Word: steppenwolf
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Past recipients of the Special Tony Awardinclude the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicagoand the Gutherie Theatre of Minneapolis
...have built back home. Having savored the East and West coasts, they insist on returning to the heartland. Their commitment is yielding a season any city might envy. Last week Danny Glover, the busiest black actor in Hollywood (The Color Purple, Witness, Silverado), made his Chicago stage debut at Steppenwolf's intimate--and perforce uncommercial--211- seat space in Athol Fugard's A Lesson from Aloes. A few blocks away, William Peterson, star of the film thriller To Live and Die in L.A., has rejoined the funky, avant-garde Remains Theater in a portrayal of brainwashing, Days and Nights Within...
...Chicago influence continues to spread. Steppenwolf is now represented on Broadway by an uneven but crowd-pleasing, hyperkinetic production of Pinter's The Caretaker, directed by John Malkovich, who was a 1985 Oscar nominee for his supporting role in Places in the Heart. Steppenwolf Artistic Director Gary Sinise will leave the cast March 1 to restage Lyle Kessler's Orphans, another past Steppenwolf venture, in London with a cast featuring Albert Finney. Meanwhile, Sinise, Malkovich and Peterson have all formed film- production companies. Also active in Hollywood is the first voice from the new Chicago theater to emerge into national...
Days and Nights Within was chosen to showcase Peterson's talents and those of the woman he lives with, Remains and Steppenwolf Actress Amy Morton. The story depicts the actual and dreamed encounters between a woman accused of spying in East Germany in the early 1950s and her Communist inquisitor. In the original production at Actors Theater of Louisville last year, the characters engaged in a kind of perverse romance, with each wistfully trying to break down barriers. In Chicago, the struggle is for power: Morton endows the woman with toughness, and Peterson portrays the questioner as an unimaginative bureaucrat...
...country, says that the Chicago scene's future depends equally on attracting young talent willing to work cheap and developing more institutions capable of challenging established artists. Although the Chicago League of Theaters has 109 members, only a handful pay Actors Equity-scale wages. One of them is Steppenwolf, which used to pay the average member about $3,000 a year and which has upped the figure to a still uncomfortable $10,000 or so. That kind of sacrifice has afforded Chicago a stage vitality and inventiveness rivaling the best of off-Broadway. The challenge is to sustain the freedom...