Events on Saturday, January 30
Saturday 1/30 @ North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
Bob Woodward is not without his critics (critic/pugilist Christopher Hitchens once dubbed him "The Stenographer to the Stars"), but when Woodward...
Hercules & Love Affair (DJ Set)
Saturday 1/30 @ Abbey Pub
With nu-disco torchbearers Hercules & Love Affair manning the decks tonight, the Abbey Pub goes Paradise Garage. That's oversimplifying, of course....
Saturday 1/30 @ Vic Theatre
There is nothing icy about the Cold War Kids. The Fullerton, California natives make the kind of music guaranteed to rid...
Saturday 1/30 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Our sizeable Symphonic Band, under the baton of Ryan T. Nelson, will overflow with a spectacular cornucopia...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
If the "indulgent" criticisms tossed at later Fellini leave you as fraught as they did Alvy Singer, Fellini's Casanova (1976) is...
Saturday 1/30 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ Andrew Rafacz Gallery
In the aptly titled band Vacations, Jeremy Bolen (Chin Up Chin Up) and Bobby Burg (Joan of Arc, Make Believe) create...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ The Goodman Theatre
From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy...
Saturday 1/30 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ Chicago Cultural Center
It's clear now that the Cultural Center was really waiting for a mammoth, cardboard clipper ship with a broken corkscrew mast...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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,...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Saturday 1/30 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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...
Saturday 1/30 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Artist Laura Letinsky's lush photographs, rife with allusions to Dutch still lifes, are meditations on the detritus of our lives. Whether...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Saturday 1/30 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 1/30 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
Saturday 1/30 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Red Noses...you and I and all the others!
Saturday 1/30 @ Links Hall
Poetic, comical and very personal, Red Noses… is the culminating performance of long-term training by artists exploring clown...
Saturday 1/30 @ American Theater Company
Written by Lisa Loomer Directed by PJ Paparelli ...
Licorice Saturdays w/ Timbuck2 & Shon Dervis
Saturday 1/30 @ The Shrine
Chicago's BEST Saturday night party blows up each and every week with The Heavy Hitter, Timbuck2 (in the main room) and...
Saturday 1/30 @ 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,...
Saturday 1/30 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
I've Been to Europe - New Factual Paintings by Jay Ryan
Saturday 1/30 @ Rotofugi
Renowned Chicago gigposter artist and all-around good guy Jay Ryan will be showing all new paintings based loosely on his travels...
