Events on Saturday, February 11
Saturday 2/11 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Accompanying the Chicago Cultural Center's exhibition Write Now: Artists & Letterforms is Fluxus Day, a full schedule of various art activities...
Michelle L'amour's Big Sexy Show
Saturday 2/11 @ Music Box Theatre
Those not ensconced in the subculture might not realize what a burlesque powerhouse Chicago has in Michelle L'amour. From her tireless...
Saturday 2/11 @ MCA Chicago
In the time since Martin Creed landed the Turner Prize in 2001 with Work No. 227, the lights going on and...
Trey Songz (with Big Sean) ANTICIPATION 2OUR Presented by AEG Live
Saturday 2/11 @ Auditorium Theatre
Trey Songz is one of the most sought after entertainers in the industry today. Undoubtedly, his music and movement characterizes the...
Hot Saturday (1932) with School for Romance (1934)
Saturday 2/11 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
(William A. Seiter, 1932, 73 min.) Nancy Carroll stars as Ruth Brock, a cute young bank teller who longs for adventure and...
Ongoing Events
Write Now: Artists & Letterforms
Saturday 2/11 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Save some time to read through the packed exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, Write Now: Artists & Letterforms. Featuring many...
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Saturday 2/11 @ Chopin Theatre
The Hypocrites take on a play as metatheatrical as they are, with some mixed but generally entertaining results. Luigi Pirandello's early-1920s...
Saturday 2/11 @ Corbett vs Dempsey
Well in advance of her May exhibition at the MCA in the newly minted Chicago Works series, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung presents Negative...
Saturday 2/11 @ Various Chicago theaters
This black-and-white, near-silent throwback by French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius (OSS 117) delivers film-geek kicks in both form (gleefully antiquated transitions, early-cinema...
Saturday 2/11 @ MCA Chicago
Anyone even vaguely aware of current fashion trends knows that the '80s are back — and with good reason. Enough time...
Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012
Saturday 2/11 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Whether you enjoy your cinema in bite-sized pieces, or want to be a know-it-all at the annual Oscar party, this theatrical...
Saturday 2/11 @ Johalla Projects
Heidi Norton's exhibition last year at NEIU Fine Art Center was titled Not to Touch the Earth; going the opposite direction...
Saturday 2/11 @ MCA Chicago
Still craving text art or book art after Write Now at the Cultural Center? Head to the MCA's exhibition of Dieter...
Saturday 2/11 @ Music Box Theatre
In Tomboy, filmmaker Céline Sciamma's (Water Lilies) second feature, a family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure (Zoé Heran) and 6-year-old Jeanne...
Saturday 2/11 @ Flat Iron Arts Building
"I make shit up," the protagonist of Carlos Murillo's indubitably dark play announces in its opening moments; the rest of dark...
Saturday 2/11 @ EBERSMOORE
An innovative alternative space since its inception in 2009, EBERSMOORE continues to grow in size and ambition as it reopens in...
Saturday 2/11 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Morbid Curiosity looks death straight in the eye in the sprawling exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center that includes about 1,000...
The Feast: an intimate Tempest
Saturday 2/11 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
This taut, streamlined Tempest hurtles through CST with gale-force creative energy. Condensing Shakespeare's play to an hour-long romp through a fragmented...
Saturday 2/11 @ Chicago Dramatists
Playwright Jon Steinhagen takes you to the unusual days preceding the largest snowfall in Chicago history and then sharply dives into...
Saturday 2/11 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Raw paint occasionally squeezed right from the tube onto canvas marks the debut exhibition of André Butzer's work in the Midwest....
Saturday 2/11 @ American Theater Company
Like each of the play's enlightened, well-meaning young professionals, all ideological systems prove desperately flawed in Ayad Akhtar's bold, searing look...
Luminous Field at Millennium Park
Saturday 2/11 @ Millennium Park
If you've ever witnessed children spontaneously dancing in front of Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate (aka The Bean) then you probably understand...
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977
Saturday 2/11 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Among its many accomplishments, the pioneering movement known broadly as Conceptual Art succeeded in bringing photography definitively into the mainstream of...
Saturday 2/11 @ Various Chicago theaters
Former MI6 agent John le Carré brought the spy novel into the modern era with the rich literary prose and ethically...
Saturday 2/11 @ MCA Chicago
BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Laura Letinsky debuts the artist's newest body of work, a photographic series titled "Ill Form and...
Saturday 2/11 @ Various Chicago theaters
Michelle Williams is the best thing in My Week with Marilyn, which is not a great film, but is worth seeing...
Saturday 2/11 @ Document
One of the newest galleries in Chicago, having opened on January 6th, Document is run by an experienced hand in Chicago's...
Saturday 2/11 @ MCA Chicago
The contemporary complement to Minimalist art-focused exhibition The Language of Less (Then and Now), the titular Now galleries feature work from...
Saturday 2/11 @ UP Comedy Club
With the "geek" and "cool" circles on the cultural Venn diagram overlapping as never before, few performers work the intersection like...
The Hunchback Variations Opera
Saturday 2/11 @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
Mickle Maher's play is premised on such an inherently absurd concept — a set of 11 short scenes, all variations on...
Saturday 2/11 @ DePaul Art Museum
The DePaul Art Museum opens their brand new building with Re: Chicago, an exhibition that is crowd-sourced from the experts: Chicago's...
Saturday 2/11 @ Chicago Architecture Foundation
Navy Pier. Beloved by tourists, rarely visited by Chicagoans unless dragged there by said tourist friends/relatives. But once you are there...
Saturday 2/11 @ Lookingglass Theatre
This entertaining piece of historical fiction posits a secret 1947 summit meeting in which Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey seeks...
Saturday 2/11 @ Red Tape Theatre
A dark comedy, emphasis on the "dark," about a couple who sells their children in an attempt to rejuvenate their relationship...
Saturday 2/11 @ threewalls
There's very careful continual disarray at threewalls for Veronica Bruce's ongoing installation Every time you think you've got something, an installation...
Saturday 2/11 @ Profiles Theatre
Leslye Headland's runaway off-Broadway hit makes its Midwest premiere at Profiles Theatre in a brazen production helmed by Artistic Director Darrell...
Saturday 2/11 @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
How to create a performance about social problems without becoming mired in lament? Hip-hop theatre quartet Universes covers the gamut of...
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Saturday 2/11 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Currently scientists must be highly specialized in their own respective fields, so much so that it is becoming a problem since...
Saturday 2/11 @ AMC River East 21
Wim Wenders pays poetic tribute to friend and influential German choreographer Pina Bausch using 3D technology. On the surface, it seems...
The World Finder: A Pocket Guide to Hell
Saturday 2/11 @ Gallery 400
A logical complement to Global Cities, Model Worlds, the Pocket Guide to Hell collective has created a multimedia exploration for the...
Saturday 2/11 @ MCA Chicago
In February of 1978, Gordon Matta-Clark created "Circus, or the Carribean Orange" in what would be his last major work before...
Saturday 2/11 @ Chopin Theatre
A ringmaster takes the stage and promises magic, mystery, and death. Director/playwright Nathan Allen, along with his talented cast and production...
Saturday 2/11 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
What could Puck, the most mischievous fairy, and Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, possibly have in common? Director Gary Griffin...
Saturday 2/11 @ Maxwell Colette Gallery
Since the Occupy demonstrations began in downtown Chicago, street-art stickers have been prolific in the Loop, appearing on any flat surface...
Saturday 2/11 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Even though we can easily manipulate images with Photoshop or create entire alien worlds, like that in Avatar, the photographic image...
Saturday 2/11 @ Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
In Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still, a harrowing and personal look at the difficult ethics of war journalism, Sarah, a talented...
Saturday 2/11 @ Loyola University Museum of Art
A companion to the exhibition at Intuit, LUMA features the idiosyncratic visions of heaven from outsider artists, with Intuit showing hell....
Saturday 2/11 @ DCA Theater
In Kōbō Abe's darkly comedic drama, tormented ex-soldier Fukagawa and grifter Oba partner in business during Japan's still-reeling early postwar years....
Saturday 2/11 @ A + D Gallery
It's a total freak show at Columbia College's A + D Gallery, where Cannonball Press is exhibiting a series of prints...
Saturday 2/11 @ Music Box Theatre
Iran's entry for Best Foreign Language Oscar and winner of Berlin's Golden Bear, A Separation is a complex family drama that...
Saturday 2/11 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Bertrand Bonello's languid portrait of a turn-of-the-century Parisian brothel made several critics' Best of 2011 lists, but it's only now finding...
General Economy Exquisite Exchange (GEEE)
Saturday 2/11 @ Hyde Park Art Center
The so-called new reality of the post-recession era has been in full effect at Cream Co.'s GEEE, on exhibition at the...
Saturday 2/11 @ moniquemeloche gallery
The new "on the wall" installation at monique meloche from renowned artist Kerry James Marshall presents itself as a gift-wrapped riddle....
Saturday 2/11 @ The Annoyance Theatre
It's Chicago 1893 and a landfill east of Michigan Avenue is literally supporting a neighborhood as well as the wealth of...
Saturday 2/11 @ The Renaissance Society
What Cathy Wilkes says about her work might ultimately be true, that the separation between herself as artist and the viewer...
Saturday 2/11 @ MCA Chicago
Split into two exhibitions (with two different closing dates, take note), The Language of Less (Then and Now) looks at the...
Saturday 2/11 @ Provision Theater Company
Before his tragic death in a plane crash at age 39, playwright Larry Shue penned two hilarious farces that have grown...
Saturday 2/11 @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
An anxiousness exists among people of color because there is still an expectation to "perform," explain and react to one's Blackness...
Saturday 2/11 @ Chicago Cultural Center
A companion exhibition to the death-themed Morbid Curiosity, "speculative designer" Jessica Charlesworth presents The MeMo Organization Cabinet, "MeMo" being short for...
Saturday 2/11 @ Western Exhibitions
On view concurrently with his drawing exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, this David Leggett exhibit at Western Exhibitions presents...
Saturday 2/11 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
No recent film event has enraptured critical circles more than TIFF's comprehensive, traveling retrospective of Robert Bresson's career, the first of...
Saturday 2/11 @ Steppenwolf Garage Theatre
Steppenwolf's Garage Rep features The Inconvenience's production of Hit The Wall, a bold, sizzling, highly theatrical telling of the famous but...
Saturday 2/11 @ Various Chicago theaters
After directing two brilliant, barbed satires, Citizen Ruth and the Preston Sturges-worthy Election, Alexander Payne became American film's poet laureate of...
Saturday 2/11 @ Gallery 400
With all the pageantry and pride accompanying major world events like the Olympics it's easy to overlook the long process and...
David Leggett: Coco River Fudge Street
Saturday 2/11 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Pulled from his yearlong drawing-a-day blog Coco River Fudge Street, the Hyde Park Art Center presents the work of David Leggett....
Saturday 2/11 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Just what did the tobacco industry know about the evils of nicotine, and when did it know it? That's the subject...
Saturday 2/11 @ 65GRAND
Curated by Abraham Ritchie; featuring Samantha Bittman, Todd Chilton, Steven Husby, and Melissa Oresky. The follow up to the 2009 exhibition...
Saturday 2/11 @ MCA Chicago
With new curators, new approaches to regionalism, and new methods of stagecraft, the MCA has a serious (and commendable) case of...
Saturday 2/11 @ Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre
American Idiot is the latest in a hard-rocking string of hit Broadway musicals. But while Rent and Spring Awakening boast trendy...
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
Saturday 2/11 @ Dance Center of Columbia College
Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago proudly welcomes the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company for their presentation of Light Moves, a collaboration...
Saturday 2/11 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
The themes of heaven and hell are frequently addressed in outsider and intuitive art. Outsider artists' perspectives range from illustrative, word-laden...
Saturday 2/11 @ Links Hall
Presented by Mindy Upin Lindsey and Mindy are a goofy, fun team, but are nothing less than dancing machines. Their...
Saturday 2/11 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/11 @ Columbia College Chicago
Limits of Photography explores the area where the viewer loses faith in the veracity of photography. ...
