Review: Steep Theatre’s The Writer Makes a Feminist Assault on Theater and Its Patriarchy
The Writer, Steep Theatre’s new play by English playwright Ella Hickson, is an assault on theater and on the patriarchy.…
Review: Steep Theatre’s Light Falls Unfolds a Panoramic Family Tragedy
Christine stands, spotlighted, center stage, and begins to tell her story. She’s blonde and fair, middle-aged, wearing a light blue…
Review: Steep Theatre’s Paris Is a Workplace Tragicomedy With a Family Feeling
Paris is a workplace comedy or more accurately, a tragicomedy. It’s tinged with sadness, tainted with racism and with the despair…
Feature: Chicago Theaters on the Move as the Environment Changes …. Dramatically
Two lean years of pandemic economics, entwined with continuing, insistent calls for real racial justice and gender equity and an…
Review: The Leopard Play at Steep Theatre Tells a Brutally Loving Family Story
Honest. Crude. Raw. Those are some of the words that came to me as I walked away from Steep Theatre…
Review: Science and Family Trauma in Mosquitoes at Steep Theatre Is Exciting and Perplexing
You might look at Mosquitoes as two plays, stitched together. Set mostly in Geneva, Switzerland, where nuclear scientists work on…
Playtime Radio: Talk About Youth Violence, Art Festivals, Classical Music, Pomona Redux
Third Coast Review is collaborating with Playtime with Bill Turck and Kerri Kendall. We appear on their Sunday afternoon arts…
Review: Pomona at Steep Theatre Tells a Sci-Fi Horror Story
Zeppo (Peter Moore) is driving around the ring road in Manchester, eating Chicken McNuggets (he buys ’em by the hundred)…
Review: Steep Theatre’s First Love Is the Revolution Gives Us a Different Skew on Love
Heartbreaking and hilarious. Both at the same time. First Love Is the Revolution at Steep Theatre is a classic romance where…
Review: At Steep Theatre, Red Rex Wrestles With Who Gets to Tell the Story
The Red Rex Theatre Co. rehearses a play about characters drawn from their own Rightlynd neighborhood in Ike Holter’s play…
Tension Builds in Luxury Hotel Room(s) in Zurich at Steep Theatre
Zürich by Amelia Roper at Steep Theatre is a tantalizing 105 minutes of tension, laced with some smart dialogue. Directed by Brad…
Review: Career and Life Come Crashing Down on Linda at Steep Theatre
Linda, the Steep Theatre production of Penelope Skinner’s 2015 play, is entertaining and poignant, cataloging the life and career of the…
