Events on Friday, June 27
Friday 6/27 @ FitzGerald's
Some 50-plus years into her career, sharp-tongued boogie bunny Wanda Jackson remains the uncontested queen of rockabilly. Her sharp-throated warbles are...
Ongoing Events
Friday 6/27 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 6/27 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
In the current installment of the UBS 12x12 series, Mark Booth presents drawings and paintings that combine text with biomorphic forms...
Friday 6/27 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
Chicago theatergoers might know better, but for a long time, most people only recognized Tracy Letts as "that guy from the...
Friday 6/27 @ Storefront Theater
Bloody Bess isn't a pirate story for children, and it's definitely not your standard, polite downtown theater — the show's full...
Friday 6/27 @ Russell Bowman Fine Art
Chicago Imagism began with a group of artists from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who first showed their...
Friday 6/27 @ 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 6/27 @ Chicago Cultural Center, Studio Theater
Born and raised on the South Side, Tony Fitzpatrick is a prolific artist whose work ethic and oeuvre are both quintessentially...
Friday 6/27 @ Chicago Architecture Foundation
Millennium Park has only been open officially for four years, but it's already a Chicago landmark. And like most things in...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
During the quiet months of summer, dealers often turn to group exhibitions as an easy way to trot out the work...
Friday 6/27 @ Music Box Theatre
Eighties Schwarzenegger flick Commando teaches a textbook lesson about the thick-necked Governator: never underestimate his killer instinct. Just as ex-covert agent...
Friday 6/27 @ Royal George Theatre Center
Aspiring Broadway composer/lyricists trying to attract angel investors usually consider more contemporary material than Johannes Gutenberg's invention of the printing press....
Alex Katz: Subject to Reversal
Friday 6/27 @ Richard Gray Gallery
At 81, Alex Katz has only recently emerged as one of America's major contemporary artists. The Richard Gray Gallery shows why...
Friday 6/27 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
What effect did Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species have on the development of early modern architecture? What can we...
Friday 6/27 @ The Arts Club of Chicago
David Hockney gained recognition in the '60s for his flat, single-panel paintings of swimming pools, but he also creates more narrative-based...
Friday 6/27 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Jim Tansley's abstract paintings and drawings combine seemingly familiar lines with expanses of soft color to create arrangements that appear both...
Portraying Food (and the Absence of It)
Friday 6/27 @ Walsh Gallery
Interest in Chinese art has reached a fever pitch, but Wu Hung has always been ahead of the curve. Since 1999,...
Friday 6/27 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Given his terrific contribution to cinema, it's surprising that director Milos Forman isn't more of a household name. His relatively under-the-radar...
Friday 6/27 @ International Museum of Surgical Science
For decades, the International Museum of Surgical Science has spotlighted the macabre wonders of invasive surgery. But along with historical displays...
Friday 6/27 @ The Galaxie
Bertolt Brecht's play In the Jungle of Cities — sans convoluted vendetta, lumber, and prostitutes — is an ideological wrestling match,...
Friday 6/27 @ Alfedena Gallery
Curated by Newcity art editor Jason Foumberg and hosted by Alfedena Gallery, the Contemporary Arts Council's 14th annual emerging-artist exhibition illustrates...
Friday 6/27 @ Mess Hall
Regarding those who toil on Madison Avenue, the acid-tongued Bill Hicks once riffed, "You are Satan's little helpers… kill yourself, seriously…...
Friday 6/27 @ Garfield Park Conservatory
If the concrete trek and throngs of spectators at Friday's Fourth of July festivities leave you pining for something a little...
Friday 6/27 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Friday 6/27 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
In his first solo museum exhibition, Mario Ybarra, Jr. presents a witty comparison of Chicago and Los Angeles through the exploits...
Friday 6/27 @ Music Box Theatre
In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, with a hypnagogic blur...
Friday 6/27 @ The Second City e.t.c.
From the director of the recent hit Between Barack and a Hard Place comes another election-season winner, Campaign Supernova!, performed by...
Friday 6/27 @ estudiotres
Curators Rob Bondgren and David Getsy push beyond the reductive categories of sexuality and gender in the LGBT-themed exhibition Everyday People...
Friday 6/27 @ Center For New Possibilities
In 2005, activist and performer Nicole Garneau marked the tenth anniversary of Chicago's deadly heat wave with a run of 365...
Friday 6/27 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Recognized as a fixture in Americana, the backyard has, over the previous two decades, become a space favored almost as much...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ 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...
Friday 6/27 @ moniquemeloche gallery
A good group exhibition can feel like a free buffet serving top-quality market produce; it all looks so enticing, and you...
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Friday 6/27 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Adapted from writer Blake Morrison's 1993 memoir about his bullying father's death from cancer, When Did You Last See Your Father?...
Friday 6/27 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
It's easy to forget that art star and auction darling Jeff Koons made his name as a provocateur. His Made in...
Friday 6/27 @ Music Box Theatre
Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of...
Friday 6/27 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Lookingglass Theatre Company has chosen to revive the 2000 hit For Keeps and a Single Day for its 20th season. Thomas...
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Friday 6/27 @ City Gallery
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic...
Friday 6/27 @ Green Lantern
Dynamic fiber and performance artist Amanda Browder spins into Chicago again — this time with a stuffed tornado in tow. Browder...
Friday 6/27 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Since 1978, the Centre Pompidou in Paris has paired visual artists with choreographers and dancers at its annual Vidéodanse festival....
Friday 6/27 @ threewalls
Michael Jones McKean's ramshackle constructions combine disparate found objects with wood, clay, and papier-mâché. His work has a strong physical presence,...
Friday 6/27 @ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance...
Friday 6/27 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
You may not have noticed, but the Art Institute's Department of Prints and Drawings has been running in stealth mode —...
Friday 6/27 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen...
