Also, the number of homicides in Chicago in 2017 is now on pace to exceed 2016 levels.
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A manipulative teen spoils the payoff in Steppenwolf’s Grand Concourse
It’s set in a Bronx soup kitchen, but Grand Concourse doesn’t show much social conscience.
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Best Use of Daft Punk
Both tunes were everywhere, but “Get Lucky” is no “Happy.”
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In Russian Transport, something viral this way comes
In Steppenwolf’s Russian Transport, a family is infected by history.
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Still thinking about Lookingglass Theatre’s Still Alice—and about Alzheimer’s
The play and the novel it’s based on grapple with the disease honestly, as does a recent account in free verse.
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Alzheimer’s from the inside out
Christine Mary Dunford adapts Still Alice, Lisa Genova’s novel about early-onset Alzheimer’s, to the stage.
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Chops at last!
Steppenwolf Theatre Company stages the Chicago premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People
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Artificial Intelligence/Steppenwolf Strikes a Nerve
Media columnist Mike Miner on Y2K and Steppenwolf’s 1999 production of Hysteria, a dark farce that raised the issue of “trigger warnings” before the term had come into use.
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Final Analysis
Albert Williams reviews Steppenwolf Theatre’s 1999 production of Hysteria, by British playwright Terry Johnson