Events on Saturday, September 19
Saturday 9/19 @ Music Box Theatre
Less winking than Velvet Goldmine and more rib-sticking than Rocky Horror, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is the ultimate glam-rock cult...
Saturday 9/19 @ Metro
Ladyhawke took her moniker from the same-named cult film perhaps remembered most vividly for its soundtrack, which miraculously incorporates just about...
Saturday 9/19 @ Center on Halsted
Returning to the Center on Halsted for its second year, Windy City Comicon is a haven for amateurs and aficionados alike....
Saturday 9/19 @ Vic Theatre
Comedian and chronic sleepwalker Mike Birbiglia brings his standup show I'm in the Future Also to Chicago tonight. As a contributor...
Saturday 9/19 @ Schubas
Over the course of six stylistically nomadic records, Norwegian singer/songwriter Sondre Lerche has gone from prodigy to pro. His debut Faces...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 9/19 @ 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...
Molly Springfield: Translation
Saturday 9/19 @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
Layered acts of translation, both linguistic and visual, drive Molly Springfield's latest project. First the artist photocopied every page of the...
Saturday 9/19 @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
In Hiroshi Watanabe's best-known photograph, a small figure scales a dramatic web of arcing poles beneath a gray sky. At the...
Saturday 9/19 @ Lakeshore Theater
Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel are best known to casual TV viewers as quippy talking heads on VH1's I Love the…...
Saturday 9/19 @ 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...
Saturday 9/19 @ Rotofugi
Kaiju cultists have about 70 reasons to celebrate as Toy Karma II unveils another overstuffed exhibition of Japanese toys and art...
Saturday 9/19 @ Various locations
As diverse as the big-ticket summer festivals are, few unite the diaspora quite like Chicago's World Music Festival. The week-long gala...
Saturday 9/19 @ 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...
Saturday 9/19 @ 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...
Saturday 9/19 @ 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...
Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)
Saturday 9/19 @ 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...
Saturday 9/19 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 9/19 @ Music Box Theatre
Environmental documentaries have been popping up at an increasingly rapid rate, providing lots of proselytizing, but little action. No Impact Man...
Saturday 9/19 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Luis Gispert got the art world's attention by retooling elements of street culture and proposing that hip-hop is today's Baroque. However,...
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
Saturday 9/19 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Believers in the classic power of large-scale oil painting, Robert Davis and Michael Langlois work collaboratively to give the venerable art...
Saturday 9/19 @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
Directoire-era France, studies on psychosis, and Henri Michaux's mescaline trips all collided in dancer Jonathan Meyer's research. The result: three characters,...
Saturday 9/19 @ 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...
Saturday 9/19 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Independent film production has existed at least since the trust-busting days of D.W. Griffith, but the indie film, as we know...
Saturday 9/19 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
You can imagine it started with a big idea: get three guitar gods in the same room and let them talk...
Saturday 9/19 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Keeping to his own path, Cy Twombly has developed a singular idiom over five decades. His energetic paintings are marked by...
Saturday 9/19 @ 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...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Saturday 9/19 @ 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...
Saturday 9/19 @ Storefront Theater
Under Milk Wood began as a radio play by Dylan Thomas, and adapted for the stage, the music of language still...
Saturday 9/19 @ 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...
Michael Ruglio-Misurell: Project #12
Saturday 9/19 @ Gallery 400
Some of the more memorable artworks of recent years have been immersive, meticulously constructed environments (see Mike Nelson, or Marfa's Hello...
Saturday 9/19 @ 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...
Saturday 9/19 @ Tony Wight Gallery
Black skies, ashen snow, and solitude: these are the ingredients of a fading world. In painstakingly rendered graphite drawings, Robyn O'Neil...
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
Saturday 9/19 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Our usual introductions to the history of 20th-century art tend to lean on certain narratives — the subversive march of the...
Saturday 9/19 @ A Red Orchid Theatre
Aglow with an Oscar nomination for his supporting role in Revolutionary Road, Michael Shannon reunites with A Red Orchid Theatre, the...
Saturday 9/19 @ Museum of Science and Industry
Raised eyebrows and a few chuckles greeted the 1990s announcement that an exhibit of Star Wars movie memorabilia would tour such...
Saturday 9/19 @ TimeLine Theatre
The History Boys treads familiar ground, following a band of students and the teachers who light their way — but Alan...
Saturday 9/19 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Saturday 9/19 @ 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....
Saturday 9/19 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 9/19 @ 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 9/19 @ 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...
