Events on Sunday, February 19
Steve James presents Harlan County USA
Sunday 2/19 @ Music Box Theatre
Barbara Kopple's searing documentary seems to encapsulate America's whole violent history of labor strife as it examines a 1973 Kentucky coal-miners'...
Sunday 2/19 @ Permanent Records
Drawing frequent comparison to J. Mascis for her searing leads, fuzzy bends, and just-flashy-enough solos, Screaming Females singer/guitarist Marissa Paternoster is...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ MCA Chicago
With new curators, new approaches to regionalism, and new methods of stagecraft, the MCA has a serious (and commendable) case of...
Sunday 2/19 @ Lookingglass Theatre
This entertaining piece of historical fiction posits a secret 1947 summit meeting in which Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey seeks...
Sunday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ The Second City
Three comedic actresses steal the stage in this monthly show in The Second City's de Maat Theatre. Meet the Playboys: the...
Luminous Field at Millennium Park
Sunday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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...
Sunday 2/19 @ Angel Island
Superior Donuts was written by Tracy Letts and debuted at Steppenwolf in 2008; the following year, the acclaimed production made its...
Sunday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ Links Hall
Just a few days ago, on February 7, the United States' near-total embargo on Cuba turned 50 years old. While the...
Sunday 2/19 @ The Renaissance Society
What Cathy Wilkes says about her work might ultimately be true, that the separation between herself as artist and the viewer...
Sunday 2/19 @ 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 Hunchback Variations Opera
Sunday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ MCA Chicago
Anyone even vaguely aware of current fashion trends knows that the '80s are back — and with good reason. Enough time...
Sunday 2/19 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
What could Puck, the most mischievous fairy, and Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, possibly have in common? Director Gary Griffin...
Sunday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ MCA Chicago
The contemporary complement to Minimalist art-focused exhibition The Language of Less (Then and Now), the titular Now galleries feature work from...
Sunday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ Doc Films
Werner Herzog and his signature German accent are back again with Into the Abyss, a documentary that uses a triple homicide...
Sunday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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...
Sunday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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...
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Sunday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ Music Box Theatre
A film by Valérie Donzelli. Starring Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm and César Desseix. This exuberant and deeply moving film follows a...
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Sunday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ MCA Chicago
Split into two exhibitions (with two different closing dates, take note), The Language of Less (Then and Now) looks at the...
The Feast: an intimate Tempest
Sunday 2/19 @ 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...
Write Now: Artists & Letterforms
Sunday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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...
Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012
Sunday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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...
Sunday 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ 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 2/19 @ Columbia College Chicago
Limits of Photography explores the area where the viewer loses faith in the veracity of photography. ...
The Joffrey Ballet Winter Fire
Sunday 2/19 @ Auditorium Theatre
In the middle, somewhat elevated Choreography: William Forsythe Music: Thom Willems Raw and muscular with a throbbing, electronic score, this is...
