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SUMMARY:FEM/THEM Comedy Open Mic at The Understudy
DESCRIPTION:If you identify as funny and not-a-dude-onstage\, this is your night diva! Hosted by Preeti Thaker and Jordan Levene\n\n\nPreeti & Jordan present: A Comedy Open Mic for Women + Non-Binary Comics!\nIf you identify as funny and not-a-dude-onstage\, this is your night diva! \n  \nWHAT’S THE PLAN?\n• 7:30 PM — arrive responsibly early\, wonder what the vibe is gonna be like. Support the space by buying a drink! \n• 8:00 PM — the mic starts\, the chaos begins \n• Sign-ups close at 9 PM because of boundaries \n  \nSET DETAILS\n• 4 minutes of pure lightning \n• 5 minutes if you buy a drink — please support and tip our bartenders ♥️ \n  \nCAN MEN ATTEND?\nOf course! \nMen can sit\, watch\, hydrate\, clap\, and support women (a skill we’d love to see more of) \nWe kindly ask that you practice not-mansplaining \nIf you feel a mansplanation rising in your throat\, please swallow it \n  \nANYTHING ELSE?\nBring the vibes baby! This is our first time doing a comedy open mic and we’d love to make it a tradition. Come through! \n  \nxx \nPreeti & Jordan
URL:https://theunderstudy.com/event/fem-them-comedy-open-mic-at-the-understudy-8/
LOCATION:The Understudy Coffee and Books\, 5531 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60640\, United States
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SUMMARY:Love Detectives
DESCRIPTION:Band Practice combines a real live dating show with a real live clown detective show to find out the true nature of this so-called "love".\n\n\nDrat! LOVE has been ripping up the streets leaving people wounded\, broken\, confused\, and perhaps with a bad haircut and useless evidence of its nefarious behavior. You are invited to join the investigation to find love and catch it once and for all. Band Practice combines a real live dating show with a real live clown detective show to find out the true nature of this mysterious mastermind. Highly interactive and slightly chaotic\, leave the apps at home and expect to meet new eligibles as we collect clues\, hear eyewitness accounts\, go undercover\, and hopefully set some traps to catch the damn thing. With a villain this cunning at large\, no one should search for it alone! This show is welcome to anyone looking for love\, OR anyone interested in questioning its true nature. This is a two hour show with an intermission included. \nMeet Band PracticeA theatre making duo made of Ash Willison and Lisa Ullrich. We create shows\, characters\, and theatrical happenings exploring and stretching the live experience of performance.Strange\, cheeky\, and wonderfully modern\, we use elements of clown\, physical theatre\, improv\, and music to interact with the audience through all the ways you love: tech conferences\, bardic serenades\, exorcisms\, musical theatre showcases – to name a few. \nquest to the Midwest tour \nleftovers 17.07.26 the understudy // Chicago \nlove detectives 24.07.2026 the understudy // Chicago \nDON’T BE SCARED 26+29 the Newport theatre // Chicago
URL:https://theunderstudy.com/event/love-detectives/
LOCATION:The Understudy Coffee and Books\, 5531 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60640\, United States
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SUMMARY:IN THE NEXT ROOM by Sarah Ruhl
DESCRIPTION:A play reading of In the Next Room (or\, The Vibrator Play) by Sarah Ruhl produced by Exit\, Pursued by a Play Reading.\n\n\n In the Next Room or the vibrator play is a comedy about marriage\, intimacy and electricity. \nSet in the 1880s at the dawn of the age of electricity and based on the bizarre historical fact that doctors used vibrators to treat “hysterical” women (and some men)\, the play centers on a doctor and his wife and how his new therapy affects their entire household. \nIn a seemingly perfect\, well-to-do Victorian home\, proper gentleman and scientist Dr. Givings has innocently invented an extraordinary new device for treating “hysteria” in women (and occasionally men): the vibrator. Adjacent to the doctor’s laboratory\, his young and energetic wife tries to tend to their newborn daughter – and wonders exactly what is going on in the next room. When a new “hysterical” patient and her husband bring a wet nurse and their own complicated relationship into the doctor’s home\, Dr. and Mrs. Givings must examine the nature of their own marriage\, and what it truly means to love someone. \n \n** CAST TO BE ANNOUNCED **
URL:https://theunderstudy.com/event/in-the-next-room-by-sarah-ruhl/
LOCATION:The Understudy Coffee and Books\, 5531 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60640\, United States
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SUMMARY:I Can't … I Have Trivia: An evening of Theatre Trivia at The Understudy
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for a night full of theatre trivia and fabulous prizes! Hosted by Patrick Zakem and Ben Kaye\n\n\nAaaaand we are back with another round of trivia at 7:30 on October 13th with new categories\, spoopy drinks and fabulous prizes! Hosted by our friend Patrick Zakem\, each round will test your knowledge of. A different facet of theatre history\, current events\, or culture. Think you’ve got what it takes? Come through✨ \nWe recommend playing with a team of four and if you’re thinking of coming alone — no worries! We’ll find a group for you to join :^)
URL:https://theunderstudy.com/event/i-cant-i-have-trivia-an-evening-of-theatre-trivia-at-the-understudy-4/
LOCATION:The Understudy Coffee and Books\, 5531 N Clark St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60640\, United States
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SUMMARY:Instrumental Theatre Presents: Chicago Theatre Composers Club
DESCRIPTION:A cabaret featuring short pieces from composers\, lyricists and other Chicago musical artists. Hosted by Instrumental Theatre.\n\n\nInstrumental Theatre\, in collaboration with The Understudy\, is proud to introduce the Chicago Theatre Composers Club or CTCC! \nThis cabaret show will feature short pieces from composers\, lyricists\, and other musical artists\, to shine a spotlight and rock out to their tremendous work. Tickets are $10 or PWYC. You can purchase a PWYC Ticket through the donation page~ \nInterested in showing new work? Submissions for composers are now open🎶 \nLine-up to be announced!
URL:https://theunderstudy.com/event/instrumental-theatre-presents-chicago-theatre-composers-club/
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