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February2023
Showbiz Baby!Mindy Davenport is your host! She’s unspeakably old, but still flirty, fabulous, and a fixture at the heart of Showbiz. She’s an icon of Hollywood and Broadway. Theatrical, gaudy, and still virile for her age. She’s been hosting the show since its inception in the late 60s. She knows the ins and outs of every haunt and hole on the east side of West Hollywood. This comedy variety talk show is happening live and it’s sure to get you out of your seat and on your feet, it’s Showbiz Baby!
8:00 PMColor Club Tavern
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2-26
February 2023
4.48 Psychosis by Sarah KaneAfter over 20 years since its publication, our ensemble will take you on a journey through Sarah Kane’s enduring text which creates a frenzied landscape of the mind at its lowest – and yet somehow its most lucid. While this play is shrouded in Sarah’s death, it is equally buoyed by the joy, love, and magic of life, and asks the fundamental questions: what it means to be human, what it means to be alive, and at what cost.
7:30 PMColor Club Ballroom
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February2023
Color Club Comedy — Every First FridayColor Club Comedy is a vibrant, monthly comedy show from Local Universe featuring off-the-wall talent that’s young, bright, and diverges from your typical and tired comedy club tropes.
8:00 PMColor Club Tavern
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February2023
Jamie Loftus: Mrs. Joseph Chestnut America USA A PlayA one-woman show about Jamie Loftus’s fated marriage and murder trial to hot dog eating champion Joey Chestnut.
JAMIE LOFTUS is an Emmy-nominated writer, stand-up comic and animator who is currently a Co-Producer for the Paramount+ adult animated series, STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS. Jamie has worked on animated shows such as ROBOT CHICKEN, HUMAN KIND OF, TEENAGE EUTHANASIA and MAGICAL GIRL FRIENDSHIP SQUAD. Jamie is also a regular contributor to publications such as Vice, Paste, The New Yorker, and Playboy.
JAMIE LOFTUS is an Emmy-nominated writer, stand-up comic and animator who is currently a Co-Producer for the Paramount+ adult animated series, STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS. Jamie has worked on animated shows such as ROBOT CHICKEN, HUMAN KIND OF, TEENAGE EUTHANASIA and MAGICAL GIRL FRIENDSHIP SQUAD. Jamie is also a regular contributor to publications such as Vice, Paste, The New Yorker, and Playboy.
8:00 PMColor Club Ballroom
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February2023
Crown PunksThe cast of the upcoming monthly Crown Punks Sketch Show demonstrate their individual talents (and some of their very talented friends) for a night of shenanigans, rule-breaking and general hilarious bad-assery that hints at the madness yet to come. Featuring Matty Merritt & Mehgan Cain, Affliction Live and More!
8:00 PMColor Club Tavern
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February2023
Dish DiariesDish Diaries is a dripping wet variety show hosted by tiny baby comedians, Kristi Durkin and Brigid Broderick. They are completely incapable of learning the rules to a card game because their brains only know how to gossip so you have to tell them your secrets or ELSE something really bad and horny might happen. You wouldn’t want that now would you? Featuring the hottest comedians and musicians in Chicago, Dish Diaries is full of secrets.
8:00 PMColor Club Tavern
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February2023
Love, Pierre!Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe comes France’s Greatest Love Guru, Pierre! He swam from Paris to Chicago to help YOU find Love! He’s coached the likes of Taylor Swift, Joe Rogan, The (late) Queen (of England), and many more…yet, has Pierre himself found this idealized “True Love”…Will you go on a date with Pierre? Probably! Crack the code of love? Maybe! Fall in love?! Je ne sais pas! How do you even know when your feelings are real?! In this clown character show by Nikki Hartung, Pierre explores dating, ghosting and romanticized love in our modern world. Love can strike at any time! So expect to fall in love! Maybe..
8:00 PMColor Club Tavern
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February2023
13 Love SongsEach year, Hot Kitchen invites 13 of their favorite artists to perform a response to a popular love song, and to celebrate their 8th year in Chicago, they’re back with a playlist that’s strictly ’80s!!
Grab your leg warmers and your shoulder pads and get ready for a night of sweet sweet love making with the hottest performers in town.
Featuring performances by Marie Baldwin, Lizi Breit, Katie Carpenter, Kristi Durkin, Joanna Jamerson, Elias Mason, Andy Rowell, Lily Scherlis, Michael Stablein Jr., James Swanberg, John Michael Verrall, Mary Williamson & Hot Kitchen <3
Grab your leg warmers and your shoulder pads and get ready for a night of sweet sweet love making with the hottest performers in town.
Featuring performances by Marie Baldwin, Lizi Breit, Katie Carpenter, Kristi Durkin, Joanna Jamerson, Elias Mason, Andy Rowell, Lily Scherlis, Michael Stablein Jr., James Swanberg, John Michael Verrall, Mary Williamson & Hot Kitchen <3
8:00 PMColor Club Tavern
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17-19
February2023
Project Bound Dance: If It’s Stuck, Shake It Loose
What do you do when your body is bursting? What do we do when we’re stuck? Monotony, boredom, dissatisfaction, shame. We can’t fix it if we don’t address it first.
Project Bound Dance invites you to join us for IF IT’S STUCK, SHAKE IT LOOSE, our first live dance premiere since 2020.
Join us for a collective un-sticking from the ruthless monotony of the day to day drag. Featuring Stacy DeMorrow, Kathryn Hetrick, Isabella Limosnero, Emily Loar, Ali Lorenz, and Sarah Morimoto. Choreographed by Ashley Deran and Emily Loar.
What do you do when your body is bursting? What do we do when we’re stuck? Monotony, boredom, dissatisfaction, shame. We can’t fix it if we don’t address it first.
Project Bound Dance invites you to join us for IF IT’S STUCK, SHAKE IT LOOSE, our first live dance premiere since 2020.
Join us for a collective un-sticking from the ruthless monotony of the day to day drag. Featuring Stacy DeMorrow, Kathryn Hetrick, Isabella Limosnero, Emily Loar, Ali Lorenz, and Sarah Morimoto. Choreographed by Ashley Deran and Emily Loar.
Varies by DateColor Club Ballroom
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February2023
Judson Claiborne Record Release with BloodhypeJudson Claiborne is the folk rock music project of songwriter and DJ Christopher Claiborne Salveter. Raised in a Missouri river town-turned suburb, his earliest musical influences were oldies radio and MTV’s 120 Minutes. Chicago’s indie record labels and bands of the 1990s beckoned him to relocate there in 2000. Soon after, he started the group Low Skies, who released four records and toured as the support act for Neko Case, Explosions in the Sky, and Band of Horses. Low Skies’ final record, All the Love I Could Find (2006) received an 8.1 on Pitchfork. Over the past 15 years, Judson Claiborne has toured with Bill Callahan, Lower Dens, and John Grant. Live Active Culture (Volumes 1 & 2) will be Judson Claiborne’s 5th and 6th studio albums, following 2020’s When a Man Loves an Omen
Live Active Culture Vol. 1 is a witty, witchy, dreamy, experimental, affectionate, and politically astute companion for the times we’re living in. Mostly a product of remote collaboration throughout the many stages of pandemic lockdown, the songs were produced in bedrooms, basements, and studios throughout the US.
Live Active Culture Vol. 1 is a witty, witchy, dreamy, experimental, affectionate, and politically astute companion for the times we’re living in. Mostly a product of remote collaboration throughout the many stages of pandemic lockdown, the songs were produced in bedrooms, basements, and studios throughout the US.
8:00 PMColor Club Tavern
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March2023
Barn Dance ApocolypseThe Barn Dance Apocalypse is BACK! It’s Sweet 16 this time around, and the Golden Horse Ranch band is issuing YOU a license to dance! It’s been a long couple of years of hibernation but now is the winter of our discotheque! Come square dance, contra, line, two step, polka, and waltz the night away to the melodious tones of the one and only Golden Horse Ranch Band.
It doesn’t matter if you have 2 left feet, or only one foot left, caller Annie Coleman will teach you everything you need to know! Come alone or bring a partner, just be sure to dress for the occasion.
It doesn’t matter if you have 2 left feet, or only one foot left, caller Annie Coleman will teach you everything you need to know! Come alone or bring a partner, just be sure to dress for the occasion.
7:00 PMColor Club Ballroom
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We currently host the following weekly activities:
Monday nights — Jazzercise!
Tuesday nights — Anthony Meindl’s Actor’s Workshop
Friday nights — Ethnic Dance Chicago
(Most) Saturday mornings — Winter Littles Play Group (Age 2 and Under, RSVP Required)
Sunday mornings — Embodied Movement
Please note: Color Club’s 100-year-old building requires stairs to access the second floor ballroom and classroom. We are working on improvements to remedy this! The tavern on the first floor is accessible via the corner entrance at Hamlin and Elston.