Events on Saturday, February 18
Saturday 2/18 @ Subterranean
Nine years since their debut LP, the Jealous Sound has emerged with their sophomore full-length, A Gentle Reminder. Their previous and...
Saturday 2/18 @ The Empty Bottle
Cut Hands is the new, percussion-driven project from William Bennett, founder of infamous power-electronics agitators Whitehouse, and a controversial figure even...
Saturday 2/18 @ Arie Crown Theater
The pop cycle is hard on all career artists, but it can be doubly difficult for hip-hop acts to maintain longevity...
Saturday 2/18 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
(William Wyler, 1931, USA, 35mm, 68 min.) An early sound film for Universal by veteran director Wyler, this ultra-rare feature stars Walter...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ Lookingglass Theatre
This entertaining piece of historical fiction posits a secret 1947 summit meeting in which Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey seeks...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977
Saturday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ Links Hall
Just a few days ago, on February 7, the United States' near-total embargo on Cuba turned 50 years old. While the...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ Document
One of the newest galleries in Chicago, having opened on January 6th, Document is run by an experienced hand in Chicago's...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ Doc Films
Werner Herzog and his signature German accent are back again with Into the Abyss, a documentary that uses a triple homicide...
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Saturday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ Chopin Theatre
A ringmaster takes the stage and promises magic, mystery, and death. Director/playwright Nathan Allen, along with his talented cast and production...
The World Finder: A Pocket Guide to Hell
Saturday 2/18 @ Gallery 400
A logical complement to Global Cities, Model Worlds, the Pocket Guide to Hell collective has created a multimedia exploration for the...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
The Hunchback Variations Opera
Saturday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ Comfort Station
It has been an unusually balmy winter but that is no reason to not check out the Florida Oasis at the...
General Economy Exquisite Exchange (GEEE)
Saturday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
We're glad that writer/director Kenneth Lonergan and Fox Searchlight finally let Margaret come out to play theatrically. In the can since...
Saturday 2/18 @ MCA Chicago
Split into two exhibitions (with two different closing dates, take note), The Language of Less (Then and Now) looks at the...
Saturday 2/18 @ Various Chicago restaurants
It's Christmastime for foodies as the fifth annual Chicago Restaurant Week serves up another ten days of great grub at affordable...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
David Leggett: Coco River Fudge Street
Saturday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ Music Box Theatre
A film by Valérie Donzelli. Starring Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm and César Desseix. This exuberant and deeply moving film follows a...
Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance
Saturday 2/18 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Before the Joffrey Ballet showcased her choreography, Twyla Tharp was virtually unknown. Now, both the dance legend and the legendary dance...
Saturday 2/18 @ Gallery 400
With all the pageantry and pride accompanying major world events like the Olympics it's easy to overlook the long process and...
Saturday 2/18 @ MCA Chicago
With new curators, new approaches to regionalism, and new methods of stagecraft, the MCA has a serious (and commendable) case of...
The Feast: an intimate Tempest
Saturday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
Write Now: Artists & Letterforms
Saturday 2/18 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Save some time to read through the packed exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, Write Now: Artists & Letterforms. Featuring many...
Saturday 2/18 @ Western Exhibitions
On view concurrently with his drawing exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, this David Leggett exhibit at Western Exhibitions presents...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Luminous Field at Millennium Park
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
Saturday 2/18 @ Angel Island
Superior Donuts was written by Tracy Letts and debuted at Steppenwolf in 2008; the following year, the acclaimed production made its...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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...
The Joffrey Ballet Winter Fire
Saturday 2/18 @ Auditorium Theatre
In the middle, somewhat elevated Choreography: William Forsythe Music: Thom Willems Raw and muscular with a throbbing, electronic score, this is...
Saturday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ Columbia College Chicago
Limits of Photography explores the area where the viewer loses faith in the veracity of photography. ...
