

Previews are Tuesday and Wednesday, with the opening set for Thursday.

Lawn Chair Theater presents "Lust 'n Rust," a "trailer park musical" about the comical loves and losses that befall the denizens of Twister Plaines, Ill., complete with 14 original alternative country music songs. See what happens in the show, which runs Saturdays through Feb. Lincoln Ave.) has something new with the current long-form, female improv show "Sirens": a different guy working with the women each week. The club is in the Radisson Hotel Lisle-Naperville, 3000 Warrenville Rd., Lisle call 63. Comedy Comedy is importing some comedy to the Chicago area-Martin Gollogly of Scotland. Annoyance Productions presents "Teenage Sports Parade," an "unresponsible memorized comedy" that runs Saturdays through Feb. They're working Donny's Skybox Studio Theater in Piper's Alley, 1608 N. Comedy Arts Festival in the last few years. (which stands for "American, Canadian, Englishman") is a two-woman (Linda Klein and Barbara Gehring), one-man (Matthew Taylor) troupe that has been wowing them at the U.S. Bringing their character-driven comedy and music to Chicago for one night only on Saturday is the award-winning A.C.E. For tickets and other information, call the box office at 21, or Ticketmaster, 31. Hughley makes a special appearance Saturday at the Star Plaza Theatre in Merrillville, Ind. Direct from UPN's "The Hughleys" and "The Kings of Comedy," funny D.L. Current sets are scheduled to run through Saturday, and new acts begin on Thursday, unless otherwise noted. Here's who's working at the comedy clubs.

For show times and reservations, call 31. Steve Mittleman performs through Sunday at Zanies, 1548 N. That's been sort of a focus about what I've been writing about lately. "My stuff is sort of like Jackie's in the sense that I have a chunk of ethnic material about growing up Jewish, and Italian material. He talks about relationships in his act, as well as some humor that has made him a fan of Jackie Mason. He would love to write for a sitcom because of its stability, and he also is soliciting a spot with Martin's staff when he assembles one to write for the Academy Awards, which Martin is hosting this year.Īll the while, Mittleman will continue to hit stages whenever the gigs become available. Several days ago, Mittleman taped a spot for the upcoming "You Don't Know Jack!" televised version of the popular game for ABC, with Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens as host.īut because writing is his forte, Mittleman has been putting the word out that he would like a gig in television.
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Mittleman also acts, having appeared in such films as "Roxanne" and "Radio Days." His last movie was "The Out-of-Towners," with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn.
