Events on Friday, September 25
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Jack Peñate
- @ The Empty Bottle
- With its cockney delivery and slice-of-life vignettes of working-class Britain, Jack Peñate's '07 debut Matinee was a logical RIYL sell to... View details »
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- Music: Soul/R&B
- Mayer Hawthorne & The County
- @ Darkroom
- Throwback soul may not have the same momentum it did even a year ago, but when it has the heart of... View details »
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- Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- America: All Better!
- @ 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... View details »
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- Elizabeth Murray
- @ The Arts Club of Chicago
- In the early '80s, Elizabeth Murray started "making paintings that would blow up into the space," a breakthrough she later recalled... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Chicago Model City
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Mistakes Were Made
- @ 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... View details »
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- Cy Twombly
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fake
- @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
- Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Marc Maron: Scorching the Earth
- @ Lakeshore Theater
- Seasoned standup comic and self-proclaimed a-hole Marc Maron sarcastically chronicles his second divorce in Scorching the Earth. Maron is known primarily... View details »
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- Michael Ruglio-Misurell: Project #12
- @ Gallery 400
- Some of the more memorable artworks of recent years have been immersive, meticulously constructed environments (see Mike Nelson, or Marfa's Hello... View details »
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- Film
- It Might Get Loud
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- The Other Dance Festival
- @ Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater
- The name of this three-week fest tells you more about its humble origins than its current status: The Other is Chicago's... View details »
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- Freaks & Flash
- @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
- Freaks & Flash will explore the roots of modern Western tattooing with a selection of tattoo flash (the design drawings for... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Hiroshi Watanabe
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- Baby Wants Candy
- @ Apollo Theater
- Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,... View details »
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- Robyn O'Neil: On Sinking
- @ 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... View details »
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- Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Studs Terkel's Not Working
- @ 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... View details »
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- Harry Potter: The Exhibition
- @ 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... View details »
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- The History Boys
- @ TimeLine Theatre
- The History Boys treads familiar ground, following a band of students and the teachers who light their way — but Alan... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Million Dollar Quartet
- @ Apollo Theater
- In the days before corporate behemoths controlled the music industry — yes, there used to be one — some of the... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- No Impact Man
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Environmental documentaries have been popping up at an increasingly rapid rate, providing lots of proselytizing, but little action. No Impact Man... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Under Milk Wood
- @ Storefront Theater
- Under Milk Wood began as a radio play by Dylan Thomas, and adapted for the stage, the music of language still... View details »
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- Prairie Avenue House Museums
- @ Glessner House Museum
- Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago... View details »
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- John Stezaker
- @ Richard Gray Gallery
- It seems so simple at first: cut or combine salvaged old photographs. John Stezaker has used variants of this method since... View details »
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- Fest Fest
- @ Julius Caesar
- When the five artists behind Julius Caesar converted a studio space into a small gallery in 2008, they aimed to create... View details »
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- Iran Inside Out
- @ DePaul University Museum
- For all the attention showered on Iran for the government's nuclear posturing, political crackdowns, and other media-magnetic topics, not much trickles... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Luis Gispert
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- LinkUp Fall Showcase
- @ Links Hall
- Recipients of Links Hall's choice LinkUp residencies get 40 luxurious hours per month to make work in the space where it... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
- @ Victory Gardens Theater
- Of the two shows by young playwrights at Victory Gardens right now, one stumbles a bit over stereotypes and delivers cultural... View details »
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- Molly Springfield: Translation
- @ 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... View details »
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- Graceland Cemetery
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Theater Oobleck: Faustus
- @ Chopin Theatre
- Oobleck remounts Mickle Maher's dazzlingly inventive play ten years after Maher himself took on the role of Faustus in the character's... View details »
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- Zarina Bhimji: Out of Blue
- @ 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... View details »
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- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
- @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
- Decades of dance stardom haven't diminished Misha's interest in the form; throughout his career, he's found artists whose work keeps him... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Reversed Images
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jersey Boys
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
- @ The Renaissance Society
- Among the many artists to reflect on globalization and its discontents, few do so with the critical sophistication and sustained focus... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)
- @ American Theater Company
- An evolutionary new rock musical from the Tony Award-winning creators of Urinetown The world’s first family, a colony of salt-eating... View details »
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- Robert Motherwell: An Attitude Toward Reality
- @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
- Robert Motherwell helped define 20th-century American art as a member of the New York School of painters (a group that also... View details »
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- Henry Moore: Elephant Skull
- @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
- In the late 1960s the British artist Henry Moore received an unusual gift—the skull of an African elephant. This exhibition highlights... View details »
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- Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
- @ Chicago History Museum
- Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for... View details »
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- Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
- @ Renaissance Society
- The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other... View details »
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- Bertha Honoré Palmer
- @ Chicago History Museum
- Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion... View details »
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- Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
- @ 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.... View details »
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- My Kind of Town: Chicago Artists Group Exhibit
- @ Rotofugi
- Love Chicago and art? We do too! Join us to help celebrate some of our favorite Chicago-based painters, screenprinters, toymakers and... View details »
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- The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
- @ 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... View details »
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