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  1. theater review
    Theater Review: An All-Female, All-Japanese ChicagoAll that ja … pan?
    By Jesse Green
  2. hamilton
    Chicago’s Hamilton Has a CastMiguel Cervantes will play Alexander Hamilton.
    By Jackson McHenry
  3. Sam Richardson and Allison Bills Adjust to Life in America at The Second […]Welcome to The Second City Archives, in which we post an exclusive clip each week of some of comedy’s biggest superstars performing early in […]
    By Megh Wright
  4. Why Chicago Is the Best City in America for Young Standups A comedian I know just moved to Chicago after two years in Los Angeles. Hearing the news, another comic asked “Are they nuts? If you’re […]
    By John Roy
  5. razzle dazzle
    Jane the Virgin’s Jaime Camil Joins the Cast of Broadway’s ChicagoRogelio De La Razzle Dazzle.
    By Jackson McHenry
  6. Conner O’Malley and Carmen Christopher Play Wrigleyville Bros Mark and MattTo celebrate opening day for the Chicago Cubs, Conner O’Malley teamed up with Carmen Christopher to make a brand new video where the two […]
    By Megh Wright
  7. The Dark Side of Storytelling Over the past few years, storytelling has become one of the fastest growing forms of comedy in the country in no small part because of the […]
    By Ethan Stanislawski
  8. Second City’s Harold Ramis Film School Opens This FallThe Second City is expanding with the launch of a comedy-focused film school. According to The Chicago Tribune, Second City Chicago is set to […]
    By Megh Wright
  9. warmest winter
    Chance The Rapper Raises $100,000 for Chicago HomelessThe money will go toward coats.
    By Greg Cwik
  10. How The Katydids Turned an Improv Group Into the New Sitcom ‘Teachers’If you’ve had a chance to watch the pilot episode of Teachers, the new comedy coming to TV Land on January 13th, then you know what a treat […]
    By Monique Madrid
  11. shootings
    Chicago Rapper King Louie Was Shot in the Head, But His Condition Has StabilizedHe was wounded Wednesday afternoon.
    By Sean Fitz-Gerald
  12. all that ham
    Now You Won’t Be Able to Get Hamilton Tickets in Chicago EitherThe Hamilton national tour begins September 27, 2016.
    By Ira Madison III
  13. black lives matter
    Vic Mensa Joins Laquan McDonald Protest Footage of a Chicago police officer shooting the black teen 16 times was released on Tuesday.
    By Dee Lockett
  14. portrait
    Broadway Rookies Bruce and Rumer Willis on Preparing for the StageAt ages 60 and 27, father and daughter find themselves, oddly, experiencing the same career first.
    By Rebecca Milzoff
  15. Second City Chicago Is Back in Business This WeekSecond City has announced its first live comedy shows since a fire destroyed its offices last month. In a press release today, the Chicago […]
    By Megh Wright
  16. The Return of The Defiant Thomas BrothersSeth Thomas and Paul Thomas (no relations) of The Defiant Thomas Brothers were known for their social satire, not being afraid to talk about […]
    By Monique Madrid
  17. sequential art
    Glenn Head’s Chicago Is a Titillating, Brutal Comics MemoirAutobiography at its most sadistic.
    By Abraham Riesman
  18. A Fire Reportedly Destroyed Second City Chicago’s Offices TodaySad news: Earlier today in Chicago, an extra-alarm fire broke out in Old Town where Second City’s theater and offices are located, and the […]
    By Megh Wright
  19. Tim Barnes Finds His VoiceA small afro appears above the overcrowded line inside the South Loop Cuban sandwich shop Cafecito, bobbing through the café like a tumbleweed […]
    By Spencer Hall
  20. Diving Into Late Night Head-First with Saurin ChoksiAs a kid growing up in Texas, Saurin Choksi always loved comedy. After graduating college and moving to Detroit to take a job working for Ford, […]
    By Isaac Kozell
  21. The Next Wave 2015: The Top Up-and-Coming Comics Outside of NY and LAWelcome to the second semi-annual edition of The Next Wave, Splitsider’s roundup of exciting new comic voices from around the country. Though […]
    By Samantha Pitchel
  22. George Lucas’s Museum of Narrative Art Looks RidiculousIt’s a bad mountain, not a bad spaceship.
    By Justin Davidson
  23. Chicago Comedy and Theater Great Sheldon Patinkin Dies at 79The Chicago theater and comedy community lost a big name yesterday with the news that Sheldon Patinkin, who mentored countless performers and […]
    By Megh Wright
  24. Talking About the End of Chicago’s Upstairs GalleryThe Upstairs Gallery started in September of 2010 as a small performance space in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood. It is now one of the […]
    By Griffin Wenzler
  25. tourist attractions
    George Lucas Is Opening a Museum in ChicagoCongrats to the Windy City.
    By Anna Silman
  26. Chicago Comedian Dan Ronan Passed Away on FridayChicago-based comedian Dan Ronan passed away Friday at the tragically young age of 24. Ronan, who began doing comedy at 15, was a […]
    By Bradford Evans
  27. r.i.p.
    Chicago’s DJ Rashad Found Dead at 35A drug overdose is the suspected cause.
    By Delia Paunescu
  28. Watch Tina Fey Tell an Awful McDonald’s Commercial Audition Story Here’s Tina Fey talking about a bad experience auditioning for a McDonald’s commercial in Chicago in the ‘90s for an episode of The Tonight […]
    By Bradford Evans
  29. Talking to Beth Stelling About Gender in the Standup World and Getting Her […]Beth Stelling has been making people laugh professionally for almost seven years with her signature quirky, laid-back style. Having moved from […]
    By Blair Socci
  30. The Best of Just For Laughs ChicagoFive years in, Chicago’s Just For Laughs Festival has never felt more catered towards comedy nerds; podcast tapings, surprise shows in […]
    By Matt Byrne
  31. Saying Goodnight to Chicago’s ‘Late Live Show’Sad news from the Windy City: after three years and more than 50 performances, one of live comedy’s most interesting experiments is coming to […]
    By Abraham Riesman
  32. Open Mic Night in ChicagoThey drifted in from everywhere, each riding their own current through the vast human watershed that funnels yearning and desperation into the […]
    By Micah Hofferth
  33. Getting the Call: Inside iO’s ‘SNL’ AuditionsThe website called Monday night’s show at iO — a Chicago improv institution — a “special solo showcase,” but word-of-mouth said it was really […]
    By Tyler Gillespie
  34. Splitsider’s Guide to Chicago’s Comedy SceneAs any Chicago-based comedian, writer, or performer will tell you, there’s a glass ceiling everyone faces when developing a career in this […]
    By Owen O'Riordan and Matt Byrne
  35. ‘The Onion’ Is Going on Tour Over the years, The Onion has branched out into TV, film, web video, and books, and now the franchise is taking on another piece of new […]
    By Bradford Evans
  36. Columbia College and Second City Team Up to Offer a Comedy DegreeColumbia College in Chicago has joined forces with the city’s esteemed Second City Theatre to offer the country’s first-ever comedy degree this […]
    By Bradford Evans
  37. The Complete Guide to Everything: ChicagoOctober’s the time for outdoor autumnal activities. In Tom’s case that means traveling to Long Island to tour wineries, go pumpkin picking, […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  38. Talking with The Upstairs Gallery about Operating an Indie Theater and […]When you think of Comedy theaters in Chicago you probably think of the big three: The Second City, The IO, and The Annoyance. These three […]
    By Matt Visconage
  39. ‘SNL’ Casts Two Chicagoans: Aidy Bryant and Tim RobinsonThe Comics Comic is reporting that SNL has brought in Aidy Bryant and Tim Robinson to join the cast. They’re starting in time for the season’s […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  40. Inside Chicago’s Own Late Night Show, ‘The Late Live Show’In retrospect, it just seems so obvious. After a few minutes of talking to the people behind Chicago’s The Late Live Show, one starts to feel […]
    By Abraham Riesman
  41. A Video Guide to Fred Armisen’s Pre-’SNL’ YearsThroughout Saturday Night Live’s history, the  show’s cast has been largely imported from comedy training grounds like the Second City in […]
    By Bradford Evans
  42. At The Just For Laughs Festival in Comedy’s First CityReclamation of The Second City as Chicago’s once pejorative nickname happened long before I developed an interest in comedy. And as an avid […]
    By Rebecca O'Neal
  43. Nick Offerman v. Craig Robinson in ‘Chicago Idol’ If American Idol decided to become a regional competition instead of a national one, this is EXACTLY what the Chicago version would be like: […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  44. The Nicest Person Hangs Out with the Meanest Dog and the Hottest Dog It’s just a classic nice fellow meets mean service employee then gets sad, so he has his famously mean dog puppet friend come and yell insults […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  45. Bill Murray Discusses Del Close; Is The BestBill Murray has always kept the media and Hollywood at a distance. Besides, regularly losing roles because he doesn’t return phone calls, he […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  46. Talking to Charna Halpern About Working with Del Close to Create Longform […]On paper, Charna Halpern is intimidating. Really intimidating. Through her partnership with Del Close, she co-founded ImprovOlympic, developed […]
    By Deidre Ann Davis
  47. Talking Del Close and the Early Days of Chicago Improv with SNL’s Alex BazeThis is the first in a series of columns and interviews in which I’ll examine improv comedy and how it affects the comedy scene in general. I’m […]
    By Will Hines
  48. Just For Laughs Chicago Announces its Preliminary LineupThe Just For Laughs Chicago comedy festival hits the Windy City on June 12-17 this summer, and they’ve just announced the initial lineup. It’s […]
    By Adam Frucci
  49. The Sad Details of The Onion’s Exodus to ChicagoJeez, the Onion’s editorial staff is really leaving New York. Well, uh, five out of the sixteen of them are. This story has the details of […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  50. Got $10,000? Buy the Writers Room Table From The Onion’s New York Office[blackbirdpie id=”181864748978151424”] Now that the Onion is moving to Chicago, the staff has some priceless memorabilia to unload. Like their […]
    By Hallie Cantor
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