Events on Friday, June 11
Friday 6/11 @ The Hideout
A cross between embarrassment-confessional comedy à la Mortified and Chicago-style musical improv, Shame That Tune premieres its "live comedy game show"...
Friday 6/11 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
La Signora di Tutti (Everybody’s Woman)
(Max Ophüls, 1934, Italy, 35mm, 97 minutes)
La Signora di Tutti occupies a...
Ongoing Events
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Gallery 400
Eun Hyung Kim's exhibition, Designing Egos, explores the underworld of sexual and romantic captivity. Inspired by cliché...
Works on Paper from the MCA Collection
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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...
Chicago Stories and H.C. Westermann
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Chopin Theatre
The tenth-annual Sketchbook mixed-media festival, held at the Chopin Theatre for two weeks in June, promises to be as strong a...
Friday 6/11 @ 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....
Life Lines: The Drawings of Charles Steffen
Friday 6/11 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
In many ways a beau ideal figure of "outsider art," Charles Steffen studied art at IIT before suffering a mental breakdown...
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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...
Friday 6/11 @ Chicago Urban Art Society
In Sweet Tea, Ray Noland reminds us once again that overtly political art can still be fresh and vigorous, not to...
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...
Everyday Adventures Growing Up
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Loosely based on true events, Holy Rollers follows a young Hasidic man on his journey from budding rabbi to professional ecstasy...
The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Lifeline Theatre
Even for a company as reputable as Lifeline, which is poised to go Ben Hur on the Jeffs with 13 nominations,...
Sarah Pickering: Incident Control
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Friday 6/11 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Caleb J. Lyons' work is obsessed with its own derivative nature, but the process by which that preoccupation is expressed makes...
Friday 6/11 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Don't just live with less; make art with less. Jason Middlebrook, a pioneer of sustainability art, has focused in the past...
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
With the possible exception of Stephen Colbert, no one epitomizes a certain snarky, knowing comedy better than David Sedaris. Like Colbert...
Friday 6/11 @ the side project theatre
Beau O'Reilly and Curious Theater Branch present the third incarnation of this short play series, combining three story-based theatrical adaptations each...
Friday 6/11 @ 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...
Friday 6/11 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Intuit says: This retrospective features 30 pieces of Charles Steffen's work, covering a variety of imagery he knew in his limited...
Friday 6/11 @ 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...
Friday 6/11 @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
A spectacular lineup, ranging from emerging artists to Chicago institutions, graces this summer group exhibition at Thomas Robertello Gallery, where the...
Urban Suite Fridays w/ DJ 33 1/3
Friday 6/11 @ The Shrine
The Shrine brings you URBAN SUITE, the sexiest Friday night in Chicago! DJ 33 1/3 spins Hip Hop, Soul, Funk, R...
Henri IV of France: The Vert Galant and His Reign
Friday 6/11 @ The Newberry Library
Four centuries ago this May, a religious radical assassinated Henri IV as he rode through Paris. This small exhibition marks...
Friday 6/11 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Think night on the town meets playing in the mud. Every 2nd Friday of the month join us for a late...
Friday 6/11 @ 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...
Rewind: 1970s to 1990s - Works from the MCA Collection
Friday 6/11 @ MCA Chicago
During its forty-year history, the MCA has distinguished itself with groundbreaking exhibitions that have contributed substantially to the evolving history...
Friday 6/11 @ 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,...
Friday 6/11 @ 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 6/11 @ 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...
Friday 6/11 @ 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...
