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Company is known for its acting ensemble and is well regarded in Chicago and nationwide. It was founded in 1974 by actors Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry and Gary Sinise, incorporating in the following year and finding a home in 1976 in the basement of the Immaculate Conception Church and School in Highland Park. The company moved in 1980 to a 134-seat theater at the Jane Addams Hull House Center. In 1982, "True West," with John Malkovich and Gary Sinise, was the first Steppenwolf production brought to New York. In 1990, "The Grapes of Wrath" won a Tony for best director/play for Frank Galati and best play for the 1989-90 season. The company moved to its current home in 1991. Ensemble playwright Tr...
Company is known for its acting ensemble and is well regarded in Chicago and nationwide. It was founded in 1974 by actors Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry and Gary Sinise, incorporating in the following year and finding a home in 1976 in the basement of the Immaculate Conception Church and School in Highland Park. The company moved in 1980 to a 134-seat theater at the Jane Addams Hull House Center. In 1982, "True West," with John Malkovich and Gary Sinise, was the first Steppenwolf production brought to New York. In 1990, "The Grapes of Wrath" won a Tony for best director/play for Frank Galati and best play for the 1989-90 season. The company moved to its current home in 1991. Ensemble playwright Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County" went to Broadway in 2007. There are three theaters at the venue: Downstairs Stage (main space with 515 seats); Upstairs Theatre; and Garage Theatre (often used to produce works from outside companies). The company's Traffic series is for artists of varying disciplines.
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Stephen Eich resigns as Pasadena Playhouse executive director
Culture MonsterStephen Eich is resigning after 2 1/2 years as executive director of the Pasadena Playhouse. He helped see the company through a financial crisis that included an eight-month shutdown, bankruptcy proceedings and a return to stability.... -
Lisa D'Amour, Melissa James Gibson win playwright award
Culture MonsterLisa D'Amour, the playwright of the Broadway-bound "Detroit," and Melissa James Gibson, the writer of "This," are the winners of the prestigious Steinberg Playwrighting Award, which honors achievements by playwrights every two years.... -
Reg Rogers is misbehavin', to good effect
It was evident from the moment Reg Rogers stepped onstage in "Measure for Measure" in Central Park this summer that he wasn't your typical Shakespearean actor.
As the acid-tongued Lucio in the Bard's comedy, Rogers quipped, cast a wry eye and generally...Tags: Philip Barry, Sharon Lawrence, Dudley Moore, Tony Awards, Central Park
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Lanford Wilson dies at 73; Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Playwright Lanford Wilson, a gentle writer from Missouri who wrote of urban desperation but most revealed his heart through rich and emotional dramas centered on the struggles of small-town Midwestern life, died Thursday at a hospital in Wayne, N.J. He...Tags: Terry Kinney, Companies and Corporations, Chicago Tribune, Human Interest, Awards and Prizes
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Lanford Wilson, celebrated playwright of 'Burn This,' has died at 73
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Kurt Elling: a jazz singer with a literary, collaborative bent
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Bruce Norris' 'Clybourne Park' wins Pulitzer Prize for drama
Culture MonsterBruce Norris' "Clybourne Park" -- a dramatic imagining of events taking place before and after Lorraine Hansberry's classic "A Raisin in the Sun" -- won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for drama. The award was announced Monday in New York. "Clybourne...... -
Theater review: 'August: Osage County' at San Diego's Old Globe
Culture MonsterFor the Old Globe’s staging of Tracy Letts’ acclaimed play “August: Osage County,” scenic designer David Zinn has built a three-story dollhouse on a human scale. Director Sam Gold revels in his power as the unseen agent who... -
The Edward Albee-Tracy Letts connection
Culture MonsterWhen the playwright-actor Tracy Letts and his longtime muse Amy Morton officially ignite George and Martha’s famous Fun and Games in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” in Chicago this weekend, it will mark the first time a play by Edward...... -
Leading SoCal stage actors win a week in Wisconsin with Olympia Dukakis
Culture MonsterAn actor is never too good or too experienced to benefit from a week away at theater camp. That’s the premise behind the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program, inaugurated in 2009 in the Wisconsin woods, where chosen actors get to spend a...... -
Monster Mash: Salvador Dalí museum opens in Florida; Metropolitan Museum of Art gets $10 million
Culture MonsterSurreal: A new museum devoted to artist Salvador Dalí officially opened on Tuesday in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Reuters) Big bucks: Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch are giving a gift of $10 million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York......
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