Open Run

This hour long, fully improvised show, features the cast of 12 Angry Improvisers acting as a jury. Peek into the deliberation room as they use improv to recreate the facts of a case (as determined by the audience). They'll reexamine the moment the defendant was caught with their hand in the cookie jar -in reverse! -with French accents! -with every line of dialogue being a question!

4/13 - 5/18

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


Starting your life over again is daunting, but strangely familiar for Evelyn Mae, whose existence conflicts against the morals they were raised on. Oops! Join them and special guests for an evening of tumultuously silly testimony regarding loss, community, queerness, and fighting your way home.

5/3

Amita Rao! And Friends!

3/30

And Don’t Forget to Smile is a one night only solo show by Holly Barras. Come celebrate World Bipolar Day as she explores the highs and lows of a colorful world through a character roulette grounded in big emotions of every scale. Featuring a “Sword in the Stone” motif, ala “Sword in the Brain,” at what first seems like a curse, enables the discovery of what may actually have been a secret weapon all along.

1/24, 2/21, 3/21, 4/18

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.

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All the way from its one-year run in Los Angeles comes a brand new team built for Chicago! It's Asshole's Advocate, the court room show for situations that can't be taken to court. This improv show is based off the highly popular subreddit, Am I the Asshole. This long-standing online forum is where millions of people post their awkward social dilemmas or petty revenge and ask if they are the asshole in the situation. We take it a step further and bring in evidence and witnesses to prove that they are or are not the asshole.

8/7 - 9/11

Despite zero playing history, unproven jokesters Scott and Bryce find themselves at the pinnacle of the basketball world — the 1996 Chicago Bulls. In this untold, untrue story, they’re shoved from the shadows of the bench to the center-court spotlight, putting their game to the test. When a scam is successful, who really gets played? Straining to maintain friendship amid fraud, they’re put on defense as they try to squeeze 15 minutes of fame into 12-minute quarters.

Open Run

Are you and your improv team looking for another place to get on stage? We've got a warm and supportive room ready to give you laughs and claps! 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. See you every Tuesday!

Open Run

An hour long comedy show featuring some of Annoyance Theatre’s best and funniest. Show Runner: Hails Reeves

2/22

An hour long comedy show featuring some of Annoyance Theatre’s best and funniest. Show Runner: Hails Reeves

Bi-Weekly

CHIP Chats is a PowerPoint comedy show loosely based on TED Talks- but where TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, CHIP stands for Comedy, Hilarity, Insanity, and Pointlessness- and we deliver on those promises. We here at CHIP Chats can guarantee that by the end of every show you will either learn something or not! Like TED Talks, but much Worse.

4/28

The fully improvised musical podcast - LIVE in Chicago for the first time! Join Lily Ludwig, Austin Packard, Music Director Sam Scheidler, and drummer Chris Ditton as they create a brand new musical — completely on the fly — in a music improv experience unlike any other. Come be a part of our live taping! Welcome to the scene! Runtime: 60 minutes.

07/09 - 09/28

Close Quarters is an improvised comedy where every scene unfolds just a wall, hallway, or whisper away. Set in one shared location, this fast-paced, character-driven show follows multiple storylines that collide, overlap, and hilariously unravel in real time. Directed by an ensemble member of the original production, Close Quarters honors its origins while showcasing a new cast of sharp, fearless improvisers. Come see how close things can really get.

07/09 - 09/28

Close Quarters is an improvised comedy where every scene unfolds just a wall, hallway, or whisper away. Set in one shared location, this fast-paced, character-driven show follows multiple storylines that collide, overlap, and hilariously unravel in real time. Directed by an ensemble member of the original production, Close Quarters honors its origins while showcasing a new cast of sharp, fearless improvisers. Come see how close things can really get.

3/1 - 3/22

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. Bring your Hinge dates, your work wives, and your best Frienemies! This show features brand new sketches, improvised moments, audience participation, music, and more!

3/15

Comedian Cabaret is back showcasing some of Chicago's best and brightest funny people showing off their pipes! This ain't no music improv show. This is straight up musical theater. Come on out to hear some solid show tunes at Comedian Cabaret 14: Movie Musicals!

6/14

Following sold-out shows & multiple rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe and London's Off-West End Soho Theatre, comedian Ricky Sim (@rickeerick) brings ‘Coming Out To Dead People’ to Annoyance - a chaotic stand-up about growing up as a gaysian immigrant in NY, to coming out to his conservative Chinese-Malaysian mom… just as she’s diagnosed with cancer. Talk about good timing. Combining stand-up and storytelling, an autobiographical hour explores grief, cleft-palates, secrets to the grave, and why you should not be thinking about your ancestor when having gay sex. Runtime: 60mins

6/4 - 6/25

Bigfoot? Pyramids? Crop circles? All this and more will be explored in Cryptic: An improv show. Together, 11 of Chicago’s best and weirdest performers will explore how one unexplained phenomenon (as determined by the audience) affects the lives of unique and interesting characters. What did happen that night at the lake? Who saw the UFO? What’s that smell? Find out all this and more at Cryptic: An Improv Show!

3/1 - 4/5

This week on "David & David", David Byrne (David Byrne) is torn between his girlfriend, Suzy the Lamp (Suzy the Lamp), and his roommate David Lynch (David Lynch) when the latter, heartbroken by his ex, Bjork (Björk), dreams up 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.

After a successful staging in November, "David & David" returns. This remastered run promises to excite returning viewers and delight new ones!

CW: Fake gun (and accompanying single gunshot sound effect), mentions of self-harm, and dramatized violence

Bi-Weekly

Treat yourself to Chicago’s most intellectual comedy show. Comedians of all kinds going on about books while sipping very high end beverages. Bring your date to impress them, or come alone to feel self important.

Open Run

See Chicago's longest-running improv team bring their unique blend of big characters and absurd situations to the stage with infectious energy. Formed in 1996, Deep Schwa has performed over a thousand shows in theaters all over Chicago and beyond. Made up of an evolving cast of ten of the city's best veteran players. Each show singular, each show electric.

6/1 - 6/15

CRASS2 is our capstone class, taking students through the process of using improv as a tool to create original scripted narrative plays. This term, the class has created an adventure that asks the questions, what if The Titanic but everyone's horned up (or in the walrus' case, tusked up)? What if manhunters were on the loose? And what if Werner Herzog worked in a fire room as a stoker? Don't miss this silly tale of naughty nautical nonsense! "DOCKED AND LOADED" is written and performed by Michael Austin, Vildana Celik, Amanda MacAllister, Mark McGraw, Zak Schwartz, Zach Steffen, Cooper Towns, Amber Von Ruden. Directed by Lauren Rivas. The Annoyance Theatre, Sundays 6/1 - 6/22, 7pm, free.

6/18

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.

Come join us for a fun evening of comedic kinship! Two families will take on guessing answers through improv in the hopes to win your hearts and laughs. Watch these families test their relationship, cleverness, and improv skills in this new comedic gameshow!

1/25

Kath Courtney and Rockie Wenrich are: Father Figures! Two dudes with the ability to fix your car, be fuckable, and die before you really get the chance to understand them. Directed by Chelsea Matkins. Made for fathers and DILF-enjoyers everywhere.

6/21, 7/5, 7/19

Enjoy an evening of off-the-cuff improv with some of the best emerging talent in the Chicago area. Fire & Beer is a fully improvised comedy show that explores the dark sides of life, relationships and human beings. The show features the Annoyance House Ensemble who excel at both long- and short-form improv. You can expect lots of laughs during this unpredictable improv show.

Open Run

A two act improv show. First, Annoyance students get a chance to enter their IDs into a fishbowl to be randomly selected to perform in an improv jam with veteran Annoyance teachers and performers. Then, the night closes with a set from Sight Unseen, an Annoyance house team who, for almost the past decade, has been known for its loose narrative form and vibrant (sometimes vicious) characters.

3/5 - 4/9

Flex Improv is made up of some of the best and wildest BIPOC performers in Chicago. From heart felt laughs, physical comedy, monologues, and singing, you never know what to expect from Flex. With new openers each week, including our Lab Cast, and of course us!

2/27 - 4/17

¡Latinos bienvenidos a la fiesta! English speakers, do your best.

6/28 - 8/9

A Great White shark with baby teeth is overshadowed by a bigger, badder, killer shark until she's tempted to join the murderous shark's rampage. Cocaine, the Bee gees, fish from Minnesota. Who will survive and who will be the sharks' next victim?

7/30

The ladies of Gag Reflex return to the Annoyance for one-night only of all new sketches and a epic send off for the one and only Sam MacNerland (Chicago’s favorite Tech Director).

3/13-4/3

Happy 2 B Here presents a brand new sketch show, just for you. Carefully crafted with a sharp wit and a keen sense for dum shit, it's comedy that doesn't overstate itself. It's actually funny. It's worth your time. We're just happy 2 b here.

3/28

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4/20

Chaos reigns this Easter Sunday as the Faith Assembly of God attempts to put on their yearly passion play. This year, they hope to enliven the congregation with a Twilight-inspired twist. But little goes right as fights ensue about who should represent Jesus, cast members struggle with their lines, and someone's older boyfriend steps in to really get the "fun" flowing. With a soundtrack only a mother could love, Jesus of Forks is bound to knock your socks off. What does Jesus have in common with a bunch of vampires? Eternal Life.

4/1 - 4/29

Welcome to "Juicy," the unapologetically sassy three-act experience where the only thing hotter than the gossip, is the cast. Consider this your warning: what goes down in this room, STAYS in this room. So buckle up. Our fierce host starts by leading a panel, where the cast dishes up their weekly dramas. The audience gets to join in via QR codes by sending in their wildest scandals and seek real-time advice. Next up, we turn to the “hot seat” where we spotlight a badass standup comedian, serving up a set that’s perfectly tailored for our raw, unfiltered vibe. And just when you think it can’t get any wilder, we dive into an improv explosion, using stories as our launchpad to the craziest, most feral tangents imaginable. Get ready to laugh, gasp, and spill your guts — this is "Juicy.”

6/12

Chicago’s premier under-21 drag variety hour is BACK at the Annoyance Theater! Bring your singles and buckle up for a night of lipsync, comedy, live music, and DRAG brought to you by Jules Astaire.

6/19

A showcase featuring Chicago's funniest rising Black comedians

7/9 - 9/24

A new sketch show from The Annoyance Theater!

7/13 - 9/28

A new sketch show from The Annoyance Theater!

7/1 - 7/15

Lazarus: Chicago Comedian, Producer, and Double Sagittarius, has wanted to do a solo show at the Annoyance Theater soooo badly. Now he has one and it's going to be crazy! He's Everywhere is a one man show devised by the collections of obsessive wanderlust. Travel with one man through the Chicagolands as you learn what it truly means to be EVERYWHERE! Complete with a myriad of performances, characters, locations, ideas, events, and possibilities, that'll make you think. Is it even possible to be everywhere? Of course it is. It's so easy.
Directed by Lexi Hanna

7/3 - 7/31

The scariest short form show in Chicago is back. Players fight for their lives to be the final girl standing, summer style. Brand new games, brand new killers, brand new TERROR!

5/3 - 5/31

Each week a rotating cast of all-star musical improvisers will create a blend of comedy and song that will make the audience think the material was written. Drawing upon talent that has performed with Second City, Baby Wants Candy, Tuesday Musical Improv, Blank! The Musical, Voila! and more, this group emphasizes movement and music in a new way for the Annoyance stage. Musical direction by Lisa McQueen, Sam Scheidler, Karen Sandvoss and Brian Cooper.

5/31

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

Open Run

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

6/11

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? Determined to not lose career momentum and equally determined to not be in the same room together... and with all eyes on what they'll write next... they choose to divide and conquer their next big musical by splitting the work perfectly in half. This is that premiere. Now presenting a musical about Napoleon Dynamite... wait, no... Napoleon Bonaparte? Uh oh.

5/14 & 5/21

A 55-minute folk horror-sketch comedy show about a cursed Puritan village spiraling into chaos — told one town meeting at a time.

Hear ye, hear ye! By order of the remaining elders, you are hereby summoned to the first official town meeting of Goody!, a spiritual inquest into the recent vanishings, visions, and Beast-related disturbances plaguing our blessed 1600s Puritan village. Join us for proceedings that will feature sketch comedy, original music, and immersive elements. Also it will be really fun... Yay!

The meeting shall be led by October Brian (Goodman Michael Salles Holtzman, Goodman Jackson Viccora, Goodman John O’Neill, and Goody Katherine Coates), a sketch comedy council who have been performing together for over ten years. Their past appearances include the BBC, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and in theaters around Chicago. Join them this May at The Annoyance Theater for revelations, reckonings, and the rising of the Beast.

4/9 - 4/30

October Brian Sketch Comedy invites you to finally meet Brian. In this 50-minute sketch comedy bonanza, you’ll see some of October Brian’s favorite sketches from the past four years, as well as brand new sketches every week from the group’s forthcoming sketch comedy-horror show set in 1600s Puritan New England (to be performed in May at the Annoyance Theater).

October Brian has been performing sketch comedy together for over ten years, and has been seen on The BBC, at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and in theaters across Chicago. Join us in celebrating all things Brian and enjoy your chance to meet him…finally!

Open Run

Open Stage is an opportunity for anyone to get on stage and try out whatever they're currently working on - standup, sketch, songs - you name it. At Open Stage anything can happen and it usually does!

09/24

An improv show straight out of Austin, TX.

6/29

Derry Queen is back for the 4th annual Annoyance Pride Party! Get your tickets for the hottest party on the day of Pride in Chicago. With programming all day starting at 3:30, your ticket gets you into all shows including the 21 & Under Pageant, Strapped featuring Dragula Season 666 Winner Asia Consent, the Lip Sync Assassin Tournament and Gag! featuring drag icon Tammie Brown. VIP tickets available for meet and greets with Asia and Tammie and gets you to cut the entrance line! Blast off to space with us, its MOTHEREDSHIP!

6/11, 6/25

When a piece of art leaves the mouth of its creator, does it begin to sing in a new voice? Is the project ever really complete, and is the purpose for me to be known, or understood? Pictures in my mind explores the reason for doing this, basically any of this- but specifically being an entertainer-, with a cast of drag queens and club kids telling the story they know best.

Pictures in my mind is a feature-length, fully lip-synced "drag musical" serving dually as a retrospective for a new artist--Though each song in this show has been performed by True Romance and her ensemble before, this production breathes new life into them, reimagined for the theatre and a fully immersive storytelling experience.

CAST:
MIZTHANG
KEROSENE
MISS FAGUETTE
DELTA BADHAND
RICKY RUFF
DEAR JAMIE
DEMME ONYX

3/18 - 4/22

Looking for a Stand-up Comedy Open Mic that’s a supportive room,
always a good time, AND HAS FREE PIZZA?! Look no further than the Pizza Mic. The Pizza Mic (formerly at Pizza Serio) is, first and foremost, a safe space for all. Whether you’re a seasoned comic, an improvisor who’s always wanted to try standup, or you just decided that today’s the day for your first open mic (kudos) – The Pizza Mic is a great venue to workshop your bits. The show is every Tuesday from 5:30pm – 7:30pm. Signup is online and the signup sheet is posted on Facebook & IG on Mondays. The list is emailed out a few hours before the show. Comics get 4 minutes of stage time (and a lifetime of memories.) While all are welcome, the room prioritizes BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and Femme comics. Come laugh with us!

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Eric Striffler & Scott Cramer are hitting the road to watch movies together on The DCOM Tour! And while you might think you know what that stands for, our DCOM stands for Dallas, Chicago, Orlando, & Minneapolis. Join Eric & Scott for a night of laughs, drinks, & hopefully a little Eddie!

Jun 5- Jun 26

QUEERBAIT is a show where the cast is queer and you’re the bait. Follow these 6 comedians as they/she/he/it explore a multitude of queer identities via an absurdist sketch comedy lense. This show will prove once and for all that queer people are funnier. And if you disagree? You’re probably homophobic!

6/4

Hey Creeps and Geeks, are you ready for a movie party worth laughing your ass off at?! Come to Rewind ⏪ June 4th, and join Bennie Boy, with special guest performers and commentators Dolly Postpartum and Demme Onyx for ELVIRA, MISTRESS OF THE DARK! Caution: we will be talking and acting like complete fools through the whole film. And one more thing, how’s your head?

6/5 - 6/26

Follow Doctor Rorscach as he takes you into the depths of your own subconscious through improv, sketch, and special guest stars.
Rorschach Baby is an improv team formed through the Annoyance Program, and coached by Jake Prizant (Hulu’s Deli Boys, Missed Call). Instagram: RorscachBabyImprov

Team Members include: Tessa Abedon, Travis Bergman, Jason Clark, Melissa Harrison, Katie Rae Horn, Carolyn Hu Bradbury, Andrew Kerr, Nick Martini, Jace Mertes, Daniella Pereira, Jazmin Robinson, Stephen Shoemaker, and Justin Vidovic

4/24 - 5/8

Swiped Improvised Thievery is a longform-improvised comedy show where the audience experiences the thrilling highs and lows of the heist genre alongside a colorful band of thieves. Join us each week as we assemble our crew and perform a thrilling heist to steal a valuable item suggested by the audience. And if something goes awry... well - It's all part of the plan.

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Taking her life experience of attending an Indiana Catholic School for 12 years. Syd King looks at why she took purity culture terribly seriously; shamed friends for OWNING yoga pants, SLAPPED PEOPLE WHEN THEY CURSED, and did almost anything but love thy neighbour. Syd is now publicly atoning for her sins and hopefully making anyone else that still feels a tinge of guilt with a sip of red wine, a little better. Directed by Vannessa Jackson (SNL, Colbert, A Black Lady Sketch Show)

6/22

Do you want to have a boring night or do you want to get into some SHAANANIGANS? Bollywood stars, spelling bee champions, R&B singers, and so much more - this is a solo character show featuring the weirdos who show up on TV late at night when no one is watching. Representation matters for freaks too. Written and performed by Shaan Baig. Directed by Arik Cohen.

6/7 - 6/28

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

The show’s cast and writers consist of Chicago’s up-and-coming comedians - Hope Brannon, Francesca Bucci, Luke Herman, Sage Huston, Max Kantor, Edgar Nevarez, Liam Reed, Mario Turner, and Rockie Wenrich. Music Direction by Justin Jacobs

7/11 - 7/25

Something Like A Brother (SLAB) is a two-man 50-minute comedic catastrophe starring Nathan Hatfield Eryn Rafferty. Laugh, cry, and throw tomatoes while enjoying sketches, puppets, and poorly choreographed but very earnest dance numbers. If you’ve ever wanted to see two grown men throw comedic spaghetti at a metaphorical wall for nearly an hour, now’s your chance. (Please don't throw actual tomatoes at the performers we promised them not to worry about it).

6/6-8/2

Al's a new gay in Chicago looking for love in the big city when he bumps into the most beautiful man he's ever seen on the streets of Northalsted one night. Desperate to make his acquaintance, Al follows him into the legendary bathhouse Steamworks. As he makes his way through the maze of jacuzzis, slings, gloryholes, and fuck benches, Al makes a wild group of friends who help him discover what love might really mean when everyone's covered in cum.

Open Run

A night for Annoyance students to JAM!

Open Run

Super Human is an improv team that tore into Chicago’s comedy scene in 2012 at The Upstairs Gallery (RIP). Since then, Super Human has become synonymous with bold, hilarious, fearless and fun comedy. Described as a “splash zone of women,” Super Human prides itself on the team’s diverse personalities and playing styles, with an unmistakable focus on creating inclusive learning and performance spaces. They are Super Human and SO ARE YOU!

3/23

What do you get when you let four clowns loose on a stage? A very big mess, and a very funny show. Fortunately for you, we’ll handle the mess! Super Fun Happy Awesome Hour is a celebration of the circus arts and all things clown. This family friendly, hour-long, clown-centric variety show will introduce children, parents, and childless comedy fans to basic (and not-so-basic) principles of clowning through variety acts too fantastical to describe with words. And after the show, an optional clowning workshop will give kids and the young at heart a chance to learn some of the skills they’ve just seen and practice them onstage under the supervision of a highly trained clown named Tim.

7/9 - 7/23

Swig. Prezents: Too Brain Cells is a two-woman sketch show that serves up bite-sized brilliance, heartfelt hot takes, and a surprising number of churro-related metaphors for modern America. Smart sketch. Dumb choices. Big heart. If you’ve ever felt feelings in a Taco Bell parking lot, this show is for you.

5/3 - 5/24

Introducing the Annoyance Variety Hour! Featuring performances from Chicago's best comedians, musicians, magicians, circus performers, puppeteers, and everything in between! A true everything goes show reminiscent of classic programs like the Ed Sullivan Show and the Gong Show, its sure to surprise and amaze even the most seasoned of theater goers. Hosted by one of Chicago's best alternative comedians, Michael Serio, an international headliner and regular at major comedy venues all across the city, and live music played every night by the soulful stylings of the musical comedy duo sensation So Far So Good, the only thing you'll be disappointed by is that you didn't go see it sooner.

Bi-Weekly

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.

3/20-4/24

As a Christian kid, maybe you grew up with Veggie Tales, Psalty the Singing Songbook, or The Donut Man. But what wholesome content do the kids of today have? Why, Benny Bingo and the Evangelikids of course! Become an Evangelikid and meet us at the Flamingo Club House! We'll learn all about Jesus and the Gospel through songs, stories, prescriptive gender roles, and patriarchy! But when the cameras cut, it seems like some of the kids, and perhaps even Benny Bingo himself, are starting to have questions....maybe even doubts? Watch this heartwarming and hilarious original musical that explores themes of deconstruction, queerness, and individuality within the confines of an oppressive belief system — all while unapologetically leaning into joy.

7/5

The Journey before the Journey! Following the success of their hit
show, The Illiad, renowned theatre troupe Homer, get to work on their
next play. But as anyone who's experienced success knows, it's not
easy to repeat. Will Homer navigate the ire of the Gods, the blending
of personal and professional relationships, and creative bankruptcy to
create a classic that will outlive everyone and change storytelling
for the rest of time? Feels like a lot of pressure. Presented by Ants
in the Hall, a Detroit based comedy troupe that specializes in
semi-scripted, mostly improvised live performances, you can look
forward to a classic Greek comedy told in a way it's never been told
before. From the point of view of the actors, producers and writers
who made it exist. The Odyssey of Homer is an out of the box comedy
about the double edged sword that is creative success.

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The Pendejos: a comedic talent show, brings Chicago's funniest character comedians and makes them showcase their absurd talent to "compete" for the title of Pendejo of the Month. Hosted by Chicago's resident Pedejos, Keiter (The Mermaids, Big Deborah, Escandalo) & Lorena ( Casa de Lore, Burlesque is More, Escandalo).

From the producers of Improvised Survivor & The Chicago Comedy, K8R Productions presents a new chaotic show to the Annoyance Theatre. The Pendejos: a comedic talent show, brings Chicago's funniest character comedians and makes them showcase their absurd talent to "compete" for the title of Pendejo of the Month. Hosted by Chicago's resident Pedejos, Keiter (The Mermaids, Big Deborah, Escandalo) & Lorena ( Casa de Lore, Burlesque is More, Escandalo). Be part of the estupidez every last Thursday of the month at 7pm ONLY at the Annoyance Theatre.

3/30 - 4/13

Join international pop sensations, The Romanticks, for a variety hour filled with laughter, music, and sexy, sexy bugs. Oh, what’s that? Not sure if you’re into sexy, sexy bugs? Sexy, Latine bugs? Grow up.

1/26-3/9

A multimedia standup show about Sabrina, a third year Comedy Arts major with a lot of stories and antidotes she wants to tell.

7/2 - 7/30

What if people talked to each other on the CTA?

If you’ve ever sat on public transport thinking “I wonder what that person’s life is like,” The Sunshine Bus is for you! This cast of hilarious improvisers create a wholesome, brand new, improv show each week exploring the lives of commuters and how we might all find moments of connection with strangers and friends.

6/2 - 6/30

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

Open Run

Annoyance founder Mick Napier created the Trigger Happy form out of a desire to make improv look as slick and beautifully put together as a scripted show. Through a language invisible to the audience, the fully improvised show magically comes to life. There is truly nothing else like it. An Annoyance Signature Improv show.

Review: https://www.newcitystage.com/2015/01/31/review-trigger-happythe-annoyance-theatre/

Open Run

The Annoyance's very own musical ensembles. Every Tuesday at 8pm, two groups improvise brand new musicals based on audience suggestions. Featuring Musical Director Lisa McQueen and starring the Annoyance Musical Ensembles. Follow us on instagram: @tuesdaymusicalimprov

6/1

"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.

Van Trinh is one of the fastest rising stars on the Canadian comedy stage. Hailing from Hamilton Ontario, (by way of Vietnam) his comedic style can only be described as self-deprecating and absurd. He is a life-long martial artist, computer programmer, standup comic and is currently on tour promoting his new book "The Key To Life: In 365 Quotes."

6/19 JUNETEENTH

This Juneteenth, That Vibey Show is turning all the way up with a one-night-only Lip-Sync Battle you do not want to miss. At 8 p.m. on June 19th at the Annoyance Theatre (851 W. Belmont), our lineup of hilarious guest comedians will perform bold, ridiculous, and iconic lip-syncs to songs by legendary Black artists—all in hopes of earning a coveted spot on our collective Vibey playlist. It’s a mix of high-stakes musical improv, comedy chaos, and celebration of Black joy and artistry. But remember: the audience decides who makes the cut. Get your crew together, bring your loudest laugh, and click the link in my bio for tickets. 🎤✨ #It’sNotJustAComedyShowItsAVibe

Open Run

They take edibles. Then they improvise. There's a 'too-high' button, for when it gets too crazy.

7/28

“Wet Willie Goes To Karate” is a brilliantly crafted solo comedy that weaves humor and heartache as it follows a man navigating the emotional turmoil of a broken heart. He’s encouraged to try an unconventional counseling method that leads to both laugh-out-loud moments and profound insights, showcasing the absurdity and resilience of the human spirit in the face of heartbreak.