Events on Friday, October 9
Friday 10/ 9 @ Music Box Theatre
Nicholas Ray built his auteur cred by exploring Big Ideas in genre flicks: Johnny Guitar saddled the Western with psycho-sexual symbolism,...
Everything Is Terrible: The Movie
Friday 10/ 9 @ Music Box Theatre
Fans of the site Everything Is Terrible know it best as the irony-heavy filter for all things atrocious on the web...
Friday 10/ 9 @ Congress Theater
Though frequently well received, the Murder City Devils never exactly burned up the blogs with their standpat Johnny Thunders/Dead Boys worship....
Scion Beat Machine Tour Feat. Waajeed + Ge-ology + Blu Jemz
Friday 10/ 9 @ The Shrine
Scion's Beat Machine Tour hits The Shrine, Chicago! Underground Hip Hop's finest DJs/producers will bring the heat! With DJs Waajeed +...
Ongoing Events
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ TimeLine Theatre
The History Boys treads familiar ground, following a band of students and the teachers who light their way — but Alan...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Loyola University Museum of Art
Guatemalan expat Alfred Jensen, writer-turned-artist Charmion von Wiegand, and quizzical patternist Simon Gouverneur are the subject of Back to the Future,...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by...
Molly Springfield: Translation
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater
"I don't know how you can be President," Ronald Reagan said, "without being an actor." Dancemaker and director Peter Carpenter began...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Friday 10/ 9 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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)
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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....
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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"
Friday 10/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ Rotofugi
Love Chicago and art? We do too! Join us to help celebrate some of our favorite Chicago-based painters, screenprinters, toymakers and...
