Episode 43: Dance of Death - Steppenwolf Chicago - Theater Review Podcast

Chicago Broadcasting Network · Feb 14, 2026 · 6m

Featuring an impressive, ancient, oppressive, dimly lit three story plaster and brick edifice, that apparently was a former jail, it is now the military home of a company commander and his wife located on an offshore island. Set in Scandinavia sometime in the late 19th or early 20th Century, Alice (Kathryn Erbe) and Edgar (Jeff Perry) will soon be marking the 25TH anniversary of their mostly unhappy marriage. The structure serves as a physical representation of the couple’s own feelings of entrapment and isolation.

Playwright August Strindberg

Adaptor Conor McPherson

Director Yasen Peyankov…