Comments on: Tell Us Your Theater Wishes http://blog.steppenwolf.org/2009/07/07/tell-us-your-theater-wishes/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:02:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Renee Mumford http://blog.steppenwolf.org/2009/07/07/tell-us-your-theater-wishes/#comment-581 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:24:32 +0000 http://blog.steppenwolf.org/2009/07/07/tell-us-your-theater-wishes/#comment-581 I wish I may, I wish I might, have another Letts ('s) play Broadway. Wish come true! Congratulations Mr. Letts ala Superior Donuts. Here's to Uptown. And also love plays with pretty costumes and scenery set in France. Thanks. I wish I may, I wish I might, have another Letts (’s) play Broadway.

Wish come true!

Congratulations Mr. Letts ala Superior Donuts. Here’s to Uptown.

And also love plays with pretty costumes and scenery set in France. Thanks.

]]> by: Joy Haas http://blog.steppenwolf.org/2009/07/07/tell-us-your-theater-wishes/#comment-580 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:45:48 +0000 http://blog.steppenwolf.org/2009/07/07/tell-us-your-theater-wishes/#comment-580 My husband and I enjoy edgy theatre. We are not from Chicago. My first trip to Steppenwolf was in the '80s. Gary Cole was playing in a 4 person comedy/drama. I don't remember the name but the 4 people were sealed in a underground bunker because one of the 4 pushed the panic button sealing them in until the nuclear war was over - there was no nuclear war. It was masterful. We have seen so much theatre is so many cities since. We like theatre which makes us think, that lets us tear is apart and put it back together, that makes us think and talk about the performance to friends for days. No fluffy, cotton candy theatre for us....bring on the edge! We look forward to seeing UP on our next visit to Chicago in August. Break a few Legs! J&J Haas, Raleigh, NC My husband and I enjoy edgy theatre. We are not from Chicago. My first trip to Steppenwolf was in the ’80s. Gary Cole was playing in a 4 person comedy/drama. I don’t remember the name but the 4 people were sealed in a underground bunker because one of the 4 pushed the panic button sealing them in until the nuclear war was over - there was no nuclear war. It was masterful. We have seen so much theatre is so many cities since. We like theatre which makes us think, that lets us tear is apart and put it back together, that makes us think and talk about the performance to friends for days. No fluffy, cotton candy theatre for us….bring on the edge!
We look forward to seeing UP on our next visit to Chicago in August.
Break a few Legs!
J&J Haas, Raleigh, NC

]]> by: Josh Sobel http://blog.steppenwolf.org/2009/07/07/tell-us-your-theater-wishes/#comment-579 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:12:36 +0000 http://blog.steppenwolf.org/2009/07/07/tell-us-your-theater-wishes/#comment-579 As naive, idealistic, and cheesy as it sounds... I go to and work to make theatre in order to change the world. Theatre forces us to look at ourselves and what we are capable of even when we are afraid to look, even if what we see is not what we care to admit. And it is through brutal honesty and incisive, imaginative artistry that truths about ourselves, exciting, grand, and repulsive truths, are revealed and explored. And it is through this theatre, through a theatre that grabs its audience and says "look what we can do", a theatre that emotionally and/or intellectually affects, infects, and involves its audience, that the world can be changed. Because if this theatre can affect one person's being in such a way, then that one world has been changed, even if they don't realize it. And if it can affect a hundred people's beings... well you get the idea. And I don't see anything wrong with being just a little idealistic. As naive, idealistic, and cheesy as it sounds… I go to and work to make theatre in order to change the world.

Theatre forces us to look at ourselves and what we are capable of even when we are afraid to look, even if what we see is not what we care to admit. And it is through brutal honesty and incisive, imaginative artistry that truths about ourselves, exciting, grand, and repulsive truths, are revealed and explored. And it is through this theatre, through a theatre that grabs its audience and says “look what we can do”, a theatre that emotionally and/or intellectually affects, infects, and involves its audience, that the world can be changed. Because if this theatre can affect one person’s being in such a way, then that one world has been changed, even if they don’t realize it. And if it can affect a hundred people’s beings… well you get the idea.

And I don’t see anything wrong with being just a little idealistic.

]]> by: tom vest http://blog.steppenwolf.org/2009/07/07/tell-us-your-theater-wishes/#comment-577 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:02:27 +0000 http://blog.steppenwolf.org/2009/07/07/tell-us-your-theater-wishes/#comment-577 there is a quote in American Theatre magazine a few months ago that i feel sums it up best : "As society becomes more digitized, equal and opposite to that drive is the growing need for authenticity. Live theatre offers just that: authentic artisitic experiences." there is a quote in American Theatre magazine a few months ago that i feel sums it up best :
“As society becomes more digitized, equal and opposite to that drive is the growing need for authenticity. Live theatre offers just that: authentic artisitic experiences.”

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