…where theatre becomes universal language
ABOUT US
The Steps Theatre Production Company has this year reached its 23nd anniversary. Steps Theatre was founded in 1997 by director Slava Stepnov. The casts of STEPS Theatre's shows include actors from USA, Israel, Peru, Serbia, France, Germany, Ukraine, New Zealand, Ecuador, Argentina, and Russia, who now live in the Big Apple. Steps Theatre is performing in English and Russian and also produced certain works in both languages.
Steps Theatre started with Chekhov's Seagull, which was followed by Edward Albee's Lolita based on Vladimir Nabokov's novel. Next came Luigi Pirandello's The Freak of Nature, To Kill Charlotte based on Chekhov's Ivanov, Cain by Lord Byron, Last Summer in Chulimsk by Aleksandr Vampilov, Pannochka by Nina Sadur, based on Googol’s novel Viy, Little Tragedies by Aleksandr Pushkin, Enemies, A Love Story based on I.B. Singer’s novel, Unhappy Happiness, theatrical adaptation of Chekhov’s short story The Lady with the Pet Dog, No Day, No Month, No Year, based on Gogol’s The Diary of a Madman, Ask Joseph, a unique drama inspired by the life and artistic career of the Noble Prize winner Joseph Brodsky, At the Ark at Eight, a charming, funny and serious play by Ulrich Hub, Mikhail’s Passion - a fantasy, based on The Master and Margarita and A Dead Man’s Memoir, and others.
Steps Theatre's works were critically acclaimed by Daily News, The Village Voice, OOBR Review Magazine, The Jewish Week, Show Business Weekly, Noticias Del Mundo, El Comercio, Novoe Russkoe Slovo, Metro, Forward, Dominion Post.
As former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said in his support letter, "Steps Theatre has been an important part of New York City landscape..."
Steps Theatre production To Kill Charlotte was presented at the "Chekhov Now" festival, and Cain was selected by as the best production of the month in New York City. In addition to New York festivals, twice Steps participated in the International Theatre Festival "Kiev Travnevy". The Ukrainian magazine The New Generation called Steps' performances of, based on Julio Cortazar's short stories "The event and discovery of the festival". According to audience and media, another production, Oscar and the Lady in Pink , became a true achievement of the Festival. Two Steps Theatre's productions directed by Slava Stepnov took place in Lima, Peru. The Company, in cooperation with Peruvian colleagues, presented Byron's mystery of Cain and a new version of Chekhov's Seagull, in Spanish. Steps production, Pushkin’s The Little Tragedies was staged in Wellington (New Zealand). Vastly + Federico, based on Vasily Shukshin short stories and inspired by Federico Fellini films became the recipient of the Best Director Award, at the 21st International Theatre Festival Russian Classic 2015. Ask Joseph was shown to audiences in New York, Boston, New Jersey, and Italian Tuscany. In 2018 Steps Theatre took this production to Montreal. This production was also part of the International Theatre Festival "Compatriots" (Saransk, Russia), and was presented at the Bridge Theatre (Moscow, Russia).
Steps Theatre’s plans for the upcoming season include a production Imperfect Choir (Zhopkin Choir)– an original play by Slava Stepnov, about the life and fate of an international theatre group in New York.
Steps Theatre would like to express gratitude to the following organizations:
COJECO, BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, A.R.T NEW YORK, RTVi, DEUTSCHE BANK AMERICAS FOUNDATION, RUSA RADIO, UJA FEDERATION, MATERIALS FOR THE ARTS, whose grants helped support our productions.
О ТЕАТРЕ
Театральная компания «STEPS» была основана в Нью-Йорке, осенью 1997 года, режиссером и драматургом Славой Степновым. «STEPS» - театр мультикультурной концепции. В его спектаклях заняты актеры, представляющие разные национальные культуры и театральные школы. Спектакли компании играются на английском, русском и испанском языках.
Театр «STEPS» начинался с чеховской «Чайки», за которой последовали «Лолита» Эдварда Олби, «Ошибка природы», по рассказам Луиджи Пиранделло, «Убить Шарлотту» - версия чеховского «Иванова», «Каин» Байрона, «Последнее лето в Чулимске» Вампилова, «Маленькие Трагедии» Пушкина, инсценировка романа И. Б. Зингера «Враги. История Любви», «Спросите Иосифа» (пьеса Славы Степнова», написанная в соавторстве с Романом Фрейдом.
Спектакль «Убить Шарлотту» был представлен на известном нью-йоркском фестивале «Chekhov Now», а «Каин» , по версии журнала «OOBR Review Magazine», стал лучшим спектаклем месяца в Нью-Йорке. «Каин» Байрона и чеховская «Чайка» были поставлены в Лиме (Перу), на испанском языке, совместно с перуанскими коллегами. «Маленькие Трагедии» Пушкина с успехом игрались в Новой Зеландии, на сцене театра «Bats Theatre», (г. Веллингтон).
Дважды, «STEPS» принимал участие в международном театральном фестивале «Киев Травневый». Cпектакль «Василий + Федерико» стал лауреатом 21го Международного Театрального Фестиваля «Русская классика», в номинации «Лучшая режиссура», в Лобне (Россия). Спектакль «Спросите Иосифа» запомнился зрителям Нью-Йорка, Бостона, Нью-Джерси, Монреаля и Москвы. С этим спектаклем, театр принял участие в международном театральном фестивале «Соотечественники».
Рецензии на спектакли театра «STEPS» опубликованы в американских газетах и журналах: Daily News, Village Voice, OOBR Review , Show Business Weekly, The Jewish Week, Forward, русскоязычных американских изданиях: Новое Русское Слово, В Новом Cвете, Вечерний Нью-Йорк, в латиноамериканских: El Commercio, Noticas Del Mundo, El Mundo, в австралийском журнале Equity, новозеландских Dominion Post, Theatre Review, российских журналах Театральная жизнь, Петербургский Театральный Журнал, Иные Берега, Театрал, и других изданиях.
SLAVA
STEPNOV
Artistic Director
IRINA
STEPNOVA
Executive Director
ELENA
CHE
Assistant Director, Actress