ART
`FITTER HAPPIER’
Artists’ broad and sometimes ambivalent responses to technology; opens Friday at the DePaul University Art Gallery, 2350 N. Kenmore Ave.; free; 773-325-7863.
PRINTS BY JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER
Etchings and drypoints from some of the artist’s most famous series; opens Saturday at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.; free; 773-702-0200.
`BARBARA CRANE: PHOTOGRAPHS’
Still lifes by the veteran Chicago photographer; through May 23 at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.; free; 312-346-3278.
— Alan G. Artner
CLASSICAL
PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI
The outstanding Polish pianist and Gilmore Artist Award-winner returns to Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave., for a recital at 3 p.m. Sunday. Anchoring his program will be three mazurkas and Sonata No. 3 by Chopin, Bach’s Overture in the French Style and Szymanowski’s “Metopes”; $14-$32; 312-294-3000.
PILGRIM CHAMBER PLAYERS
Violinist Desiree Ruhstrat and cellist Steven Honigberg will join the chamber ensemble for a concert that holds Shostakovich’s masterful Piano Trio in E Minor, and other 20th Century scores by Francaix, Schulhoff, Menotti and Hindemith; 3 p.m. Sunday at Highland Park Community House, 1991 Sheridan Rd.; $10-$20; 847-433-0972.
FULCRUM POINT
Chicago’s most adventuresome advocate for new music from around the world continues its ongoing series of concerts based on the “essential elements” with “Rain/Tears.” Stephen Burns will conduct the New Music Project ensemble in works by Toru Takemitsu, Michael Gordon, Benjamin Britten and others; 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Harris Music and Dance Theater, 205 E. Randolph St.; $20; 312-334-7777.
— John von Rhein
MOVIES
`PICCADILLY’
This sparkling revival of E.A. Dupont’s 1929 British musical is a great British silent and a showcase for its formidable star, Anna May Wong. As sultry Shosho, red-hot dancing star of London’s Piccadilly nightclub, Wong becomes ensnared in a scandalous triangle that leads to melodrama, murder and a sensational trial. Around her: Jameson Thomas, Gilda Gray, Cyril Ritchard and (in his film debut) Charles Laughton. Wong biographer Graham Russell Gao Hodges will speak at the 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday screenings: Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.; $9; 312-846-2600.
`LATE BREAKING NEWS’
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Fast, illuminating and engrossing, Jon Knoll’s “Late Breaking News” centers on local freelance TV news cameraman Ken Herzlich, who, with his crack team of fellow cameramen and radio-spotters, covers the night beat: fires, shootings and freeway accidents recorded and sold to local news shows. Director Jon Knoll will be present at the 7 p.m. Friday and 8 p.m. Monday screenings; Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.; $9; 312-846-2600.
— Michael Wilmington
THEATER
`LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN’
Oscar Wilde’s 1891 play gets a crisp, vibrant and wholly satisfying revival. A tale set into motion by the appearance, on the fringes of London society, of the mysterious Mrs. Erlynne, Wilde described it as “one of those modern drawing-room plays with pink lampshades.” Director William Brown concentrates on the tensions in the text between the newly married Lady Windermere, her husband and his apparent concubine; through April 25 at Northlight Theatre, North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie; $34-$48; 847-673-6300.
— Michael Phillips
`WEST SIDE STORY’
A revisionist, neo-realistic take on the usual musical clash of cuddly juvenile delinquents. In Robin’s hands, the typical finger-clicking gangs look and move more like real kids, the fight under the highway is more about real social squalor than atmospheric shadows, and the young lovers are far more desperately immature than most romanticized, starry revivals of this gorgeous tuneful show would dare suggest; through April 25 at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire; $40; 847-634-0200.
— Chris Jones
JAZZ
PAT MARTINO
The revered guitarist leads a new quartet; Tuesday through April 4 at the Jazz Showcase, 59 W. Grand Ave.; $20-$25; 312-670-2473.
HECTOR SILVIERA’S ORQUESTRA
The Cuban bandleader presides over a Latin dance session, organized by the Jazz Institute of Chicago; 7 p.m. Friday in West Pullman Park, 410 W. 123d St.; free; 312-427-1676.
— Howard Reich