Our Picks

iO Theater

Founded in 1981, iO (Formerly ImprovOlympic) is the world famous flashpoint of comic creativity that spawned an entire generation of America’s best and brightest entertainers. Over 5000 people have trained and performed at iO’s Chicago and Los Angeles theaters, including some of the most recognizable names in show business; Mike Myers, Chris Farley, David Koechner, Adam McKay, Tina Fey and many, many more.

Charna Halpern held a belief that improv was capable of more than the short games and competition-style shows that dominated the scene through the 1970s. It was then that she met legendary director and improv luminary Del Close. Their shared vision for a deeper, more robust form of improvisation based on trust and agreement would be rounded into shape and set in motion when they developed the Harold at iO (then ImprovOlympic). With Del serving as the mentor and Charna the guide, longform was born and the two would change the face of improvisational comedy.

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UP Comedy Club

UP Comedy Club presents an eclectic mix of comedy seven days a week featuring the best in Chicago stand-up, sketch and improv comedy.

This exciting new club is located on the third floor of Pipers Alley in the heart of a rich comedy community, adjacent to the legendary Second City.

This custom designed, new cabaret-style club has:

State of the art audiovisual capabilities in an inviting room wrapped with intimate booth seating and two levels of cabaret-style seating on the third floor of Piper's Alley.
5000 sq. ft. of space designed by Ryan Nestor of Barker Nestor
This warm and intimate space seats 285 people
Full service kitchen and bar with a no drink minimum
Make a dinner reservation and receive priority seating

 

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Beverly Arts Center

Located in Chicago's historic Beverly/Morgan Park neighborhood, the Beverly Arts Center is a multidiscipline, multicultural center offering fine arts education, programming and entertainment for all ages. The BAC has classes in art, music, dance, and theater; rotating exhibitions of art by established and emerging artists; and one of the most dynamic performing arts programs in the city.

 

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Gorilla Tango Theatre

Gorilla Tango Theatre (GTT) is a live theatrical venue where audiences can consistently go each week to see a wide variety of performances by a diverse group of talented producers, directors, actors, writers, etc. etc. If its live and will fit on our stage, you could see it at GTT!
Gorilla Tango is one of the best theaters in Chicago for all things new and fresh.

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Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre

Located within a sprawling 169 acre resort complex, Marriott's Lincolnshire Theatre brings more than 400,000 people to the Chicago suburb of Lincolnshire each year. Once known as Drury Lane Theatre North, the facility hosts world-class musicals.

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The Neo-Futurists/The Neo-Futurarium

Although originally created as an ensemble to perform a specific show, The Neo-Futurists have grown to become one of the most highly regarded experimental theater companies in America.
From humble beginnings as the first late-night theater production in Chicago, we have expanded into a company that mounts full seasons of adventurous, smart, interactive theater while still pursuing the ideas that inspired our creation. Although we pride ourselves on focusing on the future, we will briefly look at the trail we have blazed in the past.

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iO Theater

Founded in 1981, iO (Formerly ImprovOlympic) is the world famous flashpoint of comic creativity that spawned an entire generation of America’s best and brightest entertainers. Over 5000 people have trained and performed at iO’s Chicago and Los Angeles theaters, including some of the most recognizable names in show business; Mike Myers, Chris Farley, David Koechner, Adam McKay, Tina Fey and many, many more.

Charna Halpern held a belief that improv was capable of more than the short games and competition-style shows that dominated the scene through the 1970s. It was then that she met legendary director and improv luminary Del Close. Their shared vision for a deeper, more robust form of improvisation based on trust and agreement would be rounded into shape and set in motion when they developed the Harold at iO (then ImprovOlympic). With Del serving as the mentor and Charna the guide, longform was born and the two would change the face of improvisational comedy.


UP Comedy Club

UP Comedy Club presents an eclectic mix of comedy seven days a week featuring the best in Chicago stand-up, sketch and improv comedy.

This exciting new club is located on the third floor of Pipers Alley in the heart of a rich comedy community, adjacent to the legendary Second City.

This custom designed, new cabaret-style club has:

State of the art audiovisual capabilities in an inviting room wrapped with intimate booth seating and two levels of cabaret-style seating on the third floor of Piper's Alley.
5000 sq. ft. of space designed by Ryan Nestor of Barker Nestor
This warm and intimate space seats 285 people
Full service kitchen and bar with a no drink minimum
Make a dinner reservation and receive priority seating

 


Adventure Stage Chicago

Formerly known as the Vittum Theater, the venue opened in 1998 to aid in community building and to foster the personal growth of members of the Northwestern University Settlement House. Since that time, the theater has developed into a regionally recognized resource for quality arts programming for youth. Its annual Season for Young Audiences currently accommodates 10,000 school age children from over 100 schools in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Art of Play in Chicago

Come in and Play at the Chicago Tourism Center -
Have non-stop fun at this summer long place to play try your hand at any of the on-site toys and games including traditional favorites and hot new games. Check out exhibitions on game- and toy-inspired artwork and on the history of games invented or created in Chicago.
Attend weekly programs featuring a spectrum of games and toys. On Saturdays and Sundays from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm, master new games, strategize with experts, challenge game enthusiasts and discover how toys come to life in interactive toy making demonstrations. Lunchtime on Wednesdays, from noon to 2:00 pm, compete in group games. Hear from local toy and game inventors and collectors in a monthly lecture series. .

Beverly Arts Center

Located in Chicago's historic Beverly/Morgan Park neighborhood, the Beverly Arts Center is a multidiscipline, multicultural center offering fine arts education, programming and entertainment for all ages. The BAC has classes in art, music, dance, and theater; rotating exhibitions of art by established and emerging artists; and one of the most dynamic performing arts programs in the city.

 


Chicago's Children Theatre

Chicago Children's Theatre aspires to enrich our community through diverse and significant theatrical programming that engages and inspires the child in all of us.

Cirque Shanghai

All that Glitters is gold this summer with the return of these elite award-winning acrobats direct from China! Presented in partnership with International Special Attractions (ISA) and featuring Gold! This year's show features an exhilarating display of agility, strength and balance seen nowhere else in the world this summer!

Cornservatory

This storefront theater seats 60 and presents original one act comedies and improv sketches featuring resident artists

ETA Creative Arts Foundation

Who says you have to go downtown to see a good play?
Nestled on the southeast side, off of 75th & South Chicago Avenue, it is truly a gem for African-Americans statewide. The eta Creative Arts Foundation has been entertaining hundreds of thousands since the early 1970's. Having been award over 120 prestigious awards by a variety of groups, locally and nationally, in recognition of its outstanding contribution to the arts, eta remains a artistic palace worth visiting many times.

 


Gorilla Tango Theatre

Gorilla Tango Theatre (GTT) is a live theatrical venue where audiences can consistently go each week to see a wide variety of performances by a diverse group of talented producers, directors, actors, writers, etc. etc. If its live and will fit on our stage, you could see it at GTT!
Gorilla Tango is one of the best theaters in Chicago for all things new and fresh.


Kohl McCormick StoryBus

The Kohl McCormick StoryBus is a children's literacy museum on wheels that visits schools and community events in the Chicago area. Housed inside a 37-foot Winnebago, the bus promotes reading to students at the kindergarten and pre-k levels. Filled with a rotating collection of hands-on interactive exhibits, the StoryBus transports children inside the worlds of favorite children's stories, such as The Little Red Hen, The Gingerbread Man, The Three Little Pigs, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears.


LEGOLAND® Discovery Centre

The Lego Group was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen. The company has passed from father to son and is now owned by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, the grandson of the founder. It has come a long way over the past 70 years - from a small carpenter’s workshop to a modern, global enterprise that is now, in terms of sales, the world’s sixth-largest manufacturer of toys

Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre

Located within a sprawling 169 acre resort complex, Marriott's Lincolnshire Theatre brings more than 400,000 people to the Chicago suburb of Lincolnshire each year. Once known as Drury Lane Theatre North, the facility hosts world-class musicals.


Merle Reskin Theatre

Formerly known as the Blackstone Theatre, it was renamed the Merle Reskin Theatre in November 1992. Each year, the 1,325 seat proscenium theatre provides performance space for the nearly 200 public performances of the Theatre School, including The Theatre School Showcase, Chicago Playworks for Families and Young Audiences, and The School of Music's Annual Opera, along with several not-for-profit arts organizations who use the world-class stage when it is not occupied by DePaul Productions.


Old Town School of Folk Music

The Old Town School of Folk Music teaches and celebrates music and cultural expressions rooted in the traditions of diverse American and global communities.
As they finish their 51st year in 2008, enrollment in Old Town School tuition programs averages close to 6,000 students per week, 2,700 of them children. The Lincoln Square and Lincoln Park facilities hold hundreds of classes and workshops in music, dance and art for adults, children and teens seven days per week, 48 weeks per year. Early childhood and middle school music programs thrive in three suburban branches as well as in several community outreach programs throughout the city.

South Side Community Art Center’s

South Side Community Art Center has been instrumental in launching the careers of many nationally and internationally established artists, starting from the era of the Works Program Administration to the present. Poet Gwendolyn Brooks wrote and taught at the Center, photographer Gordon Parks had his first darkroom in the Center’s basement, and Charles White and Elizabeth Catlett shared what they learned from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with other artists who could not afford the tuition. These names are just a few of the many artists who have contributed to the Center’s rich legacy. These artists over the years have also been instrumental in keeping the doors of the Center open when the WPA (Work Progress Administration) funding was discontinued.

Star Plaze Theatre

Star Plaza Theatre is a 3400 seat intimate theatre with two seating levels in a semi-circle around the stage. The main floor level seats 2,000 people and the mezzanine, which overhangs the main level about midway, seats 1,400. The furthest seat in the auditorium is only 120 feet from the stage.

The Backyardigans

The Backyardigans is an animated musical-adventure series for children ages 2 to 5. In each episode, the show's five high-spirited preschool friends--Uniqua, Pablo, Tyrone, Tasha, and Austin--rely on their vivid imaginations to transform their backyard into a fantastical 3-D landscape, and together they embark on amazing epic journeys.
These lovable characters will inspire children to sing and dance along, and to stretch their imaginations as they climb up mountains, slide down glaciers, and sail across oceans. Each episode is driven by an exciting, age-appropriate story and enlivened by original music--including big band, reggae, rockabilly, bossa nova, and hip-hop--and by professionally choreographed dance numbers.

The Center for Performing Arts

The mission of The Center for Performing Arts is simply to present the finest in world class performing arts entertainment and education to the citizens of Chicago Southland at affordable prices.
In addition to being the premier performing arts presenters in Chicago Southland, The Center for Performing Arts offers an extensive Arts in Education program for area schools.

The Neo-Futurists/The Neo-Futurarium

Although originally created as an ensemble to perform a specific show, The Neo-Futurists have grown to become one of the most highly regarded experimental theater companies in America.
From humble beginnings as the first late-night theater production in Chicago, we have expanded into a company that mounts full seasons of adventurous, smart, interactive theater while still pursuing the ideas that inspired our creation. Although we pride ourselves on focusing on the future, we will briefly look at the trail we have blazed in the past.


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