Events on Sunday, May 9
Sunday 5/ 9 @ Music Box Theatre
Based on the scandalous tell-all memoir by Joan Crawford's daughter, Mommie Dearest is an enduring camp classic, thanks in no small...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Sunday 5/ 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....
Sunday 5/ 9 @ 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...
The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life
Sunday 5/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I'm Afraid to Tell You
Sunday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Sunday 5/ 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...
Sunday 5/ 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...
Kristen Studard: Small Victories
Sunday 5/ 9 @ 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/ 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...
Sunday 5/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ The Second City e.t.c.
From the creative team that brought you Second City's 2009 hit Rod Blagojevich Superstar! comes this loving homage to a bloated,...
Sarah Pickering: Incident Control
Sunday 5/ 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...
Sunday 5/ 9 @ David Weinberg Gallery
Originally known for her sculpture and installations, in the last decade prolific multimedia artist Judy Pfaff has turned to the world...
Sunday 5/ 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...
Sunday 5/ 9 @ 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/ 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...
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
Sunday 5/ 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...
Sunday 5/ 9 @ 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/ 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...
Sunday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Everyday Adventures Growing Up
Sunday 5/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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,...
Sunday 5/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ 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...
Banners & Cranks: a festival of cantastoria , Brand New Stuff
Sunday 5/ 9 @ Links Hall
Three weekends exploring the performance of paintings through song and story. Weekend Two, April 30-May 2 Fri & Sat...
Henri IV of France: The Vert Galant and His Reign
Sunday 5/ 9 @ The Newberry Library
Four centuries ago this May, a religious radical assassinated Henri IV as he rode through Paris. This small exhibition marks...
Dreams Burn Down: New Work by Ken Keirns
Sunday 5/ 9 @ Rotofugi
Formerly Chicago-based artist Ken Keirns may have fled Chicago for the sunny climes of northern California two years ago, but his...
Sunday 5/ 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...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Sunday 5/ 9 @ 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/ 9 @ American Theater Company
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The Brother/Sister Plays Marathon Sundays
Sunday 5/ 9 @ 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;...
Beautiful Miasma: New Work by Jimmy Pickering
Sunday 5/ 9 @ 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...
Sunday 5/ 9 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
75 riveting minutes that will have you talking all night long.
Masterful storyteller Frank Galati makes...
