Events on Saturday, May 8
Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Victor Yampolsky and Daniel Black, conductors; Wei-Han Wu, piano (Northwestern Concerto/Aria Competition winner)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Capriccio Espagnol
Sergei Prokofiev,...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Russel Neswick’s Concrete Wonders:
The Coral Reef
Join us for a tour of the recently discovered and rarely...
Henri IV of France: A lecture by David Buisseret
Saturday 5/ 8 @ The Newberry Library
In a lecture to mark the opening of a small exhibition on Henri IV, which he curated, David Buisseret will...
Ongoing Events
Redmoon: Cape & Squiggle and Laika's Coffin
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
On the heels of Redmoon's revival of Cabinet — their beloved, charmingly bizarre retelling of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari —...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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....
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
On the heels of How Theater Failed America, his deft, devastating monologue about the collapse of American theatre's economy and the...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Polish Museum of America
To counter popular beliefs about the recent retrograde nature of the Polish poster, artists Piotr Kunce and Monika Nowak curated the...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
In a city full of characters, Vincent Falk might be our most recognizable eccentric. Even if you don't recognize the name,...
Everyday Adventures Growing Up
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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,...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Gallery 400
Eun Hyung Kim's exhibition, Designing Egos, explores the underworld of sexual and romantic captivity. Inspired by cliché...
Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Barbara Kasten
Saturday 5/ 8 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Featuring the collaborative work of Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Chicago photographer Barbara Kasten, the current group show...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Tony Wight Gallery
Allison Schulnik's trademark exaggerated impasto approach to painting — as sculptural as it is pictorial — finds a macabre and haunting...
The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ David Weinberg Gallery
Originally known for her sculpture and installations, in the last decade prolific multimedia artist Judy Pfaff has turned to the world...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Lifeline Theatre
Even for a company as reputable as Lifeline, which is poised to go Ben Hur on the Jeffs with 13 nominations,...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Music Box Theatre
Leading up to Human Centipede's limited-run opening on April 30, more than one headline ran with some variation on the question,...
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I'm Afraid to Tell You
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Prop Thtr
Jennifer Jajeh's critically acclaimed one-woman show comes to Chicago en route to Berkeley, after successful runs in New York (it debuted...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Sarah Pickering: Incident Control
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Dreams Burn Down: New Work by Ken Keirns
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Rotofugi
Formerly Chicago-based artist Ken Keirns may have fled Chicago for the sunny climes of northern California two years ago, but his...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Henri IV of France: The Vert Galant and His Reign
Saturday 5/ 8 @ The Newberry Library
Four centuries ago this May, a religious radical assassinated Henri IV as he rode through Paris. This small exhibition marks...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Since 1999, The Hot Karl has been presenting their brand of stage-clawing, no-holds-barred long-form improv to packed houses. You may gasp,...
Banners & Cranks: a festival of cantastoria , Brand New Stuff
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Links Hall
Three weekends exploring the performance of paintings through song and story. Weekend Two, April 30-May 2 Fri & Sat...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Saturday 5/ 8 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ American Theater Company
written by Kristoffer Diaz
directed by Jaime Castañeda April 15 -
Beautiful Miasma: New Work by Jimmy Pickering
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Rotofugi
Stints with both Disney and Universal Studios mean you've probably seen Jimmy Pickering's art before, or maybe you've enjoyed his illustrations...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
75 riveting minutes that will have you talking all night long.
Masterful storyteller Frank Galati makes...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
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Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 5/ 8 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
Licorice Saturdays w/ Timbuck2 & Shon Dervis
Saturday 5/ 8 @ The Shrine
Chicago's BEST Saturday night party blows up each and every week with The Heavy Hitter, Timbuck2 (in the main room) and...
