Events on Sunday, April 4
Sunday 4/ 4 @ Lincoln Hall
Hailing from Austin, Shearwater deliver stirring rock songs that are ominously beautiful, like watching dark clouds gather on the horizon. And...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ Steppenwolf Garage Theatre
Dog & Pony presents this strange and astounding promenade show about the true story of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons....
Sunday 4/ 4 @ Perpetual Motion Dance Studio
Since its inception in 2006 by two New York dance enthusiasts, Dance Dance Party Party has developed into a fully-fledged, ladies-only...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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....
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
A True History of the Johnstown Flood
Sunday 4/ 4 @ The Goodman Theatre
The 1889 Pennsylvania flood that claimed 2200 lives was a more deadly natural disaster than Hurricane Katrina, but in both cases,...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ The Second City e.t.c.
From the creative team that brought you Second City's 2009 hit Rod Blagojevich Superstar! comes this loving homage to a bloated,...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Wee Epic Masterpiece Theatre: New Works by Travis Lampe
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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
Sunday 4/ 4 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
75 riveting minutes that will have you talking all night long.
Masterful storyteller Frank Galati makes...
The Brother/Sister Plays Marathon Sundays
Sunday 4/ 4 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
The Brother/Sister Plays are presented in repertory with In the Red and Brown in rotation with The Brothers Size and Marcus;...
Beneath the Noise: New Work by Dan May
Sunday 4/ 4 @ Rotofugi
Come check out Dan May's newest work at his first Rotofugi Gallery exhibition. Dan will be in attendance opening night. For...
Sunday 4/ 4 @ 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...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Sunday 4/ 4 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
