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Join Kevin McDonald of the Kids in the Hall  as he returned to Unexpected Productions for a two-day sketch comedy workshop that will culminate in a show on the second night.

Sanguine Theatre Company will present the World Premiere of Patrick Vermillion's JESSICA, directed by Emily Jackson at IRT Theater (154 Christopher Street, between Greenwich and Washington, 10014), July 22-August 5.

1 night. 2 cities. 100 female and gender minority comics talking about their junk. You've heard the stereotype that female comics only talk about their vaginas. Now's your chance to hear 50 of your favorites describe all the wonders of their genitalia. Maybe you'll finally learn where the clitoris is.

???????S.U.C.K. (Stand Up Comedy Klub) announces three more dates for their monthly stand-up show at The Mockingbird Bar in the East Village. Dates include June 16, July 21 and August 25 at 8:00 pm. The evening features stand-up comedy, music, and DJ sets. 

Sanguine Theatre Company will present the World Premiere of Patrick Vermillion's JESSICA, directed by Emily Jackson at IRT Theater (154 Christopher Street, between Greenwich and Washington, 10014), July 22-August 5.

Every month Sachi Ezura and Halle Kiefer host a stand-up/storytelling show that asks performers, 'What, exactly, is your damage?'

The Murray Theatre at Ruth Eckerd Hall presents a night of improv with The Comedy Lottery by the Florida Studio Theatre on Friday, April 28 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are on sale now.

Every month Sachi Ezura and Halle Kiefer host a stand-up/storytelling show that asks performers, 'What, exactly, is your damage?'

The forthcoming memoir Flying Funny: My Life without a Net (April 2017, University of Minnesota Press) by Dudley Riggs, a fifth generation member of a distinguished show business family, is about his life growing up in the circus and vaudeville.

Right Angle Entertainment and A Rising Tide Theatrical Group have announced the all new national tour of GREATER TUNA. GREATER TUNA will play The Grand 1894 Opera House for a limited three-performance engagement on Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 3 and 8 pm; Sunday, April 9, 2017 at 3 pm.

Cult comedy act The Lampshades with THE OFFICE's Kate Flannery and Scot Robinson from ANCHORMAN will be performing at Flappers Comedy Club and Restaurant on Wednesday, March 29 at 8:00 P.M. Tickets are $15.00 and are available at www.flapperscomedy.com.

Artistic Director Robert Falls announces Goodman Theatre's new 2017/2018 Season, which builds on the theater's 40-year commitment to producing works that are representative of American society. In announcing the new season, Falls serves up a dynamic mix of works from culturally and aesthetically diverse playwrights-new plays and revisited classics that address the most significant issues facing the country today.

92Y announces a special one-night-only performance by Chicago's critically acclaimed improv troupe, The Improvised Shakespeare Company, on Friday, April 7.

???????Every month Sachi Ezura and Halle Kiefer host a stand-up/storytelling show that asks performers, 'What, exactly, is your damage?'

Witness The Improvised Shakespeare Co. create a fully improvised Shakespearean masterpiece right before your very eyes at SOPAC on February 24 at 8 p.m.! In the unpredictably hilarious fashion of improvised comedy, the audience provides The Improvised Shakespeare Co. with suggestions for the title of a play that has yet to be written, let alone performed out loud!

Every month Sachi Ezura and Halle Kiefer host a stand-up/storytelling show that asks performers, 'What, exactly, is your damage?' Comics ruminate on the middle school humiliations, dating embarrassments and family drama that haunt them to this day, and that make them the weird, wonderful people they are today.

Every month Sachi Ezura and Halle Kiefer host a stand-up/storytelling show that asks performers, 'What, exactly, is your damage?' Comics ruminate on the middle school humiliations, dating embarrassments and family drama that haunt them to this day, and that make them the weird, wonderful people they are today.

According to the Chicago Tribune, film star and Second City alumnus Mike Myers (Austin Powers, Shrek, Wayne's World) will play improv great Del Close in a new biopic produced by the Windy City comedy institution. Myers was, fittingly, one of Close's students.

Witness The Improvised Shakespeare Co. create a fully improvised Shakespearean masterpiece right before your very eyes at SOPAC on February 24 at 8 p.m.! In the unpredictably hilarious fashion of improvised comedy, the audience provides The Improvised Shakespeare Co. with suggestions for the title of a play that has yet to be written, let alone performed out loud!

Every month, Sachi Ezura and Halle Kiefer host a stand-up/storytelling show that asks performers, 'What, exactly, is your damage?'