The Annoyance Theatre & Bar
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar
4830 N. Broadway St. Chicago IL 60640- Phone:
- 773-561-4665
- Website:
- http://www.annoyanceproductions.com/
- Capacity:
- 110
On nights when there are concerts at the Riviera and the Aragon, parking can be difficult. Plan ahead.
For questions about a purchase, please contact Goldstar.
Current Events on Goldstar
Strange Tales: All-Ages Puppet Show Creates Fairy Tale Fun
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Weirdos Presents: Strange Tales brings puppets to the stage of The Annoyance for an offbeat and original family-friendly show. This sketch comedy show stars an eclectic cast of humans and puppets. Nursing... Learn More.
Solo Shows Live Bex Show and Sad F*cks Push the Envelope
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
Two new hilarious solo shows tackle the seamy side of relationships using ribald humor as the driving force. In Live Bex Show, improv maven Rebecca Sohn creates an array of vivid characters and navigates... Learn More.
Be Good Boys and The Era Present Handshake, a Sketch Comedy Revue
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
Prepare yourself for two pairs of sketch comics and a collection of scenes and characters that experiment with the ideas of loneliness, kinship and the fact that finding your place in the world can start... Learn More.
Oprah! The Last Show! A Comedy! -- Part Play, Part Sketch Comedy Show at the Annoyance
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
This hilarious new comedy at Annoyance Theatre satirizes Oprah Winfrey and her 25 years in Chicago. In it, Oprah's final TV show is set to go off without a hitch when the ghost of Mayor Daley appears to... Learn More.
F*** You, I Love You, Bye: The Rahm Emanuel Story at Annoyance
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Annoyance Productions presents the premiere of this new comedy parodying the life and career of Chicago's current mayor, Rahm Emanuel. Playwright Marc Warzecha (Oprah! A Comedy) and political writer Andy... Learn More.
Best of Holy F*** Comedy Hour: Sketches and More at the Annoyance
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $12.00
- Our Price:
- $6.00
The Annoyance Theatre presents some of the funniest sketches from their hit show The Holy F*** Comedy Hour. Every Friday night at midnight, the cult hit show features new sketches, characters, songs and more... Learn More.
Hans:Solo: One-Man Show by Comedian Hans Holsen
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
The Annoyance presents Hans: Solo, a one-man comedy featuring the crazy characters of Chicago comedian Hans Holsen. Holsen is known for his work with Improvised Shakespeare Company and Baby Wants Candy. His... Learn More.
Past Events on Goldstar
A Woman's Path: An Absurd Send Up of Spiritual Retreats
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
If you've ever sung "Kumbaya" while burning sage and aligning your chakra by performing yoga on the red rocks of Sedona, you'll see the humor in this playful lampooning of for-profit, soul-bearing, women's... Learn More.
Brunch Punkx: Culinary Musical Comedy at the Annoyance Theatre
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Mimosas and eggs Benedict collide with the penal system in the culinary musical comedy Brunch Punkx at the Annoyance Theatre. Directed by Irene Marquette, the show centers on a group of renegade culinary... Learn More.
Broads on Boards: A Musical Reunion of Old-Time Broadway Starlets
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00 - $15.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00 - $7.50
These days we've certainly seen our share of young starlets gone astray. As Broads on Boards points out, this is no new trend. A pair of Chicago theater heavyweights -- Lauren Dowden and Jeff Award-winner... Learn More.
The Boy Scout Musical (Knot Prepared): Trustworthy, Loyal, Dedicated ... Dangerous
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
Going to Philmont Scout Ranch is every Boy Scout's dream. Dying, however, is not. Two troops embark on what is supposed to be a fun camping trip only to end up in the middle of a disastrous plane crash,... Learn More.
Doublewide Lust: If This Trailer's Rocking, Don't Come Knocking
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Jealousy, betrayal, Machiavellian plotting, incest, and, of course, lust lie just beneath the surface of the riveted aluminum walls and rusty roofs of mobile homes in this new show from Annoyance. Taking a... Learn More.
Double Clutch: New Sketch Comedy Show Centered on Self-Doubt
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
Writer-performers Kate Duffy and Abby McEnany present Double Clutch at the Annoyance Theater. A new sketch comedy show about people plagued by self-doubt (the show's title comes from a baseball term used to... Learn More.
Wild Night of Music, Essays, Laughs Make Sit 'n Spin Worth a Whirl
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $5.00
- Our Price:
- FREE
Part theatre, part 12-step meeting, part tent revival, Sit 'n Spin is an evening of music, comedy and stories thrown together on stage and blended for your maximum enjoyment. Whether you get to see writers... Learn More.
Dark Musical Comedy Streeterville Explores Dirty Side of Old Chicago
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
Set at the conclusion of the 1893 World's Fair, Streeterville is a black musical comedy that exposes the dark underbelly of the gilded age Windy City. Mayor Carter Harrison is a beloved figure, but he's just... Learn More.
Dark, Funny Political Thriller National Sensation at Annoyance
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
David Solomon is an unassuming regular Joe until overnight he is thrust into the national spotlight after he is in the right place at the right time to thwart a terrorist attack. The seemingly... Learn More.
Throwback Sketch Comedy: Stranded! - Lost Sketches of Brain Freeze
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
Have you ever wondered how comedy has changed and evolved over the past 20 years? Award-winning ensemble Warm Milk did and in their new show they tell the tale of a fictional sketch group from the '90s named... Learn More.
Come On! We're All Adults! Solo Sketch Revue from Patrick Raynor
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
Join the hilarious Patrick Raynor - recently featured on TBS's Just for Laughs Festival in Alone: Chicago- in Come on! We're all Adults!, a collection of comic solo pieces. Raynor plays a hermit emerging... Learn More.
Don't Act Like A Girl - A Raucous One-Man Cabaret
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
Wes Perry's Don't Act Like A Girl is an outrageous one-man show with a three-person band, queer teen angst and plenty of confetti. It flashes back to the life of an awkward young loner who is misdiagnosed,... Learn More.
Minnesota Bitch: Comic Mikala Bierma Stars in One-Woman Show
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
New York-based comedian Mikala Bierma brings her one-woman show to the Annoyance, based on the idea that there must be something lurking beneath all that Minnesota niceness. Bierma embarks on a hilarious... Learn More.
Get Lit! with GayCo: A Sparkling New Christmas Comedy Revue
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Founded a decade-and-a-half ago at Chicago's famed Second City, the award-winning LGBT comedy company GayCo celebrates its 15th anniversary with an all-new batch of Christmas sketches, fresh out of the... Learn More.
...And Other Burning Questions: A Talk with Mick Napier & Chris Witaske
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
For one night only, Mick Napier sits down with Chicago comedian Chris Witaske (The Second City, IO) and answers all (or at least some) of the questions everyone is always asking him. Napier is the Founder... Learn More.
The Annoyance Christmas Pageant Retells Classic Holiday Stories
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $18.00
- Our Price:
- $9.00
The Annoyance presents its annual Christmas Pageant, featuring a retelling of two classic holiday stories: A Charlie Brown Christmas and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The all-new cast takes these classic... Learn More.
Fa La La La... F#@% It: Raw Christmas Comedy Featuring One Messed-Up Family
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
The Annoyance Theatre provides an antidote to all the holiday hoopla with their production of Fa La La La... F#@% It. The comedy centers on a mom dealing with an alcoholic husband and an angry teenage... Learn More.
Annoyance Theatre Presents Musical Improv Show Happy Karaoke Fun Time
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $5.00
This musically improvised show incorporates karaoke and audience suggestions to get the most bang for your comedy buck. With a team made up of members from top Chicagoland improv comedians, Annoyance Theatre... Learn More.
Ripper the Musical: Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
Annoyance's new black-comedy musical features a royally bored Sherlock Holmes, who gets his mojo back by matching wits with the evil serial killer known as Jack the Ripper. Set in the contrasting worlds of... Learn More.
Talented Comedians Offering Solo Material at Annoyance's Solo Sundays
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
It's two comedians for the price of one! Antony Oberbeck of the award-winning web series Break-Ups and Pat Raynor, who was featured in the lineup for the 2011 Just for Laughs Festival Chicago, are two of the... Learn More.
Salem! The Musical: The Annoyance's Outrageous Historical Spoof
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $20.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50 - $10.00
The Annoyance reprises its hit Halloween parody, Salem! The Musical for another year. The outrageous spoof, featuring an all-female cast, tells the story of a bumbling 17th-century businessman and his... Learn More.
Girls, I Do Adore!: One Man's Horny Comedy
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
Is this how you remember the '90s? In EJ Caillouet's Girls, I Do Adore!, the comedian hilariously reminisces about going through puberty, high-top fades, The Cosby Show reruns and the girls and women who... Learn More.
Comedy Musical Coed Prison Sluts from The Annoyance
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $20.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50 - $10.00
Coed Prison Sluts, the critically acclaimed, longest running musical in Chicago history, tells the story of the insane residents of a prison who live in fear of the arrival of a clown. Learn More.
Splatter Theater: The Return of Annoyance's Halloween Horror Film Parody
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $20.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50 - $10.00
The Annoyance brings its Splatter Theater Halloween show back to life. The popular company's first-ever production, which they've performed every year since the late '80s, spoofs slasher films like Friday... Learn More.
A Magic Evening: Mind-Boggling Mentalism at Annoyance Theatre
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
Each Sunday, Annoyance founder Mick Napier and Executive Producer Jennifer Estlin present and evening of magic, mental trickery and illusion featuring different guest magicians each week. Audiences will be... Learn More.
Jimmy of Nazareth: A Darkly Comic True Story
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
Veteran Annoyance performer Jimmy Pennington penned and stars in this new autobiographical dark comedy, tracing his path from an unemployed college graduate living with his girlfriend in Nazareth,... Learn More.
Weirdos: A Puppet Sketch Show for All Ages Premieres at the Annoyance Theatre
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
Weirdos is an offbeat, family-friendly puppet show in the vein of Animaniacs and Sam and Friends. A sketch show for all ages, it stars an eclectic cast of humans and puppets, including characters such as... Learn More.
An Unscripted Romance: Relationship-Based Comedy Improv
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00 - $12.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00 - $6.00
Love, laughter and Annoyance come together as Chicago's crack comedy improv team presents its new show, An Unscripted Romance, from the creators of Him + Her. Performers Derrick Aguis and Lindsey Finn turn... Learn More.
I Joined the Army for Five Years and All I Got Was This Lousy Play
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
The Annoyance presents I Joined the Army for Five Years and All I Got Was This Lousy Play -- a stark, true, first-person story of an average American screw-up who decides to change his life and join the U.S... Learn More.
The Mo Show: Mo Welch's Comedy-Variety Hour Returns
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
Comedian Mo Welch is back for the fourth season of her spectacular live show, which not only features original sketch, stand-up and video comedy, but adds circus acts to the entertainment mix as well. A... Learn More.
New Comedy Waiting For Drew Peterson from The Annoyance
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
The Annoyance has always been known for exploring the light side of dark subjects, a trend that is continued to hilarious effect with Waiting For Drew Peterson, an absurd look at society's fascination with... Learn More.
Camp Sci-Fi Musical Cocks in Space at Annoyance Theatre
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Join Commander Peters and Science Office Richards of the two rooster crew S.S. Pecker as they spread happiness through the galaxy while searching for the misplaced planet Pussy Paradise. This original... Learn More.
Planet Karate: A Butt-Kicking Play -- Original Comedy from the Annoyance
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Planet Karate is the story of a post-apocalyptic society where martial artists compete in a battle of good vs. evil. As envisioned by the very funny folks at Annoyance, it's also a place where epic adventure... Learn More.
Ronnie and Lonnie's Variety Stampede: Singing, Dancing and Comedy Extravaganza
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Experience an entertainment smorgasbord of song, dance, magic, clowns and comedy at The Annoyance's latest show, billed as a subversive version of a '70s-era TV variety show. Ronnie and Lonnie's Variety... Learn More.
Comedy Musical Skiing Is Believing at The Annoyance
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
The setting for Skiing Is Believing is a ski resort town that serves as a vacation playground for the wealthy. A young townie thinks he can compete and starts hanging with the rich playboys in town for the... Learn More.
American Lit: Classic American Literature Retold With a Humorous Twist
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
American Lit takes place in a dystopian future, where books and libraries are no longer a fact of life, and classic works of literature must be passed down from generation to generation by oral tradition to... Learn More.
Flames And Blazes: A 1920s "Disaster Musical"
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
Flames And Blazes, the Annoyance's delightful pastiche of 1920s musicals, is set in 1928 on the 60th floor of the "unburnable" Weisscastle Hotel. The action begins at the most exclusive New Years Eve party... Learn More.
The Annoyance Presents Pepsi Presents Sam Weiner: A Solo Sketch Comedy Show
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Chicago comedian Sam Weiner's fast-paced and absurd solo sketch show Pepsi Presents Sam Weiner explores America's monster-deflowering Founding Fathers, saddest carnival workers and most delicious cleaning... Learn More.
The Annoyance Christmas Pageant: Chicago Comedy Institution Retells Holiday Classics
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $16.00
- Our Price:
- $8.00
The Annoyance Theatre presents their annual Christmas Pageant. They'll be retelling A Charlie Brown Christmas and The Year Without A Santa Claus. The Annoyance Christmas Pageant is a fresh and funny annual... Learn More.
I'm Sorry I Missed You: John Hartman's Solo Sketch Show at the Annoyance
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
In I'm Sorry I Missed You, his new solo sketch show at the Annoyance Theatre, comedian John Hartman explores delusions of grandeur. Darkly funny and poignant, I'm Sorry I Missed You tells the stories of men... Learn More.
Dark Comedy Musical 40 Whacks Tells the Story of Lizzie Borden
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Annoyance Theatre presents 40 Whacks, a dark musical comedy about the real-life New England woman named Lizzie Borden, accused of the murders of her father and stepmother in 1982. The play uses the true... Learn More.
Dick O' Day's Big Lovely Liberry: A Comedy Book Club for People Who Hate to Read
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
Annoyance Productions presents a hilarious exploration of the best of the worst that literature has to offer: celebrity tell-alls, bizarre fiction, horrible poetry and the most unhelpful self-help books are... Learn More.
Puppet Show Adventure Frenz Finds It! from Annoyance Theatre
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
The Annoyance Theatre presents a tongue-in-cheek puppet show, called "a poem in puppets,"Frenz Finds It!, which follows Frenz LaRonde on a journey of artistic courage that takes him through the Forest of... Learn More.
Pat Reidy Fails...LIVE! - Sketch Show at The Annoyance Theatre
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
Local sketch and improv performer Pat Reidy brings his first solo-written, three-man sketch show to The Annoyance Theatre. Pat Reidy Fails...LIVE! features Reidy and local actors Heath Cordts and Tim Heurlin... Learn More.
Swear Jar: An Uncensored Sketch Show From Annoyance Productions
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $7.50
Swear Jar is an uncensored sketch comedy show directed by Annoyance Productions founder and Artistic Director, Mick Napier. After directing numerous plays and musicals, including Co-Ed Prison Sluts, Chicago'... Learn More.
Fisting: A Period Piece - Old-School Irish Pugilism Meets Sophisticated Innuendo
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
Fisting: A Period Piece, directed by Second City alum Andy St. Clair, is an old-fashioned romance rendered comedic with a liberal dose of double-entendre. In 19th century Ireland, boxer Dicky Diddler falls... Learn More.
Skinprov, the Cult Improv Show with Nearly-Naked Men
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $7.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $2.00
Annoyance Productions presents the strip-Improv show Skinprov, a cult hit featuring several scantily clad men. Skinprov has a rotating cast of some of the funniest guys in Chicago (who aren't afraid to take... Learn More.
New Sexually-Confused Musical Kink at The Annoyance Theatre
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
It's 2010 and sexual repression is alive and well in suburbia. Mom is a closet dominatrix and Dad is a closet cross-dresser. Homecoming looms for daughters Julie and Tammy as Mom and Dad are off to their own... Learn More.
The Best Night of Improv in Chicago -- Four Funny Improv Groups in One Show
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00 - $16.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $8.00
The Annoyance presents The Best Night of Improv in Chicago -- four fantastically funny groups filled with veterans of the Annoyance, Second City, Steppenwolf and other great theaters. The show includes... Learn More.
Short Shorts: A Trio of One-Act Plays
The Annoyance Theatre & Bar (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00
The Annoyance Theatre presents three very short and entertaining one-act plays, developed from their directors series. Andy St. Clair, Phil Meister and Gina Nicewonger direct the stories dealing with... Learn More.
Map and Directions
The Annoyance is in Uptown, on Broadway between Gunnison St. and Lawrence Ave., near the Lawrence stop on the Red Line.
Handicap Information
Handicap seating is regularly available.
Please contact us after buying tickets by replying to your confirmation email to make arrangements.