WATCH WHAT HAPPENS Marisa Wegrzyn’s Hickorydickory debuts at Chicago
Dramatists this week.
THE FIVE
Don’t-miss picks for Wed 05.11.11 through Tue 05.17.11:
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theatre Hickorydickory ALSO THIS WEEK: The Tony winner David Henry Hwang, whose new play, Chinglish, makes its world premiere in Chicago next month, sits down with Oskar Eustis, the artistic director of New York’s lauded Public Theater, for a nice long chat 5/16 at International House. |
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jazz The Engines with John Tchicai |
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rock/pop Elvis Costello and the Imposters ALSO THIS WEEK: The CSO composer-in-residence Mason Bates lets his hair down as DJ Masonic in between classical sets from CSO members for a night-owl concert 5/13 at Redmoon Theater. |
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museums Uta Barth |
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architecture Saving a Century of Progress |
WHAT I’M DOING THIS WEEKEND
Our series on weekend plans from notable, in-the-know locals is taking the week off. Maybe you should, too.
FREEBIES OF THE WEEK
parks A Bloomin’ Festival, Kilbourn Park Annual Plant Sale
Fill up on veggies at two weekend plant sales: Chicago Botanic Garden’s A Bloomin’ Festival features more than 25,000 varieties for the picking, while the Chicago Park District’s only organic greenhouse, in Kilbourn Park, tenders 150 types of vegetable, herb, and flower seedlings. But go early: The diehard green thumbs who frequent these yearly to-dos don’t sleep in.
GO: A Bloomin’ Festival: 5/14–15 from 10 to 3. Admission free; parking $20. Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook, Glencoe. chicagobotanic.org. Kilbourn Park: 5/14–15 from 10 to 2. Cash only. Kilbourn Park Organic Greenhouse, 3501 N Kilbourn. chicagoparkdistrict.com
galleries The Chicago Street Art Show
If you’ve either a) watched Exit from the Gift Shop three or more times, or b) surreptitiously slapped a sticker on a stop sign, wall, or other stationary object, this show’s for you: a roundup of some of the city’s best street (and occasionally commercial—you know, to pay the rent) artists, including Cody Hudson, Juan Angel Chavez, and You Are Beautiful.
GO: Opening reception 5/13 from 6 to 11. Exhibition continues through 6/4. Chicago Urban Art Society, 2229 S Halsted. chicagourbanartsociety.org
Photograph: (Hickorydickory) Jeff Pines