Upcoming Events | Fine Arts Building

Second Fridays Open Studios at the Fine Arts Building

Second Friday of every month, 5:00 - 9:00pm

Join us for our monthly Second Fridays open studios event! Explore all ten floors of creativity and history, and meet the participating tenants who make the Fine Arts Building a home for art in all forms.

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Fine Arts Building Tour With the Chicago Architecture Center

Tour

2024 Dates

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Discover the Fine Arts Building, a treasure trove on Michigan Avenue and learn how it went from a carriage showroom to a high-profile artists’ colony that housed tenants like Frank Lloyd Wright, Lorado Taft and Harriet Monroe.

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From NPR and WBEZ Chicago Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!

Comedy

Select Thursday Evenings in the Studebaker Theater

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Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! is NPR’s Peabody Award-winning quiz show. Host Peter Sagal leads a rotating panel of comedians, listener contestants, and celebrity guests through a rollicking review of the week’s news.

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Theaterworks USA presents Dog Man: The Musical

Musical

November 8 – December 1

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Dog Man: The Musical is a hilarious production based on the worldwide bestselling series from Dav Pilkey, the creator of Captain Underpants and Cat Kid Comic Club.

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Seven Thirty Theatre Presents Dreamgirls

Musical

December 6 – 7

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Seven Thirty Theatre presents the iconic Tony Award-winning Broadway musical!

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Manual Cinema's Christmas Carol

Puppetry

December 13 – 29

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Manual Cinema's awe-inspiring, one-of-a-kind rendition of the Dickens classic comes to the Studebaker Theater this holiday season.

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The Chicago Bar Association presents Bar to the Future The CBA's 101st Annual Bar Show

Comedy

January 8, 10-11

The Chicago Bar Association presents "Bar to the Future!" In its 101st annual year, the Chicago Bar Show continues to entertain lawyers and non-lawyers alike. We promise wackiness, fun, music and more.

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Exile in Bookville Presents Neko Case The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir

Author Event

February 4, 2025 7:00 pm

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Neko Case will take the Studebaker Theater stage to discuss her new book, The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir. An unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary life—one forged through a poverty-stricken childhood in “slummy, one-horse towns”; obsessive desire; bursts of comedy; and indispensable friendships, reflecting on the way art, music, and a deep connection to nature helped her on a singular journey to become a beloved, Grammy-nominated artist.

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Chicago Opera Theater Presents She Who Dared

Opera

June 3 – 8, 2025

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A world premiere production, She Who Dared recenters the spotlight on the courageous women who helped desegregate the Montgomery bus system in the 1950s.

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