Events on Thursday, February 4
Thursday 2/ 4 @ threewalls
Chicago-based artist Armita Raafat employs elements of Persian and Islamic architecture in her work as a way to address broader themes...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Music Box Theatre
Maybe it's the expanded budget or the longer running time; whatever the reason, great sketch comedy troupes tend to make inauspicious...
Poetry Off the Shelf: Rae Armantrout
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Poetry Foundation
Film Row Cinema
Columbia College
1104 South Wabash Avenue, 8th Floor
Free admission ...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ MCA Chicago
Celebrate the MCA's most highly anticipated winter exhibition, Production Site: The Artist's Studio Inside-Out, with an opening night...
Disturb the Universe: The Avant Garde and Modernism
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Poetry Foundation
Fullerton Hall
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Free admission From Guillaume Apollinaire and Gertrude Stein...
Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Robert G. Hasty, conductor Program: Joseph Haydn, Symphony No.104 in D Major (“London”)...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ The Goodman Theatre
From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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,...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Cadillac Palace Theater
If you find live theatre less exciting than movies or television, this is the show for you. Tracy Letts' hugely entertaining...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ American Theater Company
Written by Lisa Loomer Directed by PJ Paparelli ...
GIRLS RULE! with DJ GT & guests at Coup d'état @ The Shrine
Thursday 2/ 4 @ The Shrine
GIRLS RULE! With DJ GT and Special Guest...Get the weekend poppin' early! Ladies free ALL NITE. Gents: just five bucks. ...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Rotofugi
Renowned Chicago gigposter artist and all-around good guy Jay Ryan will be showing all new paintings based loosely on his travels...
