Events on Sunday, October 4
Sunday 10/ 4 @ Congress Theater
Writer. Producer. Actor. Never-nude. Is there anything David Cross can't do? While we wait for him to reprise his role as...
Sunday 10/ 4 @ Abbey Pub
Gifted turntablist and Deltron 3030 member Kid Koala's most recent collaboration finds him working with frequent partner Dynomite D (Dylan Frombach)....
Ongoing Events
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
Sunday 10/ 4 @ Victory Gardens Theater
Of the two shows by young playwrights at Victory Gardens right now, one stumbles a bit over stereotypes and delivers cultural...
Sunday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 4 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Sunday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 4 @ Perpetual Motion Dance Studio
Since its inception in 2006 by two New York dance enthusiasts, Dance Dance Party Party has developed into a fully-fledged, ladies-only...
Sunday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 4 @ TimeLine Theatre
The History Boys treads familiar ground, following a band of students and the teachers who light their way — but Alan...
Sunday 10/ 4 @ 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,...
Sunday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 4 @ 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....
Sunday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Sunday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 4 @ 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
Sunday 10/ 4 @ The Renaissance Society
Among the many artists to reflect on globalization and its discontents, few do so with the critical sophistication and sustained focus...
Sunday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)
Sunday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Sunday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
Sunday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 10/ 4 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Sunday 10/ 4 @ 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....
My Kind of Town: Chicago Artists Group Exhibit
Sunday 10/ 4 @ Rotofugi
Love Chicago and art? We do too! Join us to help celebrate some of our favorite Chicago-based painters, screenprinters, toymakers and...
Miami CIty Ballet - Superhuman Dancers!
Sunday 10/ 4 @ Auditorium Theatre
Under the artistic direction of 1960s dance heartthrob Edward Villella, Miami City Ballet captivates audiences around the world with its thrilling...
Sunday 10/ 4 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
Sunday 10/ 4 @ Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other...
