Events on Saturday, April 4
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Chicago Cultural Center
All business expos brag about spilling trade secrets and insider tips "they" don't want you to know about. But the Creative...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Schubas
Efterklang are a quirky indie band from Denmark whose sound has steadily morphed from quiet electronica to lush chamber pop. This...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Outside the Art Institute of Chicago, hundreds of children at heart gather for an event any parent passing by (or in...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Congress Theater
Break out the Wacom tablet: it's that time of year again, when designers step out of pristine, white-walled studios to showcase...
Ongoing Events
Marvin E. Newman & Yasuhiro Ishimito
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
In adjacent exhibitions, Stephen Daiter Gallery reunites Marvin Newman and Yasuhiro Ishimoto, two master photographers who became friends in the early...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
If nothing else, taking up birdwatching gives you a convenient excuse to bring terms like "Magnificent Frigatebird" and "Purple Gallinule" into...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Although blockbuster exhibitions often reaffirm melodramatic clichés about tragic artists, the Art Institute of Chicago attempts a "myth-busting" show with Becoming...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Storefront Theater
Interweaving the diverse voices of more than 40 characters, this stage production of playwright Robin Soans's The Arab-Israeli Cookbook offers an...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Graceland Cemetery
Hidden away on Chicago's north side, this secret memento of the city's architectural history is a large, rambling Victorian-style cemetery. Filled...
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Auditorium Theatre
Recently anointed American Cultural Ambassador to the World by Congress, Alvin Ailey's venerable institution celebrates half a century with a world...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Buffalo Exchange locations
Feeling guilty about the fur-lined gloves, vintage mink stole, or old chinchilla coat hanging in your closet? Fret not, all will...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Outhouse of the Apocalypse
Located in the deepest reaches of Devendra Banhart's wet dreams, the freak-folk forest's famed fridge is the best place to keep...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Western Exhibitions
Geoffrey Todd Smith is unabashed in his efforts to dazzle the eyes. The artist's vivid works on paper lay out repeating...
Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Once a heavy-industry mecca, now a service-industry hub, Chicago has a changing industrial history that's ripe for artistic examination. Painter Andy...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
If your best friend spent a fortune on an all-white painting you hated, could you bite your tongue and praise it,...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Various locations
The titular allusion of Matt Tyrnauer's warts-and-all portrait of Italian couturier Valentino Garavani to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 epic is an apt...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
In PhotoDimensional, photography becomes sculptural through Heather Mekkelson's recreations of disaster photographs; lifelike in Bettina Hoffmann's video rotating around a still...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
Andrea Miller, founder of New York's Gallim Dance, kneads the vision of mentor Ohad Naharin into the idiosyncrasies of her aggressive,...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Spanning nearly 30 years, the skillful paintings in Mary Lou Zelazny's mid-career retrospective center on a cast of weird creatures, shapely...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Court Theatre at the University of Chicago
In a time of creeping horrors like war, recession, terrorism and Bernie Madoff, there's perverse satisfaction to be gleaned from a...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Swimming Pool Project Space
Artist Steven Frost is devising his own set of merit badges. Forget the Boy Scouts' promotion of civic virtues and handy...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
In her previous paintings, Angelina Gualdoni depicted modern-day ruins with a mix of naturalistic detail and hazy atmospherics. Her latest exhibition,...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Royal George Theatre Center
A classic farce as broad and French as the Seine, Don't Dress for Dinner is a manic amalgam of mistaken identity,...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
The name Robert Mapplethorpe might bring to mind formal photographs of flowers or homoerotic figure studies — or more likely, the...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Smart Museum of Art
A remarkable artist with a sensibility all his own, H.C. Westermann pursued themes of love, death, and catastrophe in his works...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Stage 773
"Because caring means sharing." Such is the slogan for Tony Fiorentino's new dramedy about open relationships, All My Love. When Ellen,...
Saturday 4/ 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...
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Collaborative artists Robert Davis and Michael Langlois reconfigure their LA show of the same name for a three-month stint in the...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
The freshly ousted governor of Illinois exploited its top job, squandered its treasure, hamstrung its legislature, and tarnished its reputation. Rod...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Buckminster Fuller was a man of vision and contradiction. The twentieth-century architect and inventor was well ahead of his time, yet...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Mess Hall
Chicago's history is ripe with singular moments, but one of the more amazing — the rise of "hobohemia," a revolutionary hobo...
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Let it never be said that Theater of War does not cover serious ground: the documentary is about war, the power...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 4/ 4 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Saturday 4/ 4 @ 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...
