Events on Saturday, February 27
Saturday 2/27 @ Subterranean
BBU, as you might know, stands for Bin Laden Blowin' Up. The local three-man crew's name alone piques interest (though they...
Chicago Maritime Festival and Concert
Saturday 2/27 @ Chicago History Museum
The Maritime Heritage Festival is in two parts, the daytime family festival and the nighttime concert.
Festival
10:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Be...
EXPLORE: The World of The Brother/Sister Plays
Saturday 2/27 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
A cool free event...
Ongoing Events
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
Saturday 2/27 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
You've seen a William Eggleston or five, we'll put money on it, whether it's his famous ground-level trike shot or the...
Saturday 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ 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
Saturday 2/27 @ Walsh Gallery
A ring of mystical lights keeps appearing among the trees in Michiko Itatani's paintings of forests, which are draped in darkness...
Saturday 2/27 @ The Family Room
The newest collaborative exhibition from Sonnenzimmer duo Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher, Vorab Fabrik, takes inspiration from the mechanical process of...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Saturday 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ A Red Orchid Theatre
In films like Secrets & Lies, Life Is Sweet and Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh explores the foibles of...
Saturday 2/27 @ 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...
Susan Giles: Buildings and Gestures
Saturday 2/27 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/27 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Artist Laura Letinsky's lush photographs, rife with allusions to Dutch still lifes, are meditations on the detritus of our lives. Whether...
Saturday 2/27 @ 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...
Saturday 2/27 @ Steppenwolf Garage Theatre
Dog & Pony presents this strange and astounding promenade show about the true story of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons....
The World is Flat!: A Weekend of Toy Theater
Saturday 2/27 @ Links Hall
For The World Is Flat!, 2009 Jeff winner Seth Bockley assembles four evenings worth of dazzling toy theater. That's a lot...
Saturday 2/27 @ 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...
Saturday 2/27 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 2/27 @ 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
Saturday 2/27 @ 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...
Saturday 2/27 @ Various Chicago restaurants
Chicago's annual salute to fine dining at an affordable price is once again in full swing — making it the perfect...
Saturday 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ 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...
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Saturday 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ 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...
Saturday 2/27 @ 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...
Saturday 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ 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...
Saturday 2/27 @ McCormick Place
Competition will be fierce and furry as thousands of groomed four-legged friends and their proud parents descend on McCormick Place for...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Saturday 2/27 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Saturday 2/27 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Saturday 2/27 @ 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...
Saturday 2/27 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Saturday 2/27 @ 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 2/27 @ American Theater Company
Written by Lisa Loomer Directed by PJ Paparelli ...
Saturday 2/27 @ 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...
Saturday 2/27 @ 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...
Licorice Saturdays w/ Timbuck2 & Shon Dervis
Saturday 2/27 @ The Shrine
Chicago's BEST Saturday night party blows up each and every week with The Heavy Hitter, Timbuck2 (in the main room) and...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 2/27 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
Red Star, Black Eye: New Work by Josh (Shag) Agle
Saturday 2/27 @ Rotofugi
Come check out Shag's newest work at his first Chicago exhibition in over three years....colorful, precise, fun work by one of...
