Events on Saturday, January 23

Jupiter String Quartet Master Class

Music: Classical

Jupiter String Quartet Master Class

Saturday 1/23 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall

This event takes place in Regenstein Recital hall, 60 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston. Arrive early for best seating.   Come watch... 

Ethnic Chicago Bus Tour

Special Event

Ethnic Chicago Bus Tour

Saturday 1/23 @ Chicago History Museum

Explore Chicago through the lens of the many ethnic groups that helped create our city. This geographic and historical journey makes... 

Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

Music: Classical

Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

Saturday 1/23 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall

  Victor Yampolsky and Blair Skinner,  
conductors; Olga Kaler, violin (Northwestern Concerto Competition winner)
 ... 

Ongoing Events

Monica Bonvicini: <em>Light Me Black</em>

Art

Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black

Saturday 1/23 @ The Art Institute of Chicago

With elements fabricated from materials like fluorescent tubes and safety glass, Monica Bonvicini's exhibition Light Me Black has a discreet beauty... 

Daria Martin: <em>Minotaur</em>

Art

Daria Martin: Minotaur

Saturday 1/23 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

This show's titular maze-dwelling man-bull of Greek myth inspired Rodin in 1886, who inspired choreographer Anna Halprin for a duet filmed... 

Brian Posehn

Comedy

Brian Posehn

Saturday 1/23 @ Lakeshore Theater

With the "geek" and "cool" circles on our cultural Venn diagram overlapping as never before, few performers work the intersection like... 

<em>American Buffalo</em>

Theatre

American Buffalo

Saturday 1/23 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre

The fast-talking machismo of Glengarry Glen Ross earned David Mamet international acclaim and a 1984 Pulitzer Prize, but by then he'd... 

Netherland: <em>In Stereo</em>

Art

Netherland: In Stereo

Saturday 1/23 @ Rotofugi

Linder Sterling's punk collages meet Paul Pope's Playboy groove in David van Alphen's exhibit at Rotofugi. Under glistening acrylic resin, big-collared,... 

<em>The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus</em>

Film

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Saturday 1/23 @ Music Box Theatre

Terry Gilliam's visually rich follow-up to such cult gems as Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and Fear and... 

<em>35 Shots of Rum</em>

Film

35 Shots of Rum

Saturday 1/23 @ Music Box Theatre

Those who haven't kept up with Claire Denis since her hysteria-prone Trouble Every Day (2001) will be surprised by the low-key... 

Selected Works from the MCA Collection: Focus on <em>UBS 12x12</em>

Art

Selected Works: UBS 12x12

Saturday 1/23 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

Temporarily departing from the UBS 12 x 12 series tradition of featuring work from one up-and-coming artist at a time, this... 

<em>The Passenger</em> (1975)

Film

The Passenger

Saturday 1/23 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

You have to wonder if Mad Men's Matthew Weiner had The Passenger in the back of his mind when he invented... 

<em>Touch with Your Eyes</em>: Recent Work by Angel Otero

Art

Angel Otero

Saturday 1/23 @ Chicago Cultural Center

These aren't your grandma's still-life paintings, even if the artist is inspired by memories of his own grandma's house in Puerto... 

Prairie Avenue House Museums

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Prairie Avenue House Museums

Saturday 1/23 @ Glessner House Museum

Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago... 

Laura Letinsky: <em>The Dog and The Wolf</em>

Art

Laura Letinsky

Saturday 1/23 @ moniquemeloche gallery

Artist Laura Letinsky's lush photographs, rife with allusions to Dutch still lifes, are meditations on the detritus of our lives. Whether... 

Konstantin Grcic: <em>Decisive Design</em>

Art

Konstantin Grcic

Saturday 1/23 @ The Art Institute of Chicago

"Art-design" pieces lead a thorny existence: they aim for both artistic significance and consumer practicality, and, critics argue, often fail at... 

<em>Cheat Codes: Lessons in Love</em>

Art

Cheat Codes: Lessons in Love

Saturday 1/23 @ Antena

Watching curator Amelia Winger-Bearskin's Cheat Codes: Lessons in Love, an hour-long presentation featuring the works of 12 video artists, feels like... 

<em>Taming of the Flu</em>

Comedy

Taming of the Flu

Saturday 1/23 @ The Second City

The Second City has recently mined the public lives of Rod Blagojevich, Rich Daley, and Rahm Emanuel for creative and box-office... 

<em>The Brother/Sister Plays</em>

Theatre

The Brother/Sister Plays

Saturday 1/23 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company

Three poetic, stark, and incredibly funny plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney, documenting several generations of intertwined African-American families in an abstracted... 

<em>Liverpool</em> (2008)

Film

Liverpool

Saturday 1/23 @ Facets Cinémathèque

Argentine director Lisandro Alonso has a thing for tight-lipped characters and solitary journeys. His latest film, Liverpool, takes place at the... 

<em>Private Lives</em>

Theatre

Private Lives

Saturday 1/23 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater

At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and... 

<em>Picturing the Studio</em>

Art

Picturing the Studio

Saturday 1/23 @ Sullivan Galleries, SAIC

An impressive if somewhat theoretically unoriginal show, Picturing the Studio examines the artist's space as a site of fantasy, myth, production,... 

The 21st Annual Rhinofest

Theatre

Rhinofest

Saturday 1/23 @ Prop Thtr

For the next month, Prop Thtr is the place to be in Chicago for absurdly original theater, avant-garde performance art, and... 

<em>Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968-2008</em>

Art

Italics

Saturday 1/23 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

Taking a new angle on Italian art since 1968, Italics ruffled a few feathers last year when it was first mounted... 

Jeremy Bolen and Bobby Burg: <em>Postcard Trouble</em>

Art

Postcard Trouble

Saturday 1/23 @ Andrew Rafacz Gallery

In the aptly titled band Vacations, Jeremy Bolen (Chin Up Chin Up) and Bobby Burg (Joan of Arc, Make Believe) create... 

Chad Kouri: <em>Concoction</em>

Art

Chad Kouri: Concoction

Saturday 1/23 @ Rotofugi

With Concoction, the Post Family's Chad Kouri clips and recontextualizes a decades' worth of Don Draper-worthy, '60s ad photos. Idealized beauties... 

Richard Rezac

Art

Richard Rezac

Saturday 1/23 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery

Precisely composed and impeccably fabricated, Richard Rezac's sculptures feel a bit like fragments of a high-end manufacturing process, re-combined by machinery... 

<em>On the Scene</em>: Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Pl&ouml;ger, and Zoe Strauss

Art: Photography

Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss

Saturday 1/23 @ 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... 

<em>The Year of Magical Thinking</em>

Theatre

The Year of Magical Thinking

Saturday 1/23 @ Court Theatre at the University of Chicago

Joan Didion is one of our most acclaimed essayists, and her incisive observational gifts and fluid style drive The Year of... 

<em>Actions: What You Can Do With the City</em>

Special Event

Actions: What You Can Do With the City

Saturday 1/23 @ Graham Foundation

We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,... 

<em>Studs Terkel's Not Working</em>

Comedy

Studs Terkel's Not Working

Saturday 1/23 @ 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... 

Anna Shteynshleyger

Art

Anna Shteynshleyger

Saturday 1/23 @ Renaissance Society

Moscow-born, Yale-trained artist Anna Shteynshleyger's austere images belie a host of influences. Her large, arresting photographs of the Siberian countryside are... 

<em>Hughie</em> and <em>Krapp's Last Tape</em>

Theatre

Hughie and Krapp's Last Tape

Saturday 1/23 @ The Goodman Theatre

From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy... 

Adam Ekberg: <em>In the between</em>

Art: Photography

Adam Ekberg

Saturday 1/23 @ Thomas Robertello Gallery

In Aberration #8, one of Adam Ekberg's signature images, concentric circles of light flood the frame, suggesting a metaphysical order while... 

<em>The White Ribbon</em>

Film

The White Ribbon

Saturday 1/23 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema

In Michael Haneke's latest film, a series of mysterious acts of violence disturbs a small, puritanical Northern German village on the... 

Benito Juárez  and the Making of Modern Mexico

Special Event

Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico

Saturday 1/23 @ Chicago History Museum

As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its... 

A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections

Art

A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections

Saturday 1/23 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema

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Licorice Saturdays&nbsp;w/ Timbuck2 & Shon Dervis

Music: Hip-Hop

Licorice Saturdays w/ Timbuck2 & Shon Dervis

Saturday 1/23 @ The Shrine

Chicago's BEST Saturday night party blows up each and every week with The Heavy Hitter, Timbuck2 (in the main room) and... 

The Hot Karl

Comedy

The Hot Karl

Saturday 1/23 @ The ComedySportz Theatre

Since 1999, The Hot Karl has been presenting their brand of stage-clawing, no-holds-barred long-form improv to packed houses. You may gasp,... 

Abraham Lincoln Transformed

Special Event

Abraham Lincoln Transformed

Saturday 1/23 @ Chicago History Museum

He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial... 

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Special Event

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Saturday 1/23 @ Chicago History Museum

Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out!  We have exhibitions and programs for... 

ComedySportz

Comedy

ComedySportz

Saturday 1/23 @ The ComedySportz Theatre

Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all... 

Exhibition Tours

Art

Exhibition Tours

Saturday 1/23 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema

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