Events on Tuesday, February 9
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ The Hideout
In this age of TiVo, YouTube and World of Warcraft (not to mention Mr. Skin), it's easier than ever to entertain...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Holiday Club
As nerd-friendly advice columnist Dan Savage is fond of saying, every relationship you'll ever have will fail — until one doesn't....
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Rodan
If for some incomprehensible reason you're feeling down on the Chicago music scene, the fact that you can see Jeff Parker...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Cadillac Palace Theater
If you find live theatre less exciting than movies or television, this is the show for you. Tracy Letts' hugely entertaining...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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,...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Artist Laura Letinsky's lush photographs, rife with allusions to Dutch still lifes, are meditations on the detritus of our lives. Whether...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Walsh Gallery
A ring of mystical lights keeps appearing among the trees in Michiko Itatani's paintings of forests, which are draped in darkness...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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,...
Susan Giles: Buildings and Gestures
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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,...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ The Goodman Theatre
From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
I've Been to Europe - New Factual Paintings by Jay Ryan
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Rotofugi
Renowned Chicago gigposter artist and all-around good guy Jay Ryan will be showing all new paintings based loosely on his travels...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ The Shrine
Getting the week started early, WCGI's own heavy hitter, Timbuck2 hits it hard! Flexing knowlege and the funk. With Special guest...
