Events on Sunday, April 5
Sunday 4/ 5 @ Schubas
Americana twang from the lips of a Swede may sound like a tall order, but that's no problem for the Tallest...
Ongoing Events
Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Sunday 4/ 5 @ Auditorium Theatre
Recently anointed American Cultural Ambassador to the World by Congress, Alvin Ailey's venerable institution celebrates half a century with a world...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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,...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ Stage 773
"Because caring means sharing." Such is the slogan for Tony Fiorentino's new dramedy about open relationships, All My Love. When Ellen,...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
The name Robert Mapplethorpe might bring to mind formal photographs of flowers or homoerotic figure studies — or more likely, the...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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 4/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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,...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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,...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ Mess Hall
Chicago's history is ripe with singular moments, but one of the more amazing — the rise of "hobohemia," a revolutionary hobo...
Talk Cinema's Sneak Preview Film Series
Sunday 4/ 5 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Created by USA Today and Film Comment critic Harlan Jacobson in 1992, this multi-city, sneak preview series features some of the...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
The freshly ousted governor of Illinois exploited its top job, squandered its treasure, hamstrung its legislature, and tarnished its reputation. Rod...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ Devening Projects + Editions
With framed works leaning against the wall and a sculpture of a lectern overturned on the floor, Christopher Michlig's exhibition MAN...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 5 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Let it never be said that Theater of War does not cover serious ground: the documentary is about war, the power...
