The FREE WEDNESDAY SHOW feat Dumb John and Birdlady
Come be a part of Chicago's most spoiled audience as you are treated to a free performance from iO's premiere long form ensembles: Dumb John, Birdlady, and a special guest team each week. FREE!
A free community networking event designed to give local improvisers from all over the city a weekly opportunity to perform. Bring your own team and sign up for a set!
The Orbit is Chicago’s only improv show performed in the round. This 45-minute avant-garde experience takes the audience on a full-circle journey, showcasing a bold new form designed for 360-degree play
Each night, professional actors prepare a scene from a play. Their scene partners, however, are never given a script, and must improvise their way through the scene. The result is a totally original, never before seen piece of theater.
Fast, funny, and frothy, Thursday Night Improv is entirely improvised and features a different guest opener for veteran iO house team Creamboy every week. Every show is completely different, so you can keep coming back for more!
Each week, a different cast member designs a bold new format and their fellow performers will learn about at the same time as the crowd. Expect the unexpected as we build something completely original, live, right before your eyes.
The Improvised Shakespeare Company® proudly presents its critically-acclaimed, long-running hit show Improvised Shakespeare Chicago now in it’s 18th year! A brand new Shakespearean masterpiece created right before your very eyes.
Improvised Jane Austen is a comedic ensemble that creates unscripted performances using Jane Austen's tropes, themes, and language to create a satirical romantic comedy set in Regency-era England.
The Improvised Shakespeare Company® proudly presents its critically-acclaimed, long-running hit show Improvised Shakespeare Chicago now in it’s 18th year! A brand new Shakespearean masterpiece created right before your very eyes.
Improv ripped right from the headlines! Audience members choose their favorite top news stories of the week this team of experienced improvisers create fast-paced, topical commentary! WSJ Improv Style!
After School Special is a weekly variety show brought to you by iO's first all-POC house team, D.A.R.E. Dropouts. Each week features a variety of local acts by performers of color and an improv set from the Dropouts! Tune in to see comedy in color!
Using the Harold, an improvised story-telling format, iO's rockstar house teams will showcase the wonderful, strange, and thrilling art of Improv, making you second-guess if what you're seeing is truly made up on-the-spot.
Chicago's longest-running Harold team returns to iO to bring their unique blend of chaos and creativity to iO's signature form The Harold melding games, songs, and scenes for singular, edge-of-your-seat improv comedy.
Chicago's Longest Running Improv Comedy Show! Each week, actors will improvise a two act show based on the stories and monologues of a special guest host. This show was invented at iO in 1995 and has been running ever since.
The FREE WEDNESDAY SHOW feat Dumb John and Birdlady
Come be a part of Chicago's most spoiled audience as you are treated to a free performance from iO's premiere long form ensembles: Dumb John, Birdlady, and a special guest team each week. FREE!
A free community networking event designed to give local improvisers from all over the city a weekly opportunity to perform. Bring your own team and sign up for a set!
The Orbit is Chicago’s only improv show performed in the round. This 45-minute avant-garde experience takes the audience on a full-circle journey, showcasing a bold new form designed for 360-degree play
Each night, professional actors prepare a scene from a play. Their scene partners, however, are never given a script, and must improvise their way through the scene. The result is a totally original, never before seen piece of theater.
Fast, funny, and frothy, Thursday Night Improv is entirely improvised and features a different guest opener for veteran iO house team Creamboy every week. Every show is completely different, so you can keep coming back for more!
Each week, a different cast member designs a bold new format and their fellow performers will learn about at the same time as the crowd. Expect the unexpected as we build something completely original, live, right before your eyes.
The Improvised Shakespeare Company® proudly presents its critically-acclaimed, long-running hit show Improvised Shakespeare Chicago now in it’s 18th year! A brand new Shakespearean masterpiece created right before your very eyes.
It Seems Today - An Improvised Episode of Family Guy
The hit New York improv shows comes to Chicago for two nights only! Witness a brand new episode of Family Guy improvised right before your eyes, by only two improvisers!
Improvised Jane Austen is a comedic ensemble that creates unscripted performances using Jane Austen's tropes, themes, and language to create a satirical romantic comedy set in Regency-era England.
The Improvised Shakespeare Company® proudly presents its critically-acclaimed, long-running hit show Improvised Shakespeare Chicago now in it’s 18th year! A brand new Shakespearean masterpiece created right before your very eyes.
Improv ripped right from the headlines! Audience members choose their favorite top news stories of the week this team of experienced improvisers create fast-paced, topical commentary! WSJ Improv Style!
After School Special is a weekly variety show brought to you by iO's first all-POC house team, D.A.R.E. Dropouts. Each week features a variety of local acts by performers of color and an improv set from the Dropouts! Tune in to see comedy in color!
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