Events on Friday, May 21
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
Friday 5/21 @ Vic Theatre
The old broken-clock cliché seems to bear some truth when applied to Starbucks Entertainment, as the monolith everyone loves to hate...
Friday 5/21 @ Portage Theater
This year's Terror in the Aisles lineup ranges from iconic classics to the ultra-contemporary. You get the mother of the low-budget reanimated, Night of the...
Friday 5/21 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
As charming as organ wizard Dave Drazin and the Silent Film Society's Jay Warren are, the annual Sonic Celluloid stands defiantly,...
Friday 5/21 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
A cool free event in a new series celebrating the ideas and themes in our shows. Neo-Futurists, Square the...
The Ghosts of Versailles - A Grand Opera Buffa suggested by the Beaumarchais play The Guilty Mother
Friday 5/21 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
This "opera within an opera" has been recognized as a masterpiece. Featuring the music of John Corigliano, this heartening drama tells...
Ongoing Events
Friday 5/21 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Siskel Center says: "Based on Naomi Klein's 2007 bestseller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, this provocative political documentary...
Friday 5/21 @ Gallery 400
Eun Hyung Kim's exhibition, Designing Egos, explores the underworld of sexual and romantic captivity. Inspired by cliché...
Friday 5/21 @ Packer Schopf Gallery
The name Cattywampus perfectly captures Seattle artist Rich Lehl’s surreal narrative paintings. They combine elements of the subconscious and the mysterious...
Friday 5/21 @ The Neo-Futurarium
The Neo-Futurists' manner of theater-- dynamic, fast-paced, deeply interactive with the audience, and often a touch self-righteousness-- seems to be the...
Friday 5/21 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Steve Krakow's (aka Plastic Crimewave) exhibition at the MCA 12x12 features a selection of drawings, posters, and ephemera from Krakow's ongoing...
Friday 5/21 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Friday 5/21 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Renowned writer and artist Romare Bearden's profuse output came from his work as an oil painter, cartoonist, art editor, costume designer...
Chicago Stories and H.C. Westermann
Friday 5/21 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
This AIC exhibition charts the wild terrain of the Chicago post-war art scene — the adverse eccentrics, stylists, and self-taught artists...
Friday 5/21 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Friday 5/21 @ The Arts Club of Chicago
George Grosz, brutal caricaturist of the Weimar Republic and important member of Dada and New Objectivity in 1920s Germany, emigrated in...
Friday 5/21 @ 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...
Works on Paper from the MCA Collection
Friday 5/21 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
In the MCA's latest exhibit, an astutely chosen collection of works on paper depict exaggerated conflict, addressing various allegorical, emblematic, and...
Friday 5/21 @ Western Exhibitions
John Parot's multimedia works on paper are a self-described "poetic investigation into urban gay living," where the artist mainly focuses on...
Friday 5/21 @ David Weinberg Gallery
Originally known for her sculpture and installations, in the last decade prolific multimedia artist Judy Pfaff has turned to the world...
Friday 5/21 @ Kasia Kay Art Projects
In between, You and I, there is space all around us is the appropriate title of Junko Yamamoto's show at EC...
The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life
Friday 5/21 @ The Second City e.t.c.
The electric defibrillator paddles that briefly appear onstage during the Second City e.t.c.'s new sketch revue are an apt metaphor for...
Friday 5/21 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
When a Modern Wing museumgoer accidentally stepped on Robert Smithson's floor-displayed Chalk-Mirror Displacement last month, jokes about the artist's pet themes...
Everyday Adventures Growing Up
Friday 5/21 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
AIC says: The world is an exciting and frightening place for a young child. It's fun to make a new friend,...
Friday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Bank of America Theatre
After years of safe-as-milk Hollywood remakes (The Wedding Singer, Shrek, Billy Elliot, Legally Blonde, pick your Disney title), it's refreshing to...
Sarah Pickering: Incident Control
Friday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
Images from Venice, China, Cairo, and elsewhere, spanning the last 30 years of Michael Kenna's work, correspond to a retrospective of...
Friday 5/21 @ Western Exhibitions
Rachel Niffenegger's sculptures and paintings of disintegrated human heads create a kind of surrealist, horror-movie portrait gallery. Assembled busts reference classical...
Friday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Writers' Theatre
For live theatre, it's about as close to a no-fail combination as you can get: critically acclaimed director David Cromer, known...
Friday 5/21 @ Kathleen Mullady Memorial Theatre at Loyola University
Next Theatre's collaboration with the Loyola theater school is a profound success in imaginative technical theater. The plot, based on the...
Friday 5/21 @ 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...
Friday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Lifeline Theatre
Even for a company as reputable as Lifeline, which is poised to go Ben Hur on the Jeffs with 13 nominations,...
Friday 5/21 @ 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
Friday 5/21 @ 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...
Friday 5/21 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Exit Through the Gift Shop is a film about Thierry Guetta, a graffiti stalker who chronicled Shepard Fairey and other key...
Friday 5/21 @ Links Hall
Presented by The Dance COLEctive
Featuring choreography by Molly Grimm-Leasure, Donnette Cannonie, Olivia May, Jessica...
Friday 5/21 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
75 riveting minutes that will have you talking all night long.
Masterful storyteller Frank Galati makes...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Friday 5/21 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Henri IV of France: The Vert Galant and His Reign
Friday 5/21 @ The Newberry Library
Four centuries ago this May, a religious radical assassinated Henri IV as he rode through Paris. This small exhibition marks...
Friday 5/21 @ 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 5/21 @ Auditorium Theatre
FUERZA BRUTA: LOOK UP is a non-stop collision of dynamic music, visceral emotion, and kinetic aerial imagery. Featuring mind-blowing visual effects...
Friday 5/21 @ 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...
Urban Suite Fridays w/ DJ 33 1/3
Friday 5/21 @ The Shrine
The Shrine brings you URBAN SUITE, the sexiest Friday night in Chicago! DJ 33 1/3 spins Hip Hop, Soul, Funk, R...
Friday 5/21 @ Smart Museum of Art
Ben Shahn and the Hickman Story In early 1947, a fire ripped through the one-room attic of a tenement building on...
