Friday, May 9, 2025
By choosing an audience member to come on stage and pick a comic to have a date with, "First Date Comedy Gameshow" at the Laugh Factory takes the idea of the first date to a whole other leve…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, April 16, 2025
W. Kamau Bell started out as a popular presence on the Chicago comedy scene in the mid-nineties, and his biggest love has always been for performing as a stand-up.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, March 28, 2025
Stand-up comedians dread the prospect of a tough crowd in nightclubs, but Jeanie Doogan and Tom Filline face tough crowds five days a week as schoolteachers. Each turned to stand-up as a sou…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, March 5, 2025
Jeff Ross has been touring the nation telling the story of how roasting has helped him deal with the loss of his grandfather, his most beloved comedian friends and his dog in the one-man sho…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 21, 2025
Jake Johannsen has been making people laugh in clubs nationwide and countless TV appearances for the past forty years, bringing his highly offbeat and surreal take on life to subjects as far…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, December 19, 2024
Cameron Esposito has spent more than a decade making a unique splash in Hollywood, not only as one of the outest and proudest LGBTQ+ comics around, but also as a successful actress on major …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, December 13, 2024
For the past three years, the troupe has been making waves on the current comedy scene with its monthly variety shows that combine stand-up, improv, sketches, music, audience-interactive gam…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, December 6, 2024
For the past thirty-five years, comedian Maria Bamford has been the guiding light to making hilarity out of hellishness, putting her own battles with OCD front and center in her acting and s…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, November 26, 2024
Canadian comic Steph Tolev will bring her high-energy, anything-goes, raunchy and raucous performance to Zanies Comedy Night Club.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, May 20, 2024
Holmes is back on the road for “The Feelin' It” tour, his first since pre-pandemic times, and is performing an entirely new hour at the Den Theatre.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, March 15, 2024
The show mixes dramatic depth with plenty of laughs as Akana recounts dealing with her sister’s suicide when she was seventeen and her own mental health struggles. She promises Chicago aud…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, March 6, 2024
“I wanted a place to do comedy for people my own age and with the same lived experiences of being a mom, being married, trying to work and just be a human being,” explains Telisman.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, February 22, 2024
Masood Boomgaard had to deal with a friend who was constantly trying to motivate him with self-help books throughout the early months of the pandemic. Boomgaard found great annoyance in thei…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, February 8, 2024
Edelman is bringing the full ninety-minute show back to Chicago, making the leap from a comedy club to a ten-night run of shows from February 15-25 at the internationally renowned Steppenwol…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFriday, January 26, 2024
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
For the past seven years, Chicago’s funniest women have been revealing their most outrageous moments in the popular “Ladylike” showcase, which currently runs monthly at the Lincoln Lod…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, December 13, 2023
Laura Hall's returned to Chicago to assemble a troupe of actors called Phony Award Winning, who have an ambitious challenge: to learn classic Broadway musicals inside and out, and then impro…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, November 29, 2023
Mike Toomey grew up loving television, and his favorite shows each year were the special Christmas episodes of sitcoms and the wide array of Christmas specials starring celebrities. But the …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, November 8, 2023
"If you’re not talking about something real and something substantive, the vast majority of comics are really not saying anything, because they don’t have anything to say.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, October 30, 2023
Zanies comedy club now offers the “Ultimate Bucket List Experience,” which gives funny dreamers the chance to create a killer act while being mentored by a top comic, and perform it in a…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, October 23, 2023
Chicago’s reputation for comedy has primarily been rooted in having the best improv scene on the planet. But the city has also spawned a rich stand-up history, and the first-ever 312 Comed…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, September 25, 2023
Thanks to a new book about the wildly creative alternative-comedy scene that gave birth to an explosion of stars and influential talent between 1996 and 2009, the Chicago scene is finally ge…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, September 5, 2023
Growing up queer in a religious household in Missouri, Zach Noe Towers learned how to navigate living in two distinctly different worlds at once.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, August 21, 2023
Pharoah will be bringing his potent mix of impersonations and vividly funny tales of his personal life to the stage of Chicago’s Den Theatre August 26 as he tapes a new hourlong special.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, August 16, 2023
As a fan-favorite monthly panelist on the long-running comedic game show “Wait.. Wait…Don’t Tell Me!,” comedian Alonzo Bodden has been bringing some of the sharpest political jokes o…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, July 24, 2023
Chicago’s longest-running long-form improv show features one of the city’s most beloved improv stars when T.J. Jagodowski takes the stage as the guest monologist for “The Armando Diaz …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, July 13, 2023
Devon Walker's ridden a wave of success all the way to "Saturday Night Live." Walker will be bringing his comedy stylings to the stage at Zanies July 13-15.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 21, 2023
Maddy Smith has circled the world opening for superstar comic Bert Kreischer, but she takes center stage headlining at Zanies
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, June 12, 2023
Chicago comedy favorite Jimmy Carrane presents a show that's been fifty-nine years in the making
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, May 30, 2023
Comic Hari Kondabolu brings his unique point of view to life to his beloved Chicago audiences at the Den Theatre
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, May 15, 2023
Edwards owes his impressive comedy career to working at a drive-thru.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM 
