Events on Saturday, April 26
Before the Rain, Shadows, and Dust
Saturday 4/26 @ Doc Films
Despite a rich, variegated career spanning 30 years, Milcho Manchevski remains a firmly under-the-radar filmmaker, even for committed cinephiles. But that...
Saturday 4/26 @ The Chicago Theatre
The queen of indie comedy returns to Chicago with what could be called a stand-up act, but really should be called...
Saturday 4/26 @ Lakeshore Theater
Before he hosted the second coming of Comedy Central's Man Show, Doug Stanhope was the thinking-man's raunchy standup comic. His slob-next-door...
Saturday 4/26 @ Lakeshore Theater
When Texas ambient duo Stars of the Lid released their first album in more than five years in 2007, expectations were...
Saturday 4/26 @ Vic Theatre
From his beloved SNL Brian Fellows skits to his current tenure as 30 Rock's certifiably insane Tracy "I'm gonna take you...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 4/26 @ Porchlight Theatre
Winner of the 1982 Tony Award for Best Musical, Nine is based on Italian director Federico Fellini's classic film 8 1/2....
Saturday 4/26 @ The Renaissance Society
The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively...
Saturday 4/26 @ Tony Wight Gallery
In part two of his exhibition at Tony Wight Gallery, Ken Fandell continues working with an image taken by NASA's Hubble...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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....
Saturday 4/26 @ Facets Cinémathèque
A modern-day incarnation of 1983's groundbreaking Style Wars, graffiti documentary Bomb It moves past the boroughs of New York to survey...
Saturday 4/26 @ Gallery 400
Justin Cooper's installation is a combination of opposites: small-scale material creates large-scale sculpture, and conceptual performance art runs up against personal-space...
Saturday 4/26 @ 2003 S Halsted St
A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District —...
Saturday 4/26 @ I Space Gallery
For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby —...
Saturday 4/26 @ Chicago Cultural Center
In Three Hours Between Planes, co-curators Marco Poloni and Eiko Grimberg find the common themes running through the work of 11...
Immediate Sound Series 2nd Anniversary
Saturday 4/26 @ The Hideout
The Hideout celebrates the second anniversary of its Immediate Sound series with an all-star lineup of Chicago improvisers and out-of-town guests....
Saturday 4/26 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Some character actors should really never be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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,...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ 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...
Saturday 4/26 @ Various locations
Whereas the sketch comedians of Schadenfreude were once a cult sensation, these days they're operating squarely above-ground. Turns out it's hard...
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Saturday 4/26 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
It's the summer of 1970 in Brazil, and 12-year-old Mauro's radical parents have left him at his grandfather's house so hastily...
Saturday 4/26 @ Western Exhibitions
In the springtime, most of us use our money to catch up on overdue heating bills, but New York-based artist Mark...
Saturday 4/26 @ Music Box Theatre
Two years after McCabe and Mrs. Miller took apart the Western's Monument Valley mystique, Robert Altman turned his deconstructionist wrench on...
Saturday 4/26 @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
Ben Gest's portraits of friends and family are carefully orchestrated to seem totally improvised. But where like-minded photographers Sally Mann, Tina...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 4/26 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
