Events on Saturday, March 22

Donny McCaslin Group

Music

Donny McCaslin Group

Saturday 3/22 @ Chicago Cultural Center

Saxophonist Donny McCaslin is one of New York's leading jazz musicians, having worked with experimental collective Lan Xang, the Dave Douglas... 

Karl Blau w/ Polite Sleeper, Domestic Violets, and Osmo Whitely

Music

Karl Blau

Saturday 3/22 @ Ronny's Bar

Karl Blau plays the kind of electro-organic, lo-fi indie rock you can take home to mom. His bashful persona and click-clack... 

<em>Mary Poppins </em>(1964)

Film

Mary Poppins

Saturday 3/22 @ Beverly Arts Center

Mary Poppins' plot points are timeless entertainment, from Katie Nanna's suffrage rally to the giggle-powered, hovering tea party. (And we'll take... 

[SOLD OUT] Black Mountain w/ Birds of Avalon and Nordic Nomadic

Music

[SOLD OUT] Black Mountain

Saturday 3/22 @ The Empty Bottle

On their eponymous 2005 debut, Vancouver's Black Mountain offered their take on classic '60s and '70s rock, declaring, "we can't stand... 

Ongoing Events

Quest Theatre Ensemble: <em>Little Shop of Horrors</em>&nbsp;

Theatre

Little Shop of Horrors

Saturday 3/22 @ The Blue Theatre

Boy falls in love with girl; girl rejects boy; boy spends his days dreaming of capturing girl's seemingly unattainable heart —... 

<em>Snow Angels</em>

Film

Snow Angels

Saturday 3/22 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema

Working with a sympathetic, clear eye, writer/director David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls, 2003) may be the best portraitist of... 

James J. Peterson: <em>Snooping for a New Lexis of Peace </em>

Art

James J. Peterson

Saturday 3/22 @ Gescheidle

In the midst of asinine warfare and random violence, an artist's role is always unclear. Former Chicagoan James J. Peterson reacts... 

Joseph Noderer

Art

Joseph Noderer

Saturday 3/22 @ Linda Warren Gallery

Joseph Noderer's paintings — New England landscapes and images of the Chicago suburbs rendered in a warm, old-timey palette — could... 

Edward Hopper

Art

Edward Hopper

Saturday 3/22 @ The Art Institute of Chicago

Edward Hopper, the quintessential American realist, receives one of the most comprehensive stateside surveys of his work in this far-reaching retrospective.... 

Rania Matar: <i>Women of Islam</i>

Art: Photography

Rania Matar

Saturday 3/22 @ Chicago Cultural Center

Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant... 

Theatre

Georgy Porgy and Other Stories by Roald Dahl

Saturday 3/22 @ The Annoyance Theatre

Chicago's Annoyance theater usually sticks to homemade sketch and stage comedy written by talented locals, but tonight's weirdo wordsmith is just... 

<em>Radar Eyes: A Survey of Hallucinogenic  Printmaking</em>

Art

A Survey of Hallucinogenic Printmaking

Saturday 3/22 @ Co-Prosperity Sphere

Co-Prosperity Sphere's Radar Eyes exhibition showcases over 50 artists' experimental prints evoking altered states, perceptual distortions, and outright hallucinations. The trippy... 

Robert Heinecken: <em>Dream/Circles/Cycles</em>

Art: Photography

Robert Heinecken

Saturday 3/22 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery

This exhibition consists of Robert Heinecken's photograms, film transparencies, and works on canvas from 1963-74, including work from his pivotal series... 

<em>This Land Is Your Land</em>

Art: Photography

This Land Is Your Land

Saturday 3/22 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography

Inspired by the subtle subversion of Woody Guthrie's populist anthem, This Land Is Your Land is a thoughtful investigation of US... 

<i>The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation</i>

Art

The New Authentics

Saturday 3/22 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies

In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which... 

<em>A Steady Rain</em>

Theatre

A Steady Rain

Saturday 3/22 @ Royal George Theatre Center

Most playwrights would kill for the rave reviews that have been heaped upon Keith Huff's A Steady Rain. Happily, the only... 

<em>Adaptation</em>

Art

Adaptation

Saturday 3/22 @ Smart Museum of Art

It isn't just the title of a plot-twisting Spike Jonze film — "adaptation" also refers to the artistic practice of reappropriation,... 

Gordon Matta-Clark: <em>You Are the Measure</em>

Art

Gordon Matta-Clark

Saturday 3/22 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

Artist Chris Burden put it best when he said that Gordon Matta-Clark's 1978 death was "a drag" — he was referring... 

<em>Soft Life</em>

Art

Soft Life

Saturday 3/22 @ Hyde Park Art Center

Exploring love's sordid relationship to art, this exhibition of finely crafted threadings, embroidery works, sculpture, and related installation and video art... 

<em>My Dinner with Amy</em>

Theatre

My Dinner with Amy

Saturday 3/22 @ Stage 773

After its extended run on 54th Street in Manhattan (that's off-off Broadway, not off-off-off, thankyouverymuch), Tony Fiorentino's theatrical rom-com My Dinner... 

Nicholas Knight: <em>Depictured </em>

Art

Nicholas Knight: Depictured

Saturday 3/22 @ 65GRAND

For Registers, Nicholas Knight's first solo exhibition in Chicago, the artist blends images with text, and color with grayscale. The works... 

John Phillips: <em>New Paintings</em>

Art

John Phillips: New Paintings

Saturday 3/22 @ Tony Wight Gallery

Chicago's John Phillips employs witty, music-inspired titles and jaunty patterns in his large-scale "semi-intuitive doodles." The SAIC professor's latest solo show... 

<em>Watercolors of Winslow Homer: The Color of Light</em>

Art

Watercolors of Winslow Homer

Saturday 3/22 @ The Art Institute of Chicago

Winslow Homer began his career as a humble illustrator for Harper's, but he retired as the self-taught American master of watercolor... 

<em>Chop Shop </em>(2007)

Film

Chop Shop

Saturday 3/22 @ Music Box Theatre

Director Ramin Bahrani may be as "true indie" as the directors loosely clumped into the mumblecore movement, but that's where all... 

<em>Unseen Current</em>

Art

Unseen Current

Saturday 3/22 @ Extension Gallery

Sinuous and perceptually disorienting, Ball–Nogues Studio's installation is enigmatic and fascinating. The entire exhibition centers and flows around an amorphous orange... 

<em>Medium Cool</em>:<em> </em>Joy Episalla & Michael Antkowiak

Art

Medium Cool

Saturday 3/22 @ Carrie Secrist Gallery

Medium Cool features photographs by Joy Episalla and paintings by Michael Antkowiak. Episalla depicts the quiet, transitional spaces of hotel rooms,... 

Craig Doty

Art: Photography

Craig Doty

Saturday 3/22 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

Craig Doty's photographs are urban slices of life, depicting flash personal reactions and responses in theatrical tableaux. His past images often... 

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Special Event

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Saturday 3/22 @ Chicago History Museum

Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out!  We have exhibitions and programs for...