Events on Friday, October 2
Friday 10/ 2 @ Beat Kitchen
It may seem like an odd career move to follow up a breakout record with a collection of covers, as Phosphorescent...
Friday 10/ 2 @ Congress Theater
Since the early '90s, Patton Oswalt has indeed been a "pissy little world traveler" of the comic and entertainment landscape. He's...
Friday 10/ 2 @ Smart Museum of Art
Kansas City's Whoop Dee Doo teams up with local talent to present the Chicago premiere of its kid-friendly faux public access...
Friday 10/ 2 @ The Shrine
Join us at the Shrine for a night of Afro Beat and Hip Hop. Boom Bap goes to Lagos with Phenom...
Friday 10/ 2 @ MCA Chicago
Happy hour takes on a new meaning with First Fridays at the MCA. Relax after a long workweek with a cash...
Ongoing Events
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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....
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Michael Ruglio-Misurell: Project #12
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 2 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Molly Springfield: Translation
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 2 @ TimeLine Theatre
The History Boys treads familiar ground, following a band of students and the teachers who light their way — but Alan...
Friday 10/ 2 @ Richard Gray Gallery
It seems so simple at first: cut or combine salvaged old photographs. John Stezaker has used variants of this method since...
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
Friday 10/ 2 @ Victory Gardens Theater
Of the two shows by young playwrights at Victory Gardens right now, one stumbles a bit over stereotypes and delivers cultural...
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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,...
Friday 10/ 2 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by...
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
Friday 10/ 2 @ The Renaissance Society
Among the many artists to reflect on globalization and its discontents, few do so with the critical sophistication and sustained focus...
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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,...
Friday 10/ 2 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
After following Metallica through group therapy in his last film, Some Kind of Monster, Joe Berlinger is back in top form...
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 2 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 2 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
Miami CIty Ballet - Superhuman Dancers!
Friday 10/ 2 @ Auditorium Theatre
Under the artistic direction of 1960s dance heartthrob Edward Villella, Miami City Ballet captivates audiences around the world with its thrilling...
Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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
Friday 10/ 2 @ 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....
