Events on Friday, February 3
Friday 2/ 3 @ Music Box Theatre
Ti West's House of the Devil, an homage to the trashy occult-horror films of the early '80s, requires something rarely asked...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Reggies Rock Club
Even more so than most rock/pop countercultures, a lot of the truly radical-sounding metal is not aimed directly at the über-cultured...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Metro
Porcelain Raft is one-man band Mauro Remiddi's current moniker. The Italian-born, London-living anti-rock star crafts dreamy soundscapes that leave you swooning;...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Public Works Gallery
Artist Veronica Corzo-Duchardt's Neche Collection is a set of minimal, atmospheric prints and print/photo diptychs that retell the story of her...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Red Tape Theatre
A dark comedy, emphasis on the "dark," about a couple who sells their children in an attempt to rejuvenate their relationship...
Friday 2/ 3 @ MCA Chicago
Still craving text art or book art after Write Now at the Cultural Center? Head to the MCA's exhibition of Dieter...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Totally timely in its semi-humorous focus on class warfare and the human toll exacted by the financial crisis, My Piece of...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Western Exhibitions
On view concurrently with his drawing exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, this David Leggett exhibit at Western Exhibitions presents...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
The Hunchback Variations Opera
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Gallery 400
With all the pageantry and pride accompanying major world events like the Olympics it's easy to overlook the long process and...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
What seems at first like a modern story with some classical references — whiskey, Speedos, and a copy of Homer —...
General Economy Exquisite Exchange (GEEE)
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ MCA Chicago
The contemporary complement to Minimalist art-focused exhibition The Language of Less (Then and Now), the titular Now galleries feature work from...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 65GRAND
Curated by Abraham Ritchie; featuring Samantha Bittman, Todd Chilton, Steven Husby, and Melissa Oresky. The follow up to the 2009 exhibition...
Friday 2/ 3 @ The Renaissance Society
What Cathy Wilkes says about her work might ultimately be true, that the separation between herself as artist and the viewer...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Chopin Theatre
A ringmaster takes the stage and promises magic, mystery, and death. Director/playwright Nathan Allen, along with his talented cast and production...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Write Now: Artists & Letterforms
Friday 2/ 3 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Save some time to read through the packed exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, Write Now: Artists & Letterforms. Featuring many...
The World Finder: A Pocket Guide to Hell
Friday 2/ 3 @ Gallery 400
A logical complement to Global Cities, Model Worlds, the Pocket Guide to Hell collective has created a multimedia exploration for the...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ UP Comedy Club
Comedy-folk duo Garfunkel & Oates (aka Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci) named themselves after "famous rock-and-roll second bananas" Art Garfunkel and...
Friday 2/ 3 @ MCA Chicago
In February of 1978, Gordon Matta-Clark created "Circus, or the Carribean Orange" in what would be his last major work before...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Various Chicago theaters
Michelle Williams is the best thing in My Week with Marilyn, which is not a great film, but is worth seeing...
Friday 2/ 3 @ The Hideout
One of the key narratives in modern music is the transatlantic volley between America and Europe, each side reinterpreting and lobbing...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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 Feast: an intimate Tempest
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ EBERSMOORE
An innovative alternative space since its inception in 2009, EBERSMOORE continues to grow in size and ambition as it reopens in...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Gage Gallery of Roosevelt University
While the holiday season has come and gone and the New Year just begun, Lloyd DeGrane's photographs of maximum-security prisons at...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Chicago Dramatists
Playwright Jon Steinhagen takes you to the unusual days preceding the largest snowfall in Chicago history and then sharply dives into...
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Various Chicago theaters
Former MI6 agent John le Carré brought the spy novel into the modern era with the rich literary prose and ethically...
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ MCA Chicago
Split into two exhibitions (with two different closing dates, take note), The Language of Less (Then and Now) looks at the...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Document
One of the newest galleries in Chicago, having opened on January 6th, Document is run by an experienced hand in Chicago's...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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....
Friday 2/ 3 @ Lookingglass Theatre
This entertaining piece of historical fiction posits a secret 1947 summit meeting in which Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey seeks...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Chicago Improv
One of Charlie Murphy's first jobs was acting as bodyguard for his younger brother, comedian Eddie. He ended up following his...
David Leggett: Coco River Fudge Street
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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....
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 3 @ 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....
Friday 2/ 3 @ MCA Chicago
With new curators, new approaches to regionalism, and new methods of stagecraft, the MCA has a serious (and commendable) case of...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
In Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still, a harrowing and personal look at the difficult ethics of war journalism, Sarah, a talented...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Chicago Artists' Coalition
Homa Shojaie presents ASCENT, an installation that investigates the material space of canvas to explore archetypal personas. Shojaie's new work creates...
Friday 2/ 3 @ Columbia College Chicago
Limits of Photography explores the area where the viewer loses faith in the veracity of photography. ...
