Shows + Tickets

It's Fac-off time! The annual improv show where Theatre School faculty and students work together to create joy! Come watch your favorite faculty get silly on stage!

*NOTE: THE OFFICIAL TIME IS NOW 4:30 PM! 

BE THERE OR BE SAD!

One silly gal doing big stand-up in the big city! But in a really cool and epic and freaking awesome way unlike anything ever seen before!

The 2025 MessFest Anchor show! 

A sketch show directed by Second City Mainstage Alum Julia Morales.

NOTE: This is doubleslotted with "In Defense of Myself"

A multimedia solo show by Ally Montgomery that examines the way we live our lives online.

NOTE: This is doubleslotted with "chronicALLY online"

We all do things that don't make sense, and sometimes you feel like you need to defend yourself. This show is a (somewhat) comprehensive guide to self defense, life strategy, and exploration of self. 

A sketch show that lays it all out on the table, blows it up, and snorts it.

REVOLTING is a two-prov night of torture. Follow Ollie and Li's attempt to survive IMPROVING FOR 15 WHOLE MINUTES, at the brutal unwavering hands of a malevolent host (Brady Barrow). 

Will they make it out alive?!? 

Probably not. 

The Tale of Culebra is a comedic play in the blended style of a Western AND a Telenovela. Two rivals -- a hero cowboy and a stubborn drug lord -- find themselves in a predicament when they find out they may have the same baby mama! 

Did you know there are schools outside Chicago and some people go to them? Strange, right?

These two transfer students lived through them, and they are ready to tell all. Loss, community, and being where you don’t belong — all things worth laughing about! We promise.

The Wharp is an original table-top role playing game being developed by me (Daniel Driessen) with a focus on player creativity and freedom. Players of this game can make literally any character they want. A wizard? For sure. A ghost? Easy. A cartoon dog detective who is also a ghost? Even more Easy. A robot with real human meat hands? No problem. Bugs Bunny? I'd worry about copywrite but of course you can. In The Wharp, you can be literally anything, and literally anything can happen because of it. 

This is the breakout performance of the very real and serious DePaul Musical Theatre Major Class of 2025. Witness their emergence into the world of musical theatre and see true artists in action.

A musical sketch show where a group of lowly jesters perform their songs to impress the king. 

The BFA Comedy Arts Senior Showcase.

An original musical farce following a group of disheveled whalers in 1850. Upon discovery of a mysterious creature, the crewmates each realizes this might be their ticket off this miserable ship.

A variety show extravaganza showcasing the newest, brightest, and most hilarious under 21 drag artists in Chicago.

A Brecht-style vocal performance.

A story telling standup variety show... let me tell ya.

Isha dies, improv style.

Sketch show by women for women. Men are allowed to come... however they should be aware of the pink tax.

A night of stand-up at the GearGrinder Comedy Club led by mechanical host Big Joebot. His mission: to prove that humans aren't nearly as funny as robots.

A multimedia standup show about Sabrina, a third year Comedy Arts major with a lot of stories and antidotes she wants to tell.  

The BFA 1 Comedy Arts students collaborated for over a decade and forged a brand spankin' new sketch show that will certainly have you raising your eyebrows and covering your pants.

MEOSNOW delivers what the people want: old-fashioned improvisational comedy. This phantasmic duo will take your ideas build them through the ground up, filter them through their noggin, and spit them right back at you in comedy that can only be described as MEOSNOW!

The 2025 MessFest Anchor show! 

A sketch show directed by Second City Mainstage Alum Julia Morales.

To The Worst Of Us is a sarcastic nightmare of a comedy taking place over the course of a single day, in a single room, with a single bomb. Oh, and eight women definitely capable of murder.

A transgender, homosexual, horror cabaret from outer space!

An improvised trial.

A series of slideshow presentations shared between friend so we all can learn something new!

The clown Aidan Hanlon-Smith,

Performs some silly poems,

You can laugh at him.

A three-prov show that explores your innermost thoughts, fears, and desires. Come with us on a journey of the subconscious, and meet your maker.

NOTE: This is doubleslotted with "I'll Never Lie Again"

Sydney Breedlove talks about Florida.

NOTE: This is doubleslotted with "Florida Man"

A stand up special surrounding Ava Cairl coming clean about everything she’s lied about. For real.

The BFA Comedy Arts Senior Showcase.

A musical gay romp set in 1692 Salem.

Saturday Morning is an animated sketch show that brings Comedy Arts, Film, and Animation students all together. It’s the ultimate meeting of the minds resulting in the most twisted, revealing and thought provoking show you’ve ever seen. Come see Saturday Morning, come change yourself forever.

A stand up exploring the different monsters I have had, varying from legit parasites to OCD thoughts.

A return to the MessFest stage for graduates of the Comedy Arts program. They're back and better than ever!

A solo show created by Joseph Walsdorf about his personal reckoning with a life in the Catholic Church and the less discussed but more hilarious aspects of it.

A sketch show from the group Writing Into Oblivion.

A night of the smuttiest fanfiction in Chicago...