The Wild Night

The Wild Night A storytelling show about the crazy stuff that happens after dark. The Wild Night is a storytelling series about eventful nights. Devon Ave.

Tales of drunken debauchery, teenaged antics, odd encounters, night shift insanity, etc. At least three guests and a couple open mic slots. The show takes place at 7pm on the third Sunday of each month (starting Oct. 20, 2024) at Cary's Lounge, 2251 W. in Chicago's vibrant West Ridge neighborhood.

05/15/2026

Tori Szekeres is trying her best right now. She is the coproducer of Serving the Sentence and hopes you will come to its June 10th show at Jarvis Square Tavern in Rogers Park. (It’ll kick off at 7:30 pm.) She lives in the Northwest Suburbs with her husband and pets.

Come hear Tori tell a story this Sunday at The Wild Night — 5/17 @ Cary's Lounge!

Aaron Silvers is a barber, a musician, an organizer and a storyteller. When he was DOGE'd with 350,000 other federal emp...
05/13/2026

Aaron Silvers is a barber, a musician, an organizer and a storyteller. When he was DOGE'd with 350,000 other federal employees in February 2025, he began his pivot away from enterprise work towards doing things real communities value. Aaron is spending this summer giving away free haircuts at barbering pop-ups around the city.

Come hear him share tales of defense contracting and red light districts at The Wild Night — 5/17 @ Cary's Lounge this Sunday!

Victoria Montalbano is an actor, comedian and recovering improvisor. She is teaming up with Story Sessions to host The H...
05/11/2026

Victoria Montalbano is an actor, comedian and recovering improvisor. She is teaming up with Story Sessions to host The Hyperfixation Show on May 24, a storytelling show, open mic, and fundraiser, all about the things we're obsessed with. She will spend the Summer touring her award-winning one-person-shows across the country.

Come hear her tell a story this Sunday at The Wild Night — 5/17 @ Cary's Lounge!

Christopher Pennant is a Chicagoan until the day Chicago ends. A fan of the White Sox, South Side beaches and Taqueria E...
04/17/2026

Christopher Pennant is a Chicagoan until the day Chicago ends. A fan of the White Sox, South Side beaches and Taqueria El Milagro, Chris has loved the art of storytelling even longer than Outkast, since he first tuned into baseball on the radio.

Hear Chris tell his story this Sunday at The Wild Night — 4/19 @ Cary's Lounge!

Sally Duros has been planning her escape from The Beaches of Rogers Park since 1969. To date, her farthest Lake Michigan...
04/16/2026

Sally Duros has been planning her escape from The Beaches of Rogers Park since 1969. To date, her farthest Lake Michigan port has been North Avenue Beach. She’s still hopeful that she’ll get to live by the Irish Sea. When so moved, she tells chilling tales of sandy grit on Chicago’s storytelling scene.

Come hear her story at The Wild Night — 4/19 @ Cary's Lounge this Sunday!

Kate Prior is a classic underachieving overachiever. She teaches cybersecurity basics at the corporate level by day, wri...
04/15/2026

Kate Prior is a classic underachieving overachiever. She teaches cybersecurity basics at the corporate level by day, writes a never-ending novel by night, and paints and draws on the weekends. Sometimes, she participates in storytelling events like As I Was Saying, Is This a Thing?, Serving the Sentence, and others.

She's got a story to tell — come hear it at The Wild Night — 4/19 @ Cary's Lounge!

Jitesh Jaggi ended his career in Finance one day when he lost all his data that he forgot to save on an Excel sheet and ...
04/14/2026

Jitesh Jaggi ended his career in Finance one day when he lost all his data that he forgot to save on an Excel sheet and realized that he just didn't care. That tipping point led him to becoming a storyteller and a poet. His most memorable show is this one time when he read his poems at the Logan Square Skate Park under the freeway in between punk bands setting up equipment.

Come hear his crazy story at The Wild Night — 4/19 @ Cary's Lounge!

Emily Hilleren lives in Albany Park, where you can probably find her telling a messier version of this story some Friday...
04/13/2026

Emily Hilleren lives in Albany Park, where you can probably find her telling a messier version of this story some Friday evening at Nighthawk. You can catch her annual indie pop fest, Windy Pop Weekender, at Subterranean this September 26 & 27.

Come hear her tell a story at The Wild Night — 4/19 @ Cary's Lounge!

03/15/2026

Quick update: Because of the storms and snow expected Up North, Steve Silver will not be able to make it tonight. We'll get him rescheduled for another date soon!

Through God’s guidance and grace, Susan Rohde made a couple of amazing decisions in her life. She finally went back to s...
03/13/2026

Through God’s guidance and grace, Susan Rohde made a couple of amazing decisions in her life. She finally went back to school and earned a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University at age 35. She married a terrific man, and they are celebrating 29 years of marriage and he is patient enough to listen to all her stories about 100 times. And all of their kids are either foster or adopted; so, they have an interesting family life. Susan works in higher education and next week heads to Boston for a filming of Stories From the Stage on Public Broadcasting.

Come hear Susan's story at The Wild Night — 3/15 @ Cary's Lounge! This Sunday!

Prateek Srivastava is a globally touring headlining comedian originally from Chicago now living in LA. His Comedy Album ...
03/11/2026

Prateek Srivastava is a globally touring headlining comedian originally from Chicago now living in LA. His Comedy Album “Nick and Sheila’s Kid” debuted #1 on iTunes and Amazon's Best Seller List. He was recently awarded Best of Fest at the Cleveland Comedy Festival and Rubber City Comedy Festival.

Prateek’s comedy has been featured at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, SF Sketchfest, Limestone Comedy Festival, NPR, Amazon Prime, and Cannes Independent. When he’s not slinging jokes he has appeared on sketch shows at Second City, Improv Olympic, the Den Theater and showcased for NBC and the United States Embassy. He thanks you for reading his bio and for not realizing he’s speaking in the 3rd person right now!

Come hear Prateek's story this Sunday at The Wild Night — 3/15 @ Cary's Lounge!

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