ARCHITECTURE
ROBIE HOUSE
The ongoing, 10-year restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, at 5757 S. Woodlawn Ave., will be discussed by project architect Karen Sweeney, of the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust. The talk is sponsored by the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois. 12:15 p.m. Thursday, Claudia Cassidy Theater of the Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph St.; free; 312-922-1742.
— Blair Kamin
ART
`AMAR KANWAR’
Three recent works by the New Delhi-based filmmaker; final week; Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 5811 S. Ellis Ave.; free; 773-702-8670.
— Alan G. Artner
CLASSICAL
CONTEMPORARY CHAMBER PLAYERS
The remarkable ensemble eighth blackbird, in residence at the University of Chicago, will present works by members of the Minimum Security Composers Collective on the Contemporary Chamber Players series. Composers on the bill are Dennis DeSantis, Adam B. Silverman, Ken Ueno and Roshanne Etezady. 5 p.m. Sunday in Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th St.; $11 and $20; 773-702-8068.
— John von Rhein
DANCE
`FEAST OF SOULS’
Sara Shelton Mann and her troupe, Contraband, meld dance, film, text and jazz and hip-hop music, about a person’s journey through multiple bodies and experiences; Thursday through Saturday at the Dance Center of Columbia College, 1306 S. Michigan Ave.; $20-$24; 312-344-8300.
— Sid Smith
JAZZ
BOB MINTZER
The noted saxophonist leads his New York big band in opening the 36th Elmhurst College Jazz Festival at 7:30 p.m. Friday. The lineup also will feature the Count Basie Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Saturday; and Bobby Shew, Gary Smulyan and Dennis Mackrel with the Elmhurst College Jazz Band, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday; in Hammerschmidt Chapel of Elmhurst College, 190 Prospect Ave., Elmhurst; $12-$20; 630-617-5534.
— Howard Reich
MOVIES
VALENTINE’S WEEK FILMS
On Valentine’s Day, the Music Box Theatre began a weeklong series of “our favorite movie love stories” that represent the flower of Hollywood film romance. Here are the remaining films: “Dr. Zhivago” on Sunday; a double feature of “The Philadelphia Story” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” on Monday; a double feature of “Annie Hall” and the 1919 silent film “Broken Blossoms” on Tuesday; “West Side Story” on Wednesday; and an Alfred Hitchcock double feature of “Notorious” and “To Catch a Thief” on Thursday. The Music Box Theatre is at 3733 N. Southport Ave. Call 773-871-6607 for showtimes.
–Michael Wilmington
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ROCK
KINKY
Mexico’s grooviest electro-rock combo. Sunday at the House of Blues, 329 N. Dearborn St.; $18.50; 312-923-2000.
— Greg Kot
THEATER
`THE EXONERATED’
Good, ire-raising true-life drama, as well as a calmly convincing case for the abolishment of the death penalty. Writers Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen interviewed dozens of wrongly convicted, and later freed, Americans; six stories, conventionally but compellingly intertwined, become the focus of the stripped-down result. Brian Dennehy and Marlo Thomas topline the Chicago company; it’s their less familiar ensemble cohorts who are absolutely superb. Ends Sunday at Shubert Theatre, 22 W. Monroe St.; $15-$65; 312-902-1400.
— Michael Phillips