Film

The Artist

Today @ Various Chicago theaters

This black-and-white, near-silent throwback by French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius (OSS 117) delivers film-geek kicks in both form (gleefully antiquated transitions, early-cinema... 

Theatre

The Feast: an intimate Tempest

Today @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater

This taut, streamlined Tempest hurtles through CST with gale-force creative energy. Condensing Shakespeare's play to an hour-long romp through a fragmented... 

Film: Independent

Tomboy

Today @ Music Box Theatre

In Tomboy, filmmaker Céline Sciamma's (Water Lilies) second feature, a family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure (Zoé Heran) and 6-year-old Jeanne... 

Film: Documentary

Pina

Today @ AMC River East 21

Wim Wenders pays poetic tribute to friend and influential German choreographer Pina Bausch using 3D technology. On the surface, it seems... 

Film

Carnage

Today @ Various Chicago theaters

Roman Polanski doesn't make bad films. He may be known for his bad decisions off set, but on set, he remains... 

Theatre: Drama

Time Stands Still

Today @ Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre

In Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still, a harrowing and personal look at the difficult ethics of war journalism, Sarah, a talented... 

Film: Independent

A Separation

Today @ Music Box Theatre

Iran's entry for Best Foreign Language Oscar and winner of Berlin's Golden Bear, A Separation is a complex family drama that... 

Theatre: Drama

Race

Today @ The Goodman Theatre

The Chicago premiere of David Mamet's crackling new play, Race, gives 2009's Broadway production a serious run for its money in the... 

Theatre: Festival

Rhinofest

Today @ Prop Thtr

Last year's 22nd annual Rhinofest celebrated its history by looking back to over two decades of fringe theatre, reviving some original... 

Theatre: Drama

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Today @ Chopin Theatre

The Hypocrites take on a play as metatheatrical as they are, with some mixed but generally entertaining results. Luigi Pirandello's early-1920s... 

Theatre: Drama

Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting

Today @ Lookingglass Theatre

This entertaining piece of historical fiction posits a secret 1947 summit meeting in which Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey seeks... 

Art: Group Show

Write Now: Artists & Letterforms

Today @ Chicago Cultural Center

Save some time to read through the packed exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, Write Now: Artists & Letterforms. Featuring many... 

Art: Group Show

Black Gossamer

Today @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago

An anxiousness exists among people of color because there is still an expectation to "perform," explain and react to one's Blackness... 

Art

The World Finder: A Pocket Guide to Hell

Today @ Gallery 400

A logical complement to Global Cities, Model Worlds, the Pocket Guide to Hell collective has created a multimedia exploration for the... 

Art: Photography

Laura Letinsky

Today @ MCA Chicago

BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Laura Letinsky debuts the artist's newest body of work, a photographic series titled "Ill Form and...