Events on Sunday, February 7
Ongoing Events
Sunday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ The Goodman Theatre
From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ 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,...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Of the many fine films included in the Siskel Center's Celebrating Chekhov series (Russia's Oscar submission Ward No. 6, Louis Malle's...
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Sunday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ Cadillac Palace Theater
If you find live theatre less exciting than movies or television, this is the show for you. Tracy Letts' hugely entertaining...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ 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
Sunday 2/ 7 @ Rotofugi
Renowned Chicago gigposter artist and all-around good guy Jay Ryan will be showing all new paintings based loosely on his travels...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Sunday 2/ 7 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ Links Hall
Triptych Tongues features Lisa Biggs, Misty DeBerry, and Ni'Ja Whitson. A triple bill of dance, text, and sound: Lisa Bigg's...
Sunday 2/ 7 @ American Theater Company
Written by Lisa Loomer Directed by PJ Paparelli ...
