Events on Thursday, May 24
Today @ Quimby's Bookstore
If you know Dylan Hicks, you probably know him as a musician (he released a string of solo indie-pop albums in...
Today @ The Empty Bottle
A night for those who like their rock 'n' roll with an extra side of raw, Mark Sultan has been a...
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7)
Today @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
(Agnès Varda, 1962, France, 35mm, 89 min.) A pioneering work of feminist cinema, Cleo from 5 to 7 follows a...
Ongoing Events
Today @ Corbett vs Dempsey
One of the masters of contemporary collage, Arturo Herrera has a long history in Chicago, where he lived, studied (MFA, U.I.C.),...
Today @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
The Philip Glass of the raw-fish world, 86-year-old Japanese sushi culinist, Jiro Ono, is the subject of David Gelb's well-sliced documentary...
Today @ Renaissance Society
Since 1975, Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey has developed a body of work distinguished for its commitment to portraiture as means for...
Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations)
Today @ Gallery 400
Despite how Gallery 400 frames the show, Spectral Landscapes is less a coherent study of artists whose work is about color...
Today @ A Red Orchid Theatre
The kitchen is one of the most dangerous places in the home and fittingly, a kitchen in Baraboo, Wisconsin is where...
Today @ Leopold
Laura Letinsky's photographs of remnants of eaten meals that include dishes and wine stains atop white table cloths, most often appear...
Today @ The Flat Iron
After the breakout success of Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal at ATC last year, Collaboraction premieres the playwright's beautifully crafted, deceptively...
Today @ 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...
Today @ MCA Chicago
Anyone even vaguely aware of current fashion trends knows that the '80s are back — and with good reason. Enough time...
Today @ American Theater Company
American Theater Company and About Face take on Jonathan Larson's watershed musical Rent, about New York's East Village and its artistic...
Today @ Public Works Gallery
Screen printing is a utilitarian production technique. It exists, first and foremost, as an engine of mass production. Defined by repetition,...
Today @ Profiles Theatre - Main Stage
Neil LaBute is best known for his boundless faith in the inability of everyday people to treat each other decently, a...
Today @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Although one of Shakespeare's lesser known and rarely produced plays, under the sharp direction of Barbara Gaines, Timon of Athens now...
Today @ 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...
Today @ 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...
Today @ Signal Ensemble Theatre
Grainy CNN hostage footage comes to life in the Chicago premiere of Hostage Song. In an unnamed war-torn country, two hostages,...
Today @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
Just in time for NATO, Dog & Pony's extraordinarily powerful world premiere follows the events of late August 1968 in Chicago...
Today @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Kudos to director Corinna Belz for having the wherewithal to make this remarkable, must-see portrait of renowned German artist Gerhard Richter....
Today @ Various Chicago locations
You may have read a trendpiece or twelve about the ongoing craft-beer renaissance and Chicago's high stature therein. And if you...
Today @ 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....
Today @ MCA Chicago
MCA Chicago presents Chicago-born, New York-based artist Rashid Johnson's first major solo museum exhibition, surveying the first ten years of his...
Today @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Intense friendships carry a whiff of the erotic in the closed environment of Brangwyn College, an elite girls' prep school, in...
Today @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
The Civil War ended long ago, but its story is still being told. Consider it now at Steppenwolf, where veteran ensemble...
Today @ Stage 773
Street Tempo brings Little Shop of Horrors to Chicago, delivering an homage to both the popular musical and Roger Corman's original...
Today @ The Goodman Theatre
Goodman delivers Eugene O'Neill's monumental, four-act play with beautiful staging and an all-star cast (Nathan Lane, Brian Dennehy), completely embracing one...
Today @ Manifold
Manifold may be Chicago's newest gallery and is certainly one to continue watching. It opens its doors with R&D, a group...
Today @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Martha Marcy May Marlene meets Another Earth in this indie sci-fi thriller directed by Zal Batmanglij and written by Batmanglij and...
Today @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Whaam! Bratatat! Varoom! The Art Institute of Chicago explodes this summer with the energy of Roy Lichtenstein in the largest exhibition...
Today @ 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...
Today @ Theater Wit
New Girl writer Kim Rosenstock's Tigers Be Still gets its Chicago premiere at Theater Wit. An honest, quirky portrait of how...
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Today @ Northlight Theatre
Meta-entertainment is a tricky business. For every self-referential winner — Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation screenplay comes to mind — the road is...
The Second City's 100th Revue: Who Do We Think We Are?
Today @ The Second City
After 53 years and 100 comedy revues (and that's just counting the Chicago mainstage), it's pretty clear at this point who...
Today @ Lifeline Theatre
Stop us if you've heard this one: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a...
Today @ 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...
Survival Techniques: Narratives of Resistance
Today @ Columbia College Chicago
The exhibition Survival Techniques: Narratives of Resistance looks at human conflict and the ways individuals and groups endure long-term hardship. The fourteen international...
