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A white man in a burgundy shirt and gray vest sits left at a table in a bar, across from a Black man in a Cleveland Cavaliers T-shirt and baseball cap
Posted inTheater Review

King James explores basketball and male bonding

by Sheri Flanders March 16, 2022March 21, 2022

I’ve always been ambivalent about the use of land acknowledgements in the arts sector, but as I am not of Indigenous descent, I can’t speak for Indigenous opinions on the matter. At the world premiere of King James at Steppenwolf, the audience was treated to not only a land acknowledgement, but also to what I […]

Posted inGhost Light

Steppenwolf sets up Loft-y ambitions in new building

by Kerry Reid November 5, 2021November 5, 2021

Steppenwolf finally cut the ribbon on their new theater and education center on Tuesday after two and a half years of construction, and everybody from Governor Pritzker and Mayor Lightfoot (whose wife, Amy Eshleman, is on the theater’s board of trustees) to many current members of the ensemble showed up to mark the occasion, which […]

Bear Bellinger and Kate Shindle
Posted inArts & Culture

A tsunami of news and a new path for Actors’ Equity membership

by Kerry Reid July 30, 2021August 18, 2021

Changes in faces, places, and union rules might carry harbingers of a shifting landscape in Chicago theater.

Posted inArts & Culture

With Downstate, Bruce Norris finally earns his Pulitzer

by Tony Adler October 3, 2018August 18, 2021

And director Pam MacKinnon and her Steppenwolf cast give us a masterwork.

Posted inArts & Culture

Crisis comes to the megachurch in Steppenwolf’s The Christians

by Albert Williams December 15, 2016August 18, 2021

Lucas Hnath’s gospel-infused drama addresses religious faith in unconventional form.

Tim Hopper, Ron Cephas Jones, James T. Alfred, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Jacqueline Williams, and Glenn Davis
Posted inArts & Culture

At Steppenwolf, a flawed work signals a major talent

by Tony Adler April 18, 2013August 19, 2021

Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Head of Passes puts a payment down on future masterpieces.

"The Brother/Sister Plays"
Posted inArts & Culture

Like a Foreign Country

by Tony Adler February 4, 2010August 19, 2021

Tarell Alvin McCraney’s jolting close-up of life on the gulf coast

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