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STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY IS A Chicago-based international performing arts institution committed to ensemble collaboration and artistic risk through its work with its permanent ensemble, guest artists, partner institutions and the community. Steppenwolf has redefined the landscape of acting and performance by spawning a Steppenwolf Theater Tickets generation of America's most gifted artists. Founded in 1974 as an ensemble of nine actors, Steppenwolf has grown into an internationally renowned company of forty-one artists whose talents include acting, directing, playwriting, filmmaking, and textual adaptation. No other Steppenwolf Theater Tickets American theater ensemble has survived as long and thrived as much as the Steppenwolf company of artists.
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 Steppenwolf Theater Tickets comes from the Herman Hesse book.
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 Steppenwolf Theater Tickets 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 Steppenwolf Theater Tickets company has helped make Chicago a leading city in the performing arts.
In its inaugural season, the company Steppenwolf Theater Tickets 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.
In 1982, Sam Shepard's True West, starring Sinise Steppenwolf Theater Tickets 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.
Through its New Plays Initiative, the company maintains Steppenwolf Theater Tickets 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, Steppenwolf Theater Tickets which subsequently was staged off-Broadway and by regional theatres throughout the country.
Steppenwolf productions helped to launch the Steppenwolf Theater Tickets 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.
Among its many honors are a 1985 Tony Award for Steppenwolf Theater Tickets Regional Theatre Excellence and a 1998 National Medal of Arts. The company currently is in its 31st season.
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