Steppenwolf Theatre announces 2010-2011 Season
Steppenwolf Theatre has pleased to announced its 2010-2011 Subscription Season, exploring the theme of public/private self
"For our 2010-2011 season, we explore the theme of public/private self. The five plays we have chosen explore howthe public and private aspects of our lives unfold in an increasingly complex world," comments Steppenwolf Artistic Director Martha Lavey. "We have chosen five stories that, in their unique ways, reveal the dual nature of our public/private lives and the multiple communities in which we circulate. The dynamic interplay between our public and private selves is home to both our darkness and our brilliance. We invite you to join us for our 35th anniversary and experience lives that may seem familiar-until they reveal their beautiful, strange angles," adds Lavey.
Steppenwolf ensemble members currently confirmed for the 2010-2011 Season include: Alana Arenas, Kate Arrington, Robert Breuler, K. Todd Freeman, Tina Landau, Tracy Letts, Amy Morton, Sally Murphy and Yasen Peyankov. Additional casting to be announced.
The Steppenwolf Theatre Company 2010-2011 Subscription Season includes:
September 9 - November 7, 2010
Detroit
A new play by Lisa D'Amour
Featuring ensemble members Kate Arrington and Robert Breuler
In the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
Picture-perfect couple Ben and Mary fire up the grill to welcome the new neighbors who've moved into the long-empty house next door. Three barbeques later, the fledgling friendship veers out of control, shattering Ben and Mary's carefully maintained semblance of success-with comic, unexpected consequences. Detroit is a fresh, off-beat look at what happens when we dare to open ourselves up to something new.
December 2, 2010 - February 6, 2011
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Directed by Pam MacKinnon
Featuring ensemble members Tracy Letts and Amy Morton
In the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
On the campus of a small New England college, George and Martha invite a new professor and his wife home for a nightcap. As the cocktails flow, the young couple finds themselves caught in the crossfire of a savage marital war where the combatants attack the self deceptions they forged for their own survival. Ensemble members Tracy Letts and Amy Morton face off as one of theatre's most notoriously dysfunctional couples in Albee's hilarious and harrowing masterpiece.
January 20 - May 15, 2011
Sex with Strangers
By Laura Eason
Directed by associate artist Jessica Thebus
Featuring ensemble member Sally Murphy with Stephen Louis Grush
In the Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre
Ethan is a hot young writer whose online journals of "sexcapades" are the buzz of the blogosphere. Olivia is an attractive 30-something whose own writing career is fizzling. They hook up, sex turns into dating and dating into something more complicated. A break-out hit at Steppenwolf's 2009 First Look Repertory, Sex with Strangers explores how we invent our identity - online and off - and what happens when our private lives become public domain.
March 24 - May 29, 2011
The Hot L Baltimore
By Lanford Wilson
Directed by ensemble member Tina Landau
Featuring ensemble members Alana Arenas, K. Todd Freeman and Yasen Peyankov
In the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
The Hotel Baltimore used to be the swankiest place in town-now it has a date with the wrecking ball. Eviction notices just went out to its residents, who live on the fringes of society and call the seedy hotel home. This acclaimed play from the author of Balm in Gilead is filled with everyday humanity-unexpectedly intimate and moving. Helmed by visionary director Tina Landau, Hot L Baltimorereveals the private lives of an unconventional community about to be turned inside out.
June 16 - August 14, 2011
Middletown
A new play by Will Eno
Directed by Les Waters
Featuring ensemble member Alana Arenas
In the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
Mary Swanson just moved to Middletown. About to have her first child, she is eager to enjoy the neighborly bonds a small town promises. But life in Middletown is complicated: neighbors are near strangers and moments of connection are fleeting. Middletown is a playful, poignant portrait of a town with two lives, one ordinary and visible, the other epic and mysterious.
For tickets and additional information, visit www.steppenwolf.org.