Events on Friday, March 5
Friday 3/ 5 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Gorgeous and her six best friends travel to a...
Ongoing Events
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Friday 3/ 5 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ A Red Orchid Theatre
In films like Secrets & Lies, Life Is Sweet and Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh explores the foibles of...
Friday 3/ 5 @ The Family Room
The newest collaborative exhibition from Sonnenzimmer duo Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher, Vorab Fabrik, takes inspiration from the mechanical process of...
The Tim & Micah Project: Continue
Friday 3/ 5 @ Donny's Skybox
Rather than inducing immediate fits of hysterics, voice-over artist and performer Tim Soszko and improv aficionado Micah Philbrook's head-scratching sketches often...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes
Friday 3/ 5 @ Walsh Gallery
A ring of mystical lights keeps appearing among the trees in Michiko Itatani's paintings of forests, which are draped in darkness...
Susan Giles: Buildings and Gestures
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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,...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ The Neo-Futurarium
Not to be confused with the John Van Druten Isherwood-inspired, Cabaret-inspiring play from which it takes its name, the second show...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Artist Laura Letinsky's lush photographs, rife with allusions to Dutch still lifes, are meditations on the detritus of our lives. Whether...
Friday 3/ 5 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago - Troika Ranch
Friday 3/ 5 @ Columbia College Chicago
Complex, layered, and visually striking, Troika Ranch is known for hybrid works combining dance, theater and digital media. Recognized world wide...
Friday 3/ 5 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
"Improv on the Rocks."
Cocktail Hour is the long running Friday midnight show at ComedySportz Theatre, that mixes...
Red Star, Black Eye: New Work by Josh (Shag) Agle
Friday 3/ 5 @ Rotofugi
Come check out Shag's newest work at his first Chicago exhibition in over three years....colorful, precise, fun work by one of...
Urban Suite Fridays w/ DJ 33 1/3
Friday 3/ 5 @ The Shrine
The Shrine brings you URBAN SUITE, the sexiest Friday night in Chicago! DJ 33 1/3 spins Hip Hop, Soul, Funk, R...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ 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/ 5 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
