ARTS & (HOME) ENTERTAINMENT RECOMMENDATIONS Since being stuck inside, which shows have you been watching? Which movies? Have you read any good books lately? Any new music releases have you dancing in your living room? StreetWise vendors, readers and staff are sharing what is occupying their attention during this unprecedented time. To be featured in a future edition, send your recommendations of things you do at home and why you love them to Creative Director / Publisher Dave Hamilton at dhamilton@streetwise.org
Based on a True Story!
'Come From Away' Experience the Tony-winning musical based on a true story. W hen the Federal Aviation Administration closed U.S. airspace to inbound traffic immediately after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the town of Gander, Newfoundland provided hospitality for 7,000 stranded passengers on 38 planes. "Come From Away" runs February 22 through March 6 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph St. Tickets are $31+. More information, including performance times, can be found at broadwayinchicago.com .
Treat Her Like a Lady!
'An Instrument In the Shape of a Woman' Think you know the shape of a woman? From February 26 to September 4 at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St., 5th Floor, experience the brilliantly bright and provocative forms and figures of surreal and abstract psychological portraitures that embrace the feminine mystique through new and explorative lenses. “An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman” exhibition is by Leslie Baum, Diana Christiansen and Selina Trepp with Annie Morse. Exhibits will feature three channel video installation. Admission is FREE and open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, visit chicago.gov.
Squash It!
(HOME) ENTERTAINMENT
Windy City Open The 2022 Windy City Open Squash competition will be February 23 through March 2. This Professional Squash Association World Series International Tour will feature the world's top men and women squash professionals as they smash and batter their way to the $500,000 prize. Squash is a racket and ball sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball. The event will take place within the intimate and historic Cathedral Hall at the University Club of Chicago, 76 E. Monroe St. For game schedule and more, visit windycityopen.ussquash.com. Tickets are $21+.
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Can't Take It With You!
'Everybody' Join this comedic medieval morality play presented by Loyola University of Chicago, 1032 W. Sheridan Road. The groundbreaking adaptation of Branden Jacob Jenkins’s “Everybody” considers the things we carry into death and our lasting impressions on Earth. The play will be just as unpredictable as life as actors are assigned a new role every night. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday through February 27. In-person tickets are $10-25 and livestream tickets are $10. A talkback with medieval scholar Edward Wheatley and dramaturg Minh Hà (Millie) Lê will follow the performance on February 25 and will focus on the themes of “Everyman,” the play on which Jenkins’ “Everybody” is based on. To purchase tickets, visit luc.universitytickets.com.
