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re: My review of THIS IS OUR YOUTH: Playwright Kenneth Lonergan and cast make Bway debuts

Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 05:55 pm EDT 09/11/14
In reply to: re: My review of THIS IS OUR YOUTH: Playwright Kenneth Lonergan and cast make Bway debuts - AlanScott 04:57 pm EDT 09/11/14

The Steppenwolf Upstairs gets re-configured to fit the needs of each particular production. For This Is Our Youth, the stage was a narrow strip running down the center of the theater with 7 rows of seats forming the north section and 8 rows of seats making up the south section -- so almost but not quite in the round. I was in about the 3rd row of the south section on 7/27 -- 299 seats total, so pretty intimate.

Over the years they have done plays completely in the round, but off-hand I can't recall seeing any at the Upstairs. However, Nathan Allen's The Sparrow was presented completely in the round at Steppenwolf's even more intimate Garage Theater back in 2007.


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re: My review of THIS IS OUR YOUTH: Playwright Kenneth Lonergan and cast make Bway debuts

Posted by: AlanScott 06:23 pm EDT 09/11/14
In reply to: re: My review of THIS IS OUR YOUTH: Playwright Kenneth Lonergan and cast make Bway debuts - BroadwayTonyJ 05:55 pm EDT 09/11/14

Thanks for the more exact info. If you google this is our youth steppenwolf in the round, you will see that several articles and at least one review said that it was in the round at Steppenwolf. (Just explaining where I got the idea.)


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re: My review of THIS IS OUR YOUTH: Playwright Kenneth Lonergan and cast make Bway debuts

Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 10:14 am EDT 09/12/14
In reply to: re: My review of THIS IS OUR YOUTH: Playwright Kenneth Lonergan and cast make Bway debuts - AlanScott 06:23 pm EDT 09/11/14

Interesting. I read some of the articles and reviews you cited. I'm surprised that Chris Jones would consider this production "in the round". The set contained a functioning bathroom (house left) and the door to Dennis' apartment (house right). There would normally be a block of seats in these 2 locations (according to the Upstairs Steppenwolf map) for a true in-the-round production. I generally thought that "in the round" meant that the audience was seated on all 4 sides of the performance space.


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