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Critics and audiences are praising Steep's latest!
Love and Money is in high demand! Don't miss out! Buy your tickets today for Steep's latest hit.
Read what the critics are saying:
"[a] fascinating play ...a feast of gut-wrenching acting"
-Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
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"...Love and Money is as immediate as it gets."
-Kris Vire, Timeout Chicago
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"a fiercely acted Midwest premiere by Steep Theatre
— could not be more topical. But it also is eternal."
-Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
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Critic's Pick!
"Witt's direction is so great, the always excellent Steep ensemble is so great...Old wine in a new bottle. And very much worth drinking."
-Kelly Kleiman, WBEZ's Dueling Critics
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Jeff Recommended!
LOVE AND MONEY
WITH ENSEMBLE MEMBERS Patricia Donegan, Peter Moore and Julia Siple AND Jason Lindner, Darci Nalepa, Molly Reynolds and Gregory Rothman
PRODUCTION MANAGER Julia Siple* STAGE MANAGER Lauren Lassus LIGHTING DESIGN Brandon Wardell** SCENIC DESIGN Dan Stratton COSTUME DESIGN Jessica Kuehnau SOUND DESIGN Mike Ross PROPS DESIGN Aimee Plant DIALECT COACH Kendra Thulin ASST. DIRECTOR Ashley-Marie Quijano ASST. COSTUME DESIGNER Delia Ridenour
*denotes ensemble member
**denotes Steep artistic associate
Director Robin Witt returns to Steep Theatre this winter to direct the Midwest
Premiere of red-hot playwright Dennis Kelly's Love and Money. Past collaborations between Steep and
"powerhouse director" Witt have resulted in some of the more memorable shows in recent Chicago theater
history.1 Their 2010 production of Simon Stephens' Harper Regan was named one of the Top Ten Shows of the
Year by both the Chicago Tribune and Timeout Chicago and their Breathing Corpses was named one of
Timeout's Top Ten Shows of 2008. Steep and Witt recently closed a critically-acclaimed, extended-run of
Stephens' Pornography. Love and Money opens Thursday, January 19th, at Steep Theatre.
Playwright Dennis Kelly is currently making huge waves in London for his work on the smash-hit musical
Matilda, which is now being produced in London's West End by the Royal Shakespeare Company(RSC).
Matilda, for which Kelly wrote the book, won Best Musical at the Evening Standard Awards and the Theatre
UK Awards and recently received nine nominations for the Whatsonstage Awards. Lyn Gardner of The
Guardian commented "it is likely to do for the RSC for the next 25 years what Les Mis has done for the past
25," and Telegraph critic Charles Spencer called Matilda the "best new British musical since Billy Elliot."
Kelly's other plays include Debris, Osama the Hero, After the End, DeoxyriboNucleic Acid, and Orphans. He
is also the writer and co-creator of the hit BBC comedy Pulling.
Love and Money is a darkly funny morality tale about monster debt and fractured desires, the high price of
living and the stuff we buy to fill up the void. Personal happiness is not just love, but Pottery Barn furnishings
as well. It premiered in 2006 at the Royal Exchange in Manchester before moving to the Young Vic in London
later that year.
Director and Steep Artistic Associate Robin Witt most recently directed Simon Stephens' Pornography for
Steep Theatre, Enda Walsh's The New Electric Ballroom for A Red Orchid Theatre, and Stage Door for the
Griffin Theatre, which received 2011 Jeff nominations for Best Director and Best Production. Her 2010
production of Harper Regan was named one of the ten best productions of the year by both the Chicago
Tribune and Time Out Chicago. Robin is a proud artistic associate at both Griffin and Steep Theatres in
Chicago and she holds an MFA in Directing from Northwestern University, and a BFA in Acting from New
York University, Tisch School of the Arts. Robin is an Assistant Professor of Directing at UNC Charlotte and
she calls both Charlotte and Chicago "home." Future productions include Richard Greenberg's The American
Plan at the Artistic Home (July 2012). Along with playwright Joe Salvatore (NYU), she is currently creating a
devised work, Project/Hope, that will be performed at UNC Charlotte in the Spring of 2012.
The Love and Money cast features Steep Ensemble Members Patricia Donegan, Peter Moore, and Julia Siple.
They are joined by Jason Lindner, Darci Nalepa, Molly Reynolds, and Gregory Rothman, The production's
Design Team includes Set Designer Dan Stratton (Festen, Lakeboat), Lighting Designer Brandon Wardell
(Pornography, Harper Regan, A Brief History of Helen of Troy), Costume Designer Jessica Kuehnau (Parlour
Song), Sound Designer Mike Ross, Props Designer Aimee Plant, Stage Manager Lauren Lassus, and Dialect
Coach Kendra Thulin (Festen).
Love and Money | January 19th through February 25th, 2012
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm
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