ART
`OUT OF TIME’
“Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth Century Future,” 60 prescient works exploring the hypothetical in transportation, space travel and robotics; through April 14; Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State St.; Free; 312-747-4050.
FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS
“The History of the Family Photograph: Photographs and Memory Connecting the American Past and Present”; opens Thursday, College of DuPage, 425 22nd St., Glen Ellyn; Free; 630-942-2321.
— Alan G. Artner
THEATER
`LA LUNA MUDA’
A sweet little wisp of a romance, based by director David Kersnar on a tale by Italo Calvino, about a fantastic trip to the moon, its story fleshed out by five acrobatic actors and its lunar landscape gorgeously filled out by the production’s design team; through March 10 by Lookingglass Theatre at the Ruth Page Center, 1016 N. Dearborn St.; $28.50-$33.50; 773-477-8088.
— Richard Christiansen
`MUDDY WATERS (THE HOOCHIE COOCHIE MAN)’
Ron Hytower returns as the blues man in Black Ensemble Theater’s third edition of the Waters tribute. Not a lot of meaty biography here; the show’s mostly — and happily — indebted to various hues of the blues, and director/co-writer Jackie Taylor has the cast (and the band, a fine five-piece one) to do them justice. Through March 24 at 4520 N. Beacon St.; $30; 773-769-4451.
— Michael Phillips
`GO AWAY GO AWAY’
A rare chance to see a lively and irreverent production of an off-beat contemporary Russian work dealing with ordinary daily life after the fall of the Soviet Union; through Feb. 24; European Repertory Theatre at National Pastime Theatre, 4139 N. Broadway; $15-$22; 773-248-0577.
— Chris Jones
CLASSICAL
MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE
Jane Glover takes time out from her “Cosi Fan Tutte” podium duties at Chicago Opera Theater to lead the MOB orchestra and several vocal soloists in an all-Classical program — Haydn’s “Theresa” Mass and Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 and motet, “Exsultate, jubilate.” Concerts are at 8 p.m. Wednesday at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ, 2335 N. Orchard St.; and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24 at First United Methodist Church, 1630 Hinman Avenue, Evanston; $25-$40; 312-551-1414.
BRENTANO STRING QUARTET
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Strand will read his own text to accompany the quartet’s performance of Haydn’s “Seven Last Words of Christ.” Based on the representation of Jesus in the gnostic Gospel of Thomas, the text is an alternate version of Christ’s life not found in the New Testament; 8 p.m. Friday, Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th St.; $11-$29; 773-702-8068.
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ABBOUD-ASHKAR AND WOSNER
The Palestinian pianist Saleem Abboud-Ashkar and Israeli pianist Shai Wosner — alumni of Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Workshop for Young Musicians — perform their first joint Chicago recital; 3 p.m. Feb. 24, Symphony Center; $14-$32; 312-294-3000.
— John von Rhein
ROCK
BREEDERS
The hiatus is over, and Kim and Kelley Deal will play songs from their forthcoming album, “Title TK”; Monday and Tuesday at the Abbey Pub, 3420 W. Grace St.; $15; 773-478-4408.
TRIBUTE TO THE STAPLE SINGERS
The Staple Singers will be accompanied by a choir and by Chicago soul legends Jerry Butler and Otis Clay, Kelly Hogan, Paul Cebar and others also will perform; Wednesday at FitzGerald’s, 6615 W. Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn; $15; 708-788-2118.
SYSTEM OF A DOWN
Best of the new-metal bands; Thursday at the Aragon Ballroom, 1106 W. Lawrence Ave.; $26; 312-559-1212.
MUZSIKAS
Hungary’s highest-profile folk ambassadors, led by the golden soprano voice of Marta Sebestyen; Saturday at the Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln Ave.; $18-$22; 773-728-6000.
— Greg Kot
JAZZ
SCOTT HAMILTON
The formidable saxophonist evokes an earlier, more romantic era in tenordom; Thursday through Sunday at the Jazz Showcase, 59 W. Grand Ave.; $20; 312-670-2473.
SAX SUMMIT
Several mighty Chicago saxophonists — including Von Freeman, Mwata Bowden, Ari Brown, Duke Payne and Eric Schneider — share the stage at 7 p.m. Friday at Tuley Park Auditorium, 90th St. and King Drive, in an event organized by the Jazz Institute of Chicago; Free; 312-427-1676.
GIOVANNI HIDALGO
One of the greatest conga virtuosos in the world leads his sextet; 9 p.m. Saturday at HotHouse, 31 E. Balbo Dr.; $20; 312-362-9707.
— Howard Reich