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  • Review “Seagull” (Steppenwolf Theatre): Peyankov’s Adaptation Finds the Humor

    Friday, May 13, 2022 Steppenwolf Theatre Permalink 0

    Steppenwolf Theatre presents Yasen Peyankov’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s SEAGULL.   Chekhov penned his dark comedy in 1895. The play focuses on a writer’s (played by Namir Smallwood) quest for love from his mother (played by Luisa Strus), his neighbor Nina (played by Caroline Neff) and his audience. At the onset of the show, Smallwood debuts his ...

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  • Review “King James” (Steppenwolf Theatre): Winner!

    Sunday, March 20, 2022 Steppenwolf Theatre, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Steppenwolf Theatre and Center Theatre Group presents the World Premiere of KING JAMES. Just in time for March Madness, Playwright Rajiv Joseph debuts his tribute to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Joseph tells the tale of two fans turned friends. The guys meet to purchase season tickets as LeBron James joins the Cavs. Their resulting bromance chronicles LeBron’s ...

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  • Review “Bug”(Steppenwolf Theatre): A Creepy-Crawly Demented Nightmare

    Tuesday, November 16, 2021 Steppenwolf Theatre, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Steppenwolf Theatre presents BUG.  A woman battles loneliness. A man fights to be free. They both want to escape their pasts. They meet at a party and it changes their lives… forever. Playwright Tracy Letts twists a rom-com-like premise into a demented nightmare. Letts lets his paranoia run wild and wacky. He pulls the audience into ...

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  • Review “Dance Nation” (Steppenwolf Theatre): Dreams. Hopes. Desires. Needs.

    Wednesday, December 25, 2019 Steppenwolf Theatre, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Reviewed by Kevin Porter Steppenwolf Theatre Company presents DANCE NATION. Dreams.  Hopes.  Desires.  Needs.  Is there ever a time where these concerns are of greater import than age 13? The required casting of actors all across the age spectrum in Dance Nation made me think Clare Barron believes these concerns are just as towering, dramatic, and exciting at each point of ...

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  • Review “True West” (Steppenwolf Theatre): Brotherly Vivisection

    Wednesday, July 17, 2019 Steppenwolf Theatre, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Steppenwolf Theatre presents TRUE WEST. Austin (played by Jon Michael Hill) is working on a screenplay while housesitting for his mom. When his brother Lee (played by Namir Smallwood) shows up unexpectedly, the pair are forced to grapple with aspirations and competition. Austin is married and an established writer. Lee is a fast-talking drifter with big ...

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  • Review “The Children” (Steppenwolf Theatre): Intriguing Story, Nonchalance Storytelling

    Sunday, May 12, 2019 Steppenwolf Theatre, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Steppenwolf Theatre Company presents the Chicago premiere of THE CHILDREN. Playwright Lucy Kirkwood layers the intrigue in her play about the fallout from a disaster. The cautionary tale describes home life post nuclear explosion. Survivors are living in designated safe zones. Water, food, and electricity are valuable rations. Her doomsday scenario is palpable. Kirkwood drops us into a ...

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  • Review “A Doll’s House, Part 2” (Steppenwolf Theatre): Intellectual Sparring

    Wednesday, February 13, 2019 Steppenwolf Theatre, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Steppenwolf Theatre presents the Chicago premiere of A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2. ‘What happened next?’ is a question pondered at the end of many stories. The ambitious Lucas Hnath decides to answer that question in his sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Ibsen ended his play with Nora, a nineteenth century wife and mother, walking ...

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  • Review “La Ruta” (Steppenwolf Theatre): Gentler Version of Reality

    Monday, December 31, 2018 Steppenwolf Theatre, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Steppenwolf Theatre presents the World Premiere of LA RUTA. Mexican women are being hunted in their own home country. Over the last few decades, it’s been reported 1,400 have been killed and thousands more are still missing. Women disappear. If they reappear, they have been raped, mutilated, dismembered, killed. Thousands remain missing. These ‘lost’ women are ...

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  • Review “Familiar” (Steppenwolf Theatre): Unexpectedly Poignant

    Thursday, November 29, 2018 Steppenwolf Theatre, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Steppenwolf Theatre presents FAMILIAR. Playwright Danai Gurira introduces us to a somewhat typical Minnesota family. The Zimbabwean-American parents (played by Ora Jones and Cedric Young) bicker over TV. Their free-spirited daughter (played by Celeste M. Cooper) ruminates over the family not reading her blog. Their eldest daughter (played by Lanise Antoine Shelley) has become a fervent ...

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  • “The Doppelgänger” (Steppenwolf Theatre): Personality Conflict

    Wednesday, April 25, 2018 Steppenwolf Theatre, The Fourth Walsh Permalink 0

    Steppenwolf Presents the World Premiere Production of "The Doppelgänger (an international farce)". Fans of the TV comedy "The Office" get their Dwight Shrute fix in Steppenwolf's latest show. Rainn Wilson plays a wealthy British businessman, an American doofus and then the doofus pretending to be the Brit business guy. The Doppelgänger sounds like an ideal sitcom plot ...

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