ARCHITECTURE
SUPER-TALL STRUCTURES
Adrian Smith, a partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill of Chicago and the architect of the planned Trump Tower Chicago, will lecture on “Trump Tower and Other Super-Tall Structures” at The Art Institute of Chicago. 6 p.m. Tuesday in the museum’s Fullerton Hall. Free. 312-443-3600.
`BIG & GREEN’
The Chicago Architecture Foundation presents “Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century.” The show, which displays 40 projects from around the world, is accompanied by a locally-organized companion exhibition, “Chicago Green,” which showcases efforts to promote green design in Chicago. 224 S. Michigan Ave. Free. Through Sept. 12.
— Blair Kamin
ART
57TH STREET ART FAIR
The annual outdoor exhibition and sale featuring works by more than 300 North American artists; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. 57th Street and Kimbark Avenue. Free. 773-493-3247.
JAMES JOYCE’S DUBLIN
A photography exhibition celebrating the centennial of Bloomsday (June 16, 1904); opens Friday; through June 13; Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 Knox Ave. Free. 773-282-7035.
`SEYMOUR ROSOFSKY: FRESH GLANCE’
Works from a private collection seen publicly for the first time; through June 24; Oakton Community College, 1600 E. Golf Rd., Des Plaines. Free; 847-635-2633.
— Alan G. Artner
CLASSICAL
DATES WITH THE 88S
Popular American pianist Andre Watts closes the season’s Sara Lee Piano Series with a recital at 3 p.m. Sunday at Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave. His program offers something for everyone, including Beethoven’s Sonata No. 7 in D (Opus 10, No. 3), Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody in A Minor and works by Bach, Schubert, Bartok and Ligeti. $19-$44; 312-294-3000. The young pianist Jeremy Denk makes his Ravinia Festival recital debut at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Martin Theatre, Lake Cook and Green Bay Roads, Highland Park. His program includes Beethoven’s Opus 111 Sonata and Charles Ives’ “Concord” Sonata. $25 and $40, lawn $10; 847-266-5100.
MUSICNOW
The season finale of the always compelling contemporary music series, 8 p.m. Monday, at the Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Music and Dance Theater, 205 E. Randolph Drive, enlists Daniel Barenboim as pianist and conductor. Musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will present the U.S. premiere of Elliott Carter’s “Dialogues” for piano and ensemble, with the young pianist Nicolas Hodges as soloist. Also, Barenboim will play and conduct Isabel Mundry’s “Panorama ciego.” $20; 312-294-3000.
— John von Rhein
DANCE
ADRIANA DURANT DANCE
A new troupe debuts with four works by Durant, who, as a performer, is a member of Mordine and Company Dance Theater; Thursday through Saturday at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn Pkwy. $12; 773-550-8945.
— Sid Smith
ROCK
SAM PHILLIPS
Pop chanteuse re-invents torch singing, Friday at Park West, 322 W. Armitage Ave., $20; 312-559-1212.
DKT/MC5
The three surviving members of Detroit proto-punks the MC5 on tour for the first time in 31 years, with Mudhoney’s Mark Arm, Evan Dando and Marshall Crenshaw, Friday at Metro, 3730 N. Clark St., $20; 773-549-4140.
ANTIBALAS AFROBEAT ORCHESTRA
This 17-piece ensemble channels the political spirit of Fela’s polyrhythmic big bands, Friday at Hothouse, 31 E. Balbo Drive, $12-$15; 312-362-9707.
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— Greg Kot
JAZZ
ARI BROWN
The mighty tenor saxophonist will share the stage with bassist Harrison Bankhead and pianist Jodie Christian, starting with an interview by jazz scholar Travis Jackson; 6:30 p.m. Monday at HotHouse, 31 E. Balbo Drive. Free; 312-362-9707.
RANDY SANDKE
The trumpeter, a former Chicagoan, investigates pre-bebop jazz traditions, this time with like-minded tenor saxophonist Harry Allen; Tuesday through Sunday at the Jazz Showcase, 59 W. Grand Ave. $20; 312-670-2473.
— Howard Reich
MOVIES
AMOS GITAI’S `ALILA’
“Alila,” opening for a week run at Facets Cinematheque, is the latest movie by Israel’s finest filmmaker, Amos Gitai (“Kadosh,” “Kippur”). Set in a lower middle-class apartment complex in Tel Aviv, and based on a novel by Yehoshua Knaz (“Returning Lost Loves”), it’s a finely acted ensemble piece about the extremes of city life, mixed origins and temperaments, filmed in a style of amazing fluidity and control. In Hebrew with English subtitles. At Facets Cinematheque, 1517 W. Fullerton Ave. 773-281-9075.
GEORGE RYAN AND THE DEATH PENALTY
A good documentary on a momentous subject, director Katy Chevigny and Kirsten Johnson’s “Deadline” is an effective piece of advocacy-journalism about the morality/legality of capital punishment and the factors behind former Gov. George Ryan’s controversial decision in 2003 to commute the executions of 164 Illinois prisoners on Death Row. Among the many interviewees: lawyers, activists, victims’ families, Death Row inmates past and present (some exonerated), Tribune reporters Steve Mills and Maurice Possley, Ryan himself and lawyer-novelist Scott Turow. Starts Friday at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute, 164 N. State St. 312-846-2600.
LUCAS BELVAUX’S AMAZING FRENCH TRILOGY
Belgian writer-director-actor Lucas Belvaux’s complete “Trilogie” — three movies in which the same story changes genres (thriller, comedy, drama) when lived by different characters. Part One, “On the Run,” is a gut-grabber, the brutally fast, shiveringly compassionate tale of escaped radical terrorist Bruno (Belvaux) set loose in today’s Grenoble. Part Two, “An Amazing Couple,” is a romantic comedy about two bystanders, a clueless bourgeois couple (Ornella Muti and Francois Morel). Part Three, “After the Life,” is about the torment of Pascal (Gilbert Melki), the cop chasing Bruno and his dope-addicted wife (Dominique Blanc). All three films will be shown Sunday; “After the Life” continues through Thursday. In French with English subtitles. At Landmark Century Centre, 2828 N. Clark St. 773-509-4949.
— Michael Wilmington
THEATER
`LEONCE AND LENA’
Antic, highly inventive craziness from director Sean Graney and The Hypocrites. Georg Buchner’s 1836 fairy tale, about the prince of Peep and the princess of Pup, didn’t get produced until a half-century after Buchner’s death at age 23. It’s a seminal punk masterwork, and Graney has a ball with it, guiding a young, fleet-footed ensemble with a precision rare in any sort of contemporary shot at commedia-styled slapstick. As the servant with the bullhorn says: Ja! Gut! Through July 11 at the Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport Ave. $15-$20; 312-902-1500.
— Michael Phillips
`JOB OPPORTUNITY’
In Michael Fossberg’s noir-esque crime-caper show, the dramatic action takes place in the front seat of a moving 1985 Oldsmobile — literally. All seating for the audience, maximum of four, is in the car, which roams the city streets. The real fun is that one has no idea which street denizens are in the cast and who is simply roaming the streets. There’s a whiff of danger here, especially if you go for one of the late-night road trips; open run at Bailiwick Repertory Arts Center, 1229 W. Belmont Ave. $37; 773-883-1090.
— Chris Jones