Jen Bosworth joins this week’s Machete.
Plus magic by the House Theatre’s DENNIS WATKINS, CHAD THE BIRD, cabaret music by JESS GODWIN and special musical guests BAD BAD MEOW!
3 PM at the GREEN MILL in Uptown, free!
Mother’s Day edition with special guest SNL’s JULIA SWEENEY
BRENDAN DOWLING AND TIM SNIFFEN (Improvised Shakespeare and Second City)
BRAD EINSTEIN AND JULIA WEISS (as the Interrupting a–holes!)
IKE HOLTER (Playwright, Hit the Wall)
ALI KLINGLER (Machete Co-founder)
WENDY MATEO (The Playground)
AEMILIA SCOTT (Machete Staff Writer)
Cabaret artists FACES FOR RADIO and special musical guests BAILIFF!
3 p.m. at the GREEN MILL in Uptown, free!
Announcing THE MASH, the Paper Machete’s new open-mic/incubator series.
Have you ever wanted to write a Paper Machete-style essay? Now’s your chance! Take to the microphone with our new open mic series THE MASH.
Just show up with a 1000-word essay on a current event or pop culture item. (Make sure you don’t use any first-person prose; no I/me/my allowed!)
Horseshoe – 4115 N Lincoln Ave
May 1
8PM
Free
Don’t miss this great opportunity to try out our unique form of journalistic spoken word! First Wednesday of the month, show up, sign up and be ready to rock at 8 p.m.
Writer/Author/Funny Man James Finn Garner
JC AEVALIOTIS (Second Story)
JAMES FINN GARNER (Politically Incorrect Fairy Tales)
TAWNY NEWSOME AND KATIE RICH (Second City)
EMILY ROSE (Mental Graffiti)
STEPHANIE SHAW (Boygirlboygirl)
SAM WEINER (The Onion)
Plus CHAD THE BIRD, cabaret artist PHILLIP-MICHAEL SCALES and specail musical guests CALIFORNIA WIVES
3 p.m. at the Green Mill, free!
Featuring Ross Bryant!
The Second City’s Ross Bryant joins this week’s Paper Machete.
ROSS BRYANT (Second City)
KEVIN SCIRETTA (iO Theater)
MEL EVANS (Comedy Sportz)
PATRICK ROWLAND (iO Theater)
JAMES PORTER (Time Out Chicago, East Of Edens Soul Express)
BESS ROMANO (iO Theater)
Plus CHAD THE BIRD and special musical guests MY MY MY!
3 p.m. at THE GREEN MILL in Uptown, free!
Chad the Bird leads this week’s all-puppet Machete!
NOAH GINEX
DAN KERR-HOBERT
SAM LOCKE
JOE MAZZA
CARLY OISHI
STEPHANIE DIAZ REPPEN
JOSH ZAGOREN AND ANDREW MARCHETTI
With special guest human NICK THUNE! Plus cabaret music from ERICK DESHAUN DORRIS and special musical guests PINTO AND THE BEAN
3 p.m. at THE GREEN MILL in Uptown, Free!
Archie Powell and the Exports
Join us Saturday at the Green Mill in Chicago for an extra-special Paper Machete featuring:
Paper Machete Managing Editor and HuffPost l’enfant terrible KIM BELLWARE
Comedian ADAM BURKE
iO Theater’s JORIN GARGUILO
Funnyman CLARK JONES
Paper Machete Founder and Host CHRISTOPHER PIATT
Actress CHRISTINE TAWFIK
Plus CHAD THE BIRD, cabaret tunes by MATT KAHLER and special musical guests ARCHIE POWELL AND THE EXPORTS!
3 PM at the GREEN MILL, Free!
Chad the Bird special guest-hosts!
Featured guests:
JOEL KIM BOOSTER
CHAD BRIGGS
MARK LANCASTER
THEA LUX
MEGAN STIELSTRA
CLAIRE MULANEY AND JO SCOTT
Special musical guests: BAND CALLED CATCH!
3 PM at the GREEN MILL, free!
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