Events on Friday, November 27
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Friday 11/27 @ Lincoln Hall
On the opener of Up From Below, after muffled stomps and drum taps are drowned by a rising tide of instruments,...
Ongoing Events
Friday 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 11/27 @ 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,...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Friday 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ Pavilion
Those seeking refuge from the chaos reigning at big-box stores this Black Friday can still get their retail fix at the...
Friday 11/27 @ 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,"...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Friday 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre
When Charles Addams started drawing a group of macabre characters for The New Yorker in 1937 they weren't officially a family,...
Friday 11/27 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Robert Stone's latest creation, Earth Days, brings audiences back to the roots of the green movement. Stone unearths...
Friday 11/27 @ 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...
Friday 11/27 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Carnival Nocturne is a colorful and engaging, if uneven, production about a cursed traveling circus, complete with fortune tellers and Siamese...
Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black
Friday 11/27 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
With elements fabricated from materials like fluorescent tubes and safety glass, Monica Bonvicini's exhibition Light Me Black has a discreet beauty...
Friday 11/27 @ Court Theatre at the University of Chicago
The performances shine in this incredible, consistently hysterical production from Court Theatre. Two actors at the top of their game —...
Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
Friday 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Whether you're a tried-and-true Wes Anderson fan or part of the camp that feels the director lost his way in a...
Friday 11/27 @ Millennium Park
Nothing could be more charmingly festive, more seasonally upbeat, more iconically Chicago than holiday carols sung live beneath the "Bean." In...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Friday 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
"Art-design" pieces lead a thorny existence: they aim for both artistic significance and consumer practicality, and, critics argue, often fail at...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Friday 11/27 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
For anyone who has written off Nicolas Cage as the debt-saddled has-been who squandered the gifts so apparent in Leaving Las...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Friday 11/27 @ MCA Chicago
It's a disservice to label Liam Gillick guilty by YBA association. Smartypants like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin may have made...
Friday 11/27 @ 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...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Friday 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Friday 11/27 @ 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 11/27 @ Chopin Theatre
Not for the faint of heart, Aunt Dan and Lemon ruthlessly examines the worst of human nature and comes to the...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Friday 11/27 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
Friday 11/27 @ Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other...
Friday 11/27 @ Auditorium Theatre
The internationally renowned Australian singing group THE TEN TENORS returns for the holidays, featuring songs from their new album Nostalgica as...
Exit Strategy: New Works by Jesse LeDoux
Friday 11/27 @ Rotofugi
Seattle-based Jesse LeDoux has a great almost old-school style that we just can't get enough of. Amazing use of color and...
Friday 11/27 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Friday 11/27 @ 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....
It's a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play
Friday 11/27 @ American Theater Company
A Chicago Holiday Tradition
Friday 11/27 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Friday 11/27 @ 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...
Hells Yeah! Let's Do It!: New Works by Veggiesomething
Friday 11/27 @ Rotofugi
Chicago-based Veggiesomething is not only a talented character designer, he's a pretty awesome painter and graphic artist as well...and just happens...
