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Bites: What Actor Alanna Chavez Eats in a Day

Alanna Chavez grew up feeling quite alarmed by the phrase starving artist. But with roles like her current one in Porchlight Music Theatre’s production of Fun Home, she has proven […]

  • Caroline Huftalen
  • January 9, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Metaphysics at the Crossroads in Leroy and Lucy at Steppenwolf Theatre

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • November 5, 2024
    • Stages , Theater

    Steppenwolf’sYou Got Older Succeeds as a Quietly Realized Family Story

    After seeing Steppenwolf’s Chicago premiere of Clare Barron’s poignant play, You Got Older, I felt the need to text my sister. Much like Barron’s protagonist, Mae (Caroline Neff), my sister, […]

  • Brent Eickhoff
  • February 11, 2018
    • Stages , Theater

    Steppenwolf’s BLKS Celebrates the Chaos of Friendship and Adulthood

    BLKS, poet Aziza Barnes’ foray into playwriting, is a funny, insightful and honest look into the lives of four, 20-something black women living in New York City. Forged with humor […]

  • Brent Eickhoff
  • January 3, 2018
    • Stages , Theater

    Pass Over Reworks Waiting for Godot in an Exploration of Racial Oppression

    Steppenwolf, Pass Over

    Have you heard about Pass Over? It’s a play written by Antoinette Nwandu reworking Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot that opened at Steppenwolf Theatre last week. Pass Over uses the structure of absurdist theater to explore […]

  • Emma Terhaar
  • June 17, 2017
    • Stages , Theater

    Monster at Steppenwolf for Young Adults Probes Perception and Identity

    The Steppenwolf for Young Adults series is known for its thematically dynamic productions centered around teenagers and the real issues facing Chicago, and our nation’s, young adults. From productions like […]

  • Brent Eickhoff
  • February 27, 2017
    • Stages , Theater

    Steppenwolf’s The Fundamentals Exposes Dark Side of Corporate Life

    The world premiere of The Fundamentals, Erika Sheffer’s new play now running at Steppenwolf, offers a funny and sharp indictment of America’s corporate culture. In Sheffer’s play–which was commissioned by […]

  • Brent Eickhoff
  • November 30, 2016
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