Events on Saturday, October 31
Saturday 10/31 @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
If Halloween spurs a lot of people to get creative with their finery, the party destinations to pick from aren't always...
Saturday 10/31 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Benjamin Christensen's 1922 silent flick Haxan may not be the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of Halloween,...
Saturday 10/31 @ Sonotheque
With new-wave Canucks Dragonette headlining, it follows that Lycra is the fabric du jour at tonight's Halloween dance party — as...
Saturday 10/31 @ Bottom Lounge
Roky Erickson is still standing. Former frontman of the 13th Floor Elevators, the Austin-based group who coined the term "psychedelic rock"...
Saturday 10/31 @ Auditorium Theatre
17+ show. With Glitch Mob, Holy Fuck and Orchard Lounge.
Saturday 10/31 @ The Shrine
The Shrine presents 'MASQUERADE'. Chicago's hottest Saturday night gets hotter. Dawn your finest threads and a mask for our masquerade party....
Ongoing Events
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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
Saturday 10/31 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Saturday 10/31 @ 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)
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
David Corbett: Change Makes It New
Saturday 10/31 @ 65GRAND
David Corbett has shown his paintings at 65GRAND before, but the enamel-dipped sculptures in his latest outing are a new addition....
Saturday 10/31 @ 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,"...
Jeremy Deller: It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq
Saturday 10/31 @ 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
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
Saturday 10/31 @ EBERSMOORE
Photographs are the lifeblood of Rob Carter's work, but video is the beating heart — it's the artist's principal medium and...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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....
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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,...
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
Saturday 10/31 @ Victory Gardens Theater
Of the two shows by young playwrights at Victory Gardens right now, one stumbles a bit over stereotypes and delivers cultural...
Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
Saturday 10/31 @ 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 10/31 @ 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...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Saturday 10/31 @ 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....
Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
Saturday 10/31 @ Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Saturday 10/31 @ 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
Saturday 10/31 @ 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...
Saturday 10/31 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Fake It 'til You Make It & The Devourer of Men
Saturday 10/31 @ Rotofugi
Two new exhibits in our gallery will be opening Friday, October 16, 7pm-10pm. We've got new works by both Martin Ontiveros...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 10/31 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
Saturday 10/31 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
