Steppenwolf Theatre Company is a Tony Award-winning Chicago theatre company founded in 1974 by Gary Sinise, Terry Kinney and Jeff Perry in the basement of a church in Highland Park, Illinois. Its name comes from the Herman Hesse book. It's current production manager is Al Franklin. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... See also: Chicago theatre, the theatre movement in the city of Chicago The Chicago Theatre is a famous theater landmark in the city of Chicago, Illinois located at 175 North State Street. ... Gary Alan Sinise (born March 17, 1955) is an Emmy winning American actor and film director. ... Terry Kinney(b. ... Perry in his best known role Harvey Leek on Nash Bridges Jeff Perry is an American character actor with a diverse resume encompassing television, theater, and film. ... Highland Park is a city in the Morraine township of Lake County, Illinois, United States. ... Hermann Hesse Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962) was a German author, and the winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in literature. ...

In 1980, the theater company moved into a 134-seat theater at the Jane Addams Hull House Center on North Broadway Avenue in the city proper. Two years later, the company moved to a 211-seat facility at 2851 North Halsted, which was their home until 1991, when they completed construction on and moved into their current theater complex at 1650 North Halsted. With its current subscription base of more than 20,000, the company has helped make Chicago a leading city in the performing arts. Hull House, co-founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr who were soon joined by other volunteers called residents, was one of the first settlement houses in the U.S. and eventually grew into one of the largest, with facilities in 13 buildings. ...

In its inaugural season, the company presented Paul Zindel's And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Grease, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. Paul Zindel (May 15, 1936–March 27, 2003) was an American author and playwright. ... And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little is an American play written by Paul Zindel and published by Dramatists Play Services. ... Grease is a musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. ... Tom Stoppard in a 1985 documentary for the film Brazil Sir Tom Stoppard, OM, CBE (born Tomáš Straussler on July 3, 1937) is an Academy Award winning British playwright. ... Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is a humorous, absurdist, tragic and existentialist play by Tom Stoppard, first staged in 1966. ... Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by the pen name Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. ... The Glass Menagerie is a play by Tennessee Williams. ...

In 1982, Sam Shepard's True West, starring Sinise and John Malkovich, was the first of many Steppenwolf productions to travel to New York City. In 1994, the company made its Los Angeles debut with Steve Martin's first play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Actor Sam Shepard mulls over a scene in the motion picture Stealth, while filming on June 15, 2004, aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. ... True West Magazine (alternate title: TrueWest) is an American magazine that contains glossy articles and covers; reporting about events that happened in the Old West era. ... John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, musician and composer. ... Picasso at the Lapin Agile is a play written by Steve Martin in 1993. ...

Through its New Plays Initiative, the company maintains ongoing relationships with writers of international prominence and supports the work of aspiring and mid-career playwrights. In 1988, Steppenwolf presented the world premiere of The Grapes of Wrath, based on the John Steinbeck novel, which eventually went on to win the Tony Award for Best Play. In 2000 it presented the world premiere of Austin Pendleton's Orson's Shadow, which subsequently was staged off-Broadway and by regional theatres throughout the country. Steppewolf operates several internship programs for students or young professionals. A playwright is an author of plays for performance in the theater. ... The Grapes of Wrath is a play by Frank Galati with incidental music by Michael Smith. ... John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) is one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... Austin Pendleton (born on 27 March 1940 in Warren, Ohio, USA) is an American movie, television and stage actor. ... Orsons Shadow is a play by Austin Pendleton. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... Regional theatres (also called resident theatres) in the United States are professional theatre companies outside of New York City that produce their own seasons. ...

Steppenwolf productions helped to launch the careers of a number of well-known American actors, including Gary Sinise, John Malkovich, Joan Allen, John Mahoney, Martha Plimpton, Francis Guinan, Glenne Headly, Gary Cole, Kathryn Erbe, and Laurie Metcalf. Gary Alan Sinise (born March 17, 1955) is an Emmy winning American actor and film director. ... John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director. ... Joan Allen in a scene from The Contender Joan Allen (b. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Plimpton at the New York premiere of Miramaxs Kill Bill: Volume 1 Martha Plimpton (born Martha Carradine on November 16, 1970, in New York City) is former model turned actress who was born to famous actor parents Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton. ... Francis Guinan is an American actor who is perhaps best known for his role as Edgar Teller the patriarch in the short-lived NBC series Eerie, Indiana. ... Glenne Headly (born on 13 March 1955 in New London, Connecticut, USA) is an American actress. ... Gary Cole (born September 20, 1956) is an American actor, known for numerous roles, including the television series Fatal Vision, The West Wing, Midnight Caller, American Gothic, Wanted and Crusade, and the films Office Space, In the Line of Fire, Kiss the Sky, Dodgeball, The Brady Bunch Movie, A Very... Kathryn Erbe (born July 5, 1966) is an American actress best known for her role as Detective Alexandra Eames on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, a spin-off of Law & Order. ... Laurie Metcalf (born June 16, 1955) is an Emmy award winning American actress. ...

Among its many honors are a 1985 Tony Award for Regional Theatre Excellence and a 1998 National Medal of Arts. The company currently is in its 31st season.

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External links

• Steppenwolf Theatre Company - Official Site
• Steppenwolf Theatre Yahoo Group