Events on Saturday, October 10
Saturday 10/10 @ Music Box Theatre
The Music Box Massacre's 24-hour, 13-movie marathon should satisfy your horror flick fix at least until Halloween. The fifth installment features...
Saturday 10/10 @ Schubas
Armed with a guitar and a drum set, and fueled by leftover teenage angst and rave reviews, Vancouver's Japandroids are spending...
Abraham Lincoln and the Power of Words
Saturday 10/10 @ The Newberry Library
Speaker: Douglas L. Wilson, Knox College The George A. Lawrence Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and Co-director of the Lincoln Studies...
A Hard Headed Heart: A Neighborhood Tour
Saturday 10/10 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Blair Thomas & Company presents Hard Headed Heart, a trio of solo shows performed at Intuit for one magical evening. Hard...
Ongoing Events
Molly Springfield: Translation
Saturday 10/10 @ 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...
Saturday 10/10 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
This show's titular maze-dwelling man-bull of Greek myth inspired Rodin in 1886, who inspired choreographer Anna Halprin for a duet filmed...
Saturday 10/10 @ 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...
Jeremy Deller: It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq
Saturday 10/10 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Artist Jeremy Deller orchestrates public events and collaborative undertakings that bring different social issues into relief. His Battle of Orgreave, for...
Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)
Saturday 10/10 @ 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
Saturday 10/10 @ The Renaissance Society
Among the many artists to reflect on globalization and its discontents, few do so with the critical sophistication and sustained focus...
Saturday 10/10 @ 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...
Saturday 10/10 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Self-taught, working-outside-the-mainstream artists are an often-misunderstood phenomenon, if one considers the myriad terms that emphasize their otherness: "outsider," "visionary," "naïve," "folk,"...
Saturday 10/10 @ 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...
Saturday 10/10 @ 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...
Saturday 10/10 @ 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,...
Saturday 10/10 @ 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...
Saturday 10/10 @ 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,...
Saturday 10/10 @ 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....
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
Saturday 10/10 @ 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
Saturday 10/10 @ Victory Gardens Theater
Of the two shows by young playwrights at Victory Gardens right now, one stumbles a bit over stereotypes and delivers cultural...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Saturday 10/10 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Saturday 10/10 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Saturday 10/10 @ Chicago Cultural Center
When walking through Barbara Crane's six-decade retrospective at the Cultural Center, it can be hard to imagine that a single career...
Saturday 10/10 @ 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...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Saturday 10/10 @ MCA Chicago
It's a disservice to label Liam Gillick guilty by YBA association. Smartypants like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin may have made...
Saturday 10/10 @ 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...
Saturday 10/10 @ 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...
Saturday 10/10 @ TimeLine Theatre
The History Boys treads familiar ground, following a band of students and the teachers who light their way — but Alan...
Saturday 10/10 @ 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...
Saturday 10/10 @ 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...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Saturday 10/10 @ 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...
Saturday 10/10 @ 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...
Saturday 10/10 @ Chopin Theatre
Oobleck remounts Mickle Maher's dazzlingly inventive play ten years after Maher himself took on the role of Faustus in the character's...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Saturday 10/10 @ 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...
Saturday 10/10 @ 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...
Saturday 10/10 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by...
Saturday 10/10 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 10/10 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
Saturday 10/10 @ Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other...
Saturday 10/10 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
Saturday 10/10 @ The Newberry Library
Honest Abe of the West chronicles Lincoln’s early years in Illinois, focusing on his career as an attorney in Springfield and...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Saturday 10/10 @ 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...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Saturday 10/10 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition
Saturday 10/10 @ The Newberry Library
With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition, a traveling exhibit created by the Library of Congress, will leave the...
My Kind of Town: Chicago Artists Group Exhibit
Saturday 10/10 @ Rotofugi
Love Chicago and art? We do too! Join us to help celebrate some of our favorite Chicago-based painters, screenprinters, toymakers and...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Saturday 10/10 @ 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....
