Events on Sunday, May 30
Sunday 5/30 @ Lakeshore Dr at Columbus or Jackson
As you enter downtown from the south side, Lake Shore Drive's skyline view is truly breathtaking. The skyscrapers swell with civic...
Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra at Millennium Park
Sunday 5/30 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
"In even the wildest melees of sound and the most turbulent clashes of time signatures and tempos, one sensed a composer...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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...
Sarah Pickering: Incident Control
Sunday 5/30 @ 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...
Platypus International Convention 2010
Sunday 5/30 @ School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Platypus Affiliated Society, formed in 2006, holds its second annual convention, titled "What is Left, and where to begin?" Focusing...
Kristen Studard: Small Victories
Sunday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ Lifeline Theatre
Even for a company as reputable as Lifeline, which is poised to go Ben Hur on the Jeffs with 13 nominations,...
Chicago Stories and H.C. Westermann
Sunday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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...
Sunday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Sunday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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...
Works on Paper from the MCA Collection
Sunday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ saki
You may have heard the breaking news that record stores are having trouble. Given the twin effects of digital downloads and...
Sunday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ Doc Films
Olivier Assayas is a stylistic shape-shifter, but he continues to have globalization on the brain. The French director's latest film, Carlos,...
Sunday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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...
Sunday 5/30 @ 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...
Sunday 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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 5/30 @ 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...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Sunday 5/30 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Sunday 5/30 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
75 riveting minutes that will have you talking all night long.
Masterful storyteller Frank Galati makes...
Sunday 5/30 @ Links Hall
Presented by David Herrera Performance Company San Francisco based David Herrera Performance Co. tours an evening of high...
Henri IV of France: The Vert Galant and His Reign
Sunday 5/30 @ The Newberry Library
Four centuries ago this May, a religious radical assassinated Henri IV as he rode through Paris. This small exhibition marks...
