Monday, August 8, 2022
On top of being a killer stand-up, Kilmartin is a comedian who seems comfortable in all comedic spaces, having been a late night writer for Conan for a decade.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, August 1, 2022
A full-time professional barber up until a few years back, but his comedy career took off.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, July 25, 2022
At the same time that his comedy was resonating on the South Side, he was picking up paid gigs on the North Side as well.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, June 20, 2022
If any working comedian has the ideal skillset to walk that fine line of finding the funny in geopolitical turmoil, it’s Kondabolu.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, June 6, 2022
The Chicago-based comedian and storyteller is the creator and host of the popular weekly comedy show “Blackout Diaries” which focuses on drinking stories and "hilarious misadventures" p…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, May 30, 2022
Some of the best bits on “Black Superman” are about the trials of fatherhood.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, May 23, 2022
In Chicago she’ll be fine-tuning how all the material best fits together and setting her sights on splitting it all into two separate (but solid) hours.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, May 19, 2022
Sarah Sherman often performs under the name Sarah Squirm, and squirm is exactly what she’s known to make her audiences do.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:15AMMonday, May 16, 2022
"I’m not gonna make anybody question anything. You’re gonna have some dumb fun times, that’s it.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, May 9, 2022
Monday, May 2, 2022
Denise is a petite and energetic stand-up comic perhaps best known for her recurring role as Quanisha on BET’s “Games People Play.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, April 25, 2022
Whether he’s going big, going geeky or going weird, Higley is always looking to take his comedy to new and hilarious places.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, April 18, 2022
On stage, Toomey has a unique ability to stay present in the moment, bantering with the crowd with a sly smile
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, April 11, 2022
“And you can go see on a Tuesday night a line-up of amazing comics that would be the headliner in another city."
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, April 4, 2022
Although Chicago is where he started doing comedy as an adult, this show will be the first time he’s been back on a Chicago stage since performing at Thalia Hall in 2019.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, April 15, 2020
One of the city’s most iconic open-mike nights finds a virtual home.
Last June the comedy open mike at Cole’s Bar in Logan Square—widely considered to be t…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 11:50AMThursday, March 19, 2020
Cameron Esposito looks back on her defining moments in the memoir Save Yourself.
Comedian Cameron Esposito has never shied away from talking about her personal l…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:00PMMonday, August 19, 2019
The cast shows they both have the interest and the talent to delve into the lives of these complex, confused characters and reveal the humor, horror and humanity within each of them.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:16PMMonday, June 17, 2019
“Alright, come on,” comedian Hannah Gadsby said to the uproarious applause that greeted her when she walked abruptly out onto the stage of the Chicago Theatre Sunday night, eschewing an …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:55AMSaturday, June 1, 2019
There are a number of checklist items that allow a comedian to claim Chicago roots. A comic could be born here (luck), live here currently (choice), or develop their comedic voice in the clu…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:40AMThursday, May 30, 2019
It’s 9:45 p.m. on a drizzly Wednesday night in early May and I’m making my way through a crowded dive bar in Logan Square. A comedy open mic — some might say the comedy open mic — st…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:45AMTuesday, May 28, 2019
In 2016 a group of four young unknown comedians kicked off a monthly comedy show in a Puerto Rican restaurant in Humboldt Park in front of an audience of 30 people (mostly family members). L…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMSunday, April 14, 2019
Comedian Tom Segura has a message for anyone offended by his jokes (or, as he put it Saturday night during the second of two sold-out shows at the Chicago Theatre, anyone who tells him, “I…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:30AMWednesday, March 20, 2019
“I thought to myself, ‘Oh, wouldn’t this be a great place to shoot an album?’” comedian Maria Bamford said Saturday night of the elegant new comedy space at the Den Theatre, where …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMWednesday, March 6, 2019
“I just kept waiting for him to talk about it,” the guy next to me said after comedian Aziz Ansari’s show Tuesday night at the Chicago Theatre — the first of a three-night, four-show…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:20AMSunday, March 3, 2019
Usually before a comedian takes the stage, the music quiets, the lights dim and — especially if they’re a headliner — someone announces them onto the stage. If the comedian has an open…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00AMSunday, February 24, 2019
“I started here in Chicago at Zanies 30 years ago,” said stand-up comedian and St. Louis native Kathleen Madigan proudly from the Chicago Theatre stage Saturday night in jeans and a blac…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:30AMWednesday, February 20, 2019
Most people don’t particularly relish delving into the failures they’ve experienced in life, especially not in front of a group of strangers. But most people aren’t stand-up comics. On…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00PMTuesday, January 22, 2019
It’s seven o’clock on a Friday night and the WinTrust Bank on Damen and Melrose is closed. The doors are locked and the lights are mostly off. Inside the bank there’s movement. In the …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMSunday, January 20, 2019
“Thanks for coming,” comedian Michelle Wolf said, taking the stage for the first of two sold-out shows at Pilsen’s Thalia Hall on an especially cold and snowy Saturday night. “I almo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00PMMonday, January 14, 2019
Can the anthropomorphic heroes of Nickelodeon's staggeringly successful "PAW Patrol" rescue the American theater by turning a legion of device-addicted toddlers into future theater patrons? …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 07:00PM 
