Events on Friday, March 26
Friday 3/26 @ Aragon Ballroom
These identical Canadian twins strike a balance by melding voices — one ethereal, one gutsy — with a musical diversity ranging...
Poetry Off the Shelf: David Baker
Friday 3/26 @ Poetry Foundation
Open Books, 213 West Institute Place Few poets writing today are so closely identified with a place as David Baker,...
Ongoing Events
Friday 3/26 @ Kasia Kay Art Projects
Highly textured layers of impasto animate the dynamic subjects in James Olley's paintings, which tackle suburbia as their subject. Luckily, Olley...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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...
Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Barbara Kasten
Friday 3/26 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Featuring the collaborative work of Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Chicago photographer Barbara Kasten, the current group show...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ A Red Orchid Theatre
In films like Secrets & Lies, Life Is Sweet and Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh explores the foibles of...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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...
Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Young Jean Lee's The Shipment was something of a sensation before it had even premiered. Lee, a Korean-American playwright, had written...
Friday 3/26 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Friday 3/26 @ Western Exhibitions
Richard Hull's current show at Western Exhibitions feels like looking at single frames from an animated film. In his new series...
Friday 3/26 @ Russell Bowman Fine Art
Blaming Ed Paschke for Jeff Koons makes about as much sense as blaming Nietzsche for Mussolini. Regardless of how one responds...
Friday 3/26 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ Facets Cinémathèque
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Debut filmmaker Kimberly Reed dives headfirst into an unflinching portrait of her family that is absolutely engrossing and...
A True History of the Johnstown Flood
Friday 3/26 @ The Goodman Theatre
The 1889 Pennsylvania flood that claimed 2200 lives was a more deadly natural disaster than Hurricane Katrina, but in both cases,...
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ Steppenwolf Garage Theatre
Dog & Pony presents this strange and astounding promenade show about the true story of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons....
Friday 3/26 @ 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...
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Friday 3/26 @ Auditorium Theatre
Master choreographer Alvin Ailey and his diverse, fiercely athletic dance company have come to define their own school of movement —...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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...
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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...
Urban Suite Fridays w/ DJ 33 1/3
Friday 3/26 @ The Shrine
The Shrine brings you URBAN SUITE, the sexiest Friday night in Chicago! DJ 33 1/3 spins Hip Hop, Soul, Funk, R...
Beneath the Noise: New Work by Dan May
Friday 3/26 @ Rotofugi
Come check out Dan May's newest work at his first Rotofugi Gallery exhibition. Dan will be in attendance opening night. For...
LinkUp Residency Artists' Spring 2010 Showcase
Friday 3/26 @ Links Hall
An arresting action and song cycle that explores the inner-workings of a haunted woman and the time she has lost, performed...
Friday 3/26 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
"Improv on the Rocks."
Cocktail Hour is the long running Friday midnight show at ComedySportz Theatre, that mixes...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Friday 3/26 @ 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
Friday 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ 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 3/26 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Wee Epic Masterpiece Theatre: New Works by Travis Lampe
Friday 3/26 @ Rotofugi
Come check out Travis Lampe's newest work for his second Rotofugi Gallery exhibition, following 2007's "Fantasy Cryland" which inspired the Squibbles...
