Events on Friday, March 2
Friday 3/ 2 @ Schubas
Baby Teeth's new LP, White Tonight, is the best distillation of the band's style, one of the more bizarre yet long-effective...
Fifth Wednesday Journal: Illinois Poets Past & Present
Friday 3/ 2 @ Poetry Foundation
Contemporary poets read their original poetry as well as poetry by a famed Illinois poet of the past. Christina Pugh reads...
Friday 3/ 2 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
(Elaine May, 1976, USA, 35mm, 119 min.) Convinced a local mobster is out to kill him, John Cassavetes' Nicky calls boyhood friend...
Poetry off the Shelf: Carol Ann Duffy and Philip Levine
Friday 3/ 2 @ Poetry Foundation
The British and United States Poets Laureate appear together for a rare joint reading and conversation moderated by Poetry senior editor...
Ongoing Events
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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...
The Feast: an intimate Tempest
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ Western Exhibitions
On view concurrently with his drawing exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, this David Leggett exhibit at Western Exhibitions presents...
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ 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)
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ Public Works Gallery
With so much irony, skepticism, and cynicism pervading art-making practices today, Matthew Hoffman is taking the exact opposite approach, attempting to...
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
The bountiful-as-always month-long EU Film Festival kicks off with A Funny Man, a Nikolaj Lie Kaas-starring biopic of Danish comedian Dirch...
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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...
The World Finder: A Pocket Guide to Hell
Friday 3/ 2 @ Gallery 400
A logical complement to Global Cities, Model Worlds, the Pocket Guide to Hell collective has created a multimedia exploration for the...
Friday 3/ 2 @ Various Chicago theaters
Former MI6 agent John le Carré brought the spy novel into the modern era with the rich literary prose and ethically...
David Leggett: Coco River Fudge Street
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ moniquemeloche gallery
The new "on the wall" installation at monique meloche from renowned artist Kerry James Marshall presents itself as a gift-wrapped riddle....
Friday 3/ 2 @ Roots & Culture
In Light Show at Roots & Culture a disco ball spins, bouncing off multi-colored spots of light (by Arend deGruyter-Helfer)...
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
The gorilla-masked Guerrilla Girls assaulted the art world during the Culture Wars of the 1980s, so you'd think that their statistics...
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ Angel Island
Superior Donuts was written by Tracy Letts and debuted at Steppenwolf in 2008; the following year, the acclaimed production made its...
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ MCA Chicago
Anyone even vaguely aware of current fashion trends knows that the '80s are back — and with good reason. Enough time...
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ MCA Chicago
Split into two exhibitions (with two different closing dates, take note), The Language of Less (Then and Now) looks at the...
2012 AWP Conference Off-Site Events
Friday 3/ 2 @ Various Chicago locations
The official 2012 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference & Bookfair, which takes place at Hilton Chicago and Palmer House...
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ 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
Friday 3/ 2 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Save some time to read through the packed exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, Write Now: Artists & Letterforms. Featuring many...
Friday 3/ 2 @ Theater Wit
Police state. Illegal detention. Torture. Screwball comedy? Despite these seeming incongruities, we found ourselves immersed in equal measures of armrest-gripping suspense...
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ MCA Chicago
BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Laura Letinsky debuts the artist's newest body of work, a photographic series titled "Ill Form and...
Friday 3/ 2 @ The Goodman Theatre
With meticulous attention to detail and a simmering plot, this riveting play focuses on Africans' survival strategies amid the onset of...
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ MCA Chicago
With new curators, new approaches to regionalism, and new methods of stagecraft, the MCA has a serious (and commendable) case of...
Friday 3/ 2 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
What could Puck, the most mischievous fairy, and Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, possibly have in common? Director Gary Griffin...
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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....
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Born Lucy Schwob to a family of French intellectuals and writers, Claude Cahun (who adopted the pseudonym at age 22) is...
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ Provision Theater Company
Before his tragic death in a plane crash at age 39, playwright Larry Shue penned two hilarious farces that have grown...
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ 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 3/ 2 @ DCA Theater
How do we form new families when the old ones no longer hold? Chicago Fusion Theatre's moving production examines episodes in...
Friday 3/ 2 @ MCA Chicago
In February of 1978, Gordon Matta-Clark created "Circus, or the Carribean Orange" in what would be his last major work before...
Kirk's Apartment: Oli Watt and Benjamin Bellas
Friday 3/ 2 @ Kirk's Apartment
The very long title of this show, That thing in that old Groucho Marx movie where he's standing in the doorway...
Friday 3/ 2 @ 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...
Friday 3/ 2 @ Columbia College Chicago
Limits of Photography explores the area where the viewer loses faith in the veracity of photography. ...
