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Review: Suzan-Lori Parks’ The Book of Grace—Beautifully Acted but a Mixed Bag at Steppenwolf Theatre

Suzan-Lori Parks is known for writing plays about the inner lives of Black Americans. The Book of Grace is a companion to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog, where brothers Lincoln and Booth live out […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • April 8, 2025
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Steppenwolf’s Last Night and the Night Before Tells a Family Story Laced by Drug Use, Violence…and Love

    Last Night and the Night Before at Steppenwolf Theatre is a tale of complex family relationships crippled by drug use and violence—but with love as the overriding theme. Donnetta Lavinia Grays’ […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • April 28, 2023
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: New Steppenwolf Ensemble Theater Sparkles With Seagull, in Which Everyone Is Miserable

    Seagull by Anton Chekhov adapted by Yasen Peyankov

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 17, 2022
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: At Steppenwolf Theatre, Tracy Letts’ Bug Exploits Our Skin-Crawling Anxieties

    Bug starts out like a Sam Shepard play. Two lost souls in a seedy Oklahoma motel room. Fools for love. Agnes (Carrie Coon) is a waitress who’s dreading her ex-husband’s […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • February 7, 2020
    • 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
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