Events on Saturday, April 3

Alejandro Escovedo

Music

Alejandro Escovedo

Saturday 4/ 3 @ Old Town School of Folk Music

Xiu Xiu w/ tUnE-yArDs and Talk Normal

Music: Experimental

Xiu Xiu

Saturday 4/ 3 @ Lincoln Hall

There will never be much room for irony in Xiu Xiu's almost embarrassingly confessional musical world; and Jamie Stewart's latest, Dear... 

Joanna Newsom w/ Robin Pecknold

Music

Joanna Newsom

Saturday 4/ 3 @ Vic Theatre

Darol Anger's Republic of Strings

Music: Classical

Darol Anger's Republic of Strings

Saturday 4/ 3 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall

The Republic of Strings, led by the great violin-viola virtuoso Darol Anger, is an exciting musical principality that recognizes... 

Ongoing Events

James Olley: <em>In Motion</em>

Art

James Olley

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>The Brother/Sister Plays</em>

Theatre

The Brother/Sister Plays

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913&ndash;1917

Art

Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917

Saturday 4/ 3 @ The Art Institute of Chicago

Richard Hull

Art

Richard Hull

Saturday 4/ 3 @ Western Exhibitions

Richard Hull's current show at Western Exhibitions feels like looking at single frames from an animated film. In his new series... 

<em>The Twins Would Like to Say</em>

Theatre

The Twins Would Like to Say

Saturday 4/ 3 @ Steppenwolf Garage Theatre

Dog & Pony presents this strange and astounding promenade show about the true story of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons.... 

<em>Production Site: The Artist's Studio Inside-Out</em>

Art

Production Site

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Christine Tarkowski: <em>Last Things Will Be First and First Things Will Be Last</em>

Art

Christine Tarkowski

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>The Secret of Kells</em>

Film: Animation

The Secret of Kells

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Chloe</em>

Film

Chloe

Saturday 4/ 3 @ Music Box Theatre

Atom Egoyan's new thriller explores themes of consuming jealousy and passion with a smart European sensibility that puts an exciting spin... 

Michiko Itatani: <em>Personal Codes</em>

Art

Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes

Saturday 4/ 3 @ Walsh Gallery

A ring of mystical lights keeps appearing among the trees in Michiko Itatani's paintings of forests, which are draped in darkness... 

David Sharpe: New Work

Art

David Sharpe

Saturday 4/ 3 @ Carl Hammer Gallery

Carl Hammer's featured artist at Art Chicago 2010, David Sharpe creates paintings on various scales that effectively represent the gallery's promotion... 

<em>Taming of the Flu</em>

Comedy

Taming of the Flu

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Trust</em>

Theatre

Trust

Saturday 4/ 3 @ Lookingglass Theatre

David Schwimmer became a household name and earned a king's ransom trading quips on a slick, lightweight sitcom. To his credit,... 

<em>Moholy: An Education of the Senses</em>

Art

Moholy: An Education of the Senses

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>The Illusion</em>

Theatre

The Illusion

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

William Eggleston: <em>Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961&ndash;2008</em>

Art

William Eggleston: Democratic Camera

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Cougars! The Musical

Comedy

Cougars! The Musical

Saturday 4/ 3 @ Greenhouse Theater

Stan Chisholm: <em>ThingsThatNeverReallyHappened</em>

Art

Stan Chisholm

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Prairie Avenue House Museums

Get Social

Prairie Avenue House Museums

Saturday 4/ 3 @ Glessner House Museum

Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago... 

<em>A True History of the Johnstown Flood</em>

Theatre

A True History of the Johnstown Flood

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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

Art

Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Barbara Kasten

Saturday 4/ 3 @ moniquemeloche gallery

Featuring the collaborative work of Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Chicago photographer Barbara Kasten, the current group show... 

<em>punkplay</em>

Theatre

punkplay

Saturday 4/ 3 @ Steppenwolf Garage Theatre

Punk rock will always fit coming-of-age stories like tartan patterns on drainpipe pants; and this Pavement Group production of Gregory Moss'... 

<em>Rewind: 1970s to 1990s Works from the MCA Collection</em>

Art

Rewind: 1970s to 1990s

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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.... 

<em>Studs Terkel's Not Working</em>

Comedy

Studs Terkel's Not Working

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Hedwig Dances 25th Anniversary Concert

Dance

Hedwig Dances

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Jason Salavon: <em>Old Codes</em>

Art

Jason Salavon

Saturday 4/ 3 @ Tony Wight Gallery

Jason Salovan uses custom software of his own design to create works that reformat data from mass culture into digital patterns... 

<em>Paschke's Women</em>

Art

Paschke's Women

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection

Special Event

Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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

Special Event

Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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

Theatre

The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek

Saturday 4/ 3 @ Links Hall

20% Theatre Company explores how gender defines societal roles and success in its spring production of The Trestle at... 

Wee Epic Masterpiece Theatre: New Works by Travis Lampe

Art

Wee Epic Masterpiece Theatre: New Works by Travis Lampe

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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&nbsp;w/ Timbuck2 & Shon Dervis

Music: Hip-Hop

Licorice Saturdays w/ Timbuck2 & Shon Dervis

Saturday 4/ 3 @ The Shrine

Chicago's BEST Saturday night party blows up each and every week with The Heavy Hitter, Timbuck2 (in the main room) and... 

Endgame

Theatre

Endgame

Saturday 4/ 3 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company

  75 riveting minutes that will have you talking all night long.

Masterful storyteller Frank Galati makes
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The Treasure of Ulysses Davis

Art

The Treasure of Ulysses Davis

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Abraham Lincoln Transformed

Special Event

Abraham Lincoln Transformed

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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 Hot Karl

Comedy

The Hot Karl

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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,... 

Beneath the Noise: New Work by Dan May

Art

Beneath the Noise: New Work by Dan May

Saturday 4/ 3 @ Rotofugi

Come check out Dan May's newest work at his first Rotofugi Gallery exhibition. Dan will be in attendance opening night. For... 

ComedySportz

Comedy

ComedySportz

Saturday 4/ 3 @ The ComedySportz Theatre

Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all... 

Garage Rep

Theatre

Garage Rep

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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... 

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Special Event

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Saturday 4/ 3 @ Chicago History Museum

Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out!  We have exhibitions and programs for... 

The Darker Side of Light

Art

The Darker Side of Light

Saturday 4/ 3 @ 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...