Events on Thursday, April 1
Poetry Off the Shelf: Derek Walcott
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Poetry Foundation
Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott is best known for his epic poem Omeros, a Homeric masterwork that traces a...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Price Auditorium
The title of conceptual artist Ryan Gander's upcoming talk at the Art Institute, "The First Day I Met an Aurefilian," betrays...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Aragon Ballroom
Like William Eggleston, who provides the cover photo for Spoon's latest batch of taut, kinetic pop, Britt Daniels and co. have...
Lecture: Through Piranesi's Eyes
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Smart Museum of Art
Join Erika Naginski, an associate professor of architectural history at Harvard University, for a lecture on the life and work of...
Ongoing Events
Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes
Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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 4/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Dance Center of Columbia College
The Cultural Center's company-in-residence celebrates its silver anniversary with a premiere from Founder/Artistic Director Jan Bartoszek, Dance of Forgotten Steps, coupled...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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 4/ 1 @ Western Exhibitions
Richard Hull's current show at Western Exhibitions feels like looking at single frames from an animated film. In his new series...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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 4/ 1 @ 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 4/ 1 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
The Triplets of Belleville producers team up to bring this fantastical tale to the big screen. Tomm Moore's adventurous hand-drawn feature...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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
Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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 4/ 1 @ 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 4/ 1 @ 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...
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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 4/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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 4/ 1 @ The Goodman Theatre
The 1889 Pennsylvania flood that claimed 2200 lives was a more deadly natural disaster than Hurricane Katrina, but in both cases,...
Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Barbara Kasten
Thursday 4/ 1 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Featuring the collaborative work of Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Chicago photographer Barbara Kasten, the current group show...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Steppenwolf Garage Theatre
Dog & Pony presents this strange and astounding promenade show about the true story of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons....
Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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 4/ 1 @ 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 4/ 1 @ 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 4/ 1 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Facets says:
Debut filmmaker Kimberly Reed dives headfirst into an unflinching portrait of her family that is absolutely engrossing and...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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 4/ 1 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Wee Epic Masterpiece Theatre: New Works by Travis Lampe
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Rotofugi
Come check out Travis Lampe's newest work for his second Rotofugi Gallery exhibition, following 2007's "Fantasy Cryland" which inspired the Squibbles...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Thursday 4/ 1 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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 4/ 1 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
75 riveting minutes that will have you talking all night long.
Masterful storyteller Frank Galati makes...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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 4/ 1 @ The Shrine
GIRLS RULE! With DJ GT and Special Guest...Get the weekend poppin' early! Ladies free ALL NITE. Gents: just five bucks. ...
Beneath the Noise: New Work by Dan May
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Rotofugi
Come check out Dan May's newest work at his first Rotofugi Gallery exhibition. Dan will be in attendance opening night. For...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek
Thursday 4/ 1 @ Links Hall
20% Theatre Company explores how gender defines societal roles and success in its spring production of The Trestle at...
Thursday 4/ 1 @ 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...
