Events on Friday, February 26
Portugal. The Man w/ Port O'Brien
Friday 2/26 @ Lincoln Hall
Alaska's image could use polishing after the nonsense of rogue-style politics, so praise be for good ambassadors on the music front....
Friday 2/26 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
I'm Gonna Explode (Voy a explotar) explores first love and...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/26 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 2/26 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Most visitors to Production Site aren't going to come away with a dramatically altered impression of the artist's studio, even in...
Friday 2/26 @ 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...
Friday 2/26 @ The Goodman Theatre
From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy...
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
Friday 2/26 @ Loyola University Museum of Art
After a notable stint at Germany's Bauhaus school, László Moholy-Nagy became one of the great modernists to work in Chicago, where...
Friday 2/26 @ The Family Room
The newest collaborative exhibition from Sonnenzimmer duo Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher, Vorab Fabrik, takes inspiration from the mechanical process of...
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ A Red Orchid Theatre
In films like Secrets & Lies, Life Is Sweet and Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh explores the foibles of...
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ Steppenwolf Garage Theatre
Dog & Pony presents this strange and astounding promenade show about the true story of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons....
The Tim & Micah Project: Continue
Friday 2/26 @ Donny's Skybox
Rather than inducing immediate fits of hysterics, voice-over artist and performer Tim Soszko and improv aficionado Micah Philbrook's head-scratching sketches often...
Susan Giles: Buildings and Gestures
Friday 2/26 @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
Everyone may have a certain building etched into memory, whether one that's magnificent or just personally meaningful. Projected inside a large,...
The World is Flat!: A Weekend of Toy Theater
Friday 2/26 @ Links Hall
For The World Is Flat!, 2009 Jeff winner Seth Bockley assembles four evenings worth of dazzling toy theater. That's a lot...
Friday 2/26 @ 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...
Friday 2/26 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
The great gadfly Dubravka Ugresic once said, "An airport is the most common metaphor for our contemporary world." Understandably so: it...
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
The Stephen Daiter Gallery has re-opened at a new location with an exhibition of the tongue-in-cheek British social documentary photographer, Martin...
Friday 2/26 @ Various Chicago restaurants
Chicago's annual salute to fine dining at an affordable price is once again in full swing — making it the perfect...
Friday 2/26 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Aspen Mays' photographs are among the more colorful, eye-catching works to grace the 12x12 exhibition series, but they're also the product...
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Friday 2/26 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes
Friday 2/26 @ Walsh Gallery
A ring of mystical lights keeps appearing among the trees in Michiko Itatani's paintings of forests, which are draped in darkness...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ 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...
Friday 2/26 @ The Neo-Futurarium
Not to be confused with the John Van Druten Isherwood-inspired, Cabaret-inspiring play from which it takes its name, the second show...
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ Smart Museum of Art
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Paris reigned as the city of light and Impressionism captured the bustle of...
Friday 2/26 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
"Improv on the Rocks."
Cocktail Hour is the long running Friday midnight show at ComedySportz Theatre, that mixes...
Red Star, Black Eye: New Work by Josh (Shag) Agle
Friday 2/26 @ Rotofugi
Come check out Shag's newest work at his first Chicago exhibition in over three years....colorful, precise, fun work by one of...
Friday 2/26 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Friday 2/26 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Friday 2/26 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf's Visiting Company Initiative is pleased to present Garage Rep, three productions from some of Chicago's most innovative theatre companies, presented...
Friday 2/26 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Intuit kicks off its 2010 season with The Treasure of Ulysses Davis. A Savannah barber, Davis spent his free time carving...
Urban Suite Fridays w/ DJ 33 1/3
Friday 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ 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 2/26 @ American Theater Company
Written by Lisa Loomer Directed by PJ Paparelli ...
