Events on Thursday, March 18
Thursday 3/18 @ Columbia College Chicago
Mickalene Thomas is best known for rhinestone-encrusted paintings of statuesque African-American women in settings brimming with brash patterns and wood paneling,...
Story Week Festival of Writers: Literary Rock n' Roll
Thursday 3/18 @ Columbia College Chicago
There is only one Literary Rock n' Roll. You'd be hard pressed to find a literary event as energized and unique...
Ongoing Events
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
Thursday 3/18 @ 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...
Thursday 3/18 @ 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...
Thursday 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ 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...
Thursday 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ Music Box Theatre
"Dickens on bad acid" is a description that captures the unsparing, paranoiac nature of the Red Riding Quartet, David Peace's cult...
Thursday 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
As Artistic Director of the renowned Nederlands Dans Theater, Jirí Kylián pioneered a style of movement — a dazzling combination of...
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
Thursday 3/18 @ 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...
Thursday 3/18 @ Steppenwolf Garage Theatre
Dog & Pony presents this strange and astounding promenade show about the true story of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons....
Thursday 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ The Family Room
The newest collaborative exhibition from Sonnenzimmer duo Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher, Vorab Fabrik, takes inspiration from the mechanical process of...
Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes
Thursday 3/18 @ Walsh Gallery
A ring of mystical lights keeps appearing among the trees in Michiko Itatani's paintings of forests, which are draped in darkness...
Thursday 3/18 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
No better excuse to clear the dust bunnies from a collection of old favorites than to put together a best-of show....
Thursday 3/18 @ A Red Orchid Theatre
In films like Secrets & Lies, Life Is Sweet and Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh explores the foibles of...
Thursday 3/18 @ Tony Wight Gallery
Jason Salovan uses custom software of his own design to create works that reformat data from mass culture into digital patterns...
Thursday 3/18 @ 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...
Thursday 3/18 @ Court Theatre at the University of Chicago
In the hands of director Charles Newell, Tony Kushner's adaptation of Corneille's baroque reverie is equal parts gorgeous vision and comic...
Thursday 3/18 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
A True History of the Johnstown Flood
Thursday 3/18 @ The Goodman Theatre
The 1889 Pennsylvania flood that claimed 2200 lives was a more deadly natural disaster than Hurricane Katrina, but in both cases,...
Thursday 3/18 @ 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...
Thursday 3/18 @ 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 3/18 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Thursday 3/18 @ 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...
GIRLS RULE! with DJ GT & guests at Coup d'état @ The Shrine
Thursday 3/18 @ The Shrine
GIRLS RULE! With DJ GT and Special Guest...Get the weekend poppin' early! Ladies free ALL NITE. Gents: just five bucks. ...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Thursday 3/18 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Thursday 3/18 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
March Madness Improv Tournament
Thursday 3/18 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
ComedySportz's 7th Annual March Madness improv tournament will take place over three Thursdays at 8pm this Spring starting March 4,...
Thursday 3/18 @ 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...
