Steppenwolf Theatre Company

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Chicago). Perhaps no other theatre expresses the “Chicago style” of acting than this troupe, founded in 1976 by Jeff Perry, Terry Kinney, and Gary Sinise. The emphasis has always remained on acting, though many new works have also premiered there. By the mid‐1980s the company was getting national recognition, in no small part due to some of its actors who became famous: Sinise, Kinney, Glenne Headly, John Malkovich, Laurie Metcalf, John Mahoney, and Joan Allen. Among the productions that have transferred to New York were True West, Balm in Gilead, Orphans, Burn This, The Grapes of Wrath, and One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. After performing in three different spaces over the years, the Steppenwolf moved into its three‐theatre complex in 1991. The company received a Tony Award in 1985 for regional theatre excellence and the National Medal of Arts from President Clinton in 1998.

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