Christmas as Calamity! Holiday Sauce… Pandemic! blends music, film, burlesque and random acts of fabulousness in the most subversive and cathartic event of the season! 2020 Ibsen Award winner and MacArthur Fellow Taylor Mac (who uses “judy” as a gender pronoun) invites long-time collaborators and surprise special guests to celebrate the holidays in all of their dysfunction. There is more to the holidays than rampant capitalism and gift giving— in Taylor’s world, creativity and imagination are their own spirituality.

Running December 12th, 13th, 19th, and 20th | In this world premiere online event created for audiences of all ages, interdisciplinary performance collective Manual Cinema takes on Charles Dickens’s holiday classic with a visually inventive adaptation made to broadcast directly to your home. It will be performed live in Manual Cinema’s Chicago studio in a socially distanced manner, and live streamed to audiences at home.

Running December 18th - 31st | Experience the magic of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® in the Park. From your socially-distanced pod on the lawn, you and your loved ones will be transported into the dream of a brave little girl named Marie and the enchanting world of The Nutcracker.

Running October 10th - April 11th | Discover Nature’s Superheroes: Life at the Limits, a new special exhibition on view from October 10, 2020 - April 11, 2021 at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science that explores the remarkable “superpowers” that some extraordinary organisms have evolved to survive and thrive, even under extreme conditions.