An hour long improv and sketch comedy show that features Chicago's premiere, improv teams, new sketches from the psychotic minds of Max Lazerine and Annie Sullivan, and ending the night is more improv with Max + Annie and a surprise, local legendary guest.

An hour long comedy show featuring some of Annoyance Theatre’s best and funniest.

A spooky-fun Halloween themed sexy burlesque show!

Christmas Karen 3 is a new original multi-media play, written by Elizabeth Fulton, and picks up one year after last year's Christmas Karen 2 show left. If you didn't see the first or second Christmas Karen, we'll start the play with a recap to get you up to speed.

Comedian Cabaret is back for spooky season with our 13th show: Dancing With The Devil!

Teach Me How to Rizz: Showoff is a competition of skill orchestrated by the President & Vice President of DePaul's Rizz Club.

Joe Cariola & Gabby Seed team up for a night of tight, wacky, absurd sketches.

The night opens with students performing with veteran improvisers and closes with a dynamic, debaucherous set from house team Sight Unseen.

Join us at the Annoyance for a bloody sexy time on Halloween! Come dressed up, buy a drink, and enjoy two shows (Splatter Theater and Burlesque is Gore) for a discounted price!

A Chicago based improv comedy show and drinking game based on the works of Alfred Hitchcock.

Just My Imagination is a character-driven variety show that dives into the whimsical daydreams of Liz and Willis, offering a hilarious journey through quirky sketches and offbeat moments that celebrate the joy of imagination.

"Little Orphan Boy the Musical!" follows the uplifting tale of a Little English Lad who has lost his Mum yet again, this time in the city that never sleeps, New York, baby!

In this "very funny and clever new Christmas play that will jingle your bells" (according to Saturday Night Live writer T. Sean Shannon), the principal of a scandal-plagued high school tasks the drama teacher with creating an original Christmas musical to save the school’s reputation--and his job.

Hosted by members of Tuesday Musical Improv, this free weekly jam allows anyone to try out musical improv. Sign-ups begin at 6:45--no experience necessary!

Anything can happen...and it usually does.

Welcome ghouls and goblins to a variety night of fun and laughter.

“In the town of Mayfield, thirteen horror movie caricatures find themselves at the murderous whims of some guy in a hockey mask.”

Super Human is synonymous with bold, hilarious, fearless and fun comedy.

The entire town of Dove Cliff comes together to put on one last big show before the town is foreclosed - and overtaken by a tech magnate with a devastating secret. Will they save the town?

An Improv comedy show with startling theatricality that looks like magic.

An ramshackle late night talk show featuring a rotating guest list of interesting people.

Featuring special guests each week, Andrew Baldwin and Daryn Robinson perform original comedic songs that finally answer the question, “Why are there no good Thanksgiving bops?”

CHIP Chats is a PowerPoint comedy show that is a bit like TED Talks, but much Worse.

Zoe and Claire invite a combo platter of their most intimate friends, family, sexy acquaintances, and full blown strangers to preview their 45 minute sketch show before they take it on the road.

Creature Feature - a late night Monster of the Week Movie show!

Take control of your comedy today with The People's Process! A work in process comedy show in collaboration with DePaul.

Escapades is a completely improvised choose-your-own adventure.

From heart felt laughs, physical comedy, monologues, and singing, you never know what to expect from Flex.

There is nowhere else you want to spend Halloween than at the Annoyance Theater and Bar! Join us for a special double feature.

A curated hour of eclectic, comedic material written in a week and performed for the first time.

"Little Orphan Boy the Musical!" follows the uplifting tale of a Little English Lad who has lost his Mum yet again, this time in the city that never sleeps, New York, baby!

Max and Ian are Friends (?) is a One-Night Only variety show featuring a night of dancing, singing, cooking, magic, friendship (?), special guests (not famous), and much more!

Missed Call is a premiere Chicago comedy group that writes and performs an entirely new sketch show every Friday.

This themed competition show will have a variety of games, challenges, and invites the audience to enter to participate!

The world famous Penne Rigate is BACK in an all new spooky Halloween television special: Penne BOO-gate! A Very Very Spooky Talk Show!

An all new hour of original sketches and songs by So Far So Good, the comedy supergroup of Eamon Hegarty and Nicholas Rohrman.

A night for Annoyance students to JAM!

A night of laughter with stand-up comedian Sydney Castillo (Wild N’ Out, NBC’s Marlon).

Three families are marooned in the Houston airport on Christmas Eve, evoking cabin fever, bureaucratic insanity, and the true meaning of Christmas (?!) in this world-premiere ensemble comedy.

Tuesday Musical Improv features two groups improvising new musicals every week.

QUEER COMEDY, HON!

A spooky-fun Halloween themed sexy burlesque show!

Cafe Lounge Underwater brings to the stage three brilliant minds in a new sketch show- with almost no performing experience. But hey, they’re all pretty tall.

A night of Roman fuckery. Watch philosophers roast each other, improv gladiators battle, and kneel to Cesar in this truly unruly night of alt-comedy.

This week on “David & David”, David Byrne (David Byrne) is torn between his girlfriend, Suzy (Suzy the Lamp), and his roommate David Lynch (David Lynch) when the latter, hearbroken by his ex, Bjork (Bjork), plans a prophesied dinner party for their friends Neighbor Nic (Nicolas Cage), Lorde Lande (Werner Herzog), and Georgie (Georgia O’Keeffe) on the same night as Suzy and Byrne’s anniversary.

High-octane improv comedy from Chicago's most seasoned performers.

The show features the fantastic Annoyance House Ensemble in both long- and short-form improv.

Avery Kiefer and Kyle Greenberg collaborate on a sketch show that dares to ask the question: Can they crash at your house for a few weeks? Silly and chaotic. Dramatic and honest. These are just four out of the over 2400 different words that they will say during the show.

Enjoy an hour of wild sketches and true stories

A variety show celebrating the living by pretending they are dead.

"Little Orphan Boy the Musical!" follows the uplifting tale of a Little English Lad who has lost his Mum yet again, this time in the city that never sleeps, New York, baby!

A night of reflection with Avery McClure

Motorcycle Rocketship is more than just a hilarious sketch show with new material every week.

From puppets to fight lessons to 1940s detectives, join us for a night of silly sketches written and performed by all-queer sketch team Writing Into Oblivion in their first headline show!

Back with an extra spooky and dramatic show for October...every week we're pitching a new and completely improvised CW style pilot episode.

“In the town of Mayfield, thirteen horror movie caricatures find themselves at the murderous whims of some guy in a hockey mask.”

Reader Beware! Summer Scaries, the improvised teen horror musical inspired by everyone's favorite nostalgic teen horror book series, will have you screaming for your life - and singing along!

The Teeny Tiny Character Show is just that: a petite little space for comedians to showcase their characters.

To What End? presents one-night only of improv and all-new sketch comedy live at The Annoyance!

They take edibles. Then they improvise.