Theater spotlight: Improv for all ages at Schaumburg's Laugh Out Loud Theater

Posted January 02, 2019 10:00 am

Tony Lentino is a cast member at Schaumburg's Laugh Out Loud comedy club, which offers family-friendly and adults-only shows on the weekends. Daily Herald File Photo

Improv for all

Start the year with a smile on your face courtesy of Schaumburg's Laugh Out Loud Theater. Using audience suggestions, improvisers create two shows - one family-friendly, the other adults-only - every Friday and Saturday.

Family-friendly shows at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 4-5, and adult shows at 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 4-5, at the Streets of Woodfield, 601 N. Martingale Road, Schaumburg. $12-$20. (847) 240-0386 or laughoutloudtheater.com.

Kearstyn Keller, left, and Adia Alli star in TimeLine Theatre's Chicago-area premiere of "Cardboard Piano" by Hansol Jung. Courtesy of Justin Barbin

Forbidden love

The daughter of American missionaries falls in love with a local girl in “Cardboard Piano,” Hansol Jung's 2016 play about love, intolerance and violence set in war-torn northern Uganda where insurgents known as the Lord's Resistance Army battle government forces. TimeLine Theatre Company ensemble member Mechelle Moe directs the company's Chicago-area premiere starring Kearstyn Kellar and Adia Alli as the young lovers.

Previews at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, Jan. 9-12; 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13; and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 15-16, at 615 W. Wellington Ave., Chicago. $25-$54. The show opens Thursday, Jan. 17. (773) 281-8463, ext. 6, or timelinetheatre.com.

Linda Reiter and H.B. Ward play Jennifer and Bob Jones in Shattered Globe and Theater Wit's Chicago premiere of Will Eno's "The Realistic Joneses." Courtesy of Nico Fernandez: A Little Photo Studio

Meet the Joneses

Bob and Jennifer Jones discover they have more in common with their new neighbors John and Pony Jones than a shared last name in the Broadway comedy “The Realistic Joneses” by Will Eno. Theater Wit artistic director Jeremy Wechsler helms the Chicago-area premiere, a co-production with Shattered Globe Theatre. The production marks Wechsler's fifth collaboration with Eno, whose 2014 Broadway cast included Chicago's own Tracy Letts.

Previews at 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, Jan. 10-12 and 17-19, and 3 p.m. Sundays, Jan. 13 and 20, at 1229 W. Belmont Ave., Chicago. The show opens Monday, Jan. 21. $12-$74. (773) 770-0333, shatteredglobe.org or theaterwit.org.

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