Events on Wednesday, December 2
Third Coast Festival Listening Room
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Chicago Cultural Center
There's no going back now that This American Life has turned offbeat radio stories into a mild addiction for about a...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Logan Square Auditorium
Fresh off a drug possession arrest in Kentucky, Montreal's King Khan & BBQ Show might be traveling gingerly (and sans tour...
Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ The Newberry Library
Speaker: Jonathan Rosenbaum, Film Critic, Author, Instructor Mr. Rosenbaum will present ideas from his forthcoming collection of reviews and articles, to...
Contemporary Music Ensemble: Vox Moderno
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Ryan T. Nelson, conductor
Music by Ryan Carter, Morton Feldman, and others....
Small Ensemble Holiday Jazz Concert
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
This event takes place in Regenstein Recital Hall, 60 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston.
Victor Goines, conductor; Marcus...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ MCA Chicago
It's a disservice to label Liam Gillick guilty by YBA association. Smartypants like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin may have made...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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,...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ The Goodman Theatre
You could be forgiven for wondering whether Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol specifically for the Goodman Theatre stage: their annual...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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,...
Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ The Renaissance Society
Among the many artists to reflect on globalization and its discontents, few do so with the critical sophistication and sustained focus...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ iO Chicago Theater
It's tough for an improv troupe to set itself apart in a city bursting with quality comedy options. With nine cute, floppy...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
The Dark Crystal's characters aren't your run-of-the-mill Muppets. They come from the planet Thra, whose dominant race, the UrSkeks, split into...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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,"...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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 —...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Royal George Theatre Center
Many people know Ricky Jay from his acting work in TV shows and David Mamet movies, but his Hollywood career springs...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Pavilion
Those seeking refuge from the chaos reigning at big-box stores this Black Friday can still get their retail fix at the...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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"
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ 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....
Wednesday 12/ 2 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
