During this show, the cast will act as a jury, determining the guilt of a defendant who's crime (based on audience suggestion) will be re-examined scene by scene.

Bring your own team to Annoyance on Tuesday nights to get a rep in and giggle. If you don't have a team to bring, no worries! There's a mashup team and we're happy to throw you on it! Signups are at 8:30PM and we'll hit the stage at 9:00PM.

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

Bigfoot? Pyramids? Crop circles? All this and more will be explored in Cryptic: An Improv Show.

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

Join Gay for Pay hosts Mary Fiala and Dan Hickey for an hour of all-LGBTQ+ standup, sketch, and burlesque performances featuring Hannah Belmont, Colette Gregory, Slip Dress, KP, Hannah Magy & Willy LaQueue!

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

Join Max and Ian for a one-night only variety show where they’ll try to figure out if they’re friends.

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.

Combining stand-up, puppetry, game show, tap dance, and a single cartwheel, you will leave understanding why good girls don’t go bad, they go sad.

Shake the Baby is a 90-minute original sketch revue directed by Mick Napier.

KEROSENE

Introducing the Annoyance Variety Hour! Featuring performances from Chicago's best comedians, musicians, magicians, circus performers, puppeteers, and everything in between!

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

They take edibles. Then they improvise.

Did you know that schools exist outside of Chicago? And people go to them? Strange, right?

QUEER COMEDY, HON!

Cold Pizza returns to The Annoyance with a brand-new sketch revue! With narrative threads of love, loss & crazy workplaces, Looking For Love In All The Wrong Workplaces checks all the right boxes

Treat yourself to Chicago’s most intellectual comedy show.

Two teams will go head to head to win your hearts and laughs in the hopes to be the triumphant winner of Family Fight Night.

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

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

Come and help out a struggling director to create the ultimate masala-packed Bollywood blockbuster—featuring a star cast, larger than life set pieces and an entirely improvised story based on audience suggestions.

DEAR JAMIE

A staged reading of a new musical in development - the byproduct of when two writing partners break-up during the most pivotal moment of their career. But can they still make it work?

Pictures in my mind is a feature-length, fully lip-synced "drag musical"

DEMME ONYX

Improv from the cast of Shake the Baby.

A night for Annoyance students to JAM!

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.

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

Yas, And! brings together a dynamic ensemble of LGBTQ+ actors to deliver a dazzling array of sketches that capture the joys, challenges, and triumphs of queer life.

WOAH! NEW EVERY MONTH. A raucous. raunchy, sometimes juvenile but always funny sketch show that will make your daddy give your mommy a pearl necklace... to clutch. Get tickets now, they're selling faster than a Stewie doll at Spencer's. DM: @Antivirginclub proof you bought tickets and we will draw you boobs.

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

After Ricky Sim's mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he was faced with a question: Is now the right time to come out of closet to her?

Can you dig it? The Annoyance went and Double Booked the joint! Now Ghost Rat and Cat Bath are takin’ over the Small Stage with a wild comedy variety blowout, jam-packed with 1950s vibes and a twist of dystopian doom.

Celebrate Father's Day Weekend right: getting drunk, seeing a show, and not interacting even once with your dad!

Flex Improv is made up of some of the best and wildest BIPOC performers in Chicago.

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Made Up Musicals is an hour-long improvised musical comedy featuring some of the best performers in Chicago!

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

Goody! is a new show from October Brian: an absurd folk horror-sketch comedy show about Puritan panic, vanishing elders, and the Beast -- told one town meeting at a time.

The Pizza Mic is a supportive, Stand-Up Comedy open mic, where
seasoned comics and newbies alike can work their bits (and grab some free pizza!) New
Location. Same Pizza. Pizza Mic.

A 30-minute solo character show from Shaan Baig about the weirdos who show up on TV late at night when no one is watching. Originally developed and performed at UCBLA and the Elysian Theater in Los Angeles.

MIZTHANG

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

The Truth About Love is a brand new raunchy rom com musical that follows the unique stories of 8 different people living in Fair Haven Vermont. This Musical explores all the Greek words for love

"Van Turns 40" is a live standup performance, combining comedy, story-telling and a stage reading of "The Key To Life: In 365 Quotes" - The greatest book on Western civilization and culture, and the closest thing we have to magic right now.