Events on Friday, January 29
Friday 1/29 @ Film Studies Center, University of Chicago
Whether or not Avatar ushered in a new era of cinema, upping the ante on digital spectacle, that hardly voids the...
Friday 1/29 @ Lincoln Hall
Variety largely defines the French outfit Nouvelle Vague, with its rotating lineup of ingénues assuming vocal duties on the group's sprawling...
Symphonic Band: Pann-American - The Music of Carter Pann
Friday 1/29 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Ryan T. Nelson, conductor Program: Jennifer Higdon, Fanfare Ritmico ...
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Friday 1/29 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Friday 1/29 @ 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
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Friday 1/29 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Friday 1/29 @ The Chicago Theatre
Although Jim Gaffigan frequently jokes about his laziness and affinity for eating, he's decided to step away from the sofa for...
Friday 1/29 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Artist Laura Letinsky's lush photographs, rife with allusions to Dutch still lifes, are meditations on the detritus of our lives. Whether...
Friday 1/29 @ 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,...
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Friday 1/29 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Friday 1/29 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Friday 1/29 @ Andrew Rafacz Gallery
In the aptly titled band Vacations, Jeremy Bolen (Chin Up Chin Up) and Bobby Burg (Joan of Arc, Make Believe) create...
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Friday 1/29 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Full of black-and-white photographs with unassuming subject-matter, mostly tacked to the walls without frames, 50% Grey is resolutely low-key. That's not...
Friday 1/29 @ The Goodman Theatre
From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy...
Friday 1/29 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Long overlooked as an auxiliary part of the grassroots-rock movement, the art scene that helps promote DIY rock 'n roll at...
Friday 1/29 @ 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...
Friday 1/29 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Friday 1/29 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Red Noses...you and I and all the others!
Friday 1/29 @ Links Hall
Poetic, comical and very personal, Red Noses… is the culminating performance of long-term training by artists exploring clown...
I've Been to Europe - New Factual Paintings by Jay Ryan
Friday 1/29 @ Rotofugi
Renowned Chicago gigposter artist and all-around good guy Jay Ryan will be showing all new paintings based loosely on his travels...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Friday 1/29 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Urban Suite Fridays w/ DJ 33 1/3
Friday 1/29 @ The Shrine
The Shrine brings you URBAN SUITE, the sexiest Friday night in Chicago! DJ 33 1/3 spins Hip Hop, Soul, Funk, R...
Friday 1/29 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
"Improv on the Rocks."
Cocktail Hour is the long running Friday midnight show at ComedySportz Theatre, that mixes...
Friday 1/29 @ American Theater Company
Written by Lisa Loomer Directed by PJ Paparelli ...
