Sketch Comedy The Rules of Bad Behavior at the Den Theatre (Fridays through February 27) Hilarious sketches about men on ladders, first dates at your family’s restaurant, Roombas, and a memory time machine!  The cast includes Erik Brand, Marty Hasler, Joe Moore, Mary O’Sullivan, Brigid Reilly, and Sam Simcox.  Cost of a ticket: $26 https://thedentheatre.com/performances/2026/1/30/the-rules-of-bad-behavior-the-den-theatre-comedy-club-chicago Theatre MPAACT Presents… Read more

A band is in the studio recording a new album in 1976. There are two happy couples in the band. Everyone is drinking, snorting cocaine, and smoking weed. It’s all going great… at first.  For a play about a band, there isn’t much music. Also, the pacing is very slow. There is a lot of… Read more

A daughter visits her father every fall. Together, they bird watch from the deck and talk about life. They discuss careers, family, birds, and climate change. As the years pass, it gets warmer and warmer and the topics of conversation evolve.  Anna Ouyang Moench (In Quietness, Severance) has written a very funny and touching play… Read more

Humans are living on Roma Prime, an Earthlike planet orbiting a dying star. Many of them have moved to the Flotilla, a large group of starships that form a nation. One of these starships is forced to land on a foreign planet during a mission. A former member of this starship that was exiled already… Read more