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Steppenwolf’s ‘Detroit’ to play Broadway in Fall 2011
From a just-released press announcement: Steppenwolf Theatre Company is pleased to announce its new American play Detroit by Lisa D’Amour and directed by ensemble member Austin Pendleton will open on...
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Steppenwolf’s ‘Sex with Strangers’ may make you revisit your privacy settings
Sally Murphy and Stephen Louis Grush: two intimate strangers In watching Sex with Strangers, Laura Eason’s provocative new play exploring how the online world has impacted the way we interact with...
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Sideshow Theatre Company’s ‘Heddatron’: Ibsen + robots = ftw
Her face says it all: Jane (Nina O’Keefe) stars as Hedda in the play-within-the-robot-play. On rare occasions do I leave a show not knowing what the hell I just witnessed, except for the fact that it...
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‘The Hot L Baltimore’ at Steppenwolf: raze this hotel and start over
It’s rare that I leave a theatre completely ambivalent. I mean, I almost forgot that I saw Steppenwolf’s production of The Hot L Baltimore a few hours after returning home yesterday. “It’s already...
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‘Middletown’ at Steppenwolf takes us to the middle of nowhere and everywhere
There’s nothing remarkable about Middletown, a fictional town that’s the inspiration for Will Eno’s new play that debuted in 2010 at NYC’s Vineyard Theatre and is now receiving a solid Steppenwolf...
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Chicago Like a Local: Steppenwolf’s ‘Penelope’
Four middle-aged men stand in the bottom of a giant pool baring their souls (and their bodies) in a desperate attempt to win the affections of an etherial figure who watches from her plasma TV above,...
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HuffPost Review: ‘Hit the Wall’ Throws Emotional Punches as It Breaks Down...
Hit the Wall, a powerful new play about the Stonewall Uprising produced by the relatively newbie theater company The Inconvenience, is one of those shows everyone in Chicago is talking about. Written...
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Steppenwolf’s ‘March’ fumbles and falls out of line
Shannon Matesky and Harry Groener in Steppenwolf’s “The March“ When adapting a 400 page epic novel for the stage, you usually have about three options: 1) Make the play 6 hours long to cover all the...
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HuffPo Review: Steppenwolf’s ‘Three Sisters’ Is Heavy-Handed Drama With...
The cast of Steppenwolf Theatre’s “Three Sisters,” now playing through August 26. What is it about Steppenwolf’s production of Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters (Here, simply called Three Sisters)...
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Steppenwolf’s excellent ‘Good People’ questions our bootstrap pulling power
Lusia Strus and Mariann Mayberry in Steppenwolf’s “Good People.” Now firmly in my 30s, its amazing the number of my friends who are living paycheck to paycheck — including, to a degree, me. Getting...
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