Events on Sunday, January 24
Sunday 1/24 @ Schubas
With their rootsy charm and self-assured two-person attack, the Spares are Chicago's answer to Gillian Welch. Chanteuse Jodee Lewis and guitar whiz...
Sunday 1/24 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Assistant principal flutist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1968 and previously assistant principal flutist of the...
Winter Chamber Music Festival: featuring the Lincoln String Quartet
Sunday 1/24 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
The Lincoln String Quartet is comprised of violinists Lei Hou and Qing Hou, violist Lawrence Neuman, and cellist Stephen Balderston. Together...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 1/24 @ Rotofugi
With Concoction, the Post Family's Chad Kouri clips and recontextualizes a decades' worth of Don Draper-worthy, '60s ad photos. Idealized beauties...
Sunday 1/24 @ 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...
Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black
Sunday 1/24 @ 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...
Sunday 1/24 @ 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...
Sunday 1/24 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Sunday 1/24 @ 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...
Sunday 1/24 @ 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...
Sunday 1/24 @ 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...
Sunday 1/24 @ 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...
Sunday 1/24 @ 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...
Sunday 1/24 @ 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,...
Sunday 1/24 @ 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...
Sunday 1/24 @ 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...
Sunday 1/24 @ The Goodman Theatre
From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy...
Sunday 1/24 @ 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...
Sunday 1/24 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Sunday 1/24 @ 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...
Sunday 1/24 @ 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...
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Sunday 1/24 @ 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...
Sunday 1/24 @ 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...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Sunday 1/24 @ 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...
Sunday 1/24 @ 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...
Sunday 1/24 @ 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 1/24 @ 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
Sunday 1/24 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Sunday 1/24 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
