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Review: In The Great Leap at Steppenwolf, Basketball and Chinese Politics Mix It Up

The Great Leap is an homage to basketball and to playwright Lauren Yee’s father—and also connects to Chinese history and politics and the country’s competitiveness with the West. Yee’s latest play […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • September 24, 2019
    • Lit , Reviews , Stages

    Review: Ensemble, Mark Larson’s Oral History, Brings Chicago’s Theater Past Alive

    Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater is a book you can enjoy in two ways. You can read it from beginning to end, as you would any narrative of […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • September 14, 2019
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: True West, a True Time Capsule at Steppenwolf Theatre

    The play that launched Chicago’s lauded ensemble returns to the substantially larger stage for the first time since 1982. Sam Shepard’s True West propelled the Highland Park High School and […]

  • Karin McKie
  • July 18, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Ms. Blakk for President Is a Raucous Campaign Rally and Reminder of the AIDS Crisis

    Chicago had a candidate in the ring during the 1992 presidential election. Ms. Joan Jett Blakk ran for the Democratic nomination that year. What? You don’t remember her? She won […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • June 14, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: There Are No Children in The Children at Steppenwolf Theatre—It’s a Cautionary Tale

    There are no children in Lucy Kirkwood’s play, The Children. The play’s storyline is built on “the disaster,” which we don’t learn the nature of immediately. The disaster was an explosion […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 8, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: At Steppenwolf, A Doll’s House, Part 2, “Law & Order” Version

    To fully understand this witty and nuanced play, one must know that it is a sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s original A Doll’s House, which was written and set at the […]

  • Kim Campbell
  • February 14, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    2018 in Review: What We Liked on Stage

    This isn’t a “best theater of 2018” list. We didn’t see everything. Most of our writers are freelancers, all with other gigs, and it’s hard for us to cover the […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • December 27, 2018
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Pink Crosses Mark the Graves of the Desconocidas in Isaac Gomez’ Powerful La Ruta

    Pink crosses spread across the front of the stage. Many of them are marked “Desconocida” (unknown). Unmarked graves of young women who wanted to better their lives by working in […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • December 23, 2018
    • Stages , Theater

    In Steppenwolf’s Familiar, an Immigrant Family Comes to Terms With Old and New Customs

    Familiar at Steppenwolf Theatre rings true as a familiar story in one way or another for most of us. An immigrant family struggles with education and culture in its new country, […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • December 5, 2018
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Steppenwolf’s Devastating Downstate Dares Us to Look Evil in the Eyes

    What makes one a victim? And what moral superiority does a victim have over their aggressor? When is one’s humanity lost, and what qualifications, if any, are there to getting […]

  • Matthew Nerber
  • October 3, 2018
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Steppenwolf’s Lightweight The Roommate Aims for Laughs Over Depth

    Roommate

    Search the Chicago theater listings far and wide this summer and you will find very few productions with two 50-something women at the center of the production, if any (and […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • July 8, 2018
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Guards at the Taj Remounts Acclaimed New York Production for Steppenwolf Theatre

    Amy Morton, the legendary Steppenwolf Ensemble member known for her work as both actor and director, brings her staging of Rajiv Joseph’s off-Broadway smash hit to Chicago, complete with original […]

  • Matthew Nerber
  • June 15, 2018
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