“Do the Hustle” Examines the Emotional Life of Con Artists

This nerve-jangling, otherworldly world premiere travels deep into the emotional desperation of people who exist on society’s fringes.   Illinois playwright Brett Neveu gets into the rhythmic thinking of those who survive by conning others. Aged street hustler Eddie Sisson (played with emotional vibrancy by esteemed Steppenwolf Theatre veteran Francis Guinan) has one last shot […]

by Brian Kirst

"Fake" at Steppenwolf: A Play that Gets Real on Evolution and Religion

Has the missing link ever been found? In 1912 a skull supposedly unearthed in Sussex, England seemed to prove that man had evolved from the ape, supporting Charles Darwin’s “Origin of the Species” published more than half a century earlier. That’s the crux of the new, thought-provoking drama “Fake,” which opened at Steppenwolf on Sept. […]

by Dorothy Andries