SquareUp!
Doors Open 9:30 PM
Show 10:00 PM - 11:15 PM
Cost $5
Tickets can be purchased online here 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)
Take the stress out of holiday conflict with a night of comedy! Come see us find the silver linings in common stressful situations around the holidays. We'll have a variety of guest comedians joining us each night.
SFN: Opens for Conflict of Interest
Tickets can be found here
Windy Indie is THRILLED to feature @stirfridaynight THIS Thursday at 9pm at @iochicago!!
Watch us perform at the Portal, A roaming variety show all around Chicago
Check out us out at one of the brand new theater spaces The Clash on opening weekend!
For one night only, we’re bringing our comedy chops uptown to the library! Come watch us play surrounded by knowledge!
Stir Friday Night has got it’s own slot at the new iO Theater come watch us play Fridays at 8pm!
Come watch us do Improv with the legendary iO Harold team Devils Daughter
