Events on Friday, October 30
Friday 10/30 @ Auditorium Theatre
What started out as a series of pick-up gigs between friends has blossomed into a full-on two-and-a-half hour musical event and...
Friday 10/30 @ Double Door
For lucky year number 13, the annual Double Door Halloween Bash has one the most intriguing bills of musical dress-up in...
Soul Train Halloween With DJ Mick Boogie @ The Shrine
Friday 10/30 @ The Shrine
This is the Halloween Party in the city. Celebrity DJ Mick Boogie makes an ulta-rare Chicago appearance at the Shrine for...
Friday 10/30 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
In the words of director Charles Laughton, Night of the Hunteris...
Ongoing Events
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ Mary's Attic
What do you get when you mix a schlock-horror cinema classic with a couple of cheesy, soft-rock icons? You get Carpenters...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Friday 10/30 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
David Corbett: Change Makes It New
Friday 10/30 @ 65GRAND
David Corbett has shown his paintings at 65GRAND before, but the enamel-dipped sculptures in his latest outing are a new addition....
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ Carl Hammer Gallery
CJ Pyle's portraits, drawn in ballpoint pen and colored pencil on the inside of old LP sleeves, gather up the most...
Friday 10/30 @ Music Box Theatre
The Yes Men's new documentary chronicles the subversive duo's elaborate, politically progressive hoaxes. Using cheap suits, aliases, and "straight" talk, Andy...
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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,"...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Friday 10/30 @ MCA Chicago
It's a disservice to label Liam Gillick guilty by YBA association. Smartypants like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin may have made...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Friday 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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 10/30 @ 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
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Lucky Plush Productions: Punk Yankees
Friday 10/30 @ Dance Center of Columbia College
Encyclopedic knowledge of any subject being just a click away shows up in almost all art these days, whether implicitly or...
Friday 10/30 @ EBERSMOORE
Photographs are the lifeblood of Rob Carter's work, but video is the beating heart — it's the artist's principal medium and...
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
Friday 10/30 @ Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other...
Fake It 'til You Make It & The Devourer of Men
Friday 10/30 @ Rotofugi
Two new exhibits in our gallery will be opening Friday, October 16, 7pm-10pm. We've got new works by both Martin Ontiveros...
Friday 10/30 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Friday 10/30 @ 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....
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Friday 10/30 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Friday 10/30 @ 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...
Friday 10/30 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
