Lavender Cabaret has created a brand new hard-hitting sexy spectacle - Pillow Fight Club. Noted Chicago burlesque princess Michelle L'amour says “This is what happens when you combine the WWE with America’s Next Top model. Hard Hitting Fluff!” What's so funny about that, you ask? Well, Chicago comedians will be on hand to offer hilarious commentary, that's what. For more information about the shows, which begin May 10 at Joe's at 940 W. Weed Street, go here. (Photo is not of featured fighters. We...stole it off the internet. Just FYI.)

A new show called Something From Nothing is opening at the Apollo Theater, and improv nerds will want to be there to see what director Bryan Cohen describes as "a re-imagining of the story of one of the first Harold teams at iO, The Baron's Barracudas...takes place in 1985, during the birth of Chicago's improv community, when students of the Harold created theatre from scratch and centered their lives in a bar called CrossCurrents. The show has been meticulously researched through interviews with ‘those who were there’ including Charna Halpern, Michael Gellman, David Pasquesi, and many others. This play is an homage to the people who first made Chicago-style improvisation worthy for the stage."

The Lakeshore Theater is gearing up for a great bunch of special guests in the next few months, including Reggie Watts and Maria Bamford this month, Taylor Negron and Julia Sweeney in June, Arj Barker and Judy Tenuta in July, and Louis CK and Carol Leifer in August. The Bastion already caught the fantastic Mike Birbiglia show a few weeks back (with amazing opening act and local kid made good John Mulaney), and we can tell you the Lakeshore knows how to bring the laughs.