Donation Options Search Search Search TJ Jagodowski (right) and David Pasquesi (left) return to Chicago for a series of improv performances July 30 - Aug. 1 at the Goodman Theatre. Liz Lauren Share ...

What do Tina Fey, Bill Murray, John Belushi, Mike Myers, Martin Short, Stephen Colbert, Gilda Radner, Joan Rivers and Chris Farley have in common? They all got their start at The Second City — the ...

The North Side has long reigned as the cradle of Chicago comedy. Stand-ups flock to Zanies or The Laugh Factory, and improvisers and sketch comics flit between The Annoyance, The Second City and iO.

In this episode of "The Drink," Kate Snow sits down with Brendan Hunt, best known for playing the loveable and dead-pan ...

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Some of the biggest American comics have gotten their starts at Boom Chicago, an Amsterdam improv theater. Seth Meyers, ...

We’re at a pizza parlor, listening to “The Perversity of Captain Morgan.” This opera has everything: drunk pirates, “horny fish,” a preteen stowaway from Colorado, and a character referred to only as ...

Boom Chicago, a small improv theater in Amsterdam, launched as "the best stoner idea ever," and has been churning out big ...