Steppenwolf Theatre Company Blog – Chicago Theater, World-Class Ensemble

Last week at Steppenwolf was the final week of Rivendell Theatre Ensemble’s production of The Walls which was presented under the Visiting Company Initiative in the Garage Theatre.   Over in the Downstairs Theatre, Steppenwolf’s final subscription series play, Up, began its first week of previews.  And finally, this past Saturday night in the Upstairs Theatre, another visiting company, 500 Clown had their first preview performance of their production of 500 Clown and the Elephant Deal.

In addition, tomorrow all three of the plays of The First Look Repertory of New Work, Honest, Sex with Strangers, and Ski Dubai all begin rehearsal simultaneously.

It will be a busy and full summer at Steppenwolf and we look forward to hearing your responses to the work and to continuing our conversation with you.

Wait! There’s more. We just opened The Tempest and I can’t wait to hear your responses to the production. As you know, it is the first Shakespeare play we have presented on our subscription series (we did a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream years ago for our student series). I look forward to hearing your interpretations of the play and the production.

Here we are in April and we still have five more Steppenwolf productions yet to open on our season, as well as two productions by visiting companies. Our final subscription series play, Up by Bridget Carpenter, directed by ensemble member Anna Shapiro, begins rehearsal in May and plays through the summer; our Steppenwolf for Young Adults production of Of Mice and Men opens at the end of April; our First Look Repertory of New Work premieres three new plays (Sex with Strangers by Laura Eason, Honest by ensemble member Eric Simonson, and Ski Dubai by Laura Jacqmin) in July. Our visiting companies are Rivendell with The Walls and 500 Clown and the Elephant Deal in our Upstairs Theatre.

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