Events on Sunday, September 27
Sunday 9/27 @ Schubas
John Dwyer's bedroom folk-pop experiment OCS has morphed into the full-on garage-rock juggernaut Thee Oh Sees, who inject some needed, sleazy...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 9/27 @ TimeLine Theatre
The History Boys treads familiar ground, following a band of students and the teachers who light their way — but Alan...
Sunday 9/27 @ 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 9/27 @ 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,...
Sunday 9/27 @ 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...
Sunday 9/27 @ 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...
Sunday 9/27 @ 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...
Sunday 9/27 @ 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...
Sunday 9/27 @ 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...
Sunday 9/27 @ The Hideout
All legitimate logistics aside, you couldn't help but feel a tinge of injustice in the air when, at Pitchfork '08, vaguely...
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
Sunday 9/27 @ 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...
Sunday 9/27 @ 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 9/27 @ 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...
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
Sunday 9/27 @ Victory Gardens Theater
Of the two shows by young playwrights at Victory Gardens right now, one stumbles a bit over stereotypes and delivers cultural...
Sunday 9/27 @ Music Box Theatre
Environmental documentaries have been popping up at an increasingly rapid rate, providing lots of proselytizing, but little action. No Impact Man...
Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
Sunday 9/27 @ The Renaissance Society
Among the many artists to reflect on globalization and its discontents, few do so with the critical sophistication and sustained focus...
Sunday 9/27 @ 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...
Sunday 9/27 @ 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 9/27 @ 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...
Sunday 9/27 @ 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...
Sunday 9/27 @ DePaul Art Museum
For all the attention showered on Iran for the government's nuclear posturing, political crackdowns, and other media-magnetic topics, not much trickles...
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
Sunday 9/27 @ 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...
Sunday 9/27 @ Metro
Brooklyn-based psychedelic chamber-pop quartet Grizzly Bear are reaching dizzying heights of ubiquity these days: band members' multiple collabs, summer-festival omnipresence, a...
Sunday 9/27 @ 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 9/27 @ Storefront Theater
Under Milk Wood began as a radio play by Dylan Thomas, and adapted for the stage, the music of language still...
Sunday 9/27 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Sunday 9/27 @ 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...
Sunday 9/27 @ Links Hall
Recipients of Links Hall's choice LinkUp residencies get 40 luxurious hours per month to make work in the space where it...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Sunday 9/27 @ 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...
Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)
Sunday 9/27 @ 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...
Sunday 9/27 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by...
My Kind of Town: Chicago Artists Group Exhibit
Sunday 9/27 @ Rotofugi
Love Chicago and art? We do too! Join us to help celebrate some of our favorite Chicago-based painters, screenprinters, toymakers and...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Sunday 9/27 @ 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....
Sunday 9/27 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
Sunday 9/27 @ Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other...
