Events on Thursday, October 1
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Navy Pier Imax Theatre
Let's run down the usual suspects of "best-rock concert film." The Last Waltz? Too fussy. Gimme Shelter? Too grim. Woodstock? Two...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Smart Museum of Art
Celebrate the opening of the Smart Museum's special exhibition Heartland! Join co-curator Charles Esche and exhibiting artists Sarah Kanouse, Kerry James...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Keeping to his own path, Cy Twombly has developed a singular idiom over five decades. His energetic paintings are marked by...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
If nothing else, taking up birdwatching gives you a convenient excuse to bring terms like "Magnificent Frigatebird" and "Purple Gallinule" into...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ A Red Orchid Theatre
Aglow with an Oscar nomination for his supporting role in Revolutionary Road, Michael Shannon reunites with A Red Orchid Theatre, the...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Luis Gispert got the art world's attention by retooling elements of street culture and proposing that hip-hop is today's Baroque. However,...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Graceland Cemetery
Hidden away on Chicago's north side, this secret memento of the city's architectural history is a large, rambling Victorian-style cemetery. Filled...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Tony Wight Gallery
Black skies, ashen snow, and solitude: these are the ingredients of a fading world. In painstakingly rendered graphite drawings, Robyn O'Neil...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Music Box Theatre
Environmental documentaries have been popping up at an increasingly rapid rate, providing lots of proselytizing, but little action. No Impact Man...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
In the third installment of the AIC's On The Scene series, the divergent work of three artists is displayed in a...
Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)
Thursday 10/ 1 @ American Theater Company
An unsurprisingly brainy and gratifying bio-historical musical from the writers of Urinetown, Yeast Nation re-imagines prehistoric Earth's primordial soup as an...
Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Renaissance Society
Among the many artists to reflect on globalization and its discontents, few do so with the critical sophistication and sustained focus...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ TimeLine Theatre
The History Boys treads familiar ground, following a band of students and the teachers who light their way — but Alan...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
In Hu Yang's photograph Shanghai Living, a young Chinese man rests in his room, his surroundings hinting at concepts of individualism,...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ DePaul Art Museum
For all the attention showered on Iran for the government's nuclear posturing, political crackdowns, and other media-magnetic topics, not much trickles...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Goodman Theatre
Though best remembered as a Marx Brothers movie romp, Animal Crackers first appeared as the outrageous comedy team's 1928 Broadway smash....
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Second City e.t.c.
After taking aim at Obama, Hillary and McCain in its recent shows, the Second City looks homeward with a heaping helping...
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Our usual introductions to the history of 20th-century art tend to lean on certain narratives — the subversive march of the...
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Victory Gardens Theater
Of the two shows by young playwrights at Victory Gardens right now, one stumbles a bit over stereotypes and delivers cultural...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Chicago Architecture Foundation
As the city celebrates the centennial of Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago (if you don't think it's brilliant, try navigating a...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Arts Club of Chicago
In the early '80s, Elizabeth Murray started "making paintings that would blow up into the space," a breakthrough she later recalled...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Bank of America Theatre
The Chicago theater scene has been blessed of late with a raft of high-quality jukebox musicals: the Black Ensemble Theater showcased...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Turner Prize nominee Zarina Bhimji returned to Uganda, her childhood home, to shoot this gorgeous, mournful short film. As Out of...
Michael Ruglio-Misurell: Project #12
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Gallery 400
Some of the more memorable artworks of recent years have been immersive, meticulously constructed environments (see Mike Nelson, or Marfa's Hello...
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Dance Center of Columbia College
The intellectual exercises that birthed Merce Cunningham's dances might make one expect dry, mathematical choreographies, but structured though they are, his...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
In Hiroshi Watanabe's best-known photograph, a small figure scales a dramatic web of arcing poles beneath a gray sky. At the...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ 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...
Molly Springfield: Translation
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
Layered acts of translation, both linguistic and visual, drive Molly Springfield's latest project. First the artist photocopied every page of the...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Writers' Theatre
Tom Stoppard's inventive, razor-sharp absurdist play imagines Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as offstage existential anti-heroes with no understanding of what play they're...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Smart Museum of Art
In hopes of tapping the under-applauded artistic pulse of America's sizable center, Heartland's three curators — hailing from Chicago and the...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ The Second City
The 2008 election may have delivered a ray of hope, but storm clouds still hang above us. That's the uneasy premise...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Richard Gray Gallery
It seems so simple at first: cut or combine salvaged old photographs. John Stezaker has used variants of this method since...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater
The name of this three-week fest tells you more about its humble origins than its current status: The Other is Chicago's...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Mainstream culture has absorbed tattoos to the point where your buttoned-up boss probably has an arm ringed in barbed wire by...
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
You can imagine it started with a big idea: get three guitar gods in the same room and let them talk...
Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other...
My Kind of Town: Chicago Artists Group Exhibit
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Rotofugi
Love Chicago and art? We do too! Join us to help celebrate some of our favorite Chicago-based painters, screenprinters, toymakers and...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
An exhibition of Joseph Yoakum’s visionary landscapes, curated by Mark Pascale, caretaker of Whitney Halstead’s collection bequeathed to the Art Institute...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Smart Museum of Art
During the last decade of his life, self-taught artist and South Side resident Joseph Yoakum (1890–1972) began drawing almost full time....
Thursday 10/ 1 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
