Events on Friday, April 9
Friday 4/ 9 @ Music Box Theatre
Chicago-based multimedia artist Chris Hefner has exhibited sculpture, print, installation, and sound shows in numerous galleries and festivals, but it's his...
Friday 4/ 9 @ Lincoln Hall
Armed with a guitar and a drum set, and fueled by leftover teenage angst and rave reviews, Vancouver's Japandroids have spent...
Making Space Private: Interactions Between Bodies and Things
Friday 4/ 9 @ Smart Museum of Art
Consider how interactions between bodies and everyday objects can create or confound a sense of intimacy in the exhibition The Darker...
Steeling Music: Andy Narell, She-e Wu, and Liam Teague
Friday 4/ 9 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
with the Northwestern University Percussion Ensemble The jazzy maestro of the steelpans, Andy Narell, joins...
Friday 4/ 9 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Auxiliary Council's 2010 Red or White Ball: A remarkable evening to benefit Steppenwolf for Young Adults, the theatre's nationally recognized...
Ongoing Events
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ Steppenwolf Garage Theatre
Dog & Pony presents this strange and astounding promenade show about the true story of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons....
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Barbara Kasten
Friday 4/ 9 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Featuring the collaborative work of Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Chicago photographer Barbara Kasten, the current group show...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ 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...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ 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...
Sarah Pickering: Incident Control
Friday 4/ 9 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Exploring issues of security in a time of terror, Sarah Pickering's MoCP survey show, Incident Control, draws upon her vivid, disquieting...
Friday 4/ 9 @ Western Exhibitions
Richard Hull's current show at Western Exhibitions feels like looking at single frames from an animated film. In his new series...
A True History of the Johnstown Flood
Friday 4/ 9 @ The Goodman Theatre
The 1889 Pennsylvania flood that claimed 2200 lives was a more deadly natural disaster than Hurricane Katrina, but in both cases,...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ Tony Wight Gallery
Jason Salovan uses custom software of his own design to create works that reformat data from mass culture into digital patterns...
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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...
My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done
Friday 4/ 9 @ Music Box Theatre
More recently known for visceral documentaries with strong central characters like Grizzly Man (2005), Werner Herzog's latest foray into narrative is...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Friday 4/ 9 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Friday 4/ 9 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Garden of Light: New Works by APAK
Friday 4/ 9 @ Rotofugi
Garden of Light
New Work by APAK April 9-25, 2010 Opening Reception
Friday, April 9, 2010, 7-10PM...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Friday 4/ 9 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
75 riveting minutes that will have you talking all night long.
Masterful storyteller Frank Galati makes...
Friday 4/ 9 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
"Improv on the Rocks."
Cocktail Hour is the long running Friday midnight show at ComedySportz Theatre, that mixes...
Urban Suite Fridays w/ DJ 33 1/3
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Teen Dream: New Works by Jon Knox (Hello, Brute)
Friday 4/ 9 @ Rotofugi
Teen Dream
New Work by Jon Knox aka Hello, Brute April 9-25, 2010 Opening Reception
Friday, April 9, 2010,...
Friday 4/ 9 @ 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 4/ 9 @ 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...
