Events on Friday, April 4
Friday 4/ 4 @ Music Box Theatre
For this weekend's special midnight screening, Fangoria favorite Donald F. Glut premieres his latest hellspawn, Blood Scarab. Hoping to escape the...
Friday 4/ 4 @ The Empty Bottle
Chicago-based four-piece Shopping play rowdy, summer-love punk rock filled with snotty, beer-soaked vocals and devil-may-care guitar solos. Theirs is a sloppy...
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Friday 4/ 4 @ Vic Theatre
Although White Rabbits' debut, Fort Nightly, wriggled onto countless 2007 year-end lists (and with good reason), the sextet's Carribbean-fried Walkmen-isms were...
Ongoing Events
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Friday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 4 @ 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....
Friday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 4 @ 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,...
24th Chicago Latino Film Festival
Friday 4/ 4 @ Various locations
For 24 years, this annual festival has been bringing the best of Latin American and Spanish cinema to Chicago. Opening night...
Friday 4/ 4 @ 65GRAND
For Registers, Nicholas Knight's first solo exhibition in Chicago, the artist blends images with text, and color with grayscale. The works...
Friday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 4 @ The Annoyance Theatre
When Harrison Ford starred in the 1997 action movie Air Force One, he couldn't have been aware that his hard work...
Friday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 4 @ Ruth Page Center for the Arts
Seldoms artistic director and choreographer Carrie Hanson is one of the most ambitious, exacting artists in the local scene. Not afraid...
Friday 4/ 4 @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
While Hubbard Street's first week at the Harris featured some choice pieces — notably the latest from in-house choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo...
Friday 4/ 4 @ 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....
Friday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 4 @ Jane Addams Hull House Museum
This bring-your-own-lunch gathering of handicrafters is held in honor of artist, educator, and social activist Ellen Gates Starr, who historically co-founded...
Friday 4/ 4 @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
Medium Cool features photographs by Joy Episalla and paintings by Michael Antkowiak. Episalla depicts the quiet, transitional spaces of hotel rooms,...
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Friday 4/ 4 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Persistently concerned with architecture, place, and space, Goat Island Performance Group considers 20 years of collaboration by peeling away the histories...
