Events on Sunday, May 23
Sunday 5/23 @ Chess Studios
From Wax Trax to Touch and Go to Drag City, some of rock's most influential labels found traction in Chicago —...
Sunday 5/23 @ Double Door
Vulnerability, self-distribution, tighter pop songcraft, minor chords: almost immediately from 1977's word "go," the Buzzcocks pioneered so many of what would...
The Ghosts of Versailles - A Grand Opera Buffa suggested by the Beaumarchais play The Guilty Mother
Sunday 5/23 @ 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
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Sunday 5/23 @ Lifeline Theatre
Even for a company as reputable as Lifeline, which is poised to go Ben Hur on the Jeffs with 13 nominations,...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Sarah Pickering: Incident Control
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Kristen Studard: Small Victories
Sunday 5/23 @ The Annoyance Theatre
The Annoyance says: Versatile comedian Kristen Studard takes the spotlight with this sharp new solo show exploring the joys of life's...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Chicago Stories and H.C. Westermann
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
Sunday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 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...
Everyday Adventures Growing Up
Sunday 5/23 @ 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,...
Sunday 5/23 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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 5/23 @ 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...
Works on Paper from the MCA Collection
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Sunday 5/23 @ David Weinberg Gallery
Originally known for her sculpture and installations, in the last decade prolific multimedia artist Judy Pfaff has turned to the world...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Sunday 5/23 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Sunday 5/23 @ Links Hall
Presented by The Dance COLEctive
Featuring choreography by Molly Grimm-Leasure, Donnette Cannonie, Olivia May, Jessica...
Henri IV of France: The Vert Galant and His Reign
Sunday 5/23 @ The Newberry Library
Four centuries ago this May, a religious radical assassinated Henri IV as he rode through Paris. This small exhibition marks...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
Sunday 5/23 @ Chicago History Museum
A new costume exhibition shows the colorful history of wedding attire! I Do! presents 45 dresses, plus accessories, corsets, men's attire,...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
The Brother/Sister Plays Marathon Sundays
Sunday 5/23 @ 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;...
Sunday 5/23 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
75 riveting minutes that will have you talking all night long.
Masterful storyteller Frank Galati makes...
Sunday 5/23 @ 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...
