Events on Thursday, February 23
Thursday 2/23 @ Price Auditorium
Artist Katie Paterson has said, "I like to work on the brink of impossibility." Her slide catalogue and resulting photographs —...
Thursday 2/23 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
It's never too late to expose yourself to the "cinematic cesspool" of San Francisco legend George Kuchar (that's his phrase, by...
Thursday 2/23 @ Reckless Records
Barry Adamson's career as a jazz musician is as unusual as it is influential. His bass playing helped distinguish seminal post-punk...
Thursday 2/23 @ Harold Washington Library
In a recent TIME magazine interview with Panther Baby author Jamal Joseph, the reporter kicks off the discussion with, "After reading...
Thursday 2/23 @ Lincoln Hall
Graphic designers Zach Dodson and Michael Renaud started The Show 'n Tell Show a few years ago, spurred by the desire...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 2/23 @ 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
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ The Renaissance Society
What Cathy Wilkes says about her work might ultimately be true, that the separation between herself as artist and the viewer...
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ MCA Chicago
Anyone even vaguely aware of current fashion trends knows that the '80s are back — and with good reason. Enough time...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ Red Tape Theatre
A dark comedy, emphasis on the "dark," about a couple who sells their children in an attempt to rejuvenate their relationship...
Thursday 2/23 @ MCA Chicago
Still craving text art or book art after Write Now at the Cultural Center? Head to the MCA's exhibition of Dieter...
Thursday 2/23 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
What could Puck, the most mischievous fairy, and Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, possibly have in common? Director Gary Griffin...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ Western Exhibitions
On view concurrently with his drawing exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, this David Leggett exhibit at Western Exhibitions presents...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ Angel Island
Superior Donuts was written by Tracy Letts and debuted at Steppenwolf in 2008; the following year, the acclaimed production made its...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ MCA Chicago
BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Laura Letinsky debuts the artist's newest body of work, a photographic series titled "Ill Form and...
Thursday 2/23 @ moniquemeloche gallery
The new "on the wall" installation at monique meloche from renowned artist Kerry James Marshall presents itself as a gift-wrapped riddle....
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ MCA Chicago
The contemporary complement to Minimalist art-focused exhibition The Language of Less (Then and Now), the titular Now galleries feature work from...
Thursday 2/23 @ Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
In Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still, a harrowing and personal look at the difficult ethics of war journalism, Sarah, a talented...
Thursday 2/23 @ Document
One of the newest galleries in Chicago, having opened on January 6th, Document is run by an experienced hand in Chicago's...
Thursday 2/23 @ Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center Gallery
The apartment gallery phenomena in Chicago is a crucial component of the city's visual-art fabric, where aspiring artists, curators, directors, and...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ MCA Chicago
In February of 1978, Gordon Matta-Clark created "Circus, or the Carribean Orange" in what would be his last major work before...
Thursday 2/23 @ Music Box Theatre
A film by Valérie Donzelli. Starring Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm and César Desseix. This exuberant and deeply moving film follows a...
Thursday 2/23 @ Poetry Foundation
Contemporary shadow-puppet theater company Manual Cinema combines complex, cinematic homemade shadow puppetry — on overhead projector! — with live actors in...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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....
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ Chopin Theatre
A ringmaster takes the stage and promises magic, mystery, and death. Director/playwright Nathan Allen, along with his talented cast and production...
Thursday 2/23 @ Gallery 400
With all the pageantry and pride accompanying major world events like the Olympics it's easy to overlook the long process and...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
General Economy Exquisite Exchange (GEEE)
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ MCA Chicago
Split into two exhibitions (with two different closing dates, take note), The Language of Less (Then and Now) looks at the...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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....
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Write Now: Artists & Letterforms
Thursday 2/23 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Save some time to read through the packed exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, Write Now: Artists & Letterforms. Featuring many...
Thursday 2/23 @ Theater Wit
Police state. Illegal detention. Torture. Screwball comedy? Despite these seeming incongruities, we found ourselves immersed in equal measures of armrest-gripping suspense...
The World Finder: A Pocket Guide to Hell
Thursday 2/23 @ Gallery 400
A logical complement to Global Cities, Model Worlds, the Pocket Guide to Hell collective has created a multimedia exploration for the...
Thursday 2/23 @ Various Chicago theaters
Former MI6 agent John le Carré brought the spy novel into the modern era with the rich literary prose and ethically...
Thursday 2/23 @ MCA Chicago
A brooding harpy borne of the heart's darkest night, Diamanda Galás doesn't convey regret so much as wrack its innards relentlessly....
David Leggett: Coco River Fudge Street
Thursday 2/23 @ 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....
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ Columbia College Chicago
Limits of Photography explores the area where the viewer loses faith in the veracity of photography. ...
The Joffrey Ballet Winter Fire
Thursday 2/23 @ Auditorium Theatre
In the middle, somewhat elevated Choreography: William Forsythe Music: Thom Willems Raw and muscular with a throbbing, electronic score, this is...
Northwestern Student Docent Exhibition Tours
Thursday 2/23 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
How could a folded piece of paper tell the time in multiple countries in 1512? Find out the amazing answer to...
