Events on Friday, March 19
Friday 3/19 @ Schubas
Although Scout Niblett is frequently compared to Cat Power, the singer's razor-sharp vocals and sudden switches from skeletal blues to sludgy...
Ongoing Events
Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes
Friday 3/19 @ Walsh Gallery
A ring of mystical lights keeps appearing among the trees in Michiko Itatani's paintings of forests, which are draped in darkness...
Friday 3/19 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 3/19 @ 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....
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ A Red Orchid Theatre
In films like Secrets & Lies, Life Is Sweet and Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh explores the foibles of...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ Steppenwolf Garage Theatre
Dog & Pony presents this strange and astounding promenade show about the true story of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons....
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ Lakeshore Theater
While message-board trollers argue whether Nick Thune is ripping off Demetri Martin or vice versa, it's probably best to remember that...
Friday 3/19 @ The Family Room
The newest collaborative exhibition from Sonnenzimmer duo Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher, Vorab Fabrik, takes inspiration from the mechanical process of...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ Tony Wight Gallery
Jason Salovan uses custom software of his own design to create works that reformat data from mass culture into digital patterns...
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
A True History of the Johnstown Flood
Friday 3/19 @ The Goodman Theatre
The 1889 Pennsylvania flood that claimed 2200 lives was a more deadly natural disaster than Hurricane Katrina, but in both cases,...
Friday 3/19 @ Links Hall
Welcome spring with a shadow puppet/gongbath/dream in. Bring your own mat, pillow and blanket and immerse yourself in a storytelling journey...
Beneath the Noise: New Work by Dan May
Friday 3/19 @ Rotofugi
Come check out Dan May's newest work at his first Rotofugi Gallery exhibition. Dan will be in attendance opening night. For...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Friday 3/19 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Newberry Consort: Stravaganze! The Virtuoso Violinists
Friday 3/19 @ The Newberry Library
Hear the premier collaboration of the internationally acclaimed artists and Chicago celebrities David Douglass, Rachel Barton-Pine, and David Schrader in a...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Friday 3/19 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Friday 3/19 @ Links Hall
Three weekends of performance, dance, readings, and videos about how we shape the land and how the land shapes us curated...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Urban Suite Fridays w/ DJ 33 1/3
Friday 3/19 @ The Shrine
The Shrine brings you URBAN SUITE, the sexiest Friday night in Chicago! DJ 33 1/3 spins Hip Hop, Soul, Funk, R...
Friday 3/19 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Friday 3/19 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
"Improv on the Rocks."
Cocktail Hour is the long running Friday midnight show at ComedySportz Theatre, that mixes...
Wee Epic Masterpiece Theatre: New Works by Travis Lampe
Friday 3/19 @ Rotofugi
Come check out Travis Lampe's newest work for his second Rotofugi Gallery exhibition, following 2007's "Fantasy Cryland" which inspired the Squibbles...
Friday 3/19 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
Friday 3/19 @ 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...
