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Chicago Shows
The Second City’s Fast, Loud, & Funny
UP Comedy Club presents The Second City's Fast, Loud & Funny. Pulling from over half a century o...
The Winner…of Our Discontent
The Second City’s latest revue The Winner… of Our Discontent asks if it’s broken, should we fi...
Best of The Second City
Mondays at 8pm. Come see where it all began! The Best of The Second City features some of the best...
The Roast of George Wendt with Roastmaster Jason Sudeikis
It’s a night guaranteed to destroy one of the world’s most beloved comedy legends, George Wendt-...
The Second City’s 106th Mainstage Revue
Be part of Second City history and get an exclusive look at all new material for The Second City's 1...
Behind the Bentwood
Fridays at 5:30pm. A lot has changed over the last 58 years at Second City, but one thing has remain...
The Second City’s Neighborhood Tour
The Second City kicks off another glorious summer with the return of “The Second City’s Neighbor...
The Second City’s Fast, Loud & Funny
Now Playing: Tuesdays & Wednesdays at 8pm, Saturdays at 4pm The struggle is fake, folks, but...
The Second City’s Legendary Laughs
"A hilarious night out...the best of Chicago comedy!" - The Real Chicago [embed]https://vimeo.com...
The Best of The Second City
We dug deep into 57 years’ worth of laughter to bring you the very best...and boy, are our arms ti...
Improv All-Stars
Now Playing: Mondays at 7pm. See Chicago’s finest improvisers under the direction of the legendary...
The Boys
The Boys. We make it worse. Join Susan Messing and Rachael Mason for an evening of unfettered improv...
Baby Wants Candy
Baby Wants Candy, one of the most celebrated and popular comedy ensembles in the world, is thrilled...
Swiss Cheese Parachutes
The latest original, one-act revue from the Training Center's Severn Darden Graduate Program. Featur...
Fantastic Super Great Nation Numero Uno
The Second City e.t.c.’s 41st revue, Fantastic Super Great Nation Numero Uno, reminds us there is...
Twisty
Come see the newest house ensemble of our very own Severn Darden Graduate Program perform improv eve...
Infinite Sundaes
Infinite Sundaes is a showcase of some of the best singprov talent in town. Featuring short form, lo...
MADCAP!
Check out this house ensemble from the Training Center’s Severn Darden Graduate Program perform...
Directing Program Improv Showcase – Thursday
"The Improvised Woody Allen" is a completely improvised performance in the style of...well...Woody...
The Second City’s Holidazed & Confused: Mandatory Merriment
The Second City's Holidazed and Confused Revue. Laugh your way through Second City's all new holiday...
Level 6 Conservatory Shows
Come out to the E.T.C. on Monday nights for performances by Level 6 Conservatory students. Sets inc...
COACHED ENSEMBLES
Talented newcomers from The Second City Training Center's A-E program take the stage for a 8-week ru...
Those Who Can’t
Join the Training Center Faculty for a night of Improv! Tickets $5!
Jumping Off a Clef
Join the faculty for a night of musical improv! $5 tickets
Jam Sandwich
Jam Sandwich Improv! Comedy! Excitement! An all-new improvised show featuring faculty and stud...
Improv Nerd with Jimmy Carrane
“Improv Nerd with Jimmy Carrane," is a live interview show hosted by Jimmy Carrane, a well-known i...
Jimmy and Johnnie
Jimmy Carrane and John Hildreth improvise with a special guest. First Sunday of the month at 7pm in...
You & Me
YOU & ME is a two-person, entirely improvised, no suggestion set with Michael Patrick Thornton &...
Cambridge Footlights International Tour: Dream Sequence
Our planet is on the brink of oblivion. On a space station in the near yet distant future, five dele...
Stamptown Presents Zach & Viggo: Dream Team
Stamptown Presents Zach & Viggo: Dream Team Fresh off a twenty-month tour of Europe, The US and...
The Chill as Fuck Show
A variety showcase featuring some of Chicago's most talented comedians, musicians, and more. With n...
Occult Classics
Theme: Are we cursed or do we just make things harder on ourselves? Poor life choices? Supernatur...
Pandora’s Soapbox
Facts are fiction. Chaos is law. You may as well kick back, relax, and drink in the madness of the n...
Suburban Dictionary: A Rural Good Show
This show takes the unordinary and makes it ordinary, so grab a drink and join us for the journey. I...
We’re Great and We Know It: A Confident Show with a Long Title
We're Great and We Know It: A Confident Show with a Long Title Trust your gut. Fight for what you...
Writing 3 Demos
Writing 3 Demo: Writing 3 Students debut their sketches in a professional-style table read....
Writing 4 Demos
Writing 4 Demo Writing 4 Students sketches are showcased in a professional-style cold walk....
Writing 5 Demos
Writing 5 Demos Writing 5 Students sketches are showcased in a professional-style cold walk....
Level Cs – Skybox
Level C Demonstrations Friday August 18th - Skybox 7:00- Mark Czoske (Sunday) 7:30-Rene Duquesn...
Level Ds – Skybox
Level D Shows Friday August 25th, Skybox 7:00-Mark Czoske (Wednesday)/Kevin Reome (Wednesday)...
Level Es – Skybox
Level E Shows Saturday August 26th - Skybox 7:00-Anneliese Toft (Wednesday) 8:00-Ali Barthwell...
Music Improv Class Shows 1-5
Music Improv Class Shows - End of Term Performances. Sunday August 27th – DeMaat 7:30 PM –MI...
Stand-Up 101
Stand-Up End-of-Term Shows Friday August 25 -DeMaat 7:00-Stand up 101 - KJ Whitehead (Wednesday)...
Stand-Up 201
Stand-Up End-of-Term Shows Sunday August 27 -DeMaat 6:00 - Stand up 201- Chris Condren (Thursday...
Writing the Humorous Memoir Showcase
Writing the Humorous Memoir" Sunday August 27th- The Beat Lounge 5:30- Nancy Beckett 6:30pm - N...
Ten Dollar Comedy
Ten Dollar Comedy is a weekly showcase featuring some of Chicago's best improv, stand up, and sketch...
That Sunday Show
that sunday show is a monthly variety hour featuring comedic acts of novelty and artistic intrigue....
The Second City’s Improv All-Stars: After Midnight
The Second City’s been “interactive” since 1959. See the finest improvisers in Chicago unde...
Evan and Mary-Jane: We Think We Met You Somewhere, One Time
This one hour musical comedy review reintroduces Evan & Mary-Jane (Evan Mills and Brittany Flynn...
Lenny Bruce is Back
FUNNY, POIGNANT AND OBSCENELY RELEVANT! LENNY BRUCE IS BACK is a one man piece of scripted theatr...
Frogprov
Frogprov is a collective of Chicagoans who improvise in both English and French, sometimes at the sa...
Oddities
Join us for an evening of 6 short plays written by Gregory Dodds and directed by faculty member Dere...
Big Little Waffle Fries: A Genuine Horse Mystery
Welcome to Steedsville, Montana where three city slickers must make their way through an Odyssey of...
The Seven Sisters, Comedy Variety Hour
The Seven Sisters Comedy Variety Hour features comedic stylings and feats of talent from the best pe...
The Ladies of Improvised Jane Austen Present: The 242 Annual Michaelmas Revel
Starting off the holiday theater season early, the long-running all-female comedy team makes merry f...
Jury Duty
Ever been cut off in traffic? Sibling wore your clothes without asking? Boyfriend squeezed your bran...
Late Stage with Dan and Peter
Come see Dan and Peter every Thursday at the Blackout Cabaret as they and their special guests discu...
#SummerSkool
Class is in session! Go back to high school to re-live all of your greatest moments—from prom date...
Pajama Friendship Party Time
You're cordially invited to Meggie and Laura's Pajama Party! Arrive promptly to the party and get re...
From Russia with Covfefe
A classic tale of espionage, international intrigue, and steak with ketchup. Performers: Shelby D...
The Seventh Trump-Et Sounds
What happens when rising sea levels wipe out all of the coastal blue states!? Come see for yourse...
This Sketch Show Will Save The World
You may have been looking around recently and thought to yourself, "Wow... hey, actually, this is al...
Kick the World
“Kick The World” is a time capsule of the insanity that is today’s America. This one-man sketc...
Gentleman’s Sandbox
We’re The Gentleman’s Sandbox. We hate gender norms and sand but “Gentleman” and “Sandbox...
Coming of Rage
After an obscene amount of time in the Youth and Teen program Kayla is finally moving on. Come see t...
Tabby Kat
Sister duo Amanda and Katarina Hoffman prove that funny runs in the family in their two-woman show T...
Lisa, Frankly
Calling all unicorns! Well-behaved women seldom make history, and the same is true of well-behaved u...
Night of the Improvised Horror Anthology
Your Worst Nightmare brings you a new chapter in our Improvised Horror Anthology, subverting all you...
Couch Time
Like most of us humans, Cam and Coop enjoy talking about their lives with those they love, preferabl...
Possum Blossom & Friends
Dearest Comedy Lover, WE HAVE ONE HECK OF A SHOW FOR YOU! Get ready to laugh your butt off with l...
One Night Only: Random Fandom
Random Fandom featuring Six Degrees of Sexperation and Labia Majora! Just a bunch of nerds who p...
One Night Only: Rumble
RUMBLE is a longform improv team that explores and heightens traditional life moments we are all fam...
One Night Only: Electric Lady
Electric Lady Popular indie team, and reigning champs of iO's Cagematch come to Second City to we...
One Night Only: Sugar Bits
Sugar Bits Come out and see these three hilarious women make fools of themselves on stage! You wo...
One Night Only: Knerds with Opener Rumble
Knerds with Opener Rumble Knerds is a form in which we use an audience suggestion to inspire 2 sh...
Cher Midler presents… Bouthiette, Steigmann, and Sudik
It'll be fun. It'll be weird. It'll be improv. Cher Midler presents... Bouthiette, Steigmann, and Su...
One Night Only: Paul, Wait!
This troupe of new money rebels is shaking up the old money improv scene. With a fast-paced, freneti...
One Night Only: Electric Full Pigeon
Electric Full Pigeon One Night Only with three improvisational teams dueling it out! Cast: Elec...
One Night Only: Sunday Brunch & Autohorse & Frog & Toad
Sunday Brunch is a group of people whose friendship was forged through their mutual love of Macho Ma...
One Night Only: Neighborhood Watch
Join Neighborhood Watch, an up-and-coming Chicago improv team coached by Devin Henderson and Sarah B...
One Night Only: Luna & Sort of People
Sort of People? is a group of adults playing pretend. Thrust together for an initial four-week run,...
One Night Only: Super Palindrome
One Night Only: Super Palindrome Super Palindrome is just a cupboard of wacky pandas sneezing awa...
She the People : Girlfriend’s Guide to Sisters Doing it for Themselves
We’ll bet you 72 cents on the dollar you’ll fall head over patriarchal heels for the women of Se...
The Second City’s Holidazed and Confused: Mandatory Merriment
The Second City's Holidazed and Confused. Laugh your way through Second City's all new holiday revue...
