Events on Sunday, February 12
Erotic Fiction Contest and Benefit for Chicago Women's Health Center
Sunday 2/12 @ The Whistler
Pen up, salacious scribes. The Whistler's annual erotic-fiction contest invites you to get your dirty literary jollies and assist a worthy...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 2/12 @ 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....
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ The Renaissance Society
What Cathy Wilkes says about her work might ultimately be true, that the separation between herself as artist and the viewer...
Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ MCA Chicago
Anyone even vaguely aware of current fashion trends knows that the '80s are back — and with good reason. Enough time...
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ MCA Chicago
The contemporary complement to Minimalist art-focused exhibition The Language of Less (Then and Now), the titular Now galleries feature work from...
The Feast: an intimate Tempest
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
David Leggett: Coco River Fudge Street
Sunday 2/12 @ 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....
Sunday 2/12 @ Various Chicago theaters
Former MI6 agent John le Carré brought the spy novel into the modern era with the rich literary prose and ethically...
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ 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....
Sunday 2/12 @ Various Chicago theaters
Michelle Williams is the best thing in My Week with Marilyn, which is not a great film, but is worth seeing...
Sunday 2/12 @ MCA Chicago
In February of 1978, Gordon Matta-Clark created "Circus, or the Carribean Orange" in what would be his last major work before...
Sunday 2/12 @ UP Comedy Club
With the "geek" and "cool" circles on the cultural Venn diagram overlapping as never before, few performers work the intersection like...
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ Lookingglass Theatre
This entertaining piece of historical fiction posits a secret 1947 summit meeting in which Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey seeks...
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ Johalla Projects
Heidi Norton's exhibition last year at NEIU Fine Art Center was titled Not to Touch the Earth; going the opposite direction...
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
What could Puck, the most mischievous fairy, and Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, possibly have in common? Director Gary Griffin...
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ MCA Chicago
Split into two exhibitions (with two different closing dates, take note), The Language of Less (Then and Now) looks at the...
Sunday 2/12 @ Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
In Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still, a harrowing and personal look at the difficult ethics of war journalism, Sarah, a talented...
Sunday 2/12 @ Chicago Dramatists
Playwright Jon Steinhagen takes you to the unusual days preceding the largest snowfall in Chicago history and then sharply dives into...
Write Now: Artists & Letterforms
Sunday 2/12 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Save some time to read through the packed exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, Write Now: Artists & Letterforms. Featuring many...
General Economy Exquisite Exchange (GEEE)
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ Chopin Theatre
A ringmaster takes the stage and promises magic, mystery, and death. Director/playwright Nathan Allen, along with his talented cast and production...
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ moniquemeloche gallery
The new "on the wall" installation at monique meloche from renowned artist Kerry James Marshall presents itself as a gift-wrapped riddle....
Sunday 2/12 @ MCA Chicago
BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Laura Letinsky debuts the artist's newest body of work, a photographic series titled "Ill Form and...
Sunday 2/12 @ Provision Theater Company
Before his tragic death in a plane crash at age 39, playwright Larry Shue penned two hilarious farces that have grown...
Sunday 2/12 @ MCA Chicago
With new curators, new approaches to regionalism, and new methods of stagecraft, the MCA has a serious (and commendable) case of...
Sunday 2/12 @ Red Tape Theatre
A dark comedy, emphasis on the "dark," about a couple who sells their children in an attempt to rejuvenate their relationship...
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
The Mary Kay Letourneau Players Present...
Sunday 2/12 @ iO Chicago Theater
As you might infer from their choice of infamous eponym, the Mary Kay Letourneau Players are not particularly concerned about offending...
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Luminous Field at Millennium Park
Sunday 2/12 @ 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
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
The Hunchback Variations Opera
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ MCA Chicago
Still craving text art or book art after Write Now at the Cultural Center? Head to the MCA's exhibition of Dieter...
Sunday 2/12 @ 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...
Sunday 2/12 @ Columbia College Chicago
Limits of Photography explores the area where the viewer loses faith in the veracity of photography. ...
Sunday 2/12 @ Links Hall
Presented by Mindy Upin Lindsey and Mindy are a goofy, fun team, but are nothing less than dancing machines. Their...
