Events on Saturday, March 20
Potter-Belmar Labs: Live Cinema
Saturday 3/20 @ Chicago Filmmakers
At its height in the '60s and '70s, avant-garde film didn't exactly command big audiences, but its non-narrative styles and strategies...
Saturday 3/20 @ Metro
Where electronic music is concerned, the combined effect of sonic layers, FX pedals, and synths yield anything from aggressive swagger to...
Ongoing Events
Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes
Saturday 3/20 @ Walsh Gallery
A ring of mystical lights keeps appearing among the trees in Michiko Itatani's paintings of forests, which are draped in darkness...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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....
Saturday 3/20 @ iO Chicago Theater
Unless you're a Sketchfest regular or devoted comedy aficionado, the Cody Rivers Show are probably the best comedy duo you've never...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Barbara Kasten
Saturday 3/20 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Featuring the collaborative work of Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Chicago photographer Barbara Kasten, the current group show...
Saturday 3/20 @ Steppenwolf Garage Theatre
Dog & Pony presents this strange and astounding promenade show about the true story of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons....
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
A True History of the Johnstown Flood
Saturday 3/20 @ The Goodman Theatre
The 1889 Pennsylvania flood that claimed 2200 lives was a more deadly natural disaster than Hurricane Katrina, but in both cases,...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ A Red Orchid Theatre
In films like Secrets & Lies, Life Is Sweet and Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh explores the foibles of...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ Links Hall
Three weekends of performance, dance, readings, and videos about how we shape the land and how the land shapes us curated...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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
Saturday 3/20 @ Rotofugi
Come check out Dan May's newest work at his first Rotofugi Gallery exhibition. Dan will be in attendance opening night. For...
March Madness Improv Tournament
Saturday 3/20 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
ComedySportz's 7th Annual March Madness improv tournament will take place over three Thursdays at 8pm this Spring starting March 4,...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Saturday 3/20 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Saturday 3/20 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Since 1999, The Hot Karl has been presenting their brand of stage-clawing, no-holds-barred long-form improv to packed houses. You may gasp,...
Newberry Consort: Stravaganze! The Virtuoso Violinists
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Saturday 3/20 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Saturday 3/20 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
The Tchaikovsky Ballet Theatre - Sleeping Beauty
Saturday 3/20 @ Auditorium Theatre
With its roots extending back to 1870, The Tchaikovsky Ballet, located in Perm, is one of Russia's most distinguished artistic companies....
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 3/20 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
Wee Epic Masterpiece Theatre: New Works by Travis Lampe
Saturday 3/20 @ Rotofugi
Come check out Travis Lampe's newest work for his second Rotofugi Gallery exhibition, following 2007's "Fantasy Cryland" which inspired the Squibbles...
Licorice Saturdays w/ Timbuck2 & Shon Dervis
Saturday 3/20 @ The Shrine
Chicago's BEST Saturday night party blows up each and every week with The Heavy Hitter, Timbuck2 (in the main room) and...
Saturday 3/20 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Saturday 3/20 @ 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...
