Events on Sunday, January 31

Improv Workshop

Workshop/Class

Improv Workshop

Sunday 1/31 @ The ComedySportz Theatre

Behind the Scenes at ComedySportz

12pm - 2pm,  January 31, 2010

Matt Elwell, Artistic... 

Ongoing Events

Daria Martin: <em>Minotaur</em>

Art

Daria Martin: Minotaur

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

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

Art

Italics

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Anna Shteynshleyger

Art

Anna Shteynshleyger

Sunday 1/31 @ 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>Studs Terkel's Not Working</em>

Comedy

Studs Terkel's Not Working

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>Private Lives</em>

Theatre

Private Lives

Sunday 1/31 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater

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

The 21st Annual Rhinofest

Theatre

Rhinofest

Sunday 1/31 @ Prop Thtr

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

Prairie Avenue House Museums

Get Social

Prairie Avenue House Museums

Sunday 1/31 @ Glessner House Museum

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

Christine Tarkowski: <em>Last Things Will Be First and First Things Will Be Last</em>

Art

Christine Tarkowski

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>American Buffalo</em>

Theatre

American Buffalo

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Jim Gaffigan

Comedy

Jim Gaffigan

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Richard Rezac

Art

Richard Rezac

Sunday 1/31 @ 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>Cheat Codes: Lessons in Love</em>

Art

Cheat Codes: Lessons in Love

Sunday 1/31 @ 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>Hughie</em> and <em>Krapp's Last Tape</em>

Theatre

Hughie and Krapp's Last Tape

Sunday 1/31 @ The Goodman Theatre

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

<em>Fellini's Casanova</em> (1976)

Film

Fellini's Casanova

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>Rush Limbaugh! The Musical</em>

Comedy

Rush Limbaugh! The Musical

Sunday 1/31 @ The Second City e.t.c.

From the creative team that brought you Second City's 2009 hit Rod Blagojevich Superstar! comes this loving homage to a bloated,... 

Stan Chisholm: <em>ThingsThatNeverReallyHappened</em>

Art

Stan Chisholm

Sunday 1/31 @ Hyde Park Art Center

Very funny and very dark, Stan Chisholm's installation consists of line drawings on paper and foam board and multimedia dioramas that... 

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

Art

Selected Works: UBS 12x12

Sunday 1/31 @ 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 Brother/Sister Plays</em>

Theatre

The Brother/Sister Plays

Sunday 1/31 @ 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>Taming of the Flu</em>

Comedy

Taming of the Flu

Sunday 1/31 @ 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 Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus</em>

Film

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Sunday 1/31 @ 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>American Artifact: The Rise of American Rock Poster Art</em>

Film: Documentary

American Artifact

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

The Year of Magical Thinking

Sunday 1/31 @ 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>50% Grey: Contemporary Czech Photography Reconsidered</em>

Art: Photography

50% Grey

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

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

Art

Angel Otero

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

Dance Dance Party Party

Party

Dance Dance Party Party

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

<em>The White Ribbon</em>

Film

The White Ribbon

Sunday 1/31 @ 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... 

I've Been to Europe - New Factual Paintings by Jay Ryan

Art

I've Been to Europe - New Factual Paintings by Jay Ryan

Sunday 1/31 @ Rotofugi

Renowned Chicago gigposter artist and all-around good guy Jay Ryan will be showing all new paintings based loosely on his travels... 

Distracted

Theatre

Distracted

Sunday 1/31 @ American Theater Company

Written by Lisa Loomer Directed by PJ Paparelli   ... 

Exhibition Tours

Art

Exhibition Tours

Sunday 1/31 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema

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

Art

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

Sunday 1/31 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema

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Benito Juárez  and the Making of Modern Mexico

Special Event

Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico

Sunday 1/31 @ Chicago History Museum

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

Red Noses...you and I and all the others!

Theatre

Red Noses...you and I and all the others!

Sunday 1/31 @ Links Hall

Poetic, comical and very personal, Red Noses… is the culminating performance of long-term training by artists exploring clown... 

Abraham Lincoln Transformed

Special Event

Abraham Lincoln Transformed

Sunday 1/31 @ Chicago History Museum

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