Events on Wednesday, February 3
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Adventure Stage Chicago
The Encyclopedia Show is not quite a poetry reading. It's also not quite an art show, nor a concert or play....
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Schubas
Lately, Brooklyn outfit Asobi Seksu have branched out from their shoegaze roots to emit wholly crafted dream-pop soundscapes. Their name derives...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ The Newberry Library
Although Mozart's operas made their way only slowly to opera houses in Italy, the major composers of nineteenth-century Italian opera knew...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Cadillac Palace Theater
If you find live theatre less exciting than movies or television, this is the show for you. Tracy Letts' hugely entertaining...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Artist Laura Letinsky's lush photographs, rife with allusions to Dutch still lifes, are meditations on the detritus of our lives. Whether...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ iO Chicago Theater
It's tough for an improv troupe to set itself apart in a city bursting with quality comedy options. With nine cute, floppy...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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,...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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,...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ The Goodman Theatre
From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
I've Been to Europe - New Factual Paintings by Jay Ryan
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Rotofugi
Renowned Chicago gigposter artist and all-around good guy Jay Ryan will be showing all new paintings based loosely on his travels...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ The Shrine
Brazilian Funk returns to The Shrine for the month of February! DJs FLX and David Pardo will spin the Latin Spectrum...
