Join us for this special one night only event, where Peter shares stories about hosting Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!, recounts his days as a playwright, recalls his random cameo as an emotion in Inside Out, and offers life lessons to aspiring comedians and middle-aged radio hosts. You won't want to miss this one time event!

Get carried away by the wonder and wanderlust of Road Signs, a new, live, in-person show starring magician Jon Tai. After mesmerizing virtual audiences in Missed Connections (hailed as “beguiling” and “simply astonishing” by the Chicago Sun-Times) with AROT in 2020, Tai arrives at N. Wells Street to captivate Chicago in the flesh for the very first time. Road Signs takes audiences on a journey into the great American wilderness, where past and present blur and audience members’ dreams are brought to life around a campfire. Co-created and directed by Alex Gruhin, Road Signs arrives at A Red Orchid Theatre following runs at Aiden Sinclair’s Underground, part of the world-famous Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Liberty Magic, where Pittsburgh Magazine called it a “remarkable” and “moving” experience.

Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant are the hosts of Stuff You Should Know, the award-winning podcast loved around the world. Since 2008, the pair have produced nearly 2,000 episodes that have garnered more than 3 billion downloads globally.

Barack Obama's election changed history. And as we can clearly see, it also ended racism forever! But 44 - The unOFFICIAL, unSANCTIONED OBAMA MUSICAL is the story of Obama you won't read about in history books...because history books are now banned in most states. But also because 44 is the story of Obama as Joe Biden kinda sorta remembers it...

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel was voted best musical of the 20th Century by "Time Magazine." Find out why this beloved musical that includes the songs "If I Loved You," "You'll Never Walk Alone," and "Soliloquy" has become one of the most powerful and moving classics in the Broadway canon.

It is November 25, 1864. A Nation divided. Families torn asunder. Abraham Lincoln has just been re-elected. The Civil War that has claimed more than half a million lives and set brother against brother is finally nearing an exhaustive end. Amidst this turmoil, legendary stage actor Edwin Booth has gathered his brothers Junius and John Wilkes together for a blockbuster benefit performance of Shakespeare's "Julius Cesar". Edwin hopes the shared stage might heal their strained family ties. He soon discovers their house to be more divided and the situation more volatile than anyone had imagined. Will the better angels of their nature prevail, or will their family legacy be destroyed? Drawing historical parallels to today's political divisions, "Winter Garden" is a turbulent exploration of family, loyalty, and the fragile nature of historical legacy.

The InterPlays is a series of short plays focused on dating and romantic relationships. When the plays are put together, they tell a story of love and its many facets and phases. The InterPlays will celebrate the throes and joys of love - in all of its shapes and sizes.

As a beloved television icon and entertainment pioneer, Ellen DeGeneres' distinctive comedic voice has resonated with audiences from her first stand-up comedy appearance through her work on television and in film. Ellen DeGeneres made a home for herself in daytime with her hit syndicated talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, which ended in 2022 after an incredible nineteen seasons. As one of the longest running daytime television shows, it earned 64 Daytime Emmy Awards, including 12 for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show, crowning it the record holder in this category. DeGeneres has also won 12 Teen Choice Awards, 5 Kids' Choice Awards, and 24 People's Choice Awards, making her the most decorated individual in the franchise's 45-year history.

Marty McFly is a rock 'n' roll teenager who is accidentally transported back to 1955 in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown. But before he can return to 1985, Marty must make sure his high school-aged parents fall in love in order to save his own existence.

Stage adaptation of the Academy Award-winning film in which a network TV news anchorman is plunged into despair when his ratings drop and he is fired. He turns suicidal and threatens to kill himself live on air at an appointed time. Bizarrely, this announcement leads to a dramatic resurgence in popularity. Beale is reborn as "the mad prophet of the airwaves," a man who channels the anger of the common man. A nihilistic satire on the direction that television, and specifically news coverage, was headed in the Seventies.

From the co-creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend comes a one-woman musical comedy that is definitely NOT about the ever-present specter of death. Rachel Bloom's new show is filled with raunchy and escapist material that will in NO way explore the pandemic and all the tumultuous events that ensued in her personal life. NOTHING will stop Rachel from partying like it's 2019!

Hamlet by New York Circus Project transforms Shakespeare's classic into a contemporary acrobatic performance. "Breaking the boundaries of art forms and time, 'Hamlet' ultimately traversed the lines of what a Shakespeare play should look like-revealing an undiscovered terrain within the arts world waiting for interdisciplinary talents to fill it with color." (Columbia Spectator)

"The Second-to-Last Exit" by Carl Zeitler consists of six short plays that deal with a variety of people who have just passed away and are led to a waiting room by secretive hosts. As they reflect on their lives and ponder what may come next, they interact with others they meet in a mixture of comedy and drama.

Larry Kramer’s beautiful, searing play about the earliest days of the AIDS epidemic, based on his experience organizing Gay Men’s Health Crisis, opens Redtwist’s newly renovated venue. The play, winner of Tony, Drama Desk and Olivier Awards, tells the story of an advocacy group that struggled against government suppression and internal strife in the face of the disappearance of their community. This heart wrenching, humanist play, written more than 40 years ago about a small group of advocates calling for action from a government that insists that nothing is wrong, seems darkly familiar and more universal than ever.

This side-splitting musical follows a group of unemployed steelworkers in Buffalo, New York. With their backs to the wall, Jerry, Dave and their pals decide to create a male strip show to pay their mortgages and provide for their families after layoffs. Facing their insecurities along with economic — and in some cases personal — disaster, these taboo-busting boys bare their souls and their bodies. Thanks to a hearty blue-collar work ethic, they abandon the unemployment grind for a different kind of grind, stripping off the layers of toxic masculinity to reflect the true ingenuity of the American spirit — gettin’ it done!

The final installment of the "Four-Color Trilogy" about three key moments in the history of comic books, THE HOUSE OF IDEAS examines the rise of Marvel and the fraught relationship between the Lennon and McCartney of comic books, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Today Marvel Entertainment stands near the center of our popular culture. It was in the 1960s that Marvel Comics began creating dozens of memorable characters and built a single cohesive world for them to inhabit. In comic books, this was revolutionary. But Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the two men at the center of this renaissance, struggle with the idea of credit now that they've made it something worth struggling over.

In this world premiere adaptation of the fantasy novel by Jessica Cluess, Lovecraftian horrors from another dimension have invaded Victorian England. A young lady with unusual magical ability, Henrietta Howell, may be the Chosen One destined to stop the army of monstrosities - if she can learn to control her powers in time. Intrigue, humor, sorcery, and tentacles - what's not to love?