Arts & Entertainment
From Camp Movies to Bronze Horses, Here Are This Week’s Arts and Culture Picks
Heather Headley, 2024. (Meagan Shuptar)
These openings, screenings and performances will have you in the movie theater, the symphony and the dive bar concert venue.
“An Evening With Heather Headley” — Symphony Center
The acclaimed Tony and Grammy Award-winning Broadway veteran looks back on a 25-year career through a 90-minute musical performance. One night only on Tuesday, June 3. Tickets here.
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“Summer Camp” Movie Series — Gene Siskel Film Center
Throughout June, the Gene Siskel Film Center will screen a series of movies involving “camp.” In 1964, Susan Sontag wrote that the essence of camp is “its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.” From Douglas Sirk’s “Written on the Wind,” Albert and David Maysles’ “Grey Gardens,” to, of course, John Waters, expect a finely curated selection of camp. Movie times and tickets here.
“Black Bone” — Definition Theatre
From the award-winning playwright Tina Fakhrid-Deen and director Carla Stillwell comes a biting and surreal satire that tackles race, academia and self-presentation. Per the synopsis: “The play follows a group of Black academics at a predominantly white institution (PWI) who discover that one among them is ‘passing’ as Black.” Opens Friday, May 30, and runs through June 29. Tickets and showtimes here.
Marlene Slaughter (left) and Martasia Jones (right) rehearse “Black Bone.” (Ari Craven)
“The Interview Show With Mark Bazer” — Hideout
Where else but Chicago could you get a bill that includes Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President and CEO Austan Goolsbee, iconic sports journalist Sarah Spain and rising indie rock band Moontype? Friday, May 30 at 6:30 p.m.. Tickets here.
“Deborah Butterfield: New Sculptures” — Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
This solo exhibition features the latest work by the acclaimed American sculptor, who for 40-plus years has been focusing her bronze-heavy work on a singular subject: the horse. It opens with a reception on Friday, May 30, and will run through Tuesday, Aug. 12. Info here.