2+ hour, 39+ min ago  (36+ words) Best place for comedians to attend the school of hard knocks (a how-to guide)Chicago Reader Cole's Bar Wednesday Night Open Mike2338 N. Milwaukee, Wed 8 PM (sign-up 7:15 PM), colesbarchicago.com...

2+ hour, 39+ min ago  (297+ words) The first time I saw Second City's Black Excellence Comedy Revue, I cried real tears from laughing so hard. The 2024 title, Black by Popular Demand, was the second year Chicago's most acclaimed comedy institution had this very Black show, and…...

7+ hour, 39+ min ago  (40+ words) Best new DVD-only analog/digital mash-up video art zine created by a local VJ'Chicago Reader Most exciting, though, is that this is just the first issue of what Dye wants to be an ongoing and hopefully expanding project....

8+ hour, 7+ min ago  (42+ words) Las Locas Comedy Presents: Chingona Comedy Hour - March 5th, 2026Chicago Reader Comprehensive Chicago events listings from a wide variety of event organizers and sources'including Reader readers. Find shows, concerts, festivals, and community events happening today, this weekend, or in the future....

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (273+ words) As the show unfolded, the actors jumped into improvised scenes, and the improvisers worked to figure out where they fit within the scripted material, creating an often goofy and sometimes very touching series of vignettes featuring people estranged from each…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (387+ words) Review: Is This Thing On?Chicago Reader Bradley Cooper's third film as director, Is This Thing On?, tells the story of Alex (Will Arnett) and Tess (Laura Dern), an unhappy married couple introduced in a blunt exchange that prompts the…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago  (366+ words) Yorgos Lanthimos's Bugonia makes a chilling update to Jang Joon-hwan's 2003 cult masterpiece Save the Green Planet!. Yorgos Lanthimos's Bugonia is a feverish mix of ecological panic and conspiratorial mania. It feels newly prophetic as it returns to the familiar nightmare…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (238+ words) Local references abound, from Mothman to legendary gay nightclub La Cueva. The show is in both English and Spanish, but even those of us with limited Spanish can easily pick up on what's going down in those segments, thanks to…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (903+ words) I volunteered some questions in advance via email, and I got right to the point: "I'd definitely like to know how the Trump regime's hostility to immigrants and foreign visitors has affected booking," I began. "Did anyone cancel or withdraw?...

6+ mon, 4+ week ago  (407+ words) With surprising success, Akiva Schaffer's The Naked Gun cannonballs into the absurdity of the original franchise. Akiva Schaffer's The Naked Gun cannonballs into the absurdity of the original franchise. It's packed with absolutely shameless fun: pratfalls, pun-heavy wordplay, deadpan chaos,…...