Mentalism meets improv comedy in the entirely unique form created by Annoyance founder Mick Napier. There is truly nothing else like it.

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

The Hail Marys are back and ready to cleanse your souls with some God-fearing improv! Join Declan, Isabella, Mary, Ellie, and Maryrose this Sunday for an hour of big laughs and spiritual awakening. End your weekend on the right note, and let us answer your prayers.

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

You’re (un)invited! Uninvited is a fully improvised event-based disaster in three acts. The audience supplies the suggestion of why we’re gathered, and then we show you what wackiness and whimsy unfolded before, after, and then during the event. Join us for a one hour chaotic descent into why we got ourselves Uninvited.

July 2nd, 1937. Many believe that Amelia Earhart met a watery demise, when in reality…she time travelled to the year 2026, landing at the Annoyance Theatre! But what’s worse than almost drowning in the Pacific Ocean? Drowning in OBSCURITY! Find out if Amelia Earhart manages to land the ultimate comeback in this campy 75-minute two-act dramedy.

Circuit Comedy Club presents Tales From The Windy City. An hour-long comedy show featuring local Chicagoans telling their truest tales to inspire our cast to create a hilarious series of improvised scenes. Closing out the night, jump onstage and jam out with the cast! FREE for students

A Chicago based improv comedy show and drinking game based on the works of Alfred Hitchcock. Based on an audience suggestion, the cast weave together an intricate Hitchcock-like drama, while holding true to the amount of drinking shown in his movies. You'll barely be able to stand the suspense, and the cast will barely be able to stand.

Comedian Cabaret is back again bring you a night of comedians living their Broadway dreams! This show's theme is "Back to School", so grab your backpack and dust off your textbooks for what's sure to be a splendiferous night of song and academia!

Annoyance students let loose in this student improv jam - all Annoyance students are welcome! A great opportunity to meet other members of our improv community.

Horror and Comedy come together for a bloody good time in Splatter Theater! In it's 39th year, the show combines all the elements you love about this subversive romp through suburbia with fresh, gory new twists. Follow our thirteen caricatures of slashers past as they attempt to survive the night inside the white picket fences of Mayfield. With a cast of all stars ready to get gross for your Halloween pleasure, prepare to laugh so hard it makes you scream. It's the blood-covered brain-child of Mick Napier, she's back and bloodier than ever.

Each month, the Annoyance's best performers transform themselves into new, original characters. When they get onstage, You never know what will happen but one thing is for sure. There will be WIGS.......

Come watch King of Drag Season 2 with your host, Twinka Masala. They are a local drag artist and KOD Season 2 contestant! Join us every Sunday for a night of drag performances, games, giveaways, q/a's and meet and greets, king commentary and more. Doors open at 7 PM, the episodes start at 8 PM, followed by live drag performances.

A belated improv showcase featuring Wheel of Improv, Sorry, and Royal Jelly to give John Moore a proper send-off. If you didn't realize John wasn't in Chicago anymore... that's f-cked up. Catch him performing with his Chicago improv teams "one last time" and we'll grab drinks at the bar after the show. Let's celebrate belatedly... celebrelatedly!

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.

Screw the algorithm! Sketched Out is a digital sketch comedy showcase rebelling against short attention spans. Too weird for your average feed, this is the gold that never makes it past the social media gatekeepers. Join us for a night filled with digital sketches on the BIG screen and meet some of Chicago’s boldest sketch artists, from up-and-coming voices to seasoned comedy pros. Have a sketch you want to submit? Check out @SketchedOut_Digital for submissions

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!

Katie Rae Horn and Laura Dellis are recent winners of the Chicago Reader’s Best Comedian (Non-Standup). Together, they are putting together a variety show showcasing their award winning comedy and special guests.

Every Wednesday, this group of Annoyance Program graduates performs The Insignificant Mile, a creative twist on a classic form in which players create a strip mall through audience suggestion. Each show features four unique locations, and a brand new cast of characters that exist in the world they created. With new guest openers every week, the Insignificant Mile is sure to leave a significant impact on audiences!

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

Andrew Sulfsted and Wyatt Menci felt the higher calling to be an Alderboy, a position in local politics that resides at the very bottom of influence. In order to build their way to the top, the two recruit talent from their ward to boost political sway and community swagger. Can the Alderboys save Lakeview East? Only if their constituents have the gumption they require. Or it may just save itself. Either way, the Alderboys are here to stay.

Anything But Dragons fuses the best parts of tabletop roleplaying games, improv, and experiential theatre. Each night we create a brand new TTRPG using audience suggestions and the chaos of the dice. We collect 30 suggestions from you, roll two 30-sided dice, and that’s the name of our game. A Game Master and three actors get on their feet and bring the world to life while you, our Fatekeepers, steer the narrative and try to keep the party alive. Real dice! No plan! Anything goes! Anything But Dragons. Insta: @anythingbutdragons Discord: https://discord.gg/XmvP3d6tWr

Code words is a stand up show that can be disrupted anytime if the comedian says their word of the day. The word could be anything and the disruption could be a mother a dinosaur or anything you can think of. Watch Chicago’s best comedians get bullied beguiled and down right scared by more of Chicago’s best comedians!

Step into the one glamorous but now lovingly frayed Blue Velvet Lounge, where the only thing not improvised are the jazz standards crooned by lounge singer Seth Lowery. As Seth’s velvet voice fades, the ensemble sweeps in, spinning spontaneous scenes inspired directly by the songs just performed. One moment, you’re eavesdropping on the eccentric regulars tucked into the lounge’s candlelit corners; the next, you’re whisked far beyond the club to follow the unexpected lives of the characters you just met—bartenders with secret ambitions, mysterious strangers with tangled pasts, and dreamers who stepped into the Blue Velvet for reasons they can’t quite explain. Playful, surprising, and steeped in a retro-cool vibe, this show blends live music and improvised storytelling into a one-of-a-kind night where every note inspires a new twist—and every visit to the Blue Velvet reveals something you’ve never seen before.

Hail and well met, traveler! Grab a drink, put up your cloak, and I’ll tell you a tale. Escapades is a completely improvised choose-your-own adventure. Sprinkled throughout each story are opportunities for the audience to vote on what happens next. Whether we’re riding jetpacks on Mars or a unicorn through a gumdrop forest, you’re guaranteed a night of gasps, laughs, twists, turns, and daring rescues. Excelsior!

WARNING: Don’t Try This At Home. Inspired by the bond of true friendship, Not4Kidz presents a Jackass-Style Variety Show. Guests will take the stage with a twist. Maybe you’ve got 8 minutes to complete your set, but you also need to finish an entire sheet cake before the lights go out? Maybe everyone on the team is blindfolded? Maybe your set is interrupted by a rodeo clown? Anything that would make MTV’s most lovable idiots proud. We’re Not4Kidz, and welcome to whackass!

The cast of the hit show Pigskin: The Football Musical brings you Varsity Improv! Come see Chicagos best improvisers, the annoyance’s premiere performers improvise scenes and songs based on audience suggestions and guest monologues. Just in time for football season!

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

Looking for a Stand-up Comedy Open Mic that’s a supportive room and always a good time? Look no further than the Ya'll Mic. 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 Ya'll 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!

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!

You've been summoned...to laugh. Jury Duty is a fully improvised courtroom comedy where the only thing on trial is sanity itself. Each night, the cast creates a brand new legal disaster based on audience suggestion, questionable logic, and total chaos. Watch as the foreperson loses their mind, evidence makes things worse, and deliberations go off the rails. No script, no rules, no justice. Just comedy The trial is fake, the laughs are real

New forms. New Players. Big Laughs. Every week is a new and different show. So what you see, no one else will see.

Poly Party combines unique opening acts with an improv show grounded in relationships, where almost everyone on stage plays a member of a polycule that changes dynamics every show. With your help and suggestions, they’ll go on an adventure where they’ll have to work together to overcome any obstacles in their way and prove that nothing is stronger than the power of love multiplied.

See a collage of character studies, scenes, songs and maybe even some audience interaction, all written in a week by some of Chicago’s most accomplished comedians. The “Holy Fuck Comedy Hour” is a curated hour of eclectic, comedic material written in a week with no rehearsals. Featuring a powerful collective representing a wide cross-section of the Chicago comedy community, the material varies every week.

See how short form improv works and even try it out yourself! This short form jam is open to Annoyance students and other improv performers. Join us!

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.

What if the heroes never saved the day? What if one town WAS swallowed up by a hellmouth, or infiltrated by alien imposters? Cryptic is a fully-improvised documentary in the style of true crime stories, exploring the aftermath of a small-town mystery and how it brings a community together. Complete with interviews, theories, accusations, and revelations, you'll be shocked by what we uncover. If you love true crime and tall tales, you'll love Cryptic!

An LGBTQIA+ themed variety show featuring some of Chicago's strongest and most diversely hilarious voices!

It's a solo character showcase featuring the students of our latest class! Educating students on preparations for showcase performances, don't miss the next generation of character-based talent!

Adapted for the stage from the award-winning screenplay, ANTON SUCKS is a raunchy, queer, gothic romp with a coming-of-age beating heart. When a pubescent vampire discovers he can only drink the blood of a romantic lover, his crush on a village boy forces him to question his desire to fulfill his conservative father’s expectations. If you are a fan of What We Do In The Shadows, The Addams Family, Shrek, or even Call Me By Your Name, then this one is for you.