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Steppenwolf Theatre announces major layoffs: ‘We’re not too big to fail’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo Finance· 9 months agoSteppenwolf Theatre Company, one of Chicago’s most storied arts institutions and long a crucial part...
Steppenwolf Theatre’s 2023-24 season has Laurie Metcalf and a new play from the author of ‘The...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA rare appearance by longtime ensemble member and acclaimed American actress Laurie Metcalf in a new play by Samuel D. Hunter and a world premiere about Black politics from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ...
Column: What happened to theater in Chicago?
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 10 months agoIn March 2019, a group of Steppenwolf Theatre leaders gathered at the offices of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, an internationally renowned architecture and...
Frank Galati, pioneering Chicago theater artist and Oscar nominee, is dead at 79
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCHICAGO — Frank Galati, a pivotal figure over five decades in Chicago theater, a Tony Award-winning...
Tony Award-winner, Chicago stage champion Frank Galati dies
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFrank Galati, an actor, director, teacher and adapter who was a pivotal figure in Chicago's theater...
Phylicia Rashad will direct at Steppenwolf Theatre next season
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo Sports· 10 months agoPhylicia Rashad will direct a world premiere play at Steppenwolf Theatre next season, the theater announced Wednesday. The two-time Tony Award winner will direct “Purpose” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ...
Austin Pendleton drops out of Steppenwolf’s ‘No Man’s Land’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 11 months agoSteppenwolf Theatre Company has announced that actor Austin Pendleton, 83, has dropped out of his leading role as Spooner in the theater’s upcoming production of the Harold Pinter play “No Man ...
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins births a Chicago political drama at Steppenwolf with ‘Purpose’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 months ago“Stick a few movie or TV stars in ‘Appropriate,'” I wrote in this newspaper of a show at Chicago’s...
Steppenwolf Theatre’s 2024-25 season includes ‘Noises Off’ (say what?) and the return of Amy Morton
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 months agoSteppenwolf Theatre Company has announced its strikingly eclectic 2024-25 season, including the surely unpredictable pairing of former artistic director Anna D. Shapiro and Michael Frayn’s British ...
Review: ‘Describe the Night’ at Steppenwolf Theatre is a long night exploring the origins of Putin’s...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSteppenwolf Theatre’s production of Rajiv Joseph’s “Describe the Night” is one weird cat of a show. I can’t recall ever seeing a piece that was so beautifully composed and acted in its individual ...