The day of triumph has surely arrived! Cole Escola's Tony-winning play is finally going on tour. Oh Mary! Is a dark comedy, about former United States first lady Mary Todd Lincoln, whilst they break down her life from the inside, and in Escola's own words, through the lens of an idiot. Tony Award nominee Sam Pinkleton directs, don't miss out on this exciting and hilarious chance to see the First Lady as you've never seen her!

Emmy Award winner Brendan Hunt - co-creator of the smash hit Ted Lasso - brings this gut-busting new one-person show to Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater, opening this April! Weaving together a hilarious and emotional tapestry of autobiographical stories, The Movement You Need is a heartfelt ode to the twisting paths of life, and the lasting power of music.

Tony Award-winning director Kathleen Marshall (Anything Goes) teams up with Emmy Award winner Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) for this new comedy musical, coming to the Goodman Theater in the summer of 2026. Telling a (completely untrue) story of how Eugene O'Neill was inspired to write The Iceman Cometh, Iceboy! is an irreverent and hilarious twist on theatrical history.

Northlight Theatre brings a heavenly visit to town this year, as The Angel Next Door swoops down to the Skokie stage. Director Linda Fortunato stages an exciting adaptation of award-winning writer Paul Slade Smith's play, which itself is a rehashing of Ferenc Molnar's 1926 work Play At The Castle (Jatek a Kastelyban). A zany romantic comedy about theater lovers, for theater lovers!

See the tale of star-crossed lovers like never before, as this 'smashed' hit show comes to you! A uniquely hilarious take on the Bard's classic which has had audiences all around the world in stitches, in this production of Romeo and Juliet one actor takes five shots of whiskey before the show, then attempts to perform, seriously, one of the major roles in the classic play. Not only that, but at certain points in the performance they'll have to down yet more. Hilarity and mayhem is all but guaranteed to ensue, as the remaining sober actors attempt to keep the play on track!

Join Chicago Shakespeare Theater for the riotous comeuppance of Sir John Falstaff! The third play of Shakespeare's to include the errant 'fat Knight' Falstaff, Merry Wives of Windsor is a buoyant and breezy comedy that blends belly-laughs, disguises, mishaps, and hijinks-a-plenty to create a hilarious swan song for what is said to be Queen Elizabeth I's favorite of his characters. Directed by Phillip Breen - the absolute authority of Merry Wives, this is surely one of Shakespeare's most genuinely hilarious works.