Shit To Do This Week in Chicago

The Comedy Bar, River North

TODAY 7:00 PM • $34

“Andy Haynes, third floor above Superior St, doing an hour of actual jokes”

Lincoln Hall, Lincoln Park

TODAY 8:00 PM • See Website

“Sweaty piano rock-n-roll. Adam Weiner climbs the speakers. You leave a believer.”

Prysm Nightclub, Other

TODAY 11:00 PM • See tickets

“Ragie Ban, Braydon Terzo and Clowver run Prysm from 11pm to 4:30am. Pace yourself.”

Hydrate Nightclub, Other

TODAY 11:00 PM • $25

“Dan Slater plays house, circuit and tech house till 5am. Fast pass skips the cover line”

Zanies Comedy Club, Other

TODAY 11:15 PM • $26

“11:15pm Saturday stand-up at Zanies. 21+, for people whose night isn't over yet.”

The Green Mill, Other

TMRW 1:00 AM • $5

“Organ, guitar, drums, 1am to 4am, $5 cover. The Green Mill's Saturday night refuses to end.”

Elastic Arts, Logan Square

TMRW 1:00 PM • Free

“Cheap records, SP-404 lessons and DJs for crate diggers. Free in, workshop's $15.”

The Land School, Other

TMRW 3:00 PM • Free

“Duane Powell's Sunday Service: join the congregation for a free 3pm set on the South Side”

Trickery, Other

TMRW 4:00 PM • $36

“Close-up magic in a tiny Halsted storefront. You will not figure it out. Stop trying.”

Chopin Theatre, Wicker Park

TMRW 5:00 PM • $29

“Ultraviolence staged in a 100-year-old Polish theater. Viddy well, brothers.”

Co-Prosperity, Bridgeport

MON 12:00 PM • Free

“Two-hour play session about rabbits: Playboy bunny, witch hare, twitching prey. Noon. Free.”

Charlie's Chicago, Other

MON 7:00 PM • Free

“Free bingo run by drag queens in a country-western gay bar. Chicago is undefeated.”

Alamo Drafthouse Wrigleyville, Wrigleyville

MON 7:00 PM • Free

“Free Jeopardy in a movie theater bar. Finally your useless trivia pays off.”

Dorothy, Other

MON 7:00 PM • Free

“Stud Life on the big screen, prizes at intermission, captions on. Free, 21+.”

UIC Theatre, Other

TUE 10:00 AM • $5-$15

“Orwell's pigs take over the farm and rewrite the rules. A 10am Tuesday show, darkly funny.”

The Insect Asylum, Logan Square

TUE 7:00 PM • TBD

“Play music surrounded by taxidermy bugs and adoptable cats. Tuesday sorted.”

Lincoln Hall, Lincoln Park

TUE 8:00 PM • See Website

“Cinematic Oklahoma indie that sounds like a Western you cry to. Bring a coat.”

Estelle's Cafe & Pub, Wicker Park

TUE 11:00 PM • See website

“DJ Papa G takes Estelle's at 11pm on a Tuesday. Wednesday is somebody else's problem.”

Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Other

WED 12:15 PM • Free

“Free lunch-hour cello and piano: Boulanger, Japanese folk songs, a 25-minute Clarke rhapsody.”

Pizzeria Due, River North

WED 6:00 PM • $71

“Learn to build the casserole Chicago insists is pizza. Eat the evidence.”

The Insect Asylum, Other

WED 6:30 PM • $32

“Pin a beetle to a board and take it home. Yes this is a real Wednesday.”

Intuit Art Museum, Other

THU 6:00 PM • $20

“An art historian argues about monuments while you drink in a museum”

Stars and Garters Theater, Other

THU 7:00 PM • $20-$25

“The 90s Animorphs books, script thrown out. You call the morphs, improvisers save the planet.”

Chopin Theatre, Wicker Park

THU 7:00 PM • $29

“Ultraviolence on stage in Wicker Park. Milk not included.”

Hydrate Nightclub, Wrigleyville

THU 11:00 PM • $5-$20

“Horror drag at 11pm: Dragula Season 7's Areal Haunting joins Vanda LaRose's killer lineup”

Subterranean, Wicker Park

THU 11:30 PM • Free

“Gabber, hardcore and baile funk at 11:30 on a Thursday. Free, and not gentle about it.”

National Public Housing Museum, Other

FRI 11:30 AM • Free

“Lunchtime Potawatomi storytelling talk, plus a buffet of indigenous food from Ketapanon Kitchen.”

Chopin Theatre, Wicker Park

FRI 7:00 PM • $29

“Ultraviolence staged in a 100-year-old Wicker Park theater. Viddy well, brothers.”

Hideout, Other

FRI 8:00 PM • See Website

“Texas outlaw-country belter at the dive that started it all. Boots optional.”

Le Nocturne Chicago, Other

FRI 11:00 PM • $0-$21

“Monthly Caribbean party in Uptown, 11pm start. Soca, dancehall, afrobeats until you can't”

Prysm Nightclub, Other

FRI 11:00 PM • See tickets

“Natalia Roth, Iváno Lima and Phlury at Prysm from 11pm to 3:30am. 21+. Nap first.”

Hydrate Nightclub, Other

FRI 11:30 PM • See tickets

“Martin plays throwbacks, Top 40 and Latin till 4am on Halsted. Set starts 11:30. Dance.”

The Green Mill, Other

SAT 1:00 AM • $5

“Friday night refuses to end: the 1am jazz jam with Marquis Hill. Five bucks at the door.”

The Green Mill, Other

SAT 3:00 PM • Free

“Free Saturday-afternoon live magazine at the Green Mill. Doors 1pm, show 3-5, get there early”

The Insect Asylum, Logan Square

SAT 6:30 PM • $32

“Mount a giant dead bug in a museum full of them. Best date night in Chicago.”

Simone's, Pilsen

SAT 9:30 PM • $8

“Afrobeats and dancehall in a Pilsen bar built out of pinball machines. Eight bucks.”

Prysm Nightclub, Other

SAT 11:00 PM • See tickets

“Enrico Sangiuliano techno at Prysm until 4:30am. Doors 10pm, 11pm start. Pace yourself.”