Events on Sunday, November 8
Sunday 11/ 8 @ Symphony Center
Already a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an Emmy, three Obies, and countless other awards, Tony Kushner welcomes the fête train...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ Lakeshore Theater
Phil Elverum (formerly "Elvrum") is the gentle giant of the Pacific Northwest's DIY music scene. His deepest impact came from the...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall
Designated flag-bearer of literary Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem delivers a parallel-universe Manhattan in his latest novel, Chronic City — a bravura, realist-fantasy...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ Schubas
Although El Ten Eleven haven't yet garnered the mainstream praise they deserve, their sophisticated sound earned them a prominent spot on...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ Chicago History Museum
Project Sunday is a film series screening select documentaries on Sundays of each month. March Point: Cody, Nick and Travis, three...
Ongoing Events
Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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 11/ 8 @ Navy Pier
Now in its 16th year, the Sculpture Objects and Functional Art Fair once again brings together emerging artists from around the...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Sunday 11/ 8 @ MCA Chicago
It's a disservice to label Liam Gillick guilty by YBA association. Smartypants like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin may have made...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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 11/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Jeremy Deller: It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
Sunday 11/ 8 @ The Renaissance Society
Among the many artists to reflect on globalization and its discontents, few do so with the critical sophistication and sustained focus...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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 11/ 8 @ 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 11/ 8 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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 11/ 8 @ 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 11/ 8 @ Zanies Comedy Nightclub
Comedienne Susie Essman is of course most recognizable today as the scene-stealing, expletive-hurling Susie Greene in Curb Your Enthusiasm; but it's...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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,"...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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 11/ 8 @ 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 11/ 8 @ 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 11/ 8 @ 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
Sunday 11/ 8 @ Rotofugi
Two new exhibits in our gallery will be opening Friday, October 16, 7pm-10pm. We've got new works by both Martin Ontiveros...
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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"
Sunday 11/ 8 @ 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
Sunday 11/ 8 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
