The Second City's 114th Mainstage Revue delivers a high-energy night of sketch and improv, led by a fearless ensemble who bring outrageous characters, show-stopping musical numbers, and audience-driven moments to life - making every performance feel alive and ever-changing. Smart, sharp, and ridiculously funny, the show transforms the chaos of everyday life into something shared, cathartic, and unapologetically hilarious.

In Los Angeles, it's the job of this group of parents to watch movies all day. Every day. The ratings board sets the content level on up to 900 films per year. These parents watch every boring, bombastic, vile, and embarrassing scene shoulder to shoulder with their coworkers. Parental Guidance Suggested from playwright Kelle Long explores the hilarious interactions of this group and how movies are assigned ratings from G to R by the most innocent members of the movie business.

Your favorite cool cat takes the stage in this delightful musical adventure at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts! Based on the hit book series, this fun-filled show brings Pete and his friends to life with catchy songs, colorful characters, and plenty of heart. Student matinees and select Saturday performances are available, making this a purr-fect outing for families and young audiences alike!

In a failing dive bar, two estranged friends try to reconnect over hallucinogenic cocktails that trigger visions of tomorrow. As these sci-fi visions grow wilder and more intense, one question looms large: Does their friendship have a future?

Reality Detox: The Improv Experience is a high-energy night of improvisation from The Second City, with a few sketch surprises mixed in along the way. Built fresh each night and shaped by the people in the room, every performance is different from the last. Funny, fast, and wildly unpredictable, it’s a chance to escape reality and enjoy a night of laughter. Come be part of the comedy magic.

Jay is a really good boxer, so good they call him “The Sport.” He’s won his last seventy-six fights and has his sights set on being crowned the next heavyweight champion. But it’s 1905, and in the Jim Crow era, a Black man doesn’t get to fight a reigning white champion. When a surprising chance at the title appears, Jay gears up for the fight of his life—where the stakes are staggeringly high inside the ring and out. Inspired by real-world boxer Jack Johnson, this adrenaline rush of a play by Marco Ramirez (Orange is the New Black, Buena Vista Social Club) is a kinetic and poetic portrayal of what it takes and what it costs to make history.

The Snow Queen follows Gerda as she embarks on a journey into the unknown. Along the way she encounters unpredictable elements, a talking raven, a band of singing robbers, whispering flowers, deceptive sweetness, and strangers who become family. With every trial she must decide not only how to save Kay but who she is becoming. Can Gerda withstand the bitter cold and the Snow Queen's relentless desire to control the narrative? Will Kay reclaim the story stolen from him, or surrender to the silence of the ice? Written by Mallory Swisher and directed by Stefan Roseen and Anna Reomer, this beloved folktale reimagined through a new landscape explores the people who carry our stories when we no longer can - and the courage it takes to let them go.

Casey is just trying to make ends meet working in a luxury sock store where the socks cost almost as much as their rent, and their manager is obsessed with her social media presence. Then an employee goes missing, the store's tech bro owner starts acting stranger than usual, and the door to the back room now opens onto a portal to time and space! Can Casey solve the mystery, keep their job, and most importantly, make their rent? This brand new satirical farce explores the absurdity of trying to hold on to your humanity in a system that looks at it as just another commodity.

For six nights only, Will Clinger and Bill Larkin take the stage at the Rouge Room to sing the always funny, sometimes ribald, occasionally offensive songs from their respective repertoires. Performing either individually or together, they'll showcase tunes both old and new, all intended to convulse their audience - hopefully with laughter!

Usher is a Black, queer playwright who spends his days working as an usher on Broadway. He spends his nights struggling to write an original musical about a Black, queer playwright who spends his days working as an usher on Broadway. Lines blur, thoughts intrude, and soon he finds himself wrestling to break free from a very strange creative loop.

Inspired by the painting, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat, Sunday in the Park with George merges past and present into beautiful, poignant truths about life, love and the creation of art. One of the most acclaimed musicals of our time, this moving study of the enigmatic painter, Georges Seurat, won a Pulitzer Prize and was nominated for an astounding ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

It's New Year's Eve, and it sure looks like the world is ending. But much more importantly, Brett and Amy have just broken up. As aliens pollute the water, zombies run for Congress, birds ravage the housing market, and apocalyptic cult plans for the end of days, Brett and Amy's friends scheme to reunite them while the ex-couple themselves try to navigate a world with an end-date and a world without each other.

By turns funny, bleak, and poignant, Chekhov's intimate family story, directed by Resident Artist Stacey Lind, examines the potency of love, loyalty, and resilience in our everyday existence. When Vanya's and his niece Sonya's management of the crumbling family farm is interrupted by the arrival from the city of Sonya's newly retired father - and his young, beautiful wife - long-harbored passions and resentments bubble to the surface.

Vape! The Grease Parody is a hilariously unhinged spoof of the iconic and timeless musical film Grease. The show pokes loving fun at all of the wonderful moments, sexual innuendos, outrageous characters, rivalries and secret romances from the original. The hair products may have changed, but the drama, the rivalries, and the thirst for hallway clout remain timeless. It's the musical you know and love... but dragged through a cloud of strawberry-scented vapor and a TikTok filter.. It's the show that you want (...Ooh! Ooh! Ooh, honey!)

In a world where facts are manipulated and fear is currency, the truth becomes dangerous. As a new authoritarian government tightens its grip on Russia, Erika Sheffer's Vladimir follows an independent journalist who uncovers a story that could expose the truth behind a nation in transition. But when every headline comes with consequences and every source becomes a target, she must decide how much she's willing to sacrifice for the story. Vladimir is a gripping political thriller about what happens when silence becomes complicity.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is National Public Radio's Peabody Award-winning comedy news quiz show. Host Peter Sagal leads a rotating panel of comedians, writers, listener contestants, and celebrity guests through a rollicking review of the week's news. Contestants vie for the most coveted prize in all of public radio: a custom-recorded greeting by any of our cast members for their voicemail. Every week, Wait, Wait.... Don't Tell Me! records in front of a live audience, then carefully edits out all the raunchy, inappropriate, shocking, and hilarious stuff so we can broadcast something that doesn't get NPR in trouble... well, more trouble. The

WHEN WE WERE YOUNG AND UNAFRAID is set in 1972 at a bed-and-breakfast turned sanctuary for women escaping abuse. As the characters navigate their individual traumas, they form unexpected bonds, challenging societal norms and confronting their fears. This thought-provoking play offers a powerful look at feminism, survival, and solidarity as these women wrestly with their pasts while fighting for a better future.